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 rocks down-and
Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions
trying liberty
Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
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.
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.
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.