WORDS BY ELLIOT STEPHEN COHENN
Setzer, Phantom and Rocker: “As time goes by you get a little wiser and you realise ‘You know, we really had something good going…’”
Photo by Russ Harrington
Hey, cats and kittens. Those three wild guys from New York with the pompadours and the crazy tattoos, Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom – collectively known as Stray Cats – are back with their first new album in 26 years, entitled 40 to commemorate four decades since the band’s formation, and making a return to the stage. Of course, the Stray Cats initially broke up in 1984, and back then the idea of a 40th anniversary reunion would have seemed highly unlikely…