I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artist said Tell me somebody born after 1950 who doesn’t dream of being a rock star, and I’ll tell you somebody’s lying to you..  Can you guess who this rocker is??

He was and is out on tour and stopped down long enough to talk with Hollywood Soapbox about being George Throrgood.  George told John Soltes how hard it is traveling,

 “The road doesn’t really thrill me; the stage does,” he said. “The road’s a little rough and gets rougher all the time, but, you know, I can’t get 100,000 people to come to my house when I play. So I have to travel to do my job.”

He added “There are moments when I’m doing it, and I say, you’re really doing this,” he said. “You’re concentrating so hard on a daily basis you don’t really have time to slow down and smell the roses about why you’re doing it. But, yes, it’s the ultimate dream of everybody. Tell me somebody born after 1950 who doesn’t dream of being a rock star, and I’ll tell you somebody’s lying to you. Even the president wants to be a rock star. … Every comic and actor has a band. You know, one of the greatest talents of all time, John Belushi, got into the Blues Brothers, and he went crazy. It just thrilled him so much. That was his thing. It was like he almost forgot about acting he got so revved up in the rock thing.”

In the words of  Thorogood, what the Badder Than Ever tour promises: “Rock ‘n’ roll never sleeps,” he said. “It just passes out.”

George will be in Portland on Aug 5^th at the State Pier. Here he is with tonight's featured song the Bo Diddly hit song “Who Do You Love’