Tonight’s mystery artist learned to play many of his instruments in the Army. Think you know who he is or what band he co-founded??

It was in an interview with Big Bang Magazine that I learned this fact about Foreigner cofounder Ian McDonld. When asked if it was truly in the service that he had learned to play Ian replied:

“Yes, that's right. I spent my teenage years, unfortunately, in the army, as a bandsman, yes. A junior bandsman, and then a bandsman. So I learned to read music. I learned harmony orchestration things like that. I was taught clarinet, and from there I taught myself flute and saxophone. During that time I did have experience in lots of different musical styles, whether it be doing show tunes or classical wind quintets, little jazz groups, dance band things... as well as of course the marches and all that sort of things. I guess the good thing about that was that I was exposed to a number of different musical styles there, which I guess was a purpose to that as well.”

Here they are post Ian with tonight's featured song:

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