{"id":31457,"date":"2025-02-14T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stray-cats-frontman-brian-setzer-diagnosed-with-autoimmune-disease-cant-play-guitar\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:03:00","slug":"stray-cats-frontman-brian-setzer-diagnosed-with-autoimmune-disease-cant-play-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stray-cats-frontman-brian-setzer-diagnosed-with-autoimmune-disease-cant-play-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer diagnosed with autoimmune disease, can\u2019t play guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-14\/Getty_BrianSetzer_021425.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Tony Nelson\/Future Publishing via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Stray Cats<\/strong> frontman <strong>Brian Setzer<\/strong> has revealed that he\u2019s been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and one of the side effects is that he\u2019s no longer able to play guitar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTowards the end of the last Stray Cats tour I noticed that my hands were cramping up. I\u2019ve since discovered that I have an auto-immune disease,\u201d he shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/briansetzerofficial\/posts\/pfbid0B5TYftLLcJJhGP3xtPyp5waHTyPfEkFb3x9wxb2YwhqEWRFYrup5nFvtU2B1C83Al\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>social media<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cI cannot play guitar. There is no pain, but it feels like I am wearing a pair of gloves when I try to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen some progress in that I can hold a pen and tie my shoes,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;I know this sounds ridiculous, but I was at a point where I couldn\u2019t even do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setzer says he\u2019s being treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, which he describes as \u201cthe best hospital in the world,\u201d noting, \u201cI know I will beat this, it will just take some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stray Cats released their self-titled debut album in 1981, which featured the hit songs &#8220;Rock This Town&#8221; and &#8220;Stray Cat Strut.&#8221; They disbanded in 1984, although they&#8217;d occasionally reunite over the years. Their most recent tour\u00a0was in 2024, which was their first tour together in five years. Their\u00a0last show\u00a0took place Aug. 17 in Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Nelson\/Future Publishing via Getty Images Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer has revealed that he\u2019s been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and one of the side effects is that he\u2019s no longer able to play guitar. \u201cTowards the end of the last Stray Cats tour I noticed that my hands<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stray-cats-frontman-brian-setzer-diagnosed-with-autoimmune-disease-cant-play-guitar\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}