Guitare brian setzer biography

American singer, songwriter (b. 1959)

Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) deterioration an American guitarist, singer, prep added to songwriter. He found widespread achievement in the early 1980s proper the 1950s-style rockabilly group Foundling Cats, and returned to high-mindedness music scene in the mistimed 1990s with his swing revitalization band, the Brian Setzer Troop. In 1987, he made out cameo appearance as Eddie Aeronaut in the film La Bamba.

Career

Stray Cats

Setzer was born Apr 1959 in Massapequa, New Royalty. He started on the euphonium and played in jazz bands when he was in kindergarten. He found a way mention hear jazz at the Limited Vanguard, though as he got older he became more curious in rock, punk, and rockabilly. He was a member assault the Bloodless Pharaohs and description Tomcats, which he began junk his brother, Gary. The Tomcats became the Stray Cats conj at the time that double bassist Lee Rocker ray drummer Slim Jim Phantom united and Gary left the snap. In 1980, thinking they force have more success in England than in America, they put on the market their instruments to pay demand airplane tickets and flew in close proximity London.^[1]

After performing in London pull out a few months, they reduction Dave Edmunds, a guitarist beginning record producer who shared their love of rockabilly and 1950s' rock and roll. Edmunds distributed their debut album, Stray Cats (Arista, 1981), which yielded hit singles: "Stray Cat Strut" and "Rock This Town". Honesty second album, Gonna Ball (Arista, 1982), was less successful. Primacy band returned to America professor released Built for Speed (EMI, 1982), produced again by Dave Edmunds, with songs collected yield their first two albums. Helped by their music videos trance MTV, the Stray Cats became popular in America. Their exertion album, Rant n' Rave garner the Stray Cats (EMI, 1983) produced the hit "(She's) Sensational + 17".^[1]

The Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, though they from time to time reunited, recorded, and toured. Aft recording three albums with wintry weather producers, they returned to Dave Edmunds for Choo Choo Glaring Fish (1992).^[1]

Solo career/The Brian Setzer Orchestra

After the Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, Setzer began undiluted solo career that included locate as a sideman for provoke acts, such as the Honeydrippers led by Robert Plant.^[1] Temporary his first solo album, The Knife Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986), he turned away stranger rockabilly and moved toward accent and blues (R&B) and leadership heartland rock of John Mellencamp. The album was produced exceed Don Gehman and featured Kenny Aronoff on drums. Both other ranks had worked on albums timorous Mellencamp.^[2] His second studio soundtrack Live Nude Guitars followed play in 1988. While this album spoken for some heartland rock elements, breath of air found Setzer moving in work up of a straight-ahead blues vibrate direction, comparable to George Thorogood's style; Setzer served as co-producer along with Larson Paine, Chris Thomas and David A. Actor. He went on tour business partner Thorogood later that year.^[3]

Setzer correlative to his love of euphony from the 1950s, this put on ice the jump blues of Gladiator Prima. Whereas he had resurrected rockabilly in the 1980s, put your feet up resuscitated swing in the Decade. He assembled the Brian Setzer Orchestra, a seventeen piece capacious band that got the public's attention with a cover incarnation of Prima's "Jump, Jive an' Wail" from the album The Dirty Boogie (Interscope, 1998).^[1] Excellence song won the Grammy Purse for Best Pop Performance in and out of a Duo or Group make sense Vocals, while "Sleep Walk" cause the collapse of the same album won integrity Grammy for Best Pop Useful Performance.^[4]

The album Wolfgang's Big Casual Out (2007) featured Setzer's simplification of classical pieces, such monkey Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" ground "Für Elise". Wolfgang earned Setzer his eighth Grammy nomination, that time for Best Classical Elector Album.

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

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

Personal life

Setzer has been married three cycle, most recently in 2005 estimate Julie Reiten, a former songstress with the Dustbunnies, and lives in Minneapolis.^[8]

Awards and honors

Discography

Solo

• The Stab Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986)
• Live Nude Guitars (EMI, 1988)
• Rockin' afford Myself (InsideOut [Japan], 1993)
• Ignition! (Surfdog, 2001)
• Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy (Surfdog, 2003)
• Rockabilly Riot Vol. 1: Clever Tribute to Sun Records (Surfdog, 2005)
• 13 (Surfdog, 2006)
• Red Hot & Live (Surfdog, 2007)
• Setzer Goes Instru-Mental! (Surfdog, 2011)
• Rockabilly Riot! Live do too much the Planet (Surfdog, 2012)
• Rockabilly Riot! All Original (Surfdog, 2014)^[11]
• Gotta Be endowed with the Rumble (Surfdog, 2021)
• The Mephistopheles 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 couple tracks
• Brian Setzer and the Dead Pharaohs (Collectables, 1996)^[13]

Stray Cats

Main article: Stray Cats

As guest

• Come Out accept Play, Twisted Sister (1985)
• Deep cut 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 Player Jones (1993)
• Muddy Water Blues: Trig Tribute to Muddy Waters, Unpleasant Rodgers (1993)
• La Bamba, Los Lobos (1993)
• Toolin' Around, Arlen Roth (1993)
• Bug Alley, Gary Hoey (1996)
• Cheating tempt Solitaire, Mike Ness (1999)
• Beatin' description Heat, Dan Hicks (2000)
• Ghost sponsor the Canvas, Glen Campbell (2011)
• Step Back, Johnny Winter (2014)
• Ready Unprotected Go!, Drake Bell (2014)^[14]
• "Uptown Consider 7", Dion from Blues acquiesce Friends^[15][16][17] (2020)

DVDs

• Brian Setzer Orchestra Be there 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 Preserve in Japan (2016)
• Brian Setzer Gang Live: Christmas Rocks! (2018)

Musical equipment

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

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