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Don't Mess With A Big Band: Live | 
| Artist: Brian Setzer Orchestra
Label: Surf Dog
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 4019
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: ADAD499958D
UPC: 640424999582
EAN: 0640424999582
ASIN: B003K7B6VC
Release Date: July 20, 2010
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Disc 1
| • | Batman | | • | Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder) | | • | '49 Mercury Blues | | • | Good Rockin' Daddy | | • | Your True Love | | • | The Dirty Boogie | | • | Sleepwalk | | • | Honey Man | | • | This Cat's On Hot Tin Roof | | • | Summertime Blues |
Disc 2
| • | Runaway Boys | | • | Gina | | • | Gene & Eddie | | • | Fishnet Stockings | | • | Stray Cat Strut | | • | Jump Jive An' Wail | | • | Rumble In Brighton | | • | Rock This Town | | • | The House Is Rockin' |
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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 07/13/2010
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 Sensational two-disc set of the Brian Setzer Orchestra's 2009 tour of Japan! July 25, 2010
Paul Tognetti (Cranston, RI USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
In a recent online poll Brian Setzer was voted "The World"s Greatest Living Guitarist". If you are skeptcal about this I urge you to check out the phenomenal new double disc album "The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Don't Mess With A Big Band". Recorded during the band's 2009 tour of Japan "Don't Mess With A Big Band" offers up 19 exciting and innovative tracks including some old time rock and roll, a few swing numbers and a boatload of Setzer's favorite genre rockabilly. I rarely buy "live" recordings but this one was a "must" purchase as soon as I learned about it.
Word has it that Brian Setzer has a huge guitar collection spanning many decades and brands. He is known to prefer the vintage models and Brian put a number of them through their paces during the group's tour of Japan. "Jaw-dropping" is the term the record company uses to describe Brian's guitar work on this album. I would most certainly agree! There are so many highlights on these discs but I would have to single out Brian's amazing interpretation of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's classical piece "Flight of the Bumblebee". "Honey Man" features what has to be the most amazing piece of guitar work that I have ever heard. Listen and see if you agree! Meanwhile, the balance of the orchestra is on top of their game throughout as well. As always the brass section is terrific and I actually enjoyed their work every bit as much. Among my favorite tracks on Disc One are "Batman" (the original ABC- TV series theme), the swingin' sound of "The Dirty Boogie" and the group's remake of the 1958 Eddie Cochran classic "Summertime Blues" which is quite true to the original. Great stuff!
But I liked Disc Two even more! From the earliest days of his career Brian Setzer's first love has been rockabilly and the entire second disc is devoted to this genre. Each and every one of these ten tracks is a winner. You can tell that the Japanese audience just eats up this stuff. "Gene and Eddie" is a tribute to rockabilly pioneers Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. What a super tune! And Stray Cats fans will be happy to hear that several of the group's most popular numbers including "Stray Cat Strut", "Rock This Town" and of course "Jump, Jive An' Wail" are included here as well. I found that it is virtually impossible to sit still while this album is playing.
"The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Don't Mess With A Big Band" includes a nicely done 12 page booklet featuring s number of remarkable photos from the Japanese tour. My first instincts proved to be right. This is an album definitely worth owning and something I will listen to again and again. Very highly recommended!
Wow - get this today! July 21, 2010
Joseph Vincenza (Pensacola, FL)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Since the Stray Cats, Brian Setzer has known how to swing, wail, strut, and shout like nobody else around these days. Add to that mix the thrill and energy of a big band live, and you've got a 2 disc set that swings like nobody's business. It must have been a hell of a party, and I'm sorry I couldn't be there. But wait - I can!! Put this one, get some friends and your favorite beverage and you've got an instant rockin' party. Did I say you need to get this today?!?
Fab-o! August 15, 2010
Kathleen Cernak (Upstate, New York)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are a Brian Setzer fan or a BSO fan, you will not be disappointed with this CD set.
The rating is for the vendor, I am giving the purchase to a friend. August 24, 2010
June F. Krahn
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have been fortunate when ordering on Amazon and usually items arrive in good condition and in a timely manner.
 Nothing new and/or different September 4, 2010
R. Lee (Rochester, NY)
I will start off by saying that I really like Brian Setzer and his music a lot. I have just about all of his stuff on CD. The problem here is that this live CD is mostly stuff that is all ready on his other live CD's. He has a lot of music that he could do live that would have been better. Why don't we ever hear "She thinks I'm trash" live, or maybe Radiation Ranch? There are numerous songs that BSO fans would love to hear on a live CD. They are hard to find on this one. It's a shame that the people who went to this concert heard pretty much the same concert they saw the time before that when he was there. If you read this review Brian, please do something about this. P.S. For the old fans out there, "storm the embassy" from the first Stray Cats album would be a good one. How about "rocking all over the place"? R. Lee
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