MUSIC

Goode's Armadillo Palace is proud to welcome Dean Seltzer & Jamie Talbert.  

Dean Seltzer: 
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PROLOGUE:
First of all - a few things you should know about me when it comes to Bios - I hate it when musicians write their own biographies and do so in the 3rd person – as a matter of fact – I think any band bio on a musician's web site is usually automatically assumed as written by the artist unless otherwise specified. And then the 3rd person thing just sound stupid – “So and so was born into a musical family blah blah blah and felt a calling from his soul to play music and so on and stuff…..” I also hate when these schmucks take their official band photo in a field, barn, railroad station or some rustic locate staring forlornly into the distance as if engrossed in some deep thought. Or side by side with their arms crossed across their chest trying to look all hard – like they’re taking a yearbook photo for their chapter of the woo tang clan or something….. so I’ll try to keep that kinda shit to a minimum. I’ve been told that this style of biography is more of a rant and less of a professional grade bio – but I really don’t care – this is much more my style…..

BIOGRAPHY:
Hi – I’m Dean – I play music. Like any male musician on the planet I started playing guitar and singing to pick up girls – and any guy with a guitar in his hands that tells you differently is a frickin liar – especially if you’re cute and female when you ask. I figure if Mic Jagger can get women with his ugly mug there must be something to this whole music thing. For those that care about history - I was born in Odessa Texas behind Nimitz Junior high (well, not literally behind the school – like in a dumpster or anything) I was born in a HOUSE which was directly behind the school. Growing up I lived in Austin, Dallas, and Nashville and went to college in Tallahassee Florida. I’ve back packed across Europe, lived in a Colorado ski town teaching snowboarding for a season, worked as a horseback riding instructor at a YMCA camp outside Fort Worth, been on a movie set with Jet Lee as a stunt man, was a division 1A cheerleader for 3 seasons, spent a summer as a surf bum in San Diego and have earned an A class skydiving license - oh and I’m in a band too.

I play music because I love it and have no desire to do anything else – you ‘d have to – this job is not easy, steady or lucrative work (well, sometimes it’s lucrative...) We put up with scheister bar owners, ding-dong drunk bimbos, obnoxious intoxicated college guys, biker riots, AND each other!!! We sleep in flea bag motels all over the state, drive the worst excuse of a van, eat dinner at Exxon and waffle house and pathetically pretend we’re big rock stars while playing hotel bars - in places like Kerrville - for rooms full of middle aged overweight white ladies who request Rick Springfield hits from 2 decades ago…. then again sometime we’re fortunate enough to occasionally play kick ass shows that somewhat resemble that rock and roll dream we’re chasing…

If you’re impressed by name dropping we’ve done shows with Dwight Yokam, Aaron Tippin, Molly Hatchet, Bad Company, Jimmy Vaughn, Charlie Daniels, David Allen Coe, Billy Joe Shaver, Pat, Cory, Roger, Reckless, Cross, JJ Walker…… you get the idea yet? Biggest crowd I’ve ever played in front of – 56,000. Smallest crowd I’ve ever played in front of at a public establishment – 2 (not counting my dog.)

The Shtick - "high energy obnoxious redneck rock n roll." Turn it up, get drunk and blow yer head off – that’s what we’re about. I’ve been accused of doing Hollywood shots on stage – you know, bottle to lips pretending to drink without every actually ingesting any alcohol – anybody who’s known me for 5 minutes can have a good laugh with me over that one. I’ve never done that, I have however been fired for being too drunk on stage – actually that’s happened a few times – not something I’m particularly proud of, but hey – whatta ya gonna do right? I try ("try" mind you) to learn from my mistakes and move on - but sometimes that doesn't work out for me none too much - I'm kind of a knucklehead.

The Music – the first album is very country oriented, I produced it myself with Darren Fleming in late 2000 (who is now Kevin Fowler’s road manager). At the time I had only been playing music for about 8 months. It’s good – in a tame, very polite sort of way, has professional production value, but hasn’t been representative of our live show in a long time.

This second album we just finished is way different and in my opinion much better. Very rock oriented – with recognizable influences from The Cult, The Refreshments, System of a Down, ACDC, The Beatles, Hank III, Green Day – stuff like that. At one point during recording the producer turned to me and said – isn’t this supposed to be a country album? I told him, “Let’s just make some good music – if it turns out country great, if not – oh well then. Call the rock station instead of country radio when it’s done!”

Jamie Talbert:  For the past six years Talbert has been honing his songwriting and performance skills around Texas as an acoustic solo performer. Along the way, he has made an impressive list of friends, opening shows for the likes of Pat Green, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Roger Creager, Honeybrowne, Don Williams and countless others. During the Super Bowl Bash 2004, he even shared the stage with the Red Rocker himself, Sammy Hagar.

In 2004, not only did he share the stage with fellow Texas songwriter, Phil Pritchett, but Pritchett signed on to produce Talbert's debut CD. "The Opening Act", which came out in May of 2006 was backed by Pritchett's band. The CD properly introduced Talbert's considerable songcrafting skills to fans of Texas music everywhere. This album features crowd favorites, such as "Tequila & Tracy", "Can I Keep You" and the soon to be radio release "Dialing While Intoxicated". This CD showcases Talbert's fun-loving and serious sides, while never compromising the honesty of the song.

Watching the expanding crowds at his shows, there is no doubt he is connecting and hitting the mark with the audience. October of 2007, after cultivating a cult following on radiofreetexas.org, Jamie focused on recruiting the hottest players he could find for his band. In short order, he recruited a crack band of musicians featuring veteran guitarist, John Jagneaux; journeyman drummer, Johnny Courville of Black Oak Arkansas; and veteran Texas bassist, Kory Prince.

After many a long night playing hard to the fans the Jamie Talbert Band is ready to move forward and take the next step.