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.
creating creating-something boxes
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
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.
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.
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.
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!'
himself mind
He said it was too long ago for him to put himself back in that mind-set,