I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery once told Ultimate Classic Rock that it was a fear of drugs that has made him change bands multiple times.  Think you know who he might be or any of the bands he’s been part of??

Well,  his current band is called 'Heavy Blues' but back in the 1970 it was Randy Bachman who left a very successful 'Guess Who' because the life style had gotten out of hand.

Randy told UCR: “I came out of the Guess Who – who were, like, turning into a bunch of kids in high school, innocent, learning to first of all, smoke cigarettes, then drink, then smoke joints and snort joints, then smoke hash and then snort white powder and stuff,” Bachman remembers. “I saw guys killing themselves, guys going into comas, taking LSD and never coming back out of it.” Ultimately, Bachman made a life-changing decision. “That just frightened me to death, so I stayed away from it myself,” he says. “Whenever the bands I was with were getting into that, I just left the band, when it came too overpowering and I couldn’t control it anymore. “

Bachman began assembling the band that would become BTO but this time with a  "my way or the highway" attitude. Regardless of how tough it is create a hit record Randy was sure he could accomplish this with the right people around him.

Randy continued: “ When I started BTO, it was, ‘Okay you guys, I know where to go, I know how to go — I know the bus. I got a ticket to the bus. Do you want to jump on? I’m going back to the top. It might take a month, a year, five years, 10 years. I’m going and I know where to go.  Here’s my rules. I do not want to waste my time on you if you’re going to be partying and getting chicks and getting drunk and being late. This is a business, okay? I’m risking all of my money and I’m giving you guys a salary and I’m producing and publishing the album. Nobody will work with me. I’ve left the No. 1 band in the world. American Woman was the No. 1 album and single and I left. I’ve got to do this on my own. There’s nobody helping me. If you can’t keep my rules, do not be a hindrance to me. I’ll get somebody else.”

The Guess Who is still traveling today. Here he is back in the Guess Who day with No Sugar.

Live version.