ABOUT
The Setlist Guy:
Setlist Guy’s founder, Scott Christopher, has been into hard rock and metal since 1971, at the ripe age of 4-years-old. That is when, with the help of his older brothers, he discovered Jimi Hendrix and would run around the house singing, “Fucksy Lady” to his mother’s dismay and his brothers’ delight.
Hailing from the suburban mecca giving birth to many a metal bands (and plenty of porn stars), Southern California in the 70s was the perfect denizen for festering metal heads.
Scott’s love of music quickly grew from Hendrix, the Beatles (Sgt Pepper, of course) and the Stones to Aerosmith, Sabbath and Zeppelin.
By 1982, at age 17, he attended his first real concert at the Long Beach Arena – Black Sabbath with Dio on the Mob Rules tour. It was that glorious weekend he knew his love affair with metal would never end.
In 1983 he attended the Us Festival and saw Quiot Riot, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Triumph, Scorpions and Van Halen. It was loud, hot and insane. His love of festivals was born in that dust.
One day, while still in high school, Scott and a friend found themselves sitting at Tommy Lee’s kitchen table, having BLT sandwiches the yet-to-be iconic drummer had served up, while the three marveled at Tommy’s band’s new release playing on MTV, Live Wire.
As so happened, as things often did at that time in suburban LA, something led to something else and Scott soon found himself touring the globe with a variety of musicians as a left-hand guitar tech, roadie and sometimes tour manager, primarily with hair metal bands of the day (but in full transparency, some famous jazz, disco and reggae acts also helped paid the bills).
Because of his lifelong love of music and years working in the music industry, Scott knew firsthand that he enjoyed concert experiences immensely more when he was familiar with band’s music leading up to any performance, be it either backstage or in the pit. He would often make “mix-tapes” of all songs he thought a band might play before seeing them in concert.
His friends all soon caught on to this ritual and requests for Scott’s special brand of mix-tapes began rolling in. He happily gave away his creations and continued to do so with the evolution of CDs. When the internet appeared, his compositions became more accurate as more and more people were talking about shows they saw – and some were even posting setlists.
With the widespread use of streaming services and their associated huge catalogs of every artist under the sun, Scott was creating setlists playlists regularly.
Focused on his favorite metal bands, as well as his love and ear for discovering upcoming talent, he found great satisfaction creating setlist playlists for all the bands he desired to see at favorite festivals such as Warped, Knotfest and Aftershock.
It was this thirst and love for music the metal community thrives on that drove Scott to founding Setlist Guy, after the nickname affectionately given him by many friends over the years.
As emerging technology continues to evolve, Scott recognized there are possibly millions of people who also want setlist playlists of upcoming tours and festivals, as it is the best way to help people get in the groove for their favorite shows, not to mention a powerful way to help lift the rock industry back into profitability as well as help upcoming bands develop a following.
It was from this foundation that Setlist Guy was born.
With some adjustments to his Spotify account, he began creating setlist playlists for bands, tours and festivals and sharing them with his beloved metal family.
On the horizon, Setlist Guy has plans to grow their service to many other genres of music, as many are circling with requests.
With today’s technology, Setlist Guy is able to share setlist playlists on multiple platforms such as Apple, Amazon, YouTube and Tidal Music
Scott’s request, as well as encouragement – enjoy the setlist playlists, get out and go to live shows, then sing and mosh like there’s no tomorrow! 🤘🏻🤘🏿🤘🏼🤘🏽🤘🤘🏾
Setlist Guy Organization:
The SLG Crew is five of us working together to keep Setlist Guy going, keep setlists current, keeping the website up-to-date, managing social media, and just trying to provide good content for our metal family to enjoy.