Dick Rosmini was born in
New York City and grew up in
Greenwich Village learning guitar and performing in clubs. His 1964 album
Adventures for 12 String, 6 String and Banjo predates much of
John Fahey and
Leo Kottke and other
American primitive guitarists, which Kottke cited as an early influence. Rosmini was also a noted
banjo player. He appeared as a
sideman with
Bob Gibson at Chicago's
Gate of Horn; with Art Podell & Paul Potash at New York's
Cafe Wha?; as soloist and singer at Los Angeles'
Ash Grove; with
Barbara Dane in a concert tour with
Bob Newhart; and in association with
Pernell Roberts in
Bonanza. Rosmini continued his career in music as a sideman on numerous folk albums including those by Bob Gibson,
Eric Weissberg,
Dave Van Ronk,
Ananda Shankar,
Hoyt Axton and others before leaving music to pursue a career in photography. He subsequently taught recording for over a decade at the University of Southern California and had a hand in the evolution of motion picture sound into its present day form. In 1978, he wrote a booklet on
multitrack recording called
TEAC Multitrack Primer. His constant fight to make audio electronics accessible to musicians led to his developing many of
Tascam's multitrack and portable multitrack recorders and mixers. He was a consultant to
JBL on the musical instrument transducer K-series 120 and 130. He co-designed JBL studio monitors and participated in their integration into
Hollywood's top studios. He died on September 9, 1995, of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 58. ==Discography==