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
running cat people
I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
delay sound different
It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.
dying veteran scene
Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
creating creating-something boxes
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
song real cat
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.
song metronomes tempo
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
beatles covers eddie found gene rockabilly stones
When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,
blues country cousin rockabilly
Rockabilly is really part of our background, ... It's a cousin to the blues and country. And it's that important.
record
He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'
inspirational listen loved people playing record room rushed sun tribute
The inspiration for this was my son, who's 18, ... I was playing some old Sun Records, and he and his friends rushed into the room and loved it. I thought that if I did a Sun tribute record I could get more young people to listen to it.
blasting exactly guitar rockabilly solos tried updated wild
I never really did rockabilly exactly like they did it in the '50s, ... We always kind of updated it. But I didn't need to go blasting crazy, wild guitar solos around this stuff. I tried to keep it authentic.
himself mind
He said it was too long ago for him to put himself back in that mind-set,