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
music cat guitar
,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time
cat class style
I got cat class and I got cat style
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.
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.
drum fills integral original parts people
Those drum parts were so integral to that original rockabilly. People don't play that anymore. A lot of those original drum fills were kept.
computer exists faded file found fragment friend heard research sent tape toward
My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I thought the computer file was broken. But we did research and found out that a tape fragment is all that exists of the song.
mix musical rockabilly standard styles took
We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.
chemistry great mean super
Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.
love
I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.
bands blew came quite roll swing
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
people played pure stuff
A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
grunge
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.
mind nicest people robert
Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.
hit room stuck travel wait
I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.