I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artist upon graduating high school was told by his father that he needed to go to college to which he replied but dad they don’t teach rock and roll in college and that is all I want to do. Think you know who he is or what classic band picked him up??

I found this bit of information in a Vortex magazine article with Boston band member Gary Pihl the man that one member said was the glue that hold Boston together.  Gary by the way took his dad’s advice, the story goes like this.

“ I remember my dad saying, “Do whatever you want to do.” This was when I was graduating from high school. He said, “You should go to college.” Then I said, “Well gosh dad, they don’t teach rock and roll in college and that’s all I want to do.” Then he said, “If you like music, you should go to school and learn as much as you can. If you like music, take music classes, but do whatever you can and go to school to learn how.” He drove me over to the local junior college in Santa Rosa, Calif., I enrolled and I loved it. It wasn’t because the teachers were so hip; it was because they were so enthusiastic about the music. I took a bunch of classes there. One of my choral groups, I was sitting next to Johnny Colla who went on to play sax with Huey Lewis and the News. You never know who you’re going to sit next to. That’s always my advice for young musicians saying, “What should I do?” I tell them what worked for me and say, “If you love music, find out all you can about it.”

Here’s Boston with tonight’s featured song: