I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artist said that in his youth Elvis Presley made being a musician seem like kind of a pipe-dream. However, once the Rolling Stones came into the picture playing music he said to himself, I can do that. Can you guess who this young man was??

The confession came during an interview with the CBC in which Tom Petty credited the British rockers with convincing him — and thousands of other aspiring American musicians at the time — that they could make rock and roll music.

Tom says when he was young Elvis Presley had the “American Dream” and he didn’t believe he or anyone else for that matter could ever recreate or live up to what he had accomplished.

Enter the British invasion into a young Tom’s life. Petty recalled: "These people look like they're self-contained. They're making music that they wrote themselves and their music is all their own. They're playing it, they look like they're really good friends and they're having a lot of fun — and I'll bet they're not worried about bread, either. Of course, they were so absolutely genius even in '64 that it seemed really hard to ever reach that kind of musicianship." But with the Stones, Petty said, "They were grittier [than the Beatles]; it was rawer, it was like, 'That can be done. They were playing blues in this really energetic kind of raw way, but it wasn't complicated. There wasn't a lot of beautiful harmony involved."

And here a little Petty Halloween video for you...