Brian Setzer

Brian Robert Setzer ( born April 10, 1959 in Massapequa, Long Iceland, New York) is an American rockabilly musician who with the formation of the band Stray Cats in 1979, an important contribution to Rockabilly Revival or Neo - Rockabilly - wave in the 1980s made ​​.

  • 3.1 Solo albums
  • 3.2 Brian Setzer Orchestra
  • 3.3 Brian Setzer 68 Comeback Special
  • 3.4 Brian Setzer & The Nashvillains
  • 3.5 Participation in soundtracks and compilations

Life and musical career

Coasters grew up in Massapequa, a small town on New York's Long Iceland, on. At the age of eight he started the tubaähnliche euphonium instrument to play and discovered a little later his passion for the guitar. The late 1970s, Setzer played in the New York New Wave lineup Bloodless Pharaohs and, together with Leon printer ( Lee Rocker ) and James McDonell (Slim Jim Phantom ) the rockabilly trio Brian Setzer and the Tomcats, which later in Stray Cats renamed. In the summer of 1980, the trio flew to London, there to seek their fortune as a musician.

Career

After a number of performances in a variety of London clubs they received towards the end of their first record deal and ended up with their debut single Runaway Boys a Top Ten hit. With Rock This Town and Stray Cat Strut was followed by two other places in the top ten of the UK charts. Also, the band's debut album climbed into the charts.

After the second less successful European album gonna throw the Stray Cats returned to the United States. The U.S. album Built For Speed, a compilation of the first two European albums of the year 1982, placed at the top of the Billboard charts and sold over two million copies.

Another successful album Rant N Rave With The Stray Cats - again produced in Europe - followed before the band broke up in 1984 and only for contractual reasons their 1986 U.S. album rock Therapy published.

Meanwhile translator was involved in his solo projects, and published in 1986, the mainstream rock album, The Knife Feels Like Justice. 1988 was followed by another solo album translator, Live Nude Guitars, which was oriented much more on rockabilly than its predecessor. In the same year, there was a reunion of the Stray Cats, the four more albums released in the following years, several tours took and finally dissolved in 1994 again.

Translators remembered his passion from childhood days - the Big Band sound - and founded the " Brian Setzer Orchestra ", a big band, which he prefaced a guitar as a management tool and sounded more rock than the usual big bands. After initial difficulties, two moderately successful albums in 1998 came the breakthrough with their third album The Dirty Boogie. The album sold over three million copies and brought Setzer also two more Grammys one. The follow-up album Vavoom! could not keep up with its predecessor, yet won another Grammy.

Only with the Christmas album Boogie Woogie Christmas of 2002 Setzer was able to continue previous successes in the Orchestra section. Despite his work with the Big Band adapter remained true to his musical roots and published every now and then rockabilly albums. So in 2001 ( Ignition) and 2003 (Nitro Burnin 'Funny Daddy ). In 2004 it came to the 25 - year anniversary of the Stray Cats to a re-union of the band, which was followed by an extensive European tour.

In July 2005, Brian Setzer again went on tour in Europe and published as a tribute to Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and other Sun artists CD Rockabilly Riot! Vol.1: A Tribute To Sun Records, with which he could get on the German album charts.

In September 2007, the Brian Setzer Orchestra released after seven years of his first novel and regular studio album, which is titled Wolfgang 's Big Night Out. Translator ventures to uncharted territory with this album and reworked classics by Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and others in a swing - rockabilly style.

Others

  • Brian Setzer mainly used guitars in the Gretsch.
  • In 1987, Setzer in the film La Bamba his musical role model Eddie Cochran.
  • As a result, It's only Rock ' n ' Roll (English original title How I spent my Strummer Vacation ) of the television series The Simpsons has translators in addition to other music greats such as Lenny Kravitz and the Rolling Stones made ​​a guest appearance in which he is self-synchronizing.
  • In 1998, he appeared in the sitcom The Nanny ( Season 5 Episode 3) along with his orchestra.

Discography

Solo albums

Brian Setzer Orchestra

Brian Setzer 68 Comeback Special

  • 2001 - Ignition!

Brian Setzer & The Nashvillains

  • 2007 - Red Hot & Live

Participation in soundtracks and compilations

[ in square brackets indicating whether as a solo artist (BS solo ), with the Brian Setzer Orchestra (BSO ) or as Brian Setzer 68 Comeback Special (BS 68 CS) represented ]

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