I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artist said that when he started out he expected nothing but hoped that someday maybe he’d hear one of his songs on the local radio station and get to play in a local club. Who might our rocker with the modest goals be??

I found this in Parade Magazine with Boston’s Tom Scholz as they were heading out on their 40^th Anniversary tour.  Tom was asked what it was like in the beginning.

“Actually, I was expecting nothing. What I was hoping for was that, at some point, I might record a song that would get played on local radio stations,” he says. “And then I could go out on local stages, and I could play in a band and play a piece of music that people knew—That was mine. And that was sort of my goal. It was very modest.”

The six-plus-year process included enough negative feedback to make the best of musicians reconsider their dreams. Scholz recalls those days as being filled with “absolute, total rejection.”

“I got no interest from any source—anything in the music business,” he says. “I had dozens upon dozens of rejection letters. Submitted countless demos. Wrote lots of songs. And no one was more surprised than I was that when I finally did get a chance to make an album, that it was actually successful. I was so sure, after six years of basically being knocked down—I was so sure that I had nothing to offer to the general public, that after I finished recording the album in my basement in a Watertown [Massachusetts] apartment, I went back to work at Polaroid. And I planned to be staying—working at Polaroid.

Boston just finished up their Anniversary tour last week in Boston’s Wang Center.

Here is a song from the tour.