	ARCH ENEMY Parts Ways With Singer ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ 33
	METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD: 'I Have The Best Job I... 31
	ULVER Announces 'Neverland' Album, Shares 'We... 18
	15
	It's Official: SLIPKNOT Sells Stake In Catalog To HARBO... 15

все новости группы

Foreigner

США

Hard Rock

http://www.foreigneronline.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/foreignermusic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Foreigner/

2 дек 2025 :	LOU GRAMM Says He Has A 'Nice Friendship' With Current Lineup Of FOREIGNER Now
13 окт 2025 :	Watch: KELLY HANSEN Says Emotional Goodbye To FOREIGNER At His Final Show With The Band
30 сен 2025 :	FOREIGNER's LUIS MALDONADO: All The Fans 'Are Excited That The Band Is Gonna Continue'
8 сен 2025 :	LOU GRAMM On Current Lineup Of FOREIGNER: 'They Do The Name Proud'
19 авг 2025 :	FOREIGNER's 50th-Anniversary Concert On Ellis Island To Be Filmed For Upcoming Documentary
12 авг 2025 :	FOREIGNER Announces 'The Hits Unplugged' Benefit Concert
5 авг 2025 :	LOU GRAMM Explains Why Now Is Right Time For Him To Hit The Road With FOREIGNER
12 июл 2025 :	FOREIGNER Announce Foreigner 4 Deluxe; Original Lead Singer LOU GRAMM To Join Headline Tour
29 июн 2025 :	Watch: LOU GRAMM Performs FOREIGNER Classics In St. Petersburg, Florida
28 июн 2025 :	KELLY HANSEN On His Final Tour With FOREIGNER: 'I'm Just Trying To Soak It All In And Have A Joyful Time With It'
15 июн 2025 :	FOREIGNER Records Special Version Of 'I Want To Know What Love Is' With Members Of Inland Master Chorale
5 июн 2025 :	LOU GRAMM 'Would Love To' Continue Touring With FOREIGNER As A Guest Singer: 'I'm Enjoying It Immensely'
1 июн 2025 :	KELLY HANSEN On 'Emotion' Of His Upcoming Final Concert With FOREIGNER: 'Hopefully I Can Hold It Together And Do It'
24 май 2025 :	KELLY HANSEN On Decision To Leave FOREIGNER: 'It's Time For Me To Do Other Things In My Life While I Still Can'
24 май 2025 :	LOU GRAMM On FOREIGNER's 'I Want To Know What Love Is': 'We Were Worried' Releasing A Song Like That Would 'Damage Our Rock Reputation'
22 май 2025 :	KELLY HANSEN Says He Still Has 'A Lot Of Rocking To Do' With FOREIGNER
21 май 2025 :	KELLY HANSEN Announces He Will Leave FOREIGNER At End Of Summer 2025 Tour
19 май 2025 :	FOREIGNER And Mexican Singer JOY HUERTA Share Music Video For Spanish Version Of 'I Want To Know What Love Is'
14 май 2025 :	Watch: FOREIGNER Performs With LOU GRAMM In Santiago, Chile During Spring 2025 Latin American Tour
3 май 2025 :	FOREIGNER Releases Spanish-Language Version Of 'Urgent'
2 май 2025 :	LOU GRAMM Says He Will Continue Performing With FOREIGNER 'For Another Year Or So'
30 апр 2025 :	Watch: FOREIGNER Joined By Original Singer LOU GRAMM For Four Songs At Mexico City Concert
23 апр 2025 :	FOREIGNER's MICK JONES Releases New Song 'Shelter From The Storm' In Honor Of Parkinson's Awareness Month
22 апр 2025 :	FOREIGNER To Perform With Orchestra In Las Vegas In March 2026
14 апр 2025 :	Newly Finished FOREIGNER Song 'Fool If You Love Him', With LOU GRAMM On Vocals, To Be Released In September
29 мар 2025 :	FOREIGNER Singer KELLY HANSEN Explains His Absence From Upcoming Latin American And Canadian Tours

сегодня

LOU GRAMM Says He Has A 'Nice Friendship' With Current Lineup Of FOREIGNER Now

In a rare in-depth interview with Rock Candy magazine, Lou Gramm, the man with the golden voice, told editor Howard Johnson that it was just a twist of fate that led him be in FOREIGNER at all and when he was first offered the chance to audition while he was still in his pre-FOREIGNER band BLACK SHEEP, by guitarist Mick Jones, he turned it down.

