The Rotosound Blog

James How develops the RS55 Solo Bass string which is ‘pressurewound’; a very smooth feeling string with the brightness of the RS66 roundwound set. Rotosound trademarks..Read More

Rotosound employs the services of an exclusive USA distributor called Meisel Music in New York who have success in making Rotosound the top selling bass strings..Read More

An advert in the back of the Thin Lizzy ‘Bad Reputation’ tour brochure

Paul Gray, bassist with The Damned and Eddie and the Hot Rods, keeping it cool with a pack of Rotosound Swing Bass strings

Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton of The Jam string up with Rotosound strings. Bruce uses RS66LD Swing Bass although (pub trivia fact) on Town Called Malice he used RS88LD Tru..Read More

An advert featuring Wilco Johnson from Dr Feelgood  With the explosion of punk, the music world once again focuses on London and the UK as a..Read More

Brian May and John Deacon of Queen start using Rotosound strings.

James How forms another string company entitled ‘Superwound’. These strings pioneered a new string design where only the core passed over the instrument’s bridge. The Superwound range..Read More

Chris Squire, bassist of progressive rock supergroup Yes fits a set of Swing Bass strings to his Rickenbacker

Slade start using Rotosound strings and soon become one of the biggest British rock groups of the 1970s

Herbie Flowers with his Walk On The Wild Side bass during a Rotosound 1990s shoot Transformer by Lou Reed is released featuring Herbie Flowers using RS88..Read More