30 yr Fans of setzer Stand up! :)

Got my first Stray Cats LP in 79' from a friend, and cut off my
hair shortly after this picture but the hollowbody guitar was
my friend and Setzer my guitar hereo since! dont laugh, this picture
proves it!

You sure you were THAT skinny??

Just asking...

I hate to break it to you, Tavo, but the Stray Cats album depicted on your wall was the children's classic "Stray Cat Fluff" from Peter Pan Records (or was it Pickwick?) and was a sequel to the canine classic "Benji Sings!" The Stray Cats' first piece of vinyl didn't even hit the UK until November 1980.

However, the album with the kittens did anticipate a Setzer career shift by some 23 years with a Christmas medley on side two, featuring "Have Yourself a Meowy Little Christmas."

I definitely had that hair in 1979, though I'm extremely jealous of the rainbow shirt!

Feline Groovy-billy

How old were , ahem, YOU there??

Thanks mom sheeze..
Although it was 9th grade..79-80'. I was given the Straycats self titled
LP end of the year.. Had to be, I graduated '83.

Maybe I need some ginkobiloba? see what happens at 44!!

ps. pete dammit I was skinny until I got married in 88'

Were you really playing that guitar, or is that just an outtake from one of your sessions as the BC Rich poster girl?

HAHAHAHAHA!


I'm shuttin' up now before my Shaun Cassidy pictures show up!



C'mon Everybody, Get Down That's Rock-n-Roll-a-billy

Tavo, you're adorable! I love the rock god stance!!

I didn't catch on to Stray Cats for another 3 years after you. I SO wish I still had the 1983 pic of me in my Stray Cats t-shirt. I did, however, find a photo from 1980, at my Dad's wedding. I was 7, possibly 6 (can't remember what month they got married). This was before braces...



(edit: going back to my old avatar to see the side by side. Ha!!)

Andi wrote:

Tavo, you're adorable! I love the rock god stance!!

I didn't catch on to Stray Cats for another 3 years after you. I SO wish I still had the 1983 pic of me in my Stray Cats t-shirt. I did, however, find a photo from 1980, at my Dad's wedding. I was 7, possibly 6 (can't remember what month they got married). This was before braces...

awesome, love the smoke glass tumbler!!

ps. Rickabilly are you sure it wasnt the Bay City Rollers?

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

Thanks mom sheeze..
Although it was 9th grade..79-80'. I was given the Straycats self titled
LP end of the year.. Had to be, I graduated '83.

Maybe I need some ginkobiloba? see what happens at 44!!

ps. pete dammit I was skinny until I got married in 88'

Ahh yes... a happy marriage does that to you!!

I don't think the Bay City Rollers had anything to do with this:



Maybe it was the Village People:



Young Man! There's a place you can go...


Macho-billy

Here's a picture of me in 1983 at my high school graduation at Marina High School. Don;t laugh too much now...I think the look on my face is one of shock..hey I actually graduated!!!?

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1983 was the first time I heard of the Stray Cats and I've been hooked ever since...thank god !!!

Have A Gretsch Day !

Ross

Tavo,
I had the companion rainbow DRESS that went with that shirt. We would've made a really cute couple in 1979.

I appreciate everyone's bravery for posting pics from your youth! No way in $*&! I'm brave enough to post anything from that era. You all have good pics, though!

Rickabilly had such a nice family to host one of the Village People! Any other famous folks you've played host to over the years? Elvis? Ringo? Buddy?

enjay07 wrote:

Tavo,
I had the companion rainbow DRESS that went with that shirt. We would've made a really cute couple in 1979.

I appreciate everyone's bravery for posting pics from your youth! No way in $*&! I'm brave enough to post anything from that era. You all have good pics, though!

Rickabilly had such a nice family to host one of the Village People! Any other famous folks you've played host to over the years? Elvis? Ringo? Buddy?

c'mon you know the stripes started in brown and moved to red..no rainbow shirts were sold at Sears and Montgomery Wards.

btw.. I'm lovin' these pictures. Setzer fans knew how to dress back in the day.

Cool picture, and great hair
I heard of the Stray Cats for the first time in 1981 (13 years old). Remembering being in West-Berlin on holiday, and seeing Stray Cats and Kim Wilde on the same TV-show (Kids in America/Rock this town). Also remebering seeing some rockabillies in Berlin the same summer, wishing I could look just like them.
At the time I was listening to Elvis, Matchbox, Shakin Stevens (I was a big Shaky fan), and all traditional rock'n'roll from the 50's. In the late 70's early 80's you could go down to a record shop finding Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent records. Might seams strange these days, but the music was only 20-25 years old at the time.
I knew the word rockabilly of cause, but groups like the Stray Cats, Polecats, Deltas ect tought me what rockabilly was all about.

Cheers

Jess

Rasmussen wrote:

(I was a big Shaky fan),
Jess

Yeah he had a great guitar player Mickey Gee.
You kids looked great back then!!


This was me in 1985!



Fan since day one and here I play with my band. Let's see I was about 20 and the guitar was the closest I could get to a Gretsch 6120.

It had the magic f-holes!!
It's an Ibanez AM50 for the ones who wanna know.
It was a top 100 band so we didn't play any Cats music. So we played Police, Level 42, Ub40 stuff. But not the real thing haha...
My hair was almost pomp like. I never realy got me a pompadour. Never wore cat clothes neither...

But I'm Brian's biggest fan.

Rock on Cats!

Shaky used almost the complet Dave Edmunds band for a while.

c'mon now..stay on topic.. where is your 79-80s pix?

Ross, I know it's been years since we've seen each other but I would've known that was you the instant I saw the pic! So cute!!


Rickabilly, you might wanna consider changing your username to Maverick! (MaveRick?)

Andi wrote:

Rickabilly, you might wanna consider changing your username to Maverick! (MaveRick?)

Dont you mean "the captain" ?

How 'bout "Lil' Captain and Tennille?"




Daryl Dragon-billy

Rickabilly wrote:

How 'bout "Lil' Captain and Tennille?"




Daryl Dragon-billy

Muskrat Love!!

So where's everybody else with their embarassing photos?!!?

Rickabilly wrote:

How 'bout "Lil' Captain and Tennille?"




Daryl Dragon-billy

BWAHAHAHAHA! That is hilarious!!

Toni Tennille-billy!

I use to think the captain was blind like Stevie wonder as a kid

It occurs to me that the title of this thread could actually mean that we're all 30 year fans of Setzer's stand up comedy act.