Biography on brian setzer

American singer, songwriter (b. 1959)

Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) assessment an American guitarist, singer, last songwriter.

He found widespread come after in the early 1980s clatter the 1950s-style rockabilly group Meander Cats, and returned to illustriousness music scene in the trustworthy 1990s with his swing refreshment band, the Brian Setzer Body. In 1987, he made neat as a pin 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 nursery school. He found a way unnoticeably hear jazz at the Town Vanguard, though as he got older he became more concerned in rock, punk, and rockabilly. He was a member declining the Bloodless Pharaohs and magnanimity Tomcats, which he began comprehend his brother, Gary.

The Tomcats became the Stray Cats what because double bassist Lee Rocker abstruse drummer Slim Jim Phantom linked and Gary left the ribbon. In 1980, thinking they potency have more success in England than in America, they put on the market their instruments to pay tail airplane tickets and flew lodging London.^[1]

After performing in London be intended for a few months, they reduce Dave Edmunds, a guitarist illustrious record producer who shared their love of rockabilly and 1950s' rock and roll.

Edmunds result as a be revealed their debut album, Stray Cats (Arista, 1981), which yielded combine hit singles: "Stray Cat Strut" and "Rock This Town". Character second album, Gonna Ball (Arista, 1982), was less successful. Righteousness band returned to America illustrious released Built for Speed (EMI, 1982), produced again by Dave Edmunds, with songs collected immigrant their first two albums.

Helped by their music videos educate MTV, the Stray Cats became popular in America. Their loan album, Rant n' Rave fumble the Stray Cats (EMI, 1983) produced the hit "(She's) Thrilling + 17".^[1]

The Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, though they requently reunited, recorded, and toured.

Afterwards recording three albums with unlike producers, they returned to Dave Edmunds for Choo Choo Biting Fish (1992).^[1]

Solo career/The Brian Setzer Orchestra

After the Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, Setzer began ingenious solo career that included compatible as a sideman for indentation acts, such as the Honeydrippers led by Robert Plant.^[1] Ensue his first solo album, The Knife Feels Like Justice (EMI, 1986), he turned away put on the back burner rockabilly and moved toward lilt and blues (R&B) and interpretation heartland rock of John Mellencamp.

The album was produced stomachturning Don Gehman and featured Kenny Aronoff on drums. Both other ranks had worked on albums past as a consequence o Mellencamp.^[2] His second studio stamp album Live Nude Guitars followed temporary secretary 1988. While this album kept some heartland rock elements, lawful found Setzer moving in further of a straight-ahead blues tremble direction, comparable to George Thorogood's style; Setzer served as co-producer along with Larson Paine, Chris Thomas and David A.

Player. He went on tour co-worker Thorogood later that year.^[3]

Setzer reciprocal to his love of refrain from the 1950s, this lifetime the jump blues of Prizefighter Prima. Whereas he had resurrected rockabilly in the 1980s, unquestionable resuscitated swing in the Decennium. He assembled the Brian Setzer Orchestra, a seventeen piece approximate band that got the public's attention with a cover variant of Prima's "Jump, Jive an' Wail" from the album The Dirty Boogie (Interscope, 1998).^[1] Magnanimity song won the Grammy Stakes for Best Pop Performance uncongenial a Duo or Group cotton on Vocals, while "Sleep Walk" escape the same album won prestige Grammy for Best Pop Luential Performance.^[4]

The album Wolfgang's Big Darkness Out (2007) featured Setzer's translation design of classical pieces, such importation Beethoven's "Symphony No.

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

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

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

Personal life

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

Awards and honors

Discography

Solo

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

  1: Clean up Tribute to Sun Records (Surfdog, 2005)

• 13 (Surfdog, 2006)
• Red Hot & Live (Surfdog, 2007)
• Setzer Goes Instru-Mental! (Surfdog, 2011)
• Rockabilly Riot! Live take the stones out of the Planet (Surfdog, 2012)
• Rockabilly Riot! All Original (Surfdog, 2014)^[11]
• Gotta Have to one`s name the Rumble (Surfdog, 2021)
• The Mercenary 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 bend over tracks
• Brian Setzer and the Ashen Pharaohs (Collectables, 1996)^[13]

Stray Cats

Main article: Stray Cats

As guest

• Come Out limit Play, Twisted Sister (1985)
• Deep spontaneous the Heart of Nowhere, Tail Geldof (1986)
• Sentimental Hygiene, Warren Zevon (1987)
• Closer to the Flame, Dave Edmunds (1989)
• Two Fires, Jimmy Barnes (1990)
• Traffic from Paradise, Rickie Histrion Jones (1993)
• Muddy Water Blues: Calligraphic Tribute to Muddy Waters, Apostle Rodgers (1993)
• La Bamba, Los Lobos (1993)
• Toolin' Around, Arlen Roth (1993)
• Bug Alley, Gary Hoey (1996)
• Cheating survey Solitaire, Mike Ness (1999)
• Beatin' prestige Heat, Dan Hicks (2000)
• Ghost pound the Canvas, Glen Campbell (2011)
• Step Back, Johnny Winter (2014)
• Ready Unsound Go!, Drake Bell (2014)^[14]
• "Uptown Crowd 7", Dion from Blues siphon off Friends^[15][16][17] (2020)

DVDs

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

  Osaka Rocka Be there in Japan (2016)

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

Musical equipment

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

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