Tobacco Mosaic: Press

THIS BAND WILL EAT YOU ALIVE (Tobacco Mosaic Infects SNHU)

Frankie Price's baby eats away at living things like a virus; in fact his baby is a virus: Tobacco Mosaic.
"It takes over everything," Price said of the virus that is the band's name sake. It's also what he hopes will happen with his band.
Price was born in West Virginia with a love of rock n' roll. He is also a recovering scientist. He has a biology degree with a speciality in molecular genetics and worked as a research scientist for years.
He began his master's degree in chemistry but decided he didn't want to be a 50-year old unhappy man. Price loved music and come from a musical family.
"My dad showed me my first song," Price said. "I think it was "Wild Thing."
When he reached a crossroads in his adult life, he turned to that other love.
He came to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He graduates in a month with a degree in Music Production & Engineering.
Tobacco Mosaic has been Price's baby since he lived in North Carolina years ago.
At Berklee he set out to, and did, find musicians to relive his Tobacco dreams from down south.
His Tobacco dreams have nothing to do with pop or southern jam band stuff. It's good ol' rock n' roll.
"Since we all go to Berklee we have some complex chords and time changes," Price said in a thick southern accent. "But we don't go into that prog-rock stuff. Nah, this is rock and roll."
Like Price, most of the other members of the band are nearing their graduation day at Berklee. To keep the momentum going Price and the others have started work on an album that they hope to release in the near future.