Dude...that's pretty awesome! A friend of mine in high-school, Connie McGrew, turned me on to the Stray Cats. My family just moved from Baltimore to Huntington Beach in 1981 and I heard music that I didn't even know existed! Did you see yourself in the audience?? That's gotta be cool and a little freaky at the same time!!
@@fostexfan160 He's just not as recognizeable as maybe Eric Clapton or David Gilmour these days. Rockabilly is not for everyone, I mean.. I love it, especially these guys, but I'm one of those who are totally dissapointed with todays music overall. I wish people just would go back to the roots and listen to the art of music produced by these old Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly bands.
@@randythomastheinsecures5404 maybe underrated but one of the greatest guitar players ever. Randy I'll just check your channel.you're guys are amazing.greetings from Greece.
That's one of the things I love best about the Stray Cats. Slim Jim Phantom can get more rhythm out of two drums than a lot of drummers with a full drum kit that takes up half the stage. 😁
I had a DJ friend who worked late at night. When this song would begin to play i would call the back line of the station and ask him to play it. Got it back to back at least once a weekend. He made their radio ads so was playing big reel to reel tapes and not listening. 😂 One of my all time favorite songs and bands. 🎉
Saw these boys live in London at around this time. It was a great show, and they play just as well live as on the record. But there is even more energy live because of the audience. Great band.
In the October 1998 issue of Guitar World magazine, Brian Setzer's solo from "Stray Cat Strut" ranked #92 on the "Top 100 Guitar Solos of All Time" list.
I just watched a special from this guy with full brass, the base player, girls singing and the whole arrangement! It was hands down the best talent I've ever seen. Unbelievable..... Song I loved best was how he did sleepwalking. Outstanding. It was a concert in Tokyo......AMAZING! It was priceless. I love your passion for music. thank you Brian. grace 1014
I believe you cannot squeeze rock tighter than this: guitar, double bass and three-piece drum kit. This is also very cool stuff with most goofy-looking bassist ever.
IF YOU LOOK UP THE STRAY CAT'S OR THE B.S.O IT SHOWS YOU WHO GREAT THIS BAND IS, AND NOW WE HAVE BRIAN SETZER DOING ROCKABILLY WITH A BIG SWINGING BAND, WHAT I LIKE TO CALL, SWINGABILLY IT SHOW YOU BRIAN SETZER IS TODAY'S KING OF ROCK AN ROLL.
The best Brit/Mod music of the 60s, played live, was stripped down and played hard. And this is in the same tradition, even if a different style. Anyone who likes real music can't help but love these old Stray Cats recordings.
Having first learned of this song in a 9-volume fantasy/sci-fi series [excellent; author Julian May spent 30 years writing for encyclopedias, and her sci-fi is laced with REAL science, made utterly fascinating by her word-smithery], I was delighted to find "the real thing." It has not disappointed!
Interesting enough, if you listen carefully, you might discover that the Stray Cat Strut originally came out decades before the Stray Cats changed the lyrics. It was originally a children’s tune called “The Cat Came Back”.
This was the year I saw the Stray Cats at Leeds University Union. I still maintain that this, and Simply Red, right at the beginning just after Picture Book, were the best pop concerts I ever saw, and I saw nearly everyone except Queen and the Beatles.
A very Rockabilly Happy 62nd Birthday Brian Robert Setzer April 10, 1959 Massapequa, NY. BOULDER CO 3/11/83 CU EVENTS CENTER Boys With Toys were the opener. No seating on the Big Dance Floor.. We danced for hours. Thanks Brian..
Brian Setzer's guitar playing sounds a lot like George Thorogood's...to me at least. Both have that heavy blue's influence, lots of bending strings/stretching notes. It's friggin' awesome AND it sounds even BETTER live imho. 1981, MTV had just launched, disco was dead and stinkin', and it was great time to be a music lover! P.S. Thank you, Connie McGrew, for turning me onto the Stray Cats! 🐈 🐈 🐈
Great quality video and audio for '81 (!) Love Brian's setup; he's playing that Bassman head through a VOX cabinet (loaded w/Celestion Blue alnicos [?]). Thanks for sharing.
Fact Eric Clapton in an interview said Brian setzer is one of the best guitar players in the world and he said it because nobody thought setzer was that great.
No auto tune sound exactly like the recording pure talent
That's rock n roll for ya. 😊
Can’t fake that level of guitar playing talent
I was there !!! More than 30 years ago ! It was and is THE CONCERT !
I wish I was born...
@@Poppyyy7638 yeah I was born about 3 decades too late.
I saw that concert in São Paulo Brazil beginning of 90's... amazing!
Atl raceway Willies picnic 82 I think
Dude...that's pretty awesome! A friend of mine in high-school, Connie McGrew, turned me on to the Stray Cats. My family just moved from Baltimore to Huntington Beach in 1981 and I heard music that I didn't even know existed! Did you see yourself in the audience?? That's gotta be cool and a little freaky at the same time!!
Rockabilly doesn't get any better than this!
