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| Stray Cats | |
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 Stray Cats in Japan, early 1990s | |
| Background data | |
| Origin | Massapequa, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active |
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| Labels | Arista, EMI America, Capitol |
| Associated acts | Brian Setzer Orchestra, Phantom, Rocker & Slick, Kat Men |
| Website | straycats |
| Members | Brian Setzer Lee Rocker Slim Jim Phantom |
| By members | Bob Beecher Gary Setzer Tommy Byrnes |
Stray Cats are an American rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist and vocalist Brian Setzer, double bassist Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island boondocks of Massapequa, New York.[1] The group had numerous striking singles in the UK, Australia, Canada, and the U.South. including "Devious Cat Strut", "(She'southward) Sexy + 17", "Look at That Cadillac", "I Won't Stand in Your Way", "Bring It Back Once more", and "Stone This Town", which the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has listed equally ane of the songs that shaped rock and gyre.[2]
History [edit]
Formation and move to Uk [edit]
The group, whose style was based upon the sounds of Dominicus Records artists and other artists from the 1950s, were heavily influenced by Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Factor Vincent, and Bill Haley & His Comets.[3] The Stray Cats quickly developed a large post-obit in the New York music scene playing at CBGB and Max's Kansas Metropolis as well as venues on Long Island. When the Cats heard a rumor that at that place was a revival of the 1950s Teddy Boy youth subculture in England, the ring moved to the Uk.[4] They then spearheaded the nascent rockabilly revival, by blending the 1950s Sun Studio sound with modern punk musical elements. In terms of visual fashion, the Stray Cats as well blended elements of 1950 rockabilly wearing apparel, such every bit wearing drape jackets, brothel creepers, and western shirts with punk dress, such equally tight blackness zipper trousers and modern versions of 1950s hair styles.
The band playing in Gijon
The band first appeared in the middle of 1979 performing under a number of names including the Tomcats, the Teds, and Bryan and the Tom Cats.[4] According to Brian Setzer, the band inverse names to fool club owners (who would not rent the aforementioned ring for sequent nights), merely kept the "Cats" moniker in their diverse names so the audience would know they were the same ring. Setzer joined upwardly with Phantom, and they shortly added Phantom's schoolmate and friend, Lee Rocker. The three later realized they were from the same neighborhood and enjoyed punk and rockabilly music. Since 1983, they have used only "Stray Cats" as their name. The band name "Stray Cats" had already earlier appeared in the 1973 rock 'n' roll motion picture That'll Be the Day and its 1974 sequel Stardust. They also went to many concerts and enjoyed the punk scene. They met the Disharmonism and they used to see Siouxsie and the Banshees, and also Charlie Harper and the UK Subs.[5]
In the middle of 1980, the Cats constitute themselves being courted past record labels including Virgin Records, Stiff Records, and Arista Records. Discussion quickly spread and soon members of The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Led Zeppelin were at their shows. Later a gig in London, Devious Cats met musician and producer Dave Edmunds, well known as a roots stone enthusiast for his work with Rockpile and as a solo artist. Edmunds offered to work with the group, and they entered the studio to tape their self-titled debut album, Stray Cats, released in Britain in 1981 on Arista Records. They had three hits that year with "Runaway Boys", "Rock This Town", and "Devious Cat Strut". The UK follow-upward to Stray Cats, Gonna Brawl, was non likewise-received, providing no hits. All the same the combined sales of their showtime two albums were enough to convince EMI America to compile the best tracks from the two UK albums and upshot an anthology (Congenital for Speed) in the U.S. in 1982. The record went on to sell a million copies (Platinum) in the US and Canada and was the no. 2 tape on the Billboard anthology charts for 15 weeks.
