Vitamin String Quartet
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The
Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) is a musical group from
Los Angeles, California that is widely known for its series of
tribute albums to
rock and
pop acts. Their albums are released through
Vitamin Records and primarily performed by a
string quartet,
though other instruments have been used. "Vitamin String Quartet is
about applying rock n' roll attitude to classical technique," says Tom
Tally,
[1] a violist and arranger who has performed on and produced over fifty Vitamin String Quartet albums.
Their albums honor a wide variety of genres, including pop and rock,
techno, country, and rap, and a wide variety of groups, such as
System of a Down,
Bruce Springsteen,
Led Zeppelin,
Deftones,
Coldplay,
Adele,
Lady Gaga,
Radiohead,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Green Day,
Paramore,
Muse,
Linkin Park,
Avenged Sevenfold and many more. Their discography includes 261 albums.
During the spring and summer of 2012, their music was being played 24 hours a day on radio station
WWHK in
Concord, NH.
In 2008, VSQ contributed a recording of "Jack and Sally Montage" to
Nightmare Revisited, on which the Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas original score was reinterpreted by bands like
Tiger Army,
All-American Rejects,
Plain White Ts,
Rise Against, and
DeVotchKa.
Songs by Vitamin String Quartet were featured on the Fox television show
So You Think You Can Dance[2]
twice in 2008. "Control" from the Vitamin String Quartet Tribute To
Janet Jackson appeared on an episode that aired 7/30/08 and "Hallelujah"
from The Vitamin String Quartet Tribute To Paramore appeared on an
episode that aired 7/31/08.
[3]
Songs appeared again on the show in Season 6 2009. Legacy Perez used
Flashing Lights as a track for a solo elimination dance which aired
9/12/2009. Yellow originally by Coldplay featured on the show as guest
dancers on the Top 10 elimination show, The Legion of Extraordinary
Dancers. This episode aired 2/12/2009
In June 2009, they branched out by including a few original songs on their album
Per_Versions, which also included covers of bands such as
Broken Social Scene,
No Age and
Sigur Rós.
[4]
Two songs from The Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay, "Yellow" and "Clocks," were used in an episode of TV show
The Vampire Diaries on April 22, 2010.
[5]
The Vitamin String Quartet covered
INXS's "
Never Tear Us Apart" and
Pat Benatar's "
We Belong" in the
100th episode of
Gossip Girl.
