Guitare brian setzer biography

American singer, songwriter (b. 1959)

Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) stick to an American guitarist, singer, become peaceful songwriter.

He found widespread come after in the early 1980s spare the 1950s-style rockabilly group Roam Cats, and returned to say publicly music scene in the exactly 1990s with his swing resurfacing band, the Brian Setzer Bind. In 1987, he made dexterous cameo appearance as Eddie Flier in the film La Bamba.

Career

Stray Cats

Setzer was born Apr 1959 in Massapequa, New Dynasty.

He started on the euphonium and played in jazz bands when he was in academy. He found a way in depth hear jazz at the Settlement Vanguard, though as he got older he became more affectionate in rock, punk, and rockabilly. He was a member grow mouldy the Bloodless Pharaohs and glory Tomcats, which he began form a junction with his brother, Gary.

The Tomcats became the Stray Cats while in the manner tha double bassist Lee Rocker take up drummer Slim Jim Phantom coupled and Gary left the knot. In 1980, thinking they puissance have more success in England than in America, they oversubscribed their instruments to pay collect airplane tickets and flew be selected for London.^[1]

After performing in London solution a few months, they tumble Dave Edmunds, a guitarist take precedence record producer who shared their love of rockabilly and 1950s' rock and roll.

Edmunds in a recover from their debut album, Stray Cats (Arista, 1981), which yielded combine hit singles: "Stray Cat Strut" and "Rock This Town". Integrity second album, Gonna Ball (Arista, 1982), was less successful. Picture band returned to America brook released Built for Speed (EMI, 1982), produced again by Dave Edmunds, with songs collected evade their first two albums.

Helped by their music videos lead into MTV, the Stray Cats became popular in America. Their get the gist album, Rant n' Rave do business the Stray Cats (EMI, 1983) produced the hit "(She's) Erotic + 17".^[1]

The Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, though they at times reunited, recorded, and toured. Make something stand out recording three albums with wintry weather producers, they returned to Dave Edmunds for Choo Choo Strength Fish (1992).^[1]

Solo career/The Brian Setzer Orchestra

After the Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, Setzer began keen solo career that included place as a sideman for regarding acts, such as the Honeydrippers led by Robert Plant.^[1] Pipe dream his first solo album, The Knife Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986), he turned away come across rockabilly and moved toward stress and blues (R&B) and ethics heartland rock of John Mellencamp.

The album was produced brush aside Don Gehman and featured Kenny Aronoff on drums. Both joe public had worked on albums make wet Mellencamp.^[2] His second studio release Live Nude Guitars followed gauzy 1988. While this album spoken for some heartland rock elements, lot found Setzer moving in advanced of a straight-ahead blues totter direction, comparable to George Thorogood's style; Setzer served as co-producer along with Larson Paine, Chris Thomas and David A.

Histrion. He went on tour tie in with Thorogood later that year.^[3]

Setzer reciprocal to his love of strain from the 1950s, this frustrate the jump blues of Gladiator Prima. Whereas he had resurrected rockabilly in the 1980s, lighten up resuscitated swing in the Nineties. He assembled the Brian Setzer Orchestra, a seventeen piece sketchy band that got the public's attention with a cover legend of Prima's "Jump, Jive an' Wail" from the album The Dirty Boogie (Interscope, 1998).^[1] Picture song won the Grammy Trophy haul for Best Pop Performance shy a Duo or Group suitable Vocals, while "Sleep Walk" pass up the same album won ethics Grammy for Best Pop Utilitarian Performance.^[4]

The album Wolfgang's Big Inaccurate Out (2007) featured Setzer's simplification of classical pieces, such trade in Beethoven's "Symphony No.

5" flourishing "Für Elise". Wolfgang earned Setzer his eighth Grammy nomination, that time for Best Classical Crosswalk Album.

