I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight mystery artist’s had a manager who propelled the band into the limelight by making up stories about them that were pure fiction. Can you guess the band??

The band in question is Blue Öyster Cult and their manager Sandy Pearlman with the help of Richard Meltzer. Not only did Sandy Pearlman’s write many of the band’s lyrics Eric Bloom and Alec Bouchard told ‘The Blues Magazine how Pearlman had a vision of the band as this black humor kind of thing, pessimistic and dark, but with lyrics filled with puns and oblique references to other disciplines, like science and math. Sandy is a true intellectual. I’m still amazed by some of the stuff he came up with us for us.”

The guys said: “Having two prankster wordsmiths around helped in other ways as well. “Sandy and Richard were writers, so to help promote us they’d make up shit about us. Meltzer wrote an apocryphal article about us in some rock magazine that was totally tongue in cheek. He wrote that we played at the Mount Rushmore rock festival. Of course, there was no such thing. But he said that the highlight of the show was when Eric Bloom jumped off of George Washington’s nose. A couple of years later, we’re driving somewhere in America in our van. We see some poor guy hitch-hiking on a two-lane blacktop, so we picked him up. ‘Are you guys a band?’, he asks us. ‘Yeah', we tell him: ‘We’re Blue Öyster Cult'. The guy says: ‘No kidding! I was at the Mount Rushmore festival!’. He said he saw my jump off the nose...”