pippy Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Nothing Earth-shattering but I was enjoying listening to this precociously talented youth (as was) from a clip recorded way back then and thought I'd share the fun... Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LP Trad Pro II Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Not available for view in this country. I played one of his signature Gretsch's. Burnt Orange with some sort of Tron pickups. Made In Japan and was really nice. I would have though it would have been an American model at around $2800 used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis G Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Not available for view in this country. Same here but I'll have to say that any Brian Setzer clip is a gem regardless of the era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 What a pity! I wonder why the clip won't play? Copyright reasons? Try searching youtube for 'Stray Cat Strut Montreux 81' and see if that helps any. If you like B. Setzer and the boys I do hope you get to see it; it's a fine performance. Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 i remember him from even before then with the Stray Cats I think around 1978 to 79 What a great player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 We saw them at the old Electric Factory in Philly when Strut was all over the MTV. He was focused, serious. Really a powerful guy behind the guitar, and blowing the vocs with such authority. Authentic and genuine were the two best words we had for him and them. Great band, I lost track of him only a year or so later. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 I'm disappointed the clip wouldn't play in 'your' country but I'm No Quitter ! ! ! What about this one?............ Same guy; Mystery Train 'Unpluged' (SIC - and it's plugged!) from 1993? Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 I'm at work so no YouT00b for me of any kind. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 Probably just as well; you might spill your Cristal on the keyboard as you sup. Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Oh man. I was fine until now. I see 250 bucks leaving my pocket and half a bottle of Cristal going down my neck this weekend. Thanks. Pal. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 Happy to Help! Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Sure, you just drive across the chunnel and get three bottles for 50 quid or some other weird amount of sterling. You can have one on the way back, wash it down with a bottle of Dame when you get home. GOD I hate the English. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 ...GOD I hate the English... A stroke of luck for me in that case being a Scot. Sadly we haven't had the Dame for quite a while now but we DO have a really nice Meursault put aside for an impending visit to these shores from our good friends who live in Montclair, N.J. Come to think of it you probably have them as your neighbours! As for the reds? Haven't yet decided on Puillac, Pomerol, St Estephe, St Julien, Margaux.... Chunnel is a great thing!...LOL! Anyhoo! Back to Brian Setzer for me! Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 A stroke of luck for me in that case being a Scot. Pip. We're blaming you guys for giving bad directions and we're not even in the right country! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Thread derailment into Brit/Ire/Scot/Welsh bashing = [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 Being Scottish I'm quite used to the sensation - although, to be fair, usually it's our national football team which is at the receiving end of any bashing being meted out........ Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabarone Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 The greatest pure Rock-N-Roll show I ever saw was around that time when Dave Edmunds opened for the Cats and did the encore w/them...unfeigned musical joy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 7, 2018 Author Share Posted June 7, 2018 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile are one of the greatest 'unappreciated' bands I know. Their lead guitarist, Billy Bremner, was a man of utmost taste, melody and brevity. For anyone new to these names I'd recommend Rockpile's "Repeat When Necessary" as an album without a single dud cut. Hardly a week goes by without me playing it - either to play along with or just for the joy it brings. It's probably in my list of top ten "Most Played Albums". It also has the phenomenal Albert Lee playing on "Sweet Little Lisa" which is worth the sticker price on its own. Here's a couple of clips. First the studio track but then - and far more illuminating - is footage of when A. Lee was laying down his cut. The body language of all musicians concerned (and even a visiting Phil Lynott) is priceless! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5sEnia7Bk8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rx-zaBjow Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabarone Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Dave Edmunds' Rockpile are one of the greatest 'unappreciated' bands I know. Their lead guitarist, Billy Bremner, was a man of utmost taste, melody and brevity. For anyone new to these names I'd recommend Rockpile's "Repeat When Necessary" as an album without a single dud cut. Hardly a week goes by without me playing it - either to play along with or just for the joy it brings. It's probably in my list of top ten "Most Played Albums". It also has the phenomenal Albert Lee playing on "Sweet Little Lisa" which is worth the sticker price on its own. Here's a couple of clips. First the studio track but then - and far more illuminating - is footage of when A. Lee was laying down his cut. The body language of all musicians concerned (and even a visiting Phil Lynott) is priceless! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5sEnia7Bk8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rx-zaBjow Pip. Agreed...Nick Lowe was in Rockpile too, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 Agreed...Nick Lowe was in Rockpile too, right? Yes. IIRC they hatched quite an interesting plan... Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe were both working on their own albums at the same time. They booked - and shared - studio time so that when one was editing/mastering etc. some tracks the other was recording some of theirs. In this fashion they used their studio-time in a very economically sound manner! Each played on the other's album. I think I'm right in saying the aforementioned Billy Bremner played guitar for both but I haven't checked that out so might well be mistaken. Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I still have 'Repeat When Necessary', the only D Edmunds LP I have. He also is a great guitarist. [thumbup] And - absolutely true - seeing the Albert Lee 'Sweet Little Lisa' clip on TV in....197? was what made me order an old Tele from Westwood Music in L.A. and have it sent to Gene Parsons for the Stringbender modification. Though I later found out Albert is playing an Evans stringbender. I never tried to play the 'Lisa' solo though once upon a time I could do the 'Country Boy' intro (Albert's 'Hiding' LP) and some of those licks. Love it when he plays the 9th chord and uses the bender to get the 13th. Brian Setzer is a tremendous player; there are several Brian Setzer Orchestra CDs which is him with a big swing band, the live CDs probably best bang for the buck. Also see his barnstorming appearance on Jeff Beck's tribute to Les Paul DVD. Many thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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