Rotosound Music Strings

Once Vinnie Moore picked up his first guitar (a Kay) at the age of 12, he became, as he describes it, a “guitar freak.” His earliest influences included – among others – Jeff Beck, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Queen. Vinnie took lessons with a private instructor and at 14, he joined his [...]

Max Raptor sound like… the visceral claws of Great British rock n’ roll frantically disemboweling American alt-rock with a partisan punk attitude. There is nothing remotely Jurassic about this Midland conceived 4 piece whose forthright narrative and devastating live set is spearheading a hungry horde of New Wave British Alt-rock bands. Max Raptor have emerged [...]

George Barnett is an English recording artist, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, video director and multi-instrumentalist. He writes, plays and performs his own compositions and is known for his recordings in which he plays every instrument, sings and produces himself. He began to learn the piano and drums at an early age and later progressed [...]

Heavy, groove-laden riffs meets big choruses, duelling guitar solos, and soaring melodic vocals. Godsized draw their inspiration from a wide range of influences such as classic rock giants Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, along with more contemporary acts such as Down, Alter Bridge, and Clutch. The stage is where Godsized are most at home. Over the [...]

Paul Nazarkardeh of De Profundis plays Roto Reds, Roto Yellows and Roto Pinks. What Paul Nazarkardeh says about Rotosound For the kind of music I play, I require strings that not only hold tone, but durability. After years of brand switching, I have been using Rotos for the De Profundis ‘Uniting Darkness’ tour and the [...]

Joel Fisk first picked up the guitar at the age of four, having been brought up on Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and such, he spent the majority of his teenage years tracing their influences, leading him to Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and BB King, where his love of blues guitar developed. As a co-founder of [...]

‘Here comes Joe the Jammer’, is what Robert Plant and Jimmy Page used to say when they saw Page’s guitar tech Joe Wright coming their way. Wright got his start playing rock ‘n’ roll at the legendary Windy City concert haunt The Kinetic Playground on Clark Street near Lawrence. Wright organised the venue’s Tuesday night [...]

‘October 11th 1979. I bought my first bass from ‘Mel’s’ in Camberwell, London. It was owned by Dave Clark Five’s bass player, Rick Huxley: His advice? “Always use these strings son” (Rotosound) He gave me a set “On the ‘ouse” 34 years Later…. I just signed to Rotosound!’ ‘PJ Phillips is a bass player with [...]

Harry Seaton is a 16 year old singer songwriter from the east of England. Starting out by writing songs in his bedroom and performing at little open mic nights in local pubs, Harry now has a strong online fanbase which has helped him chart highly in iTunes and attract attention from many popular artists. Harry [...]

Born in Middlesbrough, Mick Tuckernow lives in Holland. His musical career began at the age of 14 after listening to Black Night by Deep Purpleon the radio. Mick went on to play in a number of  local bands, eventually forming a band called Axis who released their first single on Neat Records and toured the [...]