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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the life and
career of Brian Setzer born April 10th
1959 in Massapequa New York Brian Setzer
was interested in music from a young age
and started out playing brass horns
before switching to guitar I started
playing guitar as eight years old and
luckily my parents my parents didn’t
have a lot of money they’re broke and
they found a guitar player in the yellow
pages he really took his time and showed
me how to play the guitar how to read
and write music and then of course I was
influenced by all these people growing
up as a young boy probably bands like
the Allman Brothers and Creedence
Clearwater Revival and then one day I
was listening to a Beatles record and my
dad came in and started singing along
with honey domes and I said how do you
know how come when you won’t and he was
saying long with egos this is by a guy
named Carl Perkins I don’t know who the
Beatles are but it’s by a guy named Carl
Perkins and then I had realized all the
Beatles and stones Rolling Stones
records the first ones were rockabilly
songs so that’s how I really got my
vision of well what I was once his
musical influences were set by the end
of the 1970s Setzer formed a rockabilly
revival band the stray cats lineup was
solidified by 1979 which sets are being
joined by Lee rocker and slim jim
phantom the trio then set out to
stimulate interest in their chosen genre
and the music of the 1950s I don’t
really think about reviving music styles
I love the sounds of music that comes
from the blues I love jazz I love
country swing rock and roll rockabilly
to me it’s all kit all comes from the
blues and my way of thinking there’s no
reason why you can’t take all these
kinds of music and blend them together
which is which is kind of how I always
thought I never consciously thought of
blending them it just kind of happens in
my head and it comes out of my hands
that
they gained a following in the New York
scene however it was their move to the
United Kingdom that really solidified
the stray cats as a success
I love the stray cats because the boys
in the van are my brothers you know
honey we grew up this was seven years
old you know
I would like to tour the states with
them we’re just very very popular in
Europe just three months after moving to
England in the summer of 1980 the band
had a record contract their breakthrough
album was 1982’s built for speed and it
made them popular in Europe as well as
in the US this record featured the hit
rock this town and that song has since
been listed as one of the most important
songs in rock history
we don’t rock this town
they followed that up with stray cat
strut and these singles exemplified
their punk infused jazz rock style in
1984 the band broke up it was also
around this time that Setzer began
performing with former Led Zeppelin
frontman Robert Plant in his R&B
inspired rock band the honey drippers by
1986 Setzer had struck out on his own
and released a mildly successful solo
album even so the stray cats reunited
that year and managed to stay together
until the early 1990s before parting
ways only to reunite again for a
farewell tour in the 2000s in 1987
Setzer was able to pay homage to his
idol Eddie Cochran by portraying him in
the film la Bamba he’s my biggest
inspiration you know when I saw a
picture of Eddie Cochran I said wow I
don’t know I want to look like that guy
I wanted to just kind of I thought he
was the coolest thing and then when I
heard his music it was like a double
double knock out front you know I just
play he’s the guy I want to pattern
myself after this guy Eddie Cochran and
so when I started I really wanted to
sound like him and look like him and
evolved from there I guess by 1992
Setzer had founded the blues and swing
band the Brian Setzer Orchestra I always
do things in extremes they say it took
open three-piece to 18-piece to
sometimes playing alone no I always play
the same style of guitar and one day I
had the idea to write up a big band to
have a big band behind the stray cats
and to me I thought to myself why
wouldn’t this work because it’s all the
same music yeah it’s true the big band
is much more jazz oriented so when those
guys are playing those chords you got to
be aware of what’s going past you but to
me I played the same style of guitar in
that format in any format it’s still me
if it’s fun if it’s with three people or
18 people the instrument ensemble was an
ambitious project and the band’s
popularity grew primarily due to its
energetic live show the orchestra’s
biggest mainstream hit came in 1998
with their cover of jump jive an wail
and that song one set sir one of his
three Grammy Awards I knew that it was
something musically that had not been
done before they had not been a guitar
leading a big band because the big-band
era died and rock and roll was born so
the two never got to meet throughout his
time with the Brian Setzer Orchestra the
frontman continued to release solo
records in 2002 he joined several
members of rock royalty on an episode of
The Simpsons mentoring Homer while at
rock and roll fantasy camp we’re gonna
start with the fundamentals playing a
burning guitar with your teeth Oh
Setzer is almost as recognizable for his
look as he is for his music his bouffant
blonde pompadour and fifty Scout
clothing is a throwback to the original
rockabilly days he is recognized as the
man who brought to dying musical genres
back to popularity and that’s why Brian
Setzer is known as the King of Swing
most big bands really gonna approach it
from the guitar point of view I think um
and the guitar leads the orchestra so
it’s gonna rock because that’s what I do
