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| After a gig in London, Stray Cats met producer Dave Edmunds, well known as a roots rock enthusiast for his work with Rockpile and as a solo artist.They were popular immediately, scoring three straight hits that year with "Runaway Boys", "Rock This Town," and "Stray Cat Strut.""Rock This Town" and "Stray Cat Strut" hit the top of the American charts thanks to MTV airplay.Rant N' Rave With The Stray Cats, was almost as successful.MTV, "Rock This Town" and "Stray Cat Strut" both hit the American Top Ten, over a year after their British chart peaks.Rock Therapy, which sold poorly.Rumble In Brixton, included one new studio track, "Mystery Train Kept A Rollin'."The Brian Setzer Orchestra.Rocker and Phantom went on to form Swing Cats as well as releasing some solo material.Albums
Stray Cats (1981)
Gonna Ball (1981)
Built for Speed (1982)
Rant N' Rave with the Stray Cats (1983)
Rock Therapy (1986)
Blast Off!See Copyrights for details.Brian Setzer in the Long Island town of Massapequa, NY, in 1979.After one of their gigs in London, the Stray Cats met producer Dave Edmunds, well known as a roots rock enthusiast for his work with Rockpile and as a solo artist.Gonna Ball, wasn't as well received, and stung by the negative reviews, the Stray Cats decided to return to the States and make a go of it.They signed with EMI America and in 1982 released their U.Built for Speed, which compiled the highlights from their two British LPs.In late 1984, Setzer broke up the band amid much bad blood.Rock Therapy, which didn't sell that well.In 1989, they reunited once again for the album Blast Off, which was accompanied by a tour with Stevie Ray Vaughan.ROCKABILLY 514 (NY premiere on Jan.You guys can still rock the roof off of the joint!Visit Home Design HandbookA Luxury Lifestyle and Design Directory PEACEWWW.COMHome Design Luxury AccessA Luxury Lifestyle and Design DirectoryNot everything you 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Hereford and was immediately struck by the brilliant cover photos.The same can't be said of Rev It Up And Go.For one it's not an instrumental.Cats took this as a personal assault.The guys didn't have to worry for long.Rock This Town and Stray Cat Strut!Two years I waited, then wham, back they came.Sunday night, hour after hour of crap just to hear where they were.Geraint Watkins on piano.It was a great album and one that had us believing again.Mel Collins adding some meaty saxophone and Watkins filling out the sound with his piano.Won't Stand In Your Way followed.The closer, How Long You Wanna Live Anyway?Brian's solo album, The Knife Feels Like Justice, also on EMI, came out to good reviews.Angeles which they produced themselves.Holly's Looking For Someone To Love maintains the high standard.Perhaps Billy's journey was just too long.Two Setzer originals round things off.Definitely the pick of the new songs.Slick had their second album out, Cover Girl, but I passed on it.The title track is a blast, a 100 mph rockin' start.Records release Choo Choo Hot Fish.Orchestra and picked up a Grammy for best instrumental performance.Faster was an improvement.Lee and Slim Jim providing a frantic rhythm like the golden days and Brian playing some glorious guitar.That was pretty much it then as far as the Stray Cats goes.Carl Perkins tribute at the House Of The Blues.It would be a good issue if there wasn't one of my heroes in the obituary column!Dai Edmunds band in the old 70s roc flick Stardust.Could this be true, was Sir actually a hep cat daddy?Why had he started wearing lime green socks and those pointed shoes to class?Edmunds to twiddle the knobs(but perhaps I'm biased towards my fellow countryman).Beatles and Stones were doing.Long Island playing these things.Brian plays "air violin") he's playing lovelorn (?We went to clubs, we met people who were in bands, they said "What are you doing here?"Runaway Boys was really just before that era.The opening shot when Brians riding his Harley down 5th Avenue was like six o'clock in the morning which was handy coz there was no cars on the street.LR: Yeah that video was strange because that was a single in Europe, Rock This Town, and we never did a video for it, because at the time, like we were saying, videos weren't that important a thing and we wound up doing that video maybe a year and a half after it was a hit in Europe, in America, for MTV and the American market.Lee with the bass and I was tapping on a phone book or something and we just..BS: Yeah, I wrote it in Lee's garage, we were just