Rich here, remembering when The Stray Cats introduced the MTV Generation to seedy rockabilly music in the early '80s. Well, turns out that in addition to rockabilly, guitarist Brian Setzer also had a love jones for Big Band music, and in the mid-'90s he created the Brian Setzer Orchestra, complete with a giant horn section, mini-skirted background singers, and Brian standing front and center crooning love songs while slinging mean guitar licks with abandon.
But Brian was no mere Las Vegas Lounge Lizard -- although that was
definitely part of the persona he embraced with his big band. No,
underneath the sophisticated blast of the horn section, Brian continued
to tell tales from the underbelly of the streets, as evidenced in this
love song to a needle. And I'll leave it to you to decide whether the
needle in question refers to a heroin addiction, getting tattoos, or
sitting in the executioner's chair awaiting for the needle of death --
or all three.
BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA - "Buzz Buzz"
BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA - "Buzz Buzz"
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