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the life and
career of Brian Setzer born April 10th
1959 in Massapequa New York Brian Setzer
was interested in music from a young age
and started out playing brass horns
before switching to guitar I started
playing guitar as eight years old and
luckily my parents my parents didn’t
have a lot of money they’re broke and
they found a guitar player in the yellow
pages he really took his time and showed
me how to play the guitar how to read
and write music and then of course I was
influenced by all these people growing
up as a young boy probably bands like
the Allman Brothers and Creedence
Clearwater Revival and then one day I
was listening to a Beatles record and my
dad came in and started singing along
with honey domes and I said how do you
know how come when you won’t and he was
saying long with egos this is by a guy
named Carl Perkins I don’t know who the
Beatles are but it’s by a guy named Carl
Perkins and then I had realized all the
Beatles and stones Rolling Stones
records the first ones were rockabilly
songs so that’s how I really got my
vision of well what I was once his
musical influences were set by the end
of the 1970s Setzer formed a rockabilly
revival band the stray cats lineup was
solidified by 1979 which sets are being
joined by Lee rocker and slim jim
phantom the trio then set out to
stimulate interest in their chosen genre
and the music of the 1950s I don’t
really think about reviving music styles
I love the sounds of music that comes
from the blues I love jazz I love
country swing rock and roll rockabilly
to me it’s all kit all comes from the
blues and my way of thinking there’s no
reason why you can’t take all these
kinds of music and blend them together
which is which is kind of how I always
thought I never consciously thought of
blending them it just kind of happens in
my head and it comes out of my hands
that
they gained a following in the New York
scene however it was their move to the
United Kingdom that really solidified
the stray cats as a success
I love the stray cats because the boys
in the van are my brothers you know
honey we grew up this was seven years
old you know
I would like to tour the states with
them we’re just very very popular in
Europe just three months after moving to
England in the summer of 1980 the band
had a record contract their breakthrough
album was 1982’s built for speed and it
made them popular in Europe as well as
in the US this record featured the hit
rock this town and that song has since
been listed as one of the most important
songs in rock history
we don’t rock this town
they followed that up with stray cat
strut and these singles exemplified
their punk infused jazz rock style in
1984 the band broke up it was also
around this time that Setzer began
performing with former Led Zeppelin
frontman Robert Plant in his R&B
inspired rock band the honey drippers by
1986 Setzer had struck out on his own
and released a mildly successful solo
album even so the stray cats reunited
that year and managed to stay together
until the early 1990s before parting
ways only to reunite again for a
farewell tour in the 2000s in 1987
Setzer was able to pay homage to his
idol Eddie Cochran by portraying him in
the film la Bamba he’s my biggest
inspiration you know when I saw a
picture of Eddie Cochran I said wow I
don’t know I want to look like that guy
I wanted to just kind of I thought he
was the coolest thing and then when I
heard his music it was like a double
double knock out front you know I just
play he’s the guy I want to pattern
myself after this guy Eddie Cochran and
so when I started I really wanted to
sound like him and look like him and
evolved from there I guess by 1992
Setzer had founded the blues and swing
band the Brian Setzer Orchestra I always
do things in extremes they say it took
open three-piece to 18-piece to
sometimes playing alone no I always play
the same style of guitar and one day I
had the idea to write up a big band to
have a big band behind the stray cats
and to me I thought to myself why
wouldn’t this work because it’s all the
same music yeah it’s true the big band
is much more jazz oriented so when those
guys are playing those chords you got to
be aware of what’s going past you but to
me I played the same style of guitar in
that format in any format it’s still me
if it’s fun if it’s with three people or
18 people the instrument ensemble was an
ambitious project and the band’s
popularity grew primarily due to its
energetic live show the orchestra’s
biggest mainstream hit came in 1998
with their cover of jump jive an wail
and that song one set sir one of his
three Grammy Awards I knew that it was
something musically that had not been
done before they had not been a guitar
leading a big band because the big-band
era died and rock and roll was born so
the two never got to meet throughout his
time with the Brian Setzer Orchestra the
frontman continued to release solo
records in 2002 he joined several
members of rock royalty on an episode of
The Simpsons mentoring Homer while at
rock and roll fantasy camp we’re gonna
start with the fundamentals playing a
burning guitar with your teeth Oh
Setzer is almost as recognizable for his
look as he is for his music his bouffant
blonde pompadour and fifty Scout
clothing is a throwback to the original
rockabilly days he is recognized as the
man who brought to dying musical genres
back to popularity and that’s why Brian
Setzer is known as the King of Swing
most big bands really gonna approach it
from the guitar point of view I think um
and the guitar leads the orchestra so
it’s gonna rock because that’s what I do
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