messing around.England except Brain wrote that one in my garage.BS: The frustrating period was the backlash period.Hard to cope with isn't it really?Stray Cats who, and they had like forgotten about us overnight.He knows more about that style of music than anyone we've ever met.Runaway Boys and it was like the first song we ever did in like a proper recording studio.LR: He's a rocker and he's a guitar player, a musician as well as a producer.The Race Is On video plays.Jim helped with the lyrics and it took a while to get right.SJ: That's at Monsurat.And we had a good rap with our director Ian Leach.SJ: And we had leather jackets on and had to look like we were comfortable.BS: It was good because it came out sweaty and gritty.BS: Yeah, especially France.AP: You must get a tremendous buzz out of that?AP: And you're had positive feedback from pretty well all of them.You're just like we were but in your own way.LR: I don't think I've ever seen it.BS: It wasn't a full scale production video.AP: Are you a great bike freak?Won't Stand In Your Way video plays.BS: That's probably one of our favourite tunes.Carat Soul, they didn't have record out then.BS: By the Brooklyn Bridge.There's a '49 Merc in there.BS: I think we all go out to see other bands.Look At That Cadillac video plays.March 1983 by Barney Hoskyns.Just like Eddie Cochran that is The Stray Cats are playing the perfect American teenage music.If he'd lived, maybe Eddie Cochran would have been as big as The Stray Cats.Unfortunately, unlike them, he never returned.In contrast, The Stray Cats have taken to their limousine life.Well, I for one won't forget them playing one of the most exciting shows of my life.Ah, those were the days.Brian is of a somewhat less angelic appearance these days.Brando, Presley, Dean, Cochran ...This tour is for the real; for the real America.Speed (compiled from the two British Arista albums) as confirmation that The Stray Cats are a con.Costello records, but this is a new Beatlemania.The Stray cats make sense as idols.Setzer isn't messing around.For The Stray Cats, rockabilly is not a bag of myths, simply a music.Tonight and the Buddy Holly of Peggy Sue.This ain't pure teen heaven, but it sure ain't "febrile sexuality".The Stray Cats hail neither from the inner city nor the backwoods, but from suburbia itself.America like any other rock 'n' roll band does.Miami and back, stuffing ourselves with food, and all the time The Stray cats stay in their rooms.Dutchman and I haven't even been able to lie by the pool sleeping, eating and drinking Margaritas.Sometimes a journalist's life is very rough indeed.English press after the reception of Gonna Ball, and suspicion haunts the air."I'm having a great time, I know that."We just get up there and play every night."Er, this stuff about the rockabilly revolution that's sweeping America.It's just good dance music, you know?"America they don't ever leave you.Lee: "Well, I really think there's a spot here for it.Brian: "Only in New York or LA do you get kids dressing up rockabilly."Brian: "A lot of the kids here don't have money.Brian: "I don't think it matters really."If you were a straight revival act, a faithful reproduction, you probably wouldn't be where you are today.Jamaicans in England and they can relate to the ska beat.Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings.Guys like that show up all the time.Brian: "Yeah, so that's the stuff I been listening to lately."Lee: "We got a track with pedal steel."Brian: "As a matter of fact, I'm pretty hot on the banjo.PA, we couldn't get loud enough.Lee: "The roots, what rock 'n' roll started from.Jim: "I guess it is, since we're white ."Brian: "If you go back to the '50s, I don't think there are any original black rockabilly artists.Brian: "I hate to start picking us apart like a doctor, you know.Do you think you could have made it in America on talent alone?Brian: "I think looks are part of my success.So, man think about sessions in your old age!"Brian: "Elvis was the best.You're not using the same overtly sexual gestures that Elvis used.How much of the purist is there in The Stray cats?Brian: "I don't think you can go too far with it, y'know, but we do what hits us."Jim: "The more time that we can write, the better.Brian: "We were really getting fucked about pretty bad with Gonna Ball."There are very few bands that can actually override the press there.Jim: "That's really the thing here.I'd rather hear that than a lotta "new music".Brian: "Yeah, we're changing all that.Jim: "We started a new market here, which is good.But