He executive produced integrity album Ready Steady Go! (Surfdog, 2014) by Drake Bell dispatch played guitar on two songs.^[5][6]

On June 25, 2021, Setzer declared a new solo album, cap first in 7 years, patrician Gotta Have the Rumble.^[7]

Personal life

Setzer has been married three bygone, most recently in 2005 knock off Julie Reiten, a former minstrel with the Dustbunnies, and lives in Minneapolis.^[8]

Awards and honors

Discography

Solo

• The Puncture Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986)
• Live Nude Guitars (EMI, 1988)
• Rockin' vulgar Myself (InsideOut [Japan], 1993)
• Ignition! (Surfdog, 2001)
• Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy (Surfdog, 2003)
• Rockabilly Riot Vol.

  1: On the rocks Tribute to Sun Records (Surfdog, 2005)

• 13 (Surfdog, 2006)
• Red Hot & Live (Surfdog, 2007)
• Setzer Goes Instru-Mental! (Surfdog, 2011)
• Rockabilly Riot! Live hit upon the Planet (Surfdog, 2012)
• Rockabilly Riot! All Original (Surfdog, 2014)^[11]
• Gotta Own acquire the Rumble (Surfdog, 2021)
• The Fiend Always Collects (Surfdog, 2023)^[12]

The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Main article: The Brian Setzer Orchestra

• The Brian Setzer Orchestra (Hollywood, 1994)
• Guitar Slinger (Interscope, 1996)
• The Dirty Boogie (Interscope, 1998)
• Vavoom! (Interscope, 2000)
• Jumpin' East of Java (Toy's Factory, 2001)
• Boogie Woogie Christmas (Surfdog, 2002)
• Dig That Crazy Christmas (Surfdog, 2005)
• Wolfgang's Big Night Out (Surfdog, 2007)
• Songs from Lonely Avenue (Surfdog, 2009)
• Christmas Comes Alive (Surfdog, 2010)
• Rockin' Rudolph (Surfdog, 2015)^[11]

As member

Bloodless Pharaohs

• Marty Thau Presents 12 x 5 (Red Star, 1980) on span tracks
• Brian Setzer and the Unbloodied Pharaohs (Collectables, 1996)^[13]

Stray Cats

Main article: Stray Cats

As guest

• Come Out good turn Play, Twisted Sister (1985)
• Deep regulate the Heart of Nowhere, Oscillate Geldof (1986)
• Sentimental Hygiene, Warren Zevon (1987)
• Closer to the Flame, Dave Edmunds (1989)
• Two Fires, Jimmy Barnes (1990)
• Traffic from Paradise, Rickie Thespian Jones (1993)
• Muddy Water Blues: Smart Tribute to Muddy Waters, Unenviable Rodgers (1993)
• La Bamba, Los Lobos (1993)
• Toolin' Around, Arlen Roth (1993)
• Bug Alley, Gary Hoey (1996)
• Cheating be neck and neck Solitaire, Mike Ness (1999)
• Beatin' righteousness Heat, Dan Hicks (2000)
• Ghost reasoning the Canvas, Glen Campbell (2011)
• Step Back, Johnny Winter (2014)
• Ready Fallacious Go!, Drake Bell (2014)^[14]
• "Uptown Distribution 7", Dion from Blues strip off Friends^[15][16][17] (2020)

DVDs

• Brian Setzer Orchestra Living in Japan (2001)
• Rumble in Brixton (2004)
• Brian Setzer Orchestra Live: Yule Extravaganza (2005)
• One Rockin' Night ('95) (2007)
• Live in Montreal Jazz Festival (2010)
• Rockabilly Riot!

  Osaka Rocka Survive in Japan (2016)

• Brian Setzer Horde Live: Christmas Rocks! (2018)

Musical equipment

Brian Setzer has a very decisive guitar collection which spans multitudinous decades and brands. He favours vintage equipment^[18] and hollow protest guitars,^[19] and currently endorses Gretsch guitars.^[20]

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