It's Oct. 2024 and I saw Brian in concert in February. Then the Cats toured all through the Summer.
@@kurtb8474 Awesome! Do they still sound as good as ever?
Setzer is the #1 most underrated guitar player and front man ever!
Setzer is VERY HIGHLY RATED...why would you assume otherwise?
@@fostexfan160 He's just not as recognizeable as maybe Eric Clapton or David Gilmour these days. Rockabilly is not for everyone, I mean.. I love it, especially these guys, but I'm one of those who are totally dissapointed with todays music overall. I wish people just would go back to the roots and listen to the art of music produced by these old Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly bands.
I have many guitar heroes who wi would rate more underrated, but i cant argue.
He was 19 or 20 years old here..
@@randythomastheinsecures5404 maybe underrated but one of the greatest guitar players ever.
Randy I'll just check your channel.you're guys are amazing.greetings from Greece.
We love playing a cover of Stray Cat Strut. Gotta be one of the coolest Stray Cats tracks.
me too
I was in high school and loved their look! Goth, punk, all that before greenday. So fine!
Don't ever mention Greenday in the same sentence as these icons. Milquetoast Punk brought to by Pfizer & Coca-Cola lol
Look at that tiny drum set.Its incredible how good they sound.
That's one of the things I love best about the Stray Cats. Slim Jim Phantom can get more rhythm out of two drums than a lot of drummers with a full drum kit that takes up half the stage. 😁
I had a DJ friend who worked late at night. When this song would begin to play i would call the back line of the station and ask him to play it. Got it back to back at least once a weekend. He made their radio ads so was playing big reel to reel tapes and not listening. 😂 One of my all time favorite songs and bands. 🎉
Saw these boys live in London at around this time. It was a great show, and they play just as well live as on the record. But there is even more energy live because of the audience. Great band.
They don't make music anymore like they did in the 80's when they were making music from the 50's.
Yep 80's had gaziilion styles and all of them fantastic
Duke J 80's music. was shit , but they had a few brilliant gems amongst them . Setzer was an absolute diamond find !!
It was the decade when your producer's snare drum sample became more important than the song.
🤣
@@dewirees2769 I disagree!!
That drum kit is the epitomy of minimalism.
How many loud bangy things do you need, Neil Peart?
It helps to have a bass player that can pluck on the down beat
i want ONE lol
less is more
Unique.nothing more nothing less.
In the October 1998 issue of Guitar World magazine, Brian Setzer's solo from "Stray Cat Strut" ranked #92 on the "Top 100 Guitar Solos of All Time" list.
Theo Harding not high enough
Sad most of the top spots were probably ocuupied by same old generic garbage.
Setzer is a Master.
king of rockabilly The Stray Cats is for ever
I just watched a special from this guy with full brass, the base player, girls singing and the whole arrangement! It was hands down the best talent I've ever seen. Unbelievable..... Song I loved best was how he
did sleepwalking. Outstanding.
It was a concert in Tokyo......AMAZING! It was priceless. I love your passion for music. thank you Brian. grace 1014
such a good guitar tone
Enthralling. Pure music, no distraction, not a smartphone in sight. Just a couple handfuls of string and wood out there making it happen.
Outstanding
this was almost forty years ago. and I WASN"T there!!! awesome show. awesome crowd. even the cameraperson was good looking
One of the greatest Rockabilly bands..
Pretty underrated guitar player.
Somebody always has to post that a musician is underrated. Brian Setzer has never been underrated.
He's just not as mainstream. But anybody who's into rock n roll is well aware that Brain Setzer can jam as good as anyone.
@@chrismc.4437 True
He’s a damn good guitar player. I’m usually not into Christmas music, but his guitar playing on his Christmas special was really good.
Since when has Setzer been underrated?????
I believe you cannot squeeze rock tighter than this: guitar, double bass and three-piece drum kit. This is also very cool stuff with most goofy-looking bassist ever.
IF YOU LOOK UP THE STRAY CAT'S OR THE B.S.O
IT SHOWS YOU WHO GREAT THIS BAND IS,
AND NOW WE HAVE BRIAN SETZER DOING ROCKABILLY WITH A BIG SWINGING BAND, WHAT I LIKE TO CALL, SWINGABILLY
IT SHOW YOU BRIAN SETZER IS TODAY'S KING OF ROCK AN ROLL.
40 Years ago already.... I was fixing to go into high school when this came out, Still a cool tune and sounds as good as ever!
Amazing trio of musicians!!!
Just as fresh as when I first heard it😍
Great live version - they were already sweating so you know they'd been performing for a bit by the time they got to this, their magnum opus.
One of my first singles, from an old record shop in the Welsh valleys.Fantastic.
Beautiful Gretsch guitar
Wow... These guys were really good, and pretty friggin cool. And this is coming from a mod...
The best Brit/Mod music of the 60s, played live, was stripped down and played hard. And this is in the same tradition, even if a different style. Anyone who likes real music can't help but love these old Stray Cats recordings.
