A biography for Brian Setzerhasn’t been written yet.
“Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.”
“A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.”
“I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.”
“I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.”
“I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.”
“We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.”
“I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.”
“The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.”
“Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.”
“It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.”
“Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.”
“Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.”