In 1983, the Stray Cats began recording their 3rd (second U.S.) studio album Rant Due north' Rave with the Stray Cats. Different their previous studio albums, half the album was recorded in London with the balance recorded in New York. Released in August 1983, critics generally viewed Rant N' Rave favorably, citing the band's tributes to 1950s rock 'n' coil legends such as Vincent and Bo Diddley. Commercially, Rant North' Rave failed to achieve the success of Congenital for Speed, although information technology produced the peak-x hitting "(She'due south) Sexy + 17", and top-40 "I Won't Stand up in Your Way" featuring the doo-wop group 14 Karat Soul.
Breakup and reunions [edit]
Musical and personal conflicts began to sally in the ways that the individual members handled their new-found success; Phantom married actress Britt Ekland, while Setzer fabricated guest appearances with stars like Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks and became the concert guitarist for Robert Plant's Honeydrippers side project. In late 1984, the ring added former BMT's guitarist and Long Island native Tommy Byrnes on second guitar and harmony vocals, and afterward a European and U.s.a. bout which ended at the 1984 Louisiana World Expedition, parted ways.
The determination to end the band was Setzer'due south, and it left the other members aggrieved.[6] In an interview, Setzer pleaded restlessness as his motivation: "It's merely that I didn't become that great feeling anymore... I had 5 proficient years of that, but then I got bored with it. In the last year I stopped getting that feeling, that great kick that twisted in my gut."[six] Reflecting in 2012, Setzer said "it was light-headed to suspension upwards the Stray Cats at the elevation of our success".[vii]
Setzer embarked on a solo career, exchanging his rockabilly focus for a more wide-ranging roots stone/Americana sound on the 1986 album The Knife Feels Like Justice.[6] He dubbed his new ring Brian Setzer & the Radiation Ranch, drawing the name from the championship of i of his new songs.[6] They played their first major concert at the 1985 Farm Aid benefit festival.[6]
Rocker and Phantom formed a trio chosen Phantom, Rocker & Slick (the "Slick" being former David Bowie guitarist Earl Slick) whose debut anthology contained the unmarried "Men Without Shame"; guest musicians on this record included Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones and pianist Nicky Hopkins.
In 1986, the Stray Cats reunited in Los Angeles, and recorded the covers-heavy Rock Therapy. A lengthy hiatus followed, merely in 1989 they reunited once again for the album Blast Off!, which was accompanied by a tour with dejection guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. No longer with EMI America, they entered the studio with Nile Rodgers for some other album, Let's Go Faster, issued by Liberation in 1990. After 1992'southward Dave Edmunds-produced Choo Choo Hot Fish, and the cover album Original Cool, the grouping called it quits over again.
In 2004, the Stray Cats reassembled for a month-long bout of Europe. A live anthology culled from those concerts, Rumble in Brixton, included one new studio rail, "Mystery Railroad train Kept A Rollin'". In 2007, they reunited once once more for a US tour with ZZ Elevation and the Pretenders. This was their starting time Northward American tour in over 15 years. In the 2000s, the band toured Europe as part of their Farewell Tour.
In 2008, for the first time in 18 years, the Devious Cats visited Australia and New Zealand which included several consecutive sold-out shows of their Good day (Australia) Tour. In April 2009 the ring reunited for a unmarried show to celebrate Brian'south 50th birthday at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
On January ii, 2018, Setzer announced via his Facebook page that the ring would reunite for a show in Las Vegas on April 21, 2018.[viii] The Devious Cats too performed two shows at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, California on Baronial 16 and 17, 2018.
On Oct 16, 2018, the band announced they would reunite in 2019 for a new album (start in 25 years), record in Nashville, and tour to commemorate their 40th anniversary.[nine] On March 26, 2019, the video for the album's first single, "Cat Fight (Over a Dog Like Me)", was released, with an annunciation of a May 24 release for the album, titled 40.[ten] This was released in fourth dimension for the European legs of their 40th Anniversary tour.
At the conclusion of the tour and in early on 2020 the ring announced that an anthology, a drove of songs recorded at various locations whilst on the 40th Anniversary tour would be released, entitled "Rocked This Town: From LA to London". It was released on CD and Vinyl and too on a number of streaming platforms.