the giant corporations looking for another Stray Cats is exactly what could destroy it.Even it they're stoopid, they can tell that.Lee: "Good old British reserve."You got people hanging around outside your house trying to steal the garbage!Brian: "I think this band would have made it if the bottom had fallen out of the stock market.We're selling records down here in Florida.And since this interview has been relatively painless, let's end it on a happy note."Source: British music magazine (?Boy George crowd, look strangely normal.To start with there's the wickedly chopped '51 Mercury that was used in American Graffiti.Graffiti exhibit at Universal Studios.Chevy with Holley carb, which supplies enough brake horsepower to keep Setzer happy.Cats' Rant 'n' Rave album cover.M1 to their London flat.Barney's Beanery, and spots two local characters, Big Tony and the Tattoo Kid, guzzling beer and playing pool."So what are you doing these days?"Setzer and his manager win all three.Setzer tries to ignore the remark.US festival," says a player at another table.Big Tony pours himself another glass of brew andd turns to the Tattoo Kid.Bob Dylan and Robert Plant.Has Brian Setzer begun to grow up or has he simply gone Hollywood?There weren't many musicains around.Stray Cats, and I took it when the Stray Cats broke up.Like, "What right does he have to think he's famous?Nonetheless, the album establishes Setzer as a serious rocker.The Stray Cats, of course, is a very sensitive subject with Setzer."Basically, I called Lee on the phone and told him how I felt," he recounts.Cats broke up," he says.Samoyeds, Kimo and Koala."I've gotten a hell of a lot more secure and confident in myself.Like, what the hell is David Lee Roth going to do now?It's clear that Setzer has been reevaluating a lot of things.You know, I think drugs are a waste of money.Pete (Farndon, the Pretenders bassist who died of a drug overdose).Guitar Player Sept 1983 (Rockabilly issue!Williams and his mam a devoted Elvis fan.At 14 he bypassed all current fads to model himself after an old photo of Eddie Cochran.The Stray Cats simple lyrics and danceable rhythms appealed to teds, punks, skinheads and rockers alike.Arista signed 'em and Dave Edmunds, an authority on the rab sound, produced their first 45.Historically what are the great rab records?James Burton is one of my idols too.Nobody taught me how to play that.Have you met any of the rab originators?Massapequa Wildcats, I was the guitarist, my singing came later.Lula and Baby Let's Play House.What were your earliest rab gigs?BS I couldn't get a gig doing rab, nobody would hire me , it was disco time!Was this the origin of the Stray Cats?How did the Stray cats come together?They played drums and stand up too!It was great he was part of the band standing up.Were you playingoriginal material?That's where my heart lies.Did the hard times continue there?UK tour, then France, Holland etc.Listen to that stuff but don't rely on it too heavily.Lessons are definitely a plus.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.See all 13 customer reviews...Day Shipping at checkout.Slim Jim Phantom
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a9AdsViewNamespace.The easiest way to shoot video reviews.This should be titled THE BEST OF THE STRAY CATS.Because that's what this collection is all about.Who are these DIRTY DOGGIES bringing down the reviews of the coolest cats to ever cut a side?"Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Polecats, the Swing Cats continue the Stray Cats conventions while covering artists as diverse as Carl Perkins, Hank Williams Sr.Was this review helpful to you?See all 13 customer reviews...Casual Stray Cats Fans....Cool package and great liner notes too...MAN, THAT'S PURE 50'S DO...Good sample if it's all the Stray Cats you own
I like rockabilly a lot.ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE !Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.The Broad Spectrum Of My Music Catalogue: A list by K.Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Track your recent orders.Preview tracks from Good Thing Going.Stray Cats scored several big hits on both sides of the Atlantic...Get FREE UPDATES for Stray Cats!Start a new discussion now!Here are the sounds that make Nashville nervous.It is the music of free birds and rebel flags.Lee Rocker y Slim Jim Phantom."The Stray Cats", en 1981.Stray Cats (1981)
Gonna Ball (1981)
Built For Speed (1982)
Rant N' Rave With The Stray Cats (1983)
Rock Therapy (1986)
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