Big Country, Stray Cats and Anglophobia...

[James B Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>]

This comes from Dave Marsh's Fortunate Son book but actually is remarks by
Big Country and exerpts from a follow-up letter by Brian Setzer:

Stuart Adamson:  "Americans have never produced a thing worth calling art
	 	  themselves.  They've borrowed everything from Europe in-
		  cluding punk rock."

Brian Setzer:  "Oh, right, Angus McPresley.  Sorry!  Who invented the blues 
		and jazz, and country and western?...they've never had anyone
		to compare to Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Robert Johnson,
		Elvis Presley or Hank Williams"

Marsh goes on to say, "the Brits have developed a pop culture that knows
			it's place and never insists on equal rights with
			Serious Art. (notice the capitalization, Greg).  No
			one shouts about heavy metal, because its listeners -
			 not its practitioners - are so uncouth they're 
			beneath the pundits' gave"


Thood for Fought, J.H.