Band members' follow-upward careers [edit]
Brian Setzer at a concert
The Devious Cats have reunited periodically for alive performances. Setzer is nonetheless function of his 1990s swing-revival ring The Brian Setzer Orchestra. Setzer also worked as executive producer on Drake Bell'southward rockabilly revival album Ready Steady Go! [11] Rocker continued recording and touring throughout the 1990s and on to today. His albums include Blackness True cat Bone and Racin' the Devil on Alligator Records, as well as Bulletproof.
In addition to the Devious Cats, Rocker has recorded or performed with Carl Perkins, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, Scotty Moore, Keith Richards, and numerous others. Rocker and wife Deborah Drucker have two children and have been married since 1989. Slim Jim Phantom plays the drums in the bands Slim Jim's Phantom Trio, The Jack Tars, 13 Cats, Kat Men and The Head True cat. He is also an active fellow member of the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a charitable organization which was co-founded past Mike Peters of The Warning, and which raises funds for cancer units.
The band was inducted into the Long Isle Music Hall of Fame[12] on October 15, 2006.
Members [edit]
Electric current members
- Brian Setzer – pb vocals, guitar (1979–1984, 1986–1993, 2004–2009, 2018–nowadays)
- Lee Rocker – double bass, acoustic guitar, vocals (1979–1984, 1986–1993, 2004–2009, 2018–present)
- Slim Jim Phantom – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1979–1984, 1986–1993, 2004–2009, 2018–present)
Past members
- Bob Beecher – double bass (1979)
- Gary Setzer – drums (1979)
- Tommy Byrnes – guitar (1984)
Discography [edit]
Albums [edit]
Studio albums [edit]
- A ^ The Stray Cats album was titled Runaway Boys in Australia.
Compilation albums [edit]
Singles [edit]
| Title | Year | Chart positions | Certification | Anthology | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [13] | US Stone [thirteen] | AUS [15] | Can [16] | FIN <[19] | NL [18] | NZ [20] | Uk [23] | |||||||
| "Runaway Boys" | 1980 | — | — | 15 | — | 1 | 4 | — | 9 |
| Devious Cats | |||
| "Rock This Town"1 | 1981 | 9 | iv | 38 | half dozen | eight | 3 | 18 | 9 |
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| "Stray Cat Strut"i | 3 | 41 | 57 | 3 | 20 | vii | 9 | 11 | ||||||
| "You Don't Believe Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 57 | Gonna Ball | |||||
| "Footling Miss Prissy" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Baby Bluish Eyes" | 1982 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Rebels Rule" | 1983 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ninety | Rant due north' Rave with the Stray Cats | ||||
| "(She'south) Sexy + 17" | 5 | 2 | 21 | four | 17 | 22 | 41 | 29 |
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| "I Won't Stand in Your Way" | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Await at That Cadillac" | 1984 | 68 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "I'yard a Rocker" | 1986 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Stone Therapy | ||||
| "Reckless" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Bring Information technology Dorsum Again" | 1989 | — | 35 | 109 | — | 13 | — | 24 | 64 | Blast Off! | ||||
| "Gina" | — | — | — | — | 14 | — | — | 88 | ||||||
| "Cistron & Eddie" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Cross of Love" | 1990 | — | — | 94 | — | — | — | — | — | Permit's Go Faster | ||||
| "Struck past Lightning" | 1991 | — | — | 143 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Town Without Compassion" | — | — | 170 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Elvis on Velvet" | 1992 | — | — | 197 | — | — | 66 | — | — | Choo Choo Hot Fish | ||||
| "Can't Help Falling in Honey" | 1993 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Original Cool | ||||
| "Mystery Train Kept a Rollin'" | 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rumble in Brixton | ||||
| "Cat Fight (Over a Dog Like Me)" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 40 | ||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was non released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Footnotes:
- 1 "Stone This Boondocks" and "Stray True cat Strut" were not released in the US until 1982 when Built for Speed was released.
