Brian Setzerleader and guitarist of Stray Cats or of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, He has announced that he suffers from an autoimmune disease that incapacitates him to play the guitar.
Through social networks, Setzer He announced that, towards the end of the last tour of the band, he began to notice cramps in his hands and that since then he discovered that he suffered an autoimmune disease that also prevented him from playing the guitar. “There is no pain, but it seems that I am using a couple of gloves when I try to touch,” says the guitarist.
In this way, we will lose one of the greatest guitarists in the history of rockabilly and one of the fundamental icons of revival Rockabilly and Swing of the last decades. At the head of Stray Cats marked the foundations of what Rockabilly would be from its appearance onwards and with the Brian Setzer Orchestra, shaped one of the most danceable combos and at the same time rocker of the last decades.
At the moment, Setzer has reported that he begins to take steps in recovering some of his health and that, at this point, he can use a pen or tie his shoes, two actions he could not do just a few months ago.
