Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer the slight blond guitarist, who, with the Stray Cats, made rockabilly a happening genre in the early part of this decade, is eventually located.
Verbatim discussion with an EMI Records security guard:
'Who are you here to see?'
v 'Brian Setzer. Call publicity.'
'Seltzer? Brian Seltzer, we got nobody working here by that name.'
Brian Setzer the slight blond guitarist, who, with the Stray Cats, made rockabilly a happening genre in the early part of this decade, is eventually located. In the publicity department. And, considering that the sales of Stray Cats albums probably paid salaries here for years, he finds the whole tale amusing. And all too typical of the music business.
'It's amazing. Everybody knows who I am. If I walk into a gas station the guy pumping gas knows my name,' he shakes his blond pompadour and laughs. 'But when I walk into EMI, they call me BrianSeltzer.
'Some of these people just don't care about the music.'