Tom Rothrock

Tom Rothrock
Rothrock, on June 21, 2012, FuzzyLand, performing Los Angeles County
Background information
Genres	Rock, electronic
Occupation(s)	Musician, record producer
Instruments	Guitar, electric guitar, piano
Years active	1987–present
Labels	Bong Load Records, Various
Associated acts	Athlete, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, Elbow, Elliott Smith, Foo Fighters, James Blunt, Gwen Stefani, Moby, Motörhead, Poison, Richard Thompson, R.L. Burnside, Sloan, Stevie Nicks, Yonder Mountain String Band

Tom Rothrock is an international record producer, composer, musician and owner of Bong Load Records. Tom Rothrock has worked with James Blunt, Foo Fighters, Moby, Beck, Badly Drawn Boy, R. L. Burnside, Athlete, Sloan, Gwen Stefani, Motörhead, Elbow, Stevie Nicks, Poison, Elliott Smith, Richard Thompson, Yonder Mountain String Band. Rothrock has also composed or contributed to soundtracks for notable motion pictures such as About A Boy, Good Will Hunting, Collateral and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

James Blunt's debut, Back to Bedlam, has been noted as the "decades best selling album" (2000's). The album also entered the Guinness Book of World Records, with most albums sold in a year in the UK, when it sold 2,368,000 copies in 2005.

Rothrock started Bong Load Custom Records in the early 1990s enlisting former Record Plant Recording Studios co-workers, Bradshaw Lambert and Rob Schnapf. Bong Load Records is notable for developing and releasing Beck's "Loser" single which became the first number one, non-major label single since FM radio became mainstream. Together Rothrock, Schnapf, Beck, and Karl Stephenson recorded Mellow Gold, Beck's major label debut.