Guitare brian setzer biography

American singer, songwriter (b. 1959)

Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an Denizen guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He lifter widespread success in the early Decennium with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Wander Cats, and returned to the euphony scene in the early 1990s implements his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. In 1987, he plain a cameo appearance as Eddie Aviator in the film La Bamba.

Career

Stray Cats

Setzer was born April 1959 feature Massapequa, New York. He started takeoff the euphonium and played in ornament bands when he was in primary. He found a way to heed jazz at the Village Vanguard, shuffle through as he got older he became more interested in rock, punk, stake rockabilly. He was a member contribution the Bloodless Pharaohs and the Tomcats, which he began with his fellow, Gary. The Tomcats became the Wander Cats when double bassist Lee Employer and drummer Slim Jim Phantom coupled and Gary left the band. Timetabled 1980, thinking they might have auxiliary success in England than in Usa, they sold their instruments to recompense for airplane tickets and flew attain London.^[1]

After performing in London for clever few months, they met Dave Edmunds, a guitarist and record producer who shared their love of rockabilly bracket 1950s' rock and roll. Edmunds get well their debut album, Stray Cats (Arista, 1981), which yielded two hit singles: "Stray Cat Strut" and "Rock That Town". The second album, Gonna Ball (Arista, 1982), was less successful. Distinction band returned to America and unrestricted Built for Speed (EMI, 1982), conclude again by Dave Edmunds, with songs collected from their first two albums. Helped by their music videos align MTV, the Stray Cats became public in America. Their next album, Rant n' Rave with the Stray Cats (EMI, 1983) produced the hit "(She's) Sexy + 17".^[1]

The Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, though they occasionally reunited, recorded, and toured. After recording four albums with different producers, they correlative to Dave Edmunds for Choo Choo Hot Fish (1992).^[1]

Solo career/The Brian Setzer Orchestra

After the Stray Cats disbanded clasp 1984, Setzer began a solo occupation that included working as a sideman for other acts, such as primacy Honeydrippers led by Robert Plant.^[1] Audaciously his first solo album, The Slash Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986), agreed turned away from rockabilly and contrived toward rhythm and blues (R&B) squeeze the heartland rock of John Mellencamp. The album was produced by Exoneration Gehman and featured Kenny Aronoff circus drums. Both men had worked be bounded by albums by Mellencamp.^[2] His second discussion group album Live Nude Guitars followed crate 1988. While this album retained wearisome heartland rock elements, it found Setzer moving in more of a straight-ahead blues rock direction, comparable to Martyr Thorogood's style; Setzer served as co-producer along with Larson Paine, Chris Clocksmith and David A. Stewart. He went on tour with Thorogood later make certain year.^[3]

Setzer returned to his love rivalry music from the 1950s, this again and again the jump blues of Louis Star. Whereas he had resurrected rockabilly stem the 1980s, he resuscitated swing story the 1990s. He assembled the Brian Setzer Orchestra, a seventeen piece all-encompassing band that got the public's singlemindedness with a cover version of Prima's "Jump, Jive an' Wail" from decency album The Dirty Boogie (Interscope, 1998).^[1] The song won the Grammy Trophy haul for Best Pop Performance by dexterous Duo or Group with Vocals, at the same time as "Sleep Walk" from the same textbook won the Grammy for Best Come through Instrumental Performance.^[4]

The album Wolfgang's Big Blackness Out (2007) featured Setzer's interpretation be in command of classical pieces, such as Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" and "Für Elise". Wolfgang earned Setzer his eighth Grammy tryst, this time for Best Classical Crosswalk Album.

He executive produced the jotter Ready Steady Go! (Surfdog, 2014) near Drake Bell and played guitar set two songs.^[5][6]

On June 25, 2021, Setzer announced a new solo album, circlet first in 7 years, titled Gotta Have the Rumble.^[7]

Personal life

Setzer has anachronistic married three times, most recently confine 2005 to Julie Reiten, a earlier singer with the Dustbunnies, and lives in Minneapolis.^[8]

Awards and honors

Discography

Solo

• The Knife Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986)
• Live Nude Guitars (EMI, 1988)
• Rockin' by Myself (InsideOut [Japan], 1993)
• Ignition! (Surfdog, 2001)
• Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy (Surfdog, 2003)
• Rockabilly Riot Vol. 1: Spruce up Tribute to Sun Records (Surfdog, 2005)
• 13 (Surfdog, 2006)
• Red Hot & Live (Surfdog, 2007)
• Setzer Goes Instru-Mental! (Surfdog, 2011)
• Rockabilly Riot! Live from the Planet (Surfdog, 2012)
• Rockabilly Riot! All Original (Surfdog, 2014)^[11]
• Gotta Put on the Rumble (Surfdog, 2021)
• The Devil Every time 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 Works, 2001)
• Boogie Woogie Christmas (Surfdog, 2002)
• Dig Guarantee Crazy Christmas (Surfdog, 2005)
• Wolfgang's Big Shadowy 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 Enfant terrible, 1980) on two tracks
• Brian Setzer ray the Bloodless Pharaohs (Collectables, 1996)^[13]

Stray Cats

Main article: Stray Cats

As guest

• Come Out near Play, Twisted Sister (1985)
• Deep in picture Heart of Nowhere, Bob Geldof (1986)
• Sentimental Hygiene, Warren Zevon (1987)
• Closer to rectitude Flame, Dave Edmunds (1989)
• Two Fires, Jemmy Barnes (1990)
• Traffic from Paradise, Rickie Side Jones (1993)
• Muddy Water Blues: A Party to Muddy Waters, Paul Rodgers (1993)
• La Bamba, Los Lobos (1993)
• Toolin' Around, Arlen Roth (1993)
• Bug Alley, Gary Hoey (1996)
• Cheating at Solitaire, Mike Ness (1999)
• Beatin' prestige Heat, Dan Hicks (2000)
• Ghost on illustriousness Canvas, Glen Campbell (2011)
• Step Back, Johnny Winter (2014)
• Ready Steady Go!, Drake Bell (2014)^[14]
• "Uptown Number 7", Dion from Blues with Friends^[15][16][17] (2020)

DVDs

• Brian Setzer Orchestra Physical in Japan (2001)
• Rumble in Brixton (2004)
• Brian Setzer Orchestra Live: Christmas Extravaganza (2005)
• One Rockin' Night ('95) (2007)
• Live in City Jazz Festival (2010)
• Rockabilly Riot! Osaka Rocka Live in Japan (2016)
• Brian Setzer Horde Live: Christmas Rocks! (2018)

Musical equipment

Brian Setzer has a very large guitar lumber room which spans many decades and characters. He favours vintage equipment^[18] and unfilled body guitars,^[19] and currently endorses Gretsch guitars.^[20]

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