![]() ![]() We did it for a laugh, and it came out so funny that we left it on the record." "I let them talk at the end of 'Off Your Rocker.' I said, 'I want you girls to give me a sass.' I would answer them, and they would cut me off. Setzer's own wife, Hopkins-reared Julie Reiten Setzer, sings backup on two tunes with a bandmate from her 1990s Twin Cities group the Dust Bunnies, Jennifer Goforth. I think I've got something that will fit. I pull out my trusty plectrum holder and my sheet music. Said Setzer: "I read the lyrics and I laughed. "I had to get nine wives into a song at a manageable length, so the idea of having twins was to save some time," the lyricist explained. In "The Cat With 9 Wives," Himelstein penned a line about twins from the Twin Cities who married the same guy. ![]() "I didn't take my dad's advice," Himelstein said, "and here I am unloading a truck. Music isn't a career" was what both heard. He and Setzer came up with the new song "Stack My Money" via a phone conversation about how neither had lived up to his parents' expectations. "He always had 'Rockabilly Riot,' which I thought was just a great title, so I sent him lyrics." "Brian is a big title guy," Himelstein said. I had that with Joe Strummer," the late Clash frontman, who collaborated on two tracks for Setzer's 1996 album, "Guitar Slinger."Ī professional songwriter in Los Angeles for four decades, Himelstein has also collaborated with Stray Cats and blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa while working on many Disney projects including Winnie-the-Pooh and the Mickey Mouse Club. "He came to a show and introduced himself about 20 years ago. Melodies come to him, some sparked by ideas from lyricist Mike Himelstein, who helped pen six of the new album's 11 numbers. Living out by Lake Minnetonka, Setzer rides his motorcycles and clears his head. He didn't meet the police that time but he's since received tickets in Minnesota. She said, 'You realize you're doing like 135.' I go, 'Yeah, but there's no cops out here.' She said, 'Yes, there are. "I took my gal up to Duluth 'cause I wanted to see it. He also recalls a drive he took after moving to Minnesota about 18 years ago. "The first time I got that adrenaline rush was when I first started with hot rods when I was a teenager. Setzer, 62, vividly remembers the first time he drove fast. It really fit my life right now." Duluth at 135 mph I felt despondent that I wouldn't be able to use my nice big Fender amp again. "Dealing with tinnitus - picture a tea kettle going off in your head all the time - it was maddening. But it's also about me missing that sound of my guitar amp that makes the guitar rumble. "The rumble of motorcycles and hot rods, that's me. He chose the title for two reasons: motors and guitars. "Gotta Have the Rumble" is a splendid showcase for Setzer's versatile guitar mastery, embracing surf twang, spaghetti western film music, jump blues, rockabilly bop, bluesy rock and his signature twang-abilly. He almost played like a big band drummer." I know Dave Roe was Johnny Cash's bass player for the last years. Setzer hasn't even met his rhythm section. "I wasn't expecting much but he sent it back and I was pretty blown away by it." "The drummer was in Nashville and the bass player was in Memphis," said Setzer, who calls himself an "old-school guy" accustomed to everyone recording together in the same room. Raymond said he had a way of making an album happen remotely. ![]() But producer Julian Raymond - with whom he'd worked on a 2011 Glen Campbell album, "Ghost on the Canvas" - wanted to hear the demos. I make a mistake and we all have to do it again.' It was just me and the engineer."Īctually, Setzer thought he was just making demos of a few songs. 'One guy's on the phone, one guy's got a hangover. He made "Gotta Have the Rumble" - out Friday, his first solo album in seven years - by recording his guitars and vocals in the Terrarium, a northeast Minneapolis studio, with engineer Jason Orris. ![]()
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