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Tim Rossi started playing guitar at 12 years old and was performing in bands around the New England area by 14 years old. After high school he moved to Northern New Jersey with his rock band Redline, who recorded an album and played the club scene for a few years. Tim then moved to L.A. to attend Musicians Institute’s Guitar Institute of Technology, where he learned from such guitar greats as Norman Brown, Paul Gilbert, and Bruce Bouillet.
After a few years of recording and performing live gigs in L.A. with various bands, including the 'Barbered Violent' CD with Wild Frontier, Tim became endorsed by Ibanez Guitars and Dimarzio Pick-Ups.
Shortly after, Tim formed Broke Americans who signed to Industrial Strength Records (Dead Kennedy’s, Swarm) and recorded their self titled CD ‘Broke Americans’. A single from the CD, “Finally Over†appeared in the Universal Pictures Motion Picture, ‘Bride of Chucky’. Broke Americans were featured and performed on The Fox Television network‘s national music show, ‘The Music Channel’, and the national radio show ‘C-Notes’, hosted by the E Entertainment channels music correspondent David Adleson. They received glowing reviews from many U.S., Canadian, Japanese and European music magazines. Popular nationally syndicated radio D.J. Bubba the Love Sponge adopted Broke Americans second single “Proud to Be...†as his theme song, as well as their music being used on cable TV (Foxsports, ESPN) and a few Independent movies.
As Tim and the band began touring up and down the West Coast in support of their CD, Tim became endorsed by EVERLY Strings and Picks, owned by Don and Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers).
All this time, Tim maintained a group of private students he accumulated over the years in L.A., forming a reputation as a guitar teacher with equal effectiveness with beginners as with the advanced students.
Considering L.A. is his base of operations, it’s no surprise that Tim has found himself gigging with or jamming with Slash and Duff McKagan (Guns n’ Roses, Velvet Revolver), Grammy nominated Jazz and R&B singer Blu Cantrell, Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne), C.C. Deville (Poison), legendary comedian Sam Kinison, Bruce Gary (The Knack, Jack Bruce), Matt Bissonette (Ringo Starr, Joe Satriani), Mickey Dee (Motorhead, Dokken), Don Was (Was not Was), among others.
Then, THE LESSON HOUSE, a popular Performing Arts School that teaches their Music and Acting programs in public and private schools all over Southern California and Whose teacher roster has included some of the busiest studio and touring musicians in the business, such as Matt Bissonette (David Lee Roth, Don Henley, Peter Frampton), Greg Bissonette (Ringo Starr, Carlos Santana, James Taylor) and Kenny Arnoff (Elton John, Avril Lavinge, Rod Stewart, Willie Nelson, Alanis Morrisette ) hired Tim as a Guitar teacher and shortly after promoted him to Teacher Lead in charge of many schools. Tim taught their Rock Camp Summer Programs and performed guitar clinics to promote the performing arts in elementary, middle and high schools all over southern california as well. And he also wrote Guitar curriculum for The Lesson House.
Meanwhile, when Broke Americans took an indefinite sabbatical, Tim scored a gig with TV personality George Gray (The Weakest Link, What’s With That House?) and his popular Blues Rock band, Stinky’s Bar. Tim was also chosen as the guitar player and wrote songs for Evan Seinfeld’s (Biohazard, VH1’s Supergroup) new band Spider Jonez.
Recently Tim has switched to endorsing ESP Guitars who featured Tim in their 2008 catalog, D'addario Guitar strings who tapped Tim to be their first rock endorsee to film video lessons for their popular website daddario.com, Planet Waves music accessories, Peavey Amps and Seymour Duncan Pickups. more recently, Tim finished 5 months on the road with The Jimmie Van Zant Band on their 08' tour. Tim continues to teach guitar and play music for a living.Jimmy Page/Led Zep pentatonic lick.
