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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, 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, metal, techno, country, and hip-hop, and a wide variety of groups, such as Simple Plan, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, System of a Down, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Muse, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Slayer, Adele, Lady Gaga and many more. Their discography includes 261 albums. The group began in 1999 "as an experiment in transforming rock songs with classical instruments." It later expanded to include a variety of popular music.〔 Their music was played 24 hours a day on FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, New Hampshire. 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''〔(So You Think You Can Dance 2008: Top 6 PERFORMANCE SHOW Recap )〕 twice in 2008. "Control" from Vitamin String Quartet Tribute To Janet Jackson appeared on an episode that aired 7/30/08 and "Hallelujah" from Vitamin String Quartet Tribute To Paramore appeared on an episode that aired 7/31/08. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Vitamin String Quartet: Per_Versions )〕 The Vitamin String Quartet's cover of The Rolling Stone's "As Tears Go By" was used in the season 5 finale of the TV show ''House'' on May 11, 2009. Two songs from Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay, "Yellow" and "Clocks," were used in an episode of TV show ''The Vampire Diaries'' on April 22, 2010.〔(Vampire Diaries Music – Episode 19 – Miss Mystic Falls | Vampire Diaries Spoilers and News )〕 Vitamin String Quartet covered INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart" and Pat Benatar's "We Belong" in the 100th episode of ''Gossip Girl''. Vitamin String Quartet's cover of "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was featured in the finale of the fifth season of ''Modern Family'' on May 21, 2014. ==Partial discography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vitamin String Quartet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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