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BiographyVinny Roth was born in Queens, New York USA and moved to Fairfax, Virginia in 1980. He started out with weekly piano lessons at age 8 and soon switched to the acoustic guitar after seeing his first Elvis movie. It was the opening riff in "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith that inspired Vinny to get his first electric. His first real guitar teacher, was an old Hippie named Rick who inspired Vinny to improvise and listen to bands like The Allman Brothers and The Grateful Dead. It was in high school that Vinny would jam with future members of 7 Mary 3 and the Aimee Mann band. After high school he attended both Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University obtaining a fine arts degree in Music. Roth has toured, played and recorded with such bands as 3% Phat, aFunkUnation, Four Foot Flat, Spur, Cleveland Wehle, Simon Philips, The Shane Hines Band, Grilled, Clones of Funk, Eric Weinberg and many others. He's also opened for such acts as Blue Oyster Cult, Molly Hatchett, Otis Night and The Days, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Leon Russell, BTO, Pat Travers and many others. Recently Vinny has scored as both local store and state winner and regional finalist for Guitar Center's 2004 GuitarMaggedden Solo Contest. In 2004, Vinny recorded and acted for the TV pilot, "You Don't Say" with special guest news anchor Cokie Roberts and soccer phenom Freddie Adu. In 2005 Roth was featured in both the June and July Guitar Player magazine issues. Also in 2005 he worked on music for a Discovery Channel documentary and is also busy working on his forthcoming solo instrumental CD which is due in late 2006. |
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