I went into Guitar Center last night for some mandolin strings and they had the BSO DVD on a big screen TV. WOW! Their rendition of Caravan blew my mind. I spent more time then I intended watching. I’ve got to have it!!!
Here I thought The Stray Cat’s was a passing '80’s fad.
No, but I am a big Brian Setzer fan! 
He looks like my neighbor, Charollette. She has the same exact kind of hair (and it’s so blonde that she doesn’t have eyebrows).
In a similar vein… any Big Bad Voodoo Daddy fans out there? 
I’ve always been a big fan, a friend of mine ran a radio show on the 80’s on Pacifica that was mainly focused on Rockabilly and similar music. The Blasters and Dave Alvin, stuff like that. I wish I had tapes of those shows, so much of that music hasn’t been released on CD.
There was an interesting documentary on him a few years back, it may have been Behind the Music on VH1. When he started playing with combining electric guitar with a swing orchestra everyone thought he was nuts. No one wanted to fund him. He ended up spending his own money from the Stray Cats days to pay the band, books gigs, and record his first album. Slowly but surely, he built up a huge following and made his money back and it became profitable.
I love “one man with an idea” stories like that. Not all have happy endings but it’s encouraging when they do.
Stray Cats were great. Stray Cat Strut is still one of my favourite songs.
Being a die-hard 80’s girl at heart (mixed in with the Trad, y’know 
), the Stray Cats were indeed totally awesome… but Brian Setzer’s staying power is not to be overlooked; I think his newer stuff is right up there too. 
Of course, all that said and done…put Rock This Town into the cd player, and I surely will!!
Ad, I recognize Mitch and Micky but who’s the other one?
It’s from the end of the movie, where they’re in that happy-snappy scene… Sissy Knox, played by Parker Posey.
Brian Rocks!
Hmmmm…Parker Posey.
I feel a sudden urge to go watch “House of Yes”.
He is one of the best guitarists I know of. I am pretty picky on that subject but he is in that rare world of three man band guitar players who can replace a separate lead and rhythm player with one exciting package. Hendrix was another. I think Jeff Beck can do it as well (what is he up to these days?). And I reckon Mark Knopfler too but I can’t remember if the latter two used rhythm guitar back-ups.
If you want to get your guitar mind completely blown, check out Junior Brown.
Hmmm. It didn’t look like Parker Posey though I scrutinized it.
Oh well. I guess I’m a failure as a human being.
Jeff Beck rocked!!! I haven’t heard anything from him in awhile.
I’ve got the Jeff Beck, Al DeMeola and somebody else album around here somewhere.
You know who I really like as a guitar player? Stephen King. Man that dude rock… Wait. He’s a writer isn’t he? Oh well. Never mind. Carry on.
Weekenders… as far as i can remember, Dire Straits did have a second guitar.
And what about Nick Drake?