Yeah, goes to show we shouldn't restrict our tastes in music.
Another mod here! Love the Stray Cats though.
Another Mod is crazy about the Cats ;-)... Keep on rocking and keep the Faith! ;-)
and why would a mod not appreciate good music?
For me this is the greatest rockabilly bands ever :))
Having first learned of this song in a 9-volume fantasy/sci-fi series [excellent; author Julian May spent 30 years writing for encyclopedias, and her sci-fi is laced with REAL science, made utterly fascinating by her word-smithery], I was delighted to find "the real thing." It has not disappointed!
Man, I used to love this song!! :-) Good memories...Thanks for the post!
God damn. Bloody incredible.
he was one hell of an attractive guy
I love so much this song since 1991
love this band!
How can 68 people dislike this band. Are they all right in the head???
Phones upside down
Domesticated cats
Interesting enough, if you listen carefully, you might discover that the Stray Cat Strut originally came out decades before the Stray Cats changed the lyrics. It was originally a children’s tune called “The Cat Came Back”.
Man..this video is 42 yrs old…wow… very cool…
amazing quality from 1981
This was the year I saw the Stray Cats at Leeds University Union. I still maintain that this, and Simply Red, right at the beginning just after Picture Book, were the best pop concerts I ever saw, and I saw nearly everyone except Queen and the Beatles.
Of all The Stray Cats songs that we cover this is my favourite
A very Rockabilly Happy 62nd Birthday Brian Robert Setzer April 10, 1959 Massapequa, NY. BOULDER CO 3/11/83 CU EVENTS CENTER Boys With Toys were the opener. No seating on the Big Dance Floor.. We danced for hours. Thanks Brian..
This is my cat, Mr.whiskers theme song,lol. They are great live, I like em even better than in the official videos made for the song...
Lol I know but it is Mr.whiskers theme song... I let him out to prowl the other day so gotta go find him
thank you so much!!! Amazing Brian Setzer !!!
The magic of Montreux, always
that guitar intro is fucking awesome
Brian, what a treasure
Brian Setzer's guitar playing sounds a lot like George Thorogood's...to me at least. Both have that heavy blue's influence, lots of bending strings/stretching notes. It's friggin' awesome AND it sounds even BETTER live imho. 1981, MTV had just launched, disco was dead and stinkin', and it was great time to be a music lover!
P.S. Thank you, Connie McGrew, for turning me onto the Stray Cats! 🐈 🐈 🐈
Pure Attitude! Great guitarist with tasty chord solos
Brian Setzer rocks. Great upload.
I love it so much I go all around the house with my scooter singin it.
Anything by Brian Setzer. Motherfuckin' anything. Guaranteed.
Great quality video and audio for '81 (!) Love Brian's setup; he's playing that Bassman head through a VOX cabinet (loaded w/Celestion Blue alnicos [?]). Thanks for sharing.
Refreshing to see an eighties concert that isn't playbacked. Gnarly tunes as well!
Happy Birthday Brian!
Damn Stray Cat, the things that they Blows is da BOMB!!!
Fact Eric Clapton in an interview said Brian setzer is one of the best guitar players in the world and he said it because nobody thought setzer was that great.
Best drummer ever!
When make music was a question of entertainment and passion, not just money...
great band great song
Fantastic!!!!
Excellent trip down memory lane. Thanks.
I saw her in 1991 in New Orleans at the UNO lake front srena I ran up to the stage and She reached out and shook my hand
What a great tune
Major talent ....you gotta see them live
Love his Christmas specials
What a song.... Awsome..
Yup absolutely the BEST ever
39 years old, pure class. Not like today's crap.
great song for jammin as well.
love the stray cats so did my late brother
Awesome...
Oh Yeah, i have seen this Concert in Montreux, legendary!!!!!!!!🇨🇭👍👍👏👍🤘👹🤯☠☠☠
Rockabilly powa !
He plays from the heart
this was the third singlei ever bought, playe dit so much its scratched ot hell now haha, i leanr tto play this ongon my guitar, it rocks
Llegue a esta canción por mi grupo favorito de Chile. LOS TRES.
Just great! Thank you.
Bass players owns it.
très bon groupe et son, toujours en vie.....
Funny how rockabilly is always enjoyable listening. Great fun.
I saw them a few months later in November 1981 in Minneapolis
my cat likes this it's her all time favourite closely followed by year of the cat
Llegue a wsta canción por mi grupo favorito de Chile. LOS TRES.
too all the people who put thumbs down u must be millennials go back to listening to pitbull
les Stray Cats et après Brian Setzer orchestra sont formidables merci
he is a stray cat - look at the ones in Istanbul!! love this song!!!
Most of the Cats videos are soon blocked. so save this gem.
Iconic.
Happy Birthday Slim Jim Phantom!
Brilliant band
miaouw....for my brother...RIP, I miss you.
Amazing Cats!
Fabulous.
Culte !!!!and great performance live (y)
2:02
2019 and you're listening to this? Me too...
Underrated guitar player indeed
Excellent!