Tours [edit]
- European Tour (1980)
- Stray Cats Tour (1981)
- Gonna Ball Bout (1982)
- Built for Speed Bout (1982–1983)
- Bluster n' Rave Bout (1983–1984)
- Smash Off U.s.a.-Bout (1988)
- Blast Off Tour (1989)
- Let's Get Faster Tour (1990)
- Potato Tour (1991)
- Choo Choo Hot Fish Bout (1992)
- European Tour (2004)
- N American Bout (2007)
- Bye Tour (2008–2009)
- 40th Anniversary Tour (2019)
References [edit]
- ^ Loder, Kurt (March three, 1983). "The Stray Cats' Vintage Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ^ "Rocklist.internet...Steve Parker...Rock and Whorl Hall of Fame". Rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved Oct 24, 2011.
- ^ "Stray Cats". AllMusic. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ^ a b Hervey, Steve. "Stray Cats". AllMusic. Archived from the original on Oct 28, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ^ Mitchell, Ed (August 29, 2019). "The Devious Cats: 9 lives and however running wild". loudersound.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Tamarkin, Jeff (June 1986). "Brian Setzer: Stray Cats No More". Creem . Retrieved June 2, 2019 – via Rock'southward Backpages.
- ^ Dwyer, Michael (March 30, 2012). "The top Cat of rockabilly". The Sydney Forenoon Herald. Archived from the original on December 10, 2016.
- ^ "Brian Setzer". Archived from the original on February 26, 2022. Retrieved May 24, 2019 – via Facebook.
- ^ "STRAY CATS TO Marking THEIR 40TH Anniversary IN 2019 WITH A NEW ALBUM AND Bout". Music News Net.
- ^ "Stray Cats Premiere New "True cat Fight (Over A Dog Like Me)" Music Video". Guitar Globe.
- ^ Lipshultz, Jason (February 28, 2014). "Drake Bong Talks 'Set up Steady Go!' Album: Sectional Backside-The-Scenes Video". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 1, 2014. Retrieved June ii, 2015.
- ^ "Long Island Music Hall of Fame - Educational activity - Heritage - Fine art". Limusichalloffame.org . Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ a b c "US Charts > Devious Cats". Billboard . Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ "CASH BOX Mag: Music and money machine magazine 1942 to 1996". worldradiohistory.com . Retrieved October 25, 2020.
- ^ a b Australian chart peaks:
- Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to June 12, 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 297. ISBN0-646-11917-6. Due north.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and June 12, 1988.
- Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Commonwealth of australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 269.
- Blast Off (ARIA) superlative: "Chartifacts - Calendar week Ending: 03 March 1991 (from The ARIA Study Outcome No 58)". ARIA, via Imgur.com. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
- All ARIA-era singles chart peaks to March fifteen, 2019: "Stray Cats ARIA singles chart history, received from ARIA on March 15, 2019". ARIA, via Imgur.com. Retrieved December 29, 2019. North.B. The High Signal number in the NAT column represents the single'due south superlative on the national chart.
- ^ a b "Can Charts > Stray Cats". RPM . Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ a b "GER Charts > Stray Cats". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved June viii, 2020.
- ^ a b "NL Charts > Stray Cats". Dutch Charts. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
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- ^ a b "NZ Charts > Stray Cats". Official New Zealand Music Chart. Retrieved June xi, 2020.
- ^ "SWE Charts > Stray Cats". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved June eleven, 2020.
- ^ "SWI Charts > Stray Cats". Swiss Hitparade. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ a b "Stray Cats | full Official Nautical chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June ane, 2019.
- ^ "Stray Cats: Devious Cats". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ "New Zealand anthology certifications – Devious Cats – Stray Cats". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ "Stray Cats: Gonna Ball". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ a b "US Certifications > Devious Cats". Recording Manufacture Association of America. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Tin can Certifications > Stray Cats". Music Canada. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ "Devious Cats: Runaway Boys". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
External links [edit]
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