I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artists told a newspaper recently that because Eric Clapton was so magnificent at playing the guitar he decided he needed to take up a different instrument. Think you know who he might be??

Interesting how no matter how successful a person is most good ones have a level of humility. In this case while promoting his new show booked tol play at the Genesee Theatre in Illinois Ian Anderson confesses this to Sheryl DeVore during an interview published in the Chicago Tribune “If it hadn't been for Clapton's magnificent guitar playing I wouldn't have decided I needed to find a new instrument to perfect.”

Ian went on to say, "He (Clapton) clearly was advanced in his musicality and fluidity of playing in a way that for me spelled out that I wasn't in that league," Anderson recalled. "I decided to stop playing the guitar and find an instrument Eric Clapton could not play."

The article states, Anderson couldn't play the flute either, but already a knowledgeable musician, he got one and learned by moving his fingers on the shiny silver instrument to learn scales, the basis of music. He says, "In a curious way, it evolved my style," and "while playing the flute, I was still thinking guitar. It was evolved around riffs. It made for something charismatic. Making the flute the forefront of a rock band or blues band, which we started out as, I had to do something to give it a little more power, more of a strident and direct quality, the equal to the electric guitar."

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