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
copying drum far felt fills ignore original overlooked people rockabilly tricks
I wanted to keep it authentic, ... I even went as far as copying the original drum parts. I felt that was an overlooked part of those recordings. Now when people play rockabilly they ignore the little fills and tricks they used.
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.
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.
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.
grunge
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.
player feelings energy
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
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.
festivals rockabilly
For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
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.
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.
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.
stupid voice dumb
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
music rocks track
... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there
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