Lou recalled: "I said, 'Mick, Jeez, that's very nice of you to ask me but BLACK SHEEP [signed to Capitol Records] is in a difficult spot right now. We've got our second album coming out and we've just started a tour with KISS. The problem is that we had an accident right after the first show in Boston. We've lost our truck and 80 percent of our equipment. We're trying to figure out what to do and how we can continue to tour.'" Mick Jones persevered to get Lou to audition. Gramm said: "I told Mick I was honored to have been asked and I hoped that our paths would cross again in the future. Mick asked me if he could call me back in two or three weeks to see how things were going, and I told him I'd be happy for him to do that."

BLACK SHEEP couldn't get the money from any source to replace their van and gear and then their label dropped them so Lou's bandmates did a great and noble thing. Gramm recalled: "They said, 'Lou, we have to be realistic. To all intents and purposes, BLACK SHEEP is over. You really need to get hold of Mick and see what he has to offer.'"

But amazingly the band that would become FOREIGNER weren't met with instant applause, and were turned down by numerous record labels at the beginning. "That's true," Lou said. "We sent out plenty of demo tapes and the idea was that if anyone expressed an interest we'd invite them to come and take a look at us playing live. We had maybe eight or nine labels come down. They pretty much all said the band was proficient and that we had good song ideas, but somehow they didn't quite get it." Fate intervened again at that point because a young A&R guy at Atlantic, John Kalodner (who would go on to shape and remake the careers of many bands and artists later on) had been at the showcase gig the band did for Atlantic and even though the label turned them down he got back to them and said they should shorten their songs for radio play. Lou recalled: "He said, 'Next time you hear a BEATLES song, time it. I guarantee it won't even be three minutes long... Kalodner was right. I hadn't realized how short their numbers were... Even though they were short they satisfied all your needs. So Kalodner, Mick and I went back into the songs." Then they re-presented some of the songs back to Atlantic and ended up with a three-album deal and an out of the box smash with their debut album which went Top 5 in the U.S., as did the debut single "Feels Like The First Time".

Lou has recently made some guest appearances with the current touring lineup of FOREIGNER — which includes no other original members — and he is kind and gracious when talking about them.

"At first I was angry at Mick for starting a new FOREIGNER, but so much time has gone by now, and it wasn't the fault of the guys who are now in the band, was it?", Lou said. "If I were one of them and had been offered the opportunity, I would have taken it too. So we've got a nice friendship now... After all that's happened over the years, I'm still extremely proud of my career with FOREIGNER, and at this stage of my life that's the most important thing."

Read the rest of the mega interview with Lou, as well as a big feature on 60 years of the SCORPIONS, ex-DEEP PURPLE guitarist Steve Morse on finding peace and purpose, the making of the KING'S X debut album, a reappraisal of QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime", an exclusive look at the "Back To the Beginning" show from the promoter who made it happen, and many other fascinating features inside issue 53 of Rock Candy magazine.

Rock Candy is a 100 page, full-color bi-monthly rock magazine, created in the U.K. It covers the sights, sounds and smells from the greatest era in hard rock, the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. It is the brainchild of respected U.K. rock journalists Derek Oliver, Howard Johnson and Malcolm Dome — all frontline writers for the legendary Kerrang! magazine in the golden era.

For more information, visit www.rockcandymag.com.

-0

Комментарии могут добавлять только зарегистрированные пользователи.
Вы можете зарегистрироваться на сайте или залогиниться через социальные сети (иконки вверху сайта).

Сообщений нет