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You Had Me At Cello | EW.com

You Had Me At Cello | EW.com.

You Had Me At Cello

String quartet pays classical homage to rock stars — Vitamin Records releases a CD series of classical reworkings of music by bands like Nickelback and the Velvet Underground

Remember the scene in This Is Spi¨al Tapwhere singer David St. Hubbins mulls his prospects after the breakup of his heavy metal band? ”I’ve always wanted to do a collection of my acoustic numbers with the London Philharmonic,” he sighs. For nearly six years, Vitamin Records has tapped that same symphonic spine with its String Quartet Tribute series, which takes rock music and puts it through an orchestral filter. Aimed at collectors, completists, and fans open to reworkings of their favorite songs, the Vitamin catalog includes 140 classically gassed homages to every three-chord wonder from Metallica to the Darkness. ”I like the tribute to us,” says Nickelback guitarist Chad Kroeger. ”When your music is taken to a different place, it’s an honor.” A faintly disturbing honor, to be sure. Vitamin’s stripped-down interpretations of hard rock tend to be thin, shadowy affairs that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Imagine Granny humming along to Nine Inch Nails’ ”Suck.” (On second thought, don’t.) At best, the discs function as quirky curios, though Vitamin president David Haerle insists: ”Our albums aren’t intended as novelties. They’re celebrations.” The musicians being celebrated have something to cheer, at least: They pocket about a buck in royalties for every CD sold — a respectable sum for their top seller, Tool (the label has sold almost 100,000 copies of their Vitamin-enhanced albums), but a bit underwhelming for the Velvet Underground, whose sales have topped out at 9,000 units.

As sharply conflicting as rock and classical seem, the idea has been kicked around since at least 1964, the year the Hollyridge Strings started doing renditions of songs by Capitol artists like the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Still, no record company fully embraced the concept until Vitamin, buoyed by the success of a 1997 album of bluegrass Grateful Dead covers, commissioned a string tribute to Led Zeppelin. Through a posting on a Zeppelin fan website, Haerle enlisted violinist Eric Gorfain, who had recently performed on stage with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Gorfain and his quartet have since played on 20 Vitamin appreciations.

The label recently gave late punk-folk singer Elliott Smith and R&B star Mariah Carey the string treatment, proving it’s willing to salute any kind of music — or just about. ”Rap music wouldn’t work,” Haerle insists. Too bad. We were really looking forward to that string tribute to 50 Cent.

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Vitamin String Quartet

I was first turned-on to Vitamin String Quartet when the older sister of a Bride was helping me prepare for her sister’s wedding and requested that four of the Vitamin String Quartet’s songs were to be played during the ceremony, “God Only Knows”, “Don’t Stop Believin'”, Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Clocks”.

Vitamin String Quartet Sweet Child O’ Mine

      Vitamin String Quartet - Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns and Roses Cover)

I did some research on Vitamin String Quartet and began to explore Vitamin String Quartet library. It turns out they have over fifty albums with the majority of them as tributes to an artist or band exclusively. Vitamin String Quartet music has been featured on Dancing With The Stars several times and an episode of The Vampire Diaries included three of their tunes.

Vitamin String Quartet Rolling In The Deep Adele

      Vitamin String Quartet - Rolling In The Deep

Vitamin String Quartet is a group of musicians in the Los Angeles area that record string arranged covers of Rock and Pop music to offer listeners, “Vitamin String Quartet is about applying rock n’ roll attitude to classical technique,” says Tom Tally, a violist and arranger who has performed on and produced over fifty Vitamin String Quartet albums.  They do use non-string instruments occasionally.

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I find Vitamin String Quartet covers often very original and unique with passion and clarity. I enjoy Vitamin String Quartet Music while driving on road trips as well as dancing. As a professional DJ, Vitamin String Quartet are an excellent resource for music for ceremonies, cocktails hours and special circumstances that a Rock audience will appreciate in a setting that harder music is not properly suited.

Vitamin String Quartet Under The Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers Mp3

      Vitamin String Quartet - Under The Bridge

“Remember the scene in This Is Spinal Tap where singer David St. Hubbins mulls his prospects after the breakup of his heavy metal band? ”I’ve always wanted to do a collection of my acoustic numbers with the London Philharmonic,” he sighs. For nearly six years, Vitamin Records has tapped that same symphonic spine with its String Quartet Tribute series, which takes rock music and puts it through an orchestral filter. Aimed at collectors, completists, and fans open to reworkings of their favorite songs, the Vitamin catalog includes 140 classically gassed homages to every three-chord wonder from Metallica to the Darkness. ”I like the tribute to us,” says Nickelback guitarist Chad Kroeger. ”When your music is taken to a different place, it’s an honor.” EW.com

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DJ Smooth Cocktail Hour Mix

The DJ Smooth Cocktail Hour Mix was created for Brides and Grooms when hiring their professional Wedding DJ who are lost when it comes to choosing music for the Cocktail Hour for their wedding. All professional Wedding DJs have several options to offer couples, one of them is the classic  and stylish ‘smooth’ Jazz, R&B and Rat Pack mix of music to set a perfect mood after the Ceremony, setting up the Reception.

DJ Smooth Cocktail Hour Mix

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