Dare you to endure this Mullet hell video of Setzer on Tele

If anyone can pull of a mullet, it's Brian. It's harder for me to endure seeing him play a tele.

with a Tele AND in E...

But i like it, very cool version.

Btw, what is Tommy Byrnes doing these days?

Great find, TV!!!

Brian has had every hairdo known to man and then some.

Lovin' it!!!

@ Brett: Other than touring with Billy Joel, the same gig he's had for the last 21 years, I'm not sure what Tommy B's doing. But if you want to Google him to find out, make sure you spell his name correctly:

It's Tommy Byrnes.


Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb-a-billy

Rickabilly wrote:

@ Brett: Other than touring with Billy Joel, the same gig he's had for the last 21 years, I'm not sure what Tommy B's doing. But if you want to Google him to find out, make sure you spell his name correctly:

It's Tommy Byrnes.


Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb-a-billy

Just wonderin' how many get your Kookie reference. Us old-timers understand...

Rickabilly wrote:

It's Tommy Byrnes.


Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb-a-billy

oh, sorry and thanks for the advise.

Euro-Brett

Kiki wrote:

Rickabilly wrote:

@ Brett: Other than touring with Billy Joel, the same gig he's had for the last 21 years, I'm not sure what Tommy B's doing. But if you want to Google him to find out, make sure you spell his name correctly:

It's Tommy Byrnes.


Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb-a-billy

Just wonderin' how many get your Kookie reference. Us old-timers understand...

*raises paw*

He always creeped me out in Grease. So sleazy. *shudder*

WildCat wrote:

Kiki wrote:

Rickabilly wrote:

@ Brett: Other than touring with Billy Joel, the same gig he's had for the last 21 years, I'm not sure what Tommy B's doing. But if you want to Google him to find out, make sure you spell his name correctly:

It's Tommy Byrnes.


Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb-a-billy

Just wonderin' how many get your Kookie reference. Us old-timers understand...

*raises paw*

He always creeped me out in Grease. So sleazy. *shudder*

I'm going back farther than that...77 Sunset Strip...

I thought Vince Fountain's name was Ed not tommy

The character of Vince Fontaine in Grease was played by 60s heartthrob Edd (Yes, two D's) "Kookie" Byrnes. Tommy Byrnes is no relation and might have been a toddler when 77 Sunset Strip was on the air. (He's 46 now)

I was just riffing on the last name that had been misspelled earlier. Tommy Byrnes as in Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, not Burns as in Montgomery Burns:



Excellent!

By the way, there is a guitarist specializing in Celtic rock also named Tommy Byrnes. Not the same guy.


Baby, You're the Ginchiest-billy

Wow, so many Burns and Byrnes.
But for my rehabilitation, the youtube video says Tommy Burns.
But i checked it and you are right.
I also found the other guitar player.

Last question:
does anybody know why David Byrne asked Brian about painting?
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0msqF2XRY&feature=PlayList&p=D6A8A19AE69320B5&index=2

(after the song)
Is Mr. Setzer a expert in such things?

Burn-baby-burn-Brett

Rickabilly wrote:

The character of Vince Fontaine in Grease was played by 60s heartthrob Edd (Yes, two D's) "Kookie" Byrnes. Tommy Byrnes is no relation and might have been a toddler when 77 Sunset Strip was on the air. (He's 46 now)

I was just riffing on the last name that had been misspelled earlier. Tommy Byrnes as in Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, not Burns as in Montgomery Burns:



Excellent!

By the way, there is a guitarist specializing in Celtic rock also named Tommy Byrnes. Not the same guy.


Baby, You're the Ginchiest-billy

I had the extra D on it but spell check lied to me, oh and if we are keeping
score... his real name is Edward Byrne Breitenberger.
The extra D must have been a savy thing in 58'

TV I admit, I couldn't get through the entire video. Maybe half....

Rick

Aha! So the Mac's spell check can't catch a spelling error on the kooky name of a pop idol from nearly 50 years ago. So much for superior technology. Booya!

Gotta go. Vista just locked up again.

Not-so-savvy-billy

Rickabilly wrote:

Aha! So the Mac's spell check can't catch a spelling error on the kooky name of a pop idol from nearly 50 years ago. So much for superior technology. Booya!

Gotta go. Vista just locked up again.

Not-so-savvy-billy

au contre mon frere, the forum's spell check was at fault
not the mac. Not for a second there mr windows! stop pointing that gun at my head
PC!

I actually like this version...but the tele is harder to take than the hair.

Brent wrote:

I actually like this version...but the tele is harder to take than the hair.

I'm going to ask a question that is NOT meant to be condescending..

You like this version because you are european and have an uncanny breadth
of blues panache dont you?

It amazes me (in an appreciatory way ) how much more folks outside of the states can really dig the blues, and know that there's more to it than BB king and SRV. I think american
television advertising has dumbed it all down to beer commercials and thus desensitized us.

here is some goood re-sensitizin' just in case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-73uROlR4&feature=related

Hi TV,

I'm actually here in Canada, eh? But I suppose we are technically still in the British Commonwealth...so we're slightly European???? I just like it 'cause I've heard it soooooo many times done the traditional way and I've got to confess...I've never really liked the drop down E string. It always sounds out of tune to me. For example, the version on the Xmas dvd is pretty...um..well...God awful. It gets all muddy and it seems as though every one gets a little lost in the last "solo". Truthfully, at one point it's just noise to me. Please don't lambast me....you know I love the Brian. But playing rock this town every concert, generally the same way, must get tedious. The telly has to go though. Too nasally. (Is that a word?)

Brent

Brent wrote:

Hi TV,

I'm actually here in Canada, eh? But I suppose we are technically still in the British Commonwealth...so we're slightly European???? I just like it 'cause I've heard it soooooo many times done the traditional way and I've got to confess...I've never really liked the drop down E string. It always sounds out of tune to me. For example, the version on the Xmas dvd is pretty...um..well...God awful. It gets all muddy and it seems as though every one gets a little lost in the last "solo". Truthfully, at one point it's just noise to me. Please don't lambast me....you know I love the Brian. But playing rock this town every concert, generally the same way, must get tedious. The telly has to go though. Too nasally. (Is that a word?)

Brent

to badly paraphrase Joe Walsh of the eagles ... "If I knew I'd still be singing this song, I would have written something else"

- take off eh! ...Geddy

ps. drop D makes a 3 piece sound much fatter, more like a locomotive, but yes I so dont want to hear Rock this town or Stray Cat strut from the orchestra. Not when songs like
"sammy davis city" or "september skies" could be played.

I think the tele sounds incredible...

It's not that bad but I'm sure TV would agree....if it were a Gretsch it'd be better.

I don't know the exact meaning of Mullet in German.
Could it be that it the German word for it is Vokuhila (abbreviaton for 'Vorne kurz, hinten lang' which means 'short in the front, long in the back')
So if it is what I suppose I guess this is also a Mullet






Greasy greetings from Munich
Chris

Oh yeah!!! Those are definitely mullets!

Kiki wrote:

WildCat wrote:

Kiki wrote:

Rickabilly wrote:

@ Brett: Other than touring with Billy Joel, the same gig he's had for the last 21 years, I'm not sure what Tommy B's doing. But if you want to Google him to find out, make sure you spell his name correctly:

It's Tommy Byrnes.


Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb-a-billy

Just wonderin' how many get your Kookie reference. Us old-timers understand...

*raises paw*

He always creeped me out in Grease. So sleazy. *shudder*

I'm going back farther than that...77 Sunset Strip...

He didn't creep me out on that. Go figure.