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
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.
hard-times blue play
It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.
player rockabilly deserve
I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.
player guitar jazz
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.
player feelings energy
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.