I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artist called himself an incredibly bad singer and pronounced perfect pitch to be a musical defect because it makes the music lose its character. Think you know who our bad singer is or the band he fronts for??

The interview comes from a magazine called ‘Isle of Holland’ from 2013. The title of the interview was called ‘White Punks on Dope: The Heyday of Golden Earring’. During the discussion Barry Hay, Golden Earring’s lead singer, was talking about his feelings after he performed with an orchestra. We pick up the story after he says living in Curaco has made him a better singer.

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Noteworthy, coming from a man who called himself an “incredibly bad singer” after working on the 2008 Blue Note album The Big Band Theory — recording songs like the Rolling Stones’ Let’s Spend the Night Together, The Lovin’ Spoonful’s Summer in the City and Van Halen’s Ice Cream Man — with the renowned Metropole Orchestra. “I’m just the singer in a band, which is very different from singing with an orchestra,” Mr. Hay explained. “Perfect pitch is a defect. It irritated me that there was this musical director at the orchestra who was such a perfectionist that he took all the character away. When you hear Mick Jagger or even Elvis sing, they’re a little off sometimes, but that’s character. That’s what makes it great.”

Here is tonight's featured song base on the book "The Bourne Identity"