Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer
Brian Robert Setzeris an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He first found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly revival group Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with his Swing revival band, The Brian Setzer Orchestra...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth10 April 1959
CityMassapequa, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking guitar rooms
It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.
guitar hook use
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
mean years watson
I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?
thinking stuff months
I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.
festivals rockabilly
For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
labels bass sides
As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.
trying liberty
Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
records needs kick-ass
McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.
crazy writing band
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
pain balls lines
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.
people guy records
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
thinking records wow
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.
tired nashville careers
Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.
player feelings energy
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.