Stray Cats

They're just going to celebrate.

And then we got a pair of tickets to the Stray Cats at the Hard Rock Orlando on November the 23rd.

And those are the prizes on today's prize pinata.

Curious, do you know if it's all, I know I'm just throwing it out here.

Do you know if it's the entire, is that the original band of the Stray Cats? It's three guys.

Yeah, I have no idea, dude.

Or if it's Brian Setzer and two guys, it's always the Stray Cats.

Yeah.

Bryce Pinata up first.

We have a pair of tickets to see the Stray Cats at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando on November the 22nd.

And then we have a pair of tickets to catch the last game, last match of this regular season for Orlando City as they take on the New England Revolution at Inter-Inco Stadium on November the 7th.

And those are the prizes in today's prize pinata.

Mm-hmm.

And they actually found her from seeing her star in the Stray Cats music video.

She's sexy and 17.

And they were like, that's our girl.

everybody, yeah.

And then you got bands like the Stray Cats that suddenly appeared and then you got that Psychobilly, but then you got a Narcopunk.

And I just wondered, you know, whether you've been like, my God, there's just so much every year.

There's just been another record label, another little scene.

So there was the scene in Leeds where Chumbawamba were, but there was also all that goth scene that happened in Leeds and Bradford at the same time.

So you had, you know, like the Sisters of Mercy and the Mission and...

The Dance Society and Skeletal Family and sort of there was that world as well as the punk, as well as the psychobilly with, you know, did you get into psychobilly with all those bands like the Meteors and King Kurt and that came after the Stray Cats and X-Men.

not really.

We've got Long Tall Sally from the always incredible Eddie Cochran.

We had the Stray Cats in the set, too.

That one goes out to Missouri Matt.

Now, that new single has already been pressed in two different extra colors.

My guest today is a man who helped put rockabilly back on the map and kept it there.

As the upright bass player and co-founder of the Stray Cats, Lee Rocker helped build one of the most visually electric and sonically explosive acts in rock and roll history.

Formed in Massapequa, Long Island in 1979, he and Brian Setzer and Slim Jim Phantom, they took their pompadours and their passion across the Atlantic to London, where a rockabilly revival was just catching fire.

And the rest, as they say, is music history itself.

It's like Rock This Town, Stray Cats Strut, Runaway Boys, they became anthems.

And now the cats are back with new music and a full cross-country summer 2026 tour.

Lee Rocker is next on the Taking a Walk podcast.

It's like an all immersive thing.