Brian Setzer
Musician
1959-04-10
Books by Brian Setzer
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
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The Guitar of Brian Setzer
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Brian Setzer - Guitar Legendary Licks
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Quotes by Brian Setzer
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I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
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For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
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The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
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With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.
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Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
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It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.
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I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
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Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
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I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
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