I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artists back before anyone knew who them were being pitched by their manager as the American Black Sabbath. Any guess who the might be??

Things were very hard for our band in the early days. They shared a house and often didn’t have money for food.  And it was then that manager Sandy Pearlman was telling any record company that would listen that Blue Oyster Cult was the American equivalent of Black Sabbath.  As band member Eric Bloom put it in an interview:

Although they've become one of the most popular and durable hard rock bands around, in their early days, most people didn't give Blue Oyster Cult much of a chance. “We were struggling for a long time," says guitarist and lead vocalist Eric Bloom. "We lived in a band house out in Great Neck, Long Island, and when I say 'lived,' it was more like 'just barely.' Nobody knew where we were going or we could afford to eat. Club dates sort of kept us alive.”

Pearlman (who would later go on to work with The Clash) envisioned Blue Oyster Cult as being America's answer to Black Sabbath. Bloom says the group had no problems being pitched in this manner. "We were cool with it," he says. "As for myself, I was cool with anything that got me employed. I came from a bar band background, so the idea of being in a real group on a real record label that had a chance of making a living was amazing to me."

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