![]() ![]() They were just a bunch of dudes who liked to dress up in suits, play retro music, and have a good time. They did not have a massive MTV hit like the Brian Setzer Orchestra or the Squirrel Nut Zippers-they were arguably not even the biggest swing band with the word “Daddy” in the name. But they weren’t even the most popular of the swing-revival bands-none of their albums ever rose higher than no. ![]() Big Bad Voodoo Daddy had a cult following that grew out of their residency at Los Angeles hipster joint the Brown Derby, and they’d had a successful record in the wake of their appearance in the 1996 movie Swingers. ![]() A couple of months after that 1999 Super Bowl, between the Broncos and Falcons, The Matrix would hit theaters, and Morris just presumed he’d taken the red pill and been transported into a surreal alternate universe. The whole thing never felt real to Morris-not then, and not now, 20 years after the fact. He was a kid in Southern California, standing in front of the mirror with an imaginary microphone, singing along to Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti he was a middle school band member who insisted on playing his own arrangement of Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke” he was a teenager in a DIY punk-rock group then he was a young man who, in a complete lark, decided to start up a swing revival band in the midst of the ’90s grunge era, because that was the music he’d grown up with, and that was the music he still loved-even if no one his age understood it yet.Īnd then he snapped back to the present moment-Pro Player Stadium, Miami, Florida, where as the lead singer of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, he was opening for Stevie Wonder and Gloria Estefan in the biggest show of his career-and he wondered: What the hell was he doing here? Ninety seconds before Scotty Morris went onstage at the Super Bowl halftime show, he had a series of flashbacks. ![]()
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