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Dean Seltzer

February 8th, 2011 in Endorsed Artists

One of our new endorsees is Dean Selzter, we thought the best way to share a little about him is to share his bio which is real and humorous :). Dean’s Bio from his website: “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 worst of all 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 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!”

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