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Lou Gramm sat down with Kyle Meredith to speak a few second in his profession that manages to be each full-circle and model new. As Foreigner rejoice their fiftieth anniversary — and deluxe version for 4 — Gramm is stepping again onstage with the band for a handful of dates (together with tonight and tomorrow at The Capitol Theater in in Port Chester, NY — get tickets to all Foreigner’s reveals right here!), all whereas prepping his first solo album in ages. He and Meredith unpack the frenzy of rediscovering unfinished tracks from the 4 period, the fun of finishing them many years later, and why this chapter seems like a victory lap with one thing nonetheless left to show. Hearken to the episode above or wherever you get your podcasts.
As soon as he dove into the previous reels, Gramm says the forgotten tracks from 4 instantly lit a spark: “Once I came upon they had been going to be completed and included on this package deal, it was an actual pleasure to place the 24-track on and listen to the sounds as they had been again in that day.” He even needed to match his 1981 vocal grit: “We ended up matching the vocal sounds to a tee,” he laughs, marveling on the time-travel problem. And as for selecting what to sing when rejoining Foreigner: “They let me choose first. I simply choose a few of my favorites that I like singing.”
Gramm additionally opens up concerning the lengthy street to sobriety and the way it reshaped his life and work. “I made the acutely aware determination that that’s not what I needed anymore for my life,” he says of abandoning the backstage chaos, including with pleasure, “I’ve been about 34 years sober now.” That self-discipline feeds into his new solo album, arriving in March, which mixes new materials with songs he lastly completed after many years on the shelf. “It rocks arduous, boy,” he guarantees. “Some new songs, some older songs that deserved to be on the album… it’s a little bit conglomerate of previous and current.”
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