When Setzer/Stray Cats showed up in the early 80's it was a breath of fresh air!! And.... Rev Horton Heat is playing at a tiny club in Huntsville this summer... I am going!!
When I see some of your titles, I think to myself, ‘I’m not interested in that’, but by the time I watch your intro, I'm pausing the video and adding artists to my music library and thinking of ways to squeeze it into my practice routines. That’s a sign of a great teacher. You make me crave to learn something that I had no desire to 10 minutes ago.
Love rockabilly... thanks for the video. I would definitely like to see more of this stuff. Maybe something on the old stuff like Duane Eddy, and others of that era. Brian Setzer is my favorite guitar player of all time. Such a talented player. Great stuff Thanks.
nice vid. I remember the stray cats and psychobilly back in the late 70's early 80's when I was a kid. we had such great music to listen to back then. in fact. I was getting one of my twin sons to check out a cramps track or two when we where driving over to Aylesbury a couple of months back. he liked the cramps a lot.
Ah-ha, so you did read my request for Brian Setzer! If anybody could pull this off, it would be you. My influences are all over the place. From Wolf, Randy, Loomis, to SRV, Hendrix, Kossoff, Stray Cats. Thank you big time B🐓👍👍
You've touched on some great points. A lot of people get credited with a signature lick, like Cliff Gallup's ascending octaves & then you hear the solo in Roly Poly by Bob Wills , considered Western Swing, & think that was done in the mid 40's. Listen to what Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson were doing 90 years ago.
Hey David, looks like I got me some wood shedding to do! Keep up the great lessons, my lick library has grown tons since I discovered your channel! Thanks
Thank you for this - I just got here after discovering your channel with the King Diamond and Iron Maiden videos. I definitely think of rockabilly as heavy metal, before there was heavy metal - I've always loved this stuff!
When Brian plays the chromatic riff at the end of the chorus he bends the last note and its quite challenging to pull it off perfectly ....basically he bends chords as well ....overall amazing lesson tyvm bro for all the content you bring to us!
Thanks! I never thought to request this, but I love rockabilly and surf! Thumbs up on Brian Setzer: 'Stray Cat Strut' is a brilliant song. I need to dig into their catalog.
Brian Seltzer... vastly under appreciated player, in fact the Stray Cats were bigger in the UK and France than in the US when they first came on the scene
Dude, you really amaze me sometimes. Racer x to rockabilly to . . . It’s never ending. Love this stuff. And the best part is you don’t just show leads. I got a stumper for you. Pat Benatar’s husband, Neil. He must have some cool stuff. I share only if you run out of ideas. Cry wolf’s axeman from the 80’s was clever too.
Great stuff as ever, I've been going through your older vids and loving them. You may be interested in an Australian band The Living End who are favourites of mine especially live. My last gig before the lockdown in fact.
George Harrison was a huge rockabilly fan. His early Beatles guitar work shows that influence. Have you done Gerorge yet? You've got rockabilly George, Indian influenced George, and slide guitar George.
Entertaining and inspiring as ever, you have such a broad spectrum of musical taste which seems to resonate with mine, any chance you could touch on some jazz sometime? cheers David.
Love the Stray Cats and anything rockabilly. Your opening lick reminded me of a Canadian rockabilly kind of punk band from the late 70s and 80s named Teenage Head. The song is Brand New Caddilac. Check it out. Your licks different but similar.. very cool.
Add you some slapback delay to the reverb and do some string muting. If you are want to get the rockabilly sound. The up stroke don't cut it for rockabilly sound.
Yea. I always liked the way Rockabilly sounded. I guess that's why I liked listening to the Stray Cats. David, do you remember the cartoon with the three little pigs and the wolf. The Three Little Bops Plus one? One being the Wolf, when he couldn't beat 'em so he joined them playing, the trumpet? That comes to mind with this style of music. Thanks for this lesson. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2FzIMi9ubZA.html
Dave! Your opening riff is almost spit on with the song “Storm the Embassy” from the Stray Cats first album!!! And of course - Cliff Gallup was it! Plus bands like Johnny Burnett Trio who so many stole songs from (Train Kept a Rollin and Let’s Play House). Their versions were so much better. So much of this great music to explore!!!
Cliff Gallop was Gene Vincent's guitar player with the Blue Caps and I believe was the best guitar player of that entire era. He was so slick and ahead of his time. He only recorded 35 songs and then disappeared completely from music! Really hard to believe when you hear him play, that he would just stop playing having such technical proficiency. What a waste of talent.
