Rockabilly legend Brian Setzer is opening an Official Reverb Shop, clearing out Gretsch Hot Rods, custom builds, and amps that have toured the world. Read more on Reverb : bit.ly/2YbHOrY
If you've seen and heard him play live, it's an incredible display of showmanship and world class guitar playing. Tone, phrasing, technique; honed and sharpened w/decades on the road...
Saw Mr Setzer live in the Blue tent Oberhausen Germany in 1990. The Stray Cats rocked that night. I worked the security and being a Brit I got on quite well with his guitar tech. He gave me a few stray cat picks. I played them to death over the years until the cat motifs wore away. I can say that Brian Setzer is the best live guitarist I have EVER seen.
I wish I would have known about this before. I would have bought one of Brian’s guitars for sure. I would be the happiest lad in the world! Brian you are the best!
Yeah... Thanks. RU-vid, 3 YEARS TOO LATE !!! That's all... 2 Days would be LATE. I lived an AMAZING life before Cellphones. BLISS. Pretty much every day. & of you "Update" the phone is COMPLETELY Different. GREAT JOB. & I $$ PAY FOR THIS ABUSE ?? F That.
Seen him play at Antones’ in Austin around mid 90’s. I thought he’d be playing the typical stray cat riffs from the songs off the records. Boy was I wrong about that! He commenced to melt my face off!
I'm not as well versed in rockabilly per say, but I can tell you from playing some of the more upbeat tunes in the swing band I was in, I became convinced of the same thing. Jazzy licks with the speed of rock makes for a heck of a good time.
I always recommend that anybody who's new to playing the guitar should check out Brian, and the Stray Cats. It's just so much FUN. It's easy to stay motivated to learn your lessons when you're learning to play songs that are fun to play.
Brian is my primary inspiration to start playing guitar. A few months ago I bought this beautiful blue sparkle Gretsch guitar but I simply couldn't bond with it, it sounded too dark, there was no Rockabilly twang in that guitar. So I traded it in for a Fender Telecaster and the first thing I did was to play "Runaway boys" and the tone was there.
I wonder if those hollowbodies are more dependent on the kind of finish and smaller details for tone, being hollow. I got a cheaper/mid tier gretsch, and it's quite bright, just the right amount of snarl and brightness for the low end (I'm a not-so gretsch guy, so take it for what it is). I actually love it. I'm playing it more and more. I even like it with quite a bit of dirt, because the resonance of the hollowbody makes it react with the amp a certain way. I'm assuming yours was a hollowbody Gretsch?
I used to play Stray Cats cover songs in my band. I have a 335 Epi and it sounds so good on our 2nd album. Brian Setzer is one of the best musicians ever.
The Fender Bassman amp in the photo is from Brian Setzer? It's just that the grill has a different color from the one these amplifiers have, it doesn't look like the original grill, it seems to have been changed.
Brian, you're like an old buddy. You don't realize it, but you and I have been bumping into each other for years. I've seen the Stray Cats a few times, but we moved to the same community as adults. I'm into motorcycles and guitars, so naturally, you pop up in my playground all the time. We should meet up at Bob's for a coffee or Lee's for a beer! Do you bowl?
The shop opens next Wednesday, August 26th. Feel free to head here to learn more and sign up for alerts to know when the shop goes live : bit.ly/2YbHOrY
Way back in the day, I read an interview with Brian Setzer, and the writer asked him about his tattoos, something along the lines of, are you done? Never forgot his reply, which is something his clearly very wise father told him: nothing above the neckline of your short, or below the cuff of your sleeve-in case you ever have to go before a judge.
Smart move. No touring action so, sell some axes to keep some gas in the motor scooter. If things pickup he can buy a bunch of new guitars, maybe find some of his old gretschs on reverb and off ya go.
