More - Brian Setzer Quotes

Stairway to Nowhere.

Brian Setzer

 

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

Brian Setzer

 Beatles

I wanted to keep it authentic, ... I even went as far as copying the original drum parts. I felt that was an overlooked part of those recordings. Now when people play rockabilly they ignore the little fills and tricks they used.

Brian Setzer

 

Rockabilly is really part of our background, ... It's a cousin to the blues and country. And it's that important.

Brian Setzer

 Country

My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I thought the computer file was broken. But we did research and found out that a tape fragment is all that exists of the song.

Brian Setzer

 

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Brian Setzer

 

He said it was too long ago for him to put himself back in that mind-set,

Brian Setzer

 Mind

I never really did rockabilly exactly like they did it in the '50s, ... We always kind of updated it. But I didn't need to go blasting crazy, wild guitar solos around this stuff. I tried to keep it authentic.

Brian Setzer

 

The inspiration for this was my son, who's 18, ... I was playing some old Sun Records, and he and his friends rushed into the room and loved it. I thought that if I did a Sun tribute record I could get more young people to listen to it.

Brian Setzer