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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Vinny.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hi Benny, this is Graham.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
No, this is the legendary Loug. Do you not say
this is the legendary Lou Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Do you not introduce yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
You absolutely should, Holy Cow the voice himself. You know,
just a few years back, I took my teenage son
to see Foreigner, a Mohegan son. I was still going,
you know. I mean, Mick was one of my favorite
guitarists coming up as a kid, and I wanted my
son to hear this great catalog. He loves Foreigner, He's
(00:34):
got the greatest hit. Cold his Ice is one of
his favorite songs. And we were shocked when out of
nowhere it was announced we're bringing out someone special tonight
and Lou Graham took the stage. You did about five
songs that night. I'm sure you recall this, and then yeah,
and then you were off and running and now you
know you're back with the boys and it's we're getting
(00:57):
you at the Oakdale Theater. You know, nice Christmas time
show December ninth. How did that come to be that
you decided you did a few songs. Then Kelly Hansen
came back. I think he did even a few together.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
How did that come to be?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
First, I want to say that, unfortunately, Mick is not
in good health.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I've heard, I have.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Heard, and he at that point since two thousand and
six two and seven was the only original member that
was playing what he actually put the new former together.
So he's been playing with them for he said, I
don't know, fifteen sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
They have the onset of Alzheimer's. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh, that is unfortunate. That's forgetting some of the greatest
guitar parts and rock songs the last forty years, if
not probably more than that. I did have the pleasure
the honor of interviewing Mick upon the release of your
Mister Moonlight record. You may not recall that one too fondly,
but it was exciting. You know, Lou Graham was back
(02:06):
and so I did interview him way back then for
that album. That's how long I've been doing this.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I actually remember that album very fondly. I think it
was one of our best albums, but it didn't get
it didn't it didn't get the promotion.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yes, yeah, yeah, uh. You know it's interesting too. When
you took the stage, there's so many foreigner songs and
records that I believe, uh don't get the attention. It's
got to be tough to put together the set lists too.
But when you did Blue Morning, Blue Day, this is
one of my favorite foreigner songs too, and I thought
(02:45):
it was like my own problem okay, and hearing you
even say so, it's like, oh, maybe Lou Graham that's
a personal favorite of his too. But I realized looking around,
oh man, everybody loves this song. I thought I had
my own personal connection with it, but people went nuts
for it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, not one of the best chart toppers that band
ever had, but in anybody else's book, number eleven is
pretty damn good.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It is damn good. You know there's another song off
that record too. You're all, I.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Am, Oh, that's a nice song.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh man, would you ever do something like that? And
here's another one for you. Look, I always felt like
rev on the Red Line never never got it to
do it? Another just another gem? Do you have personal
favorites that you would love to do? But it's like, look,
you know you have. So there are just so many
hits that fighting for them would be like you know, why, Bob,
(03:36):
people want the hits?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, there are a lot of great stuff. It is
we have to we have to be pretending we're the
grateful dead.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Could you do? I mean, could you maintain that? Could
you keep doing? Because I'll tell you I want nightlife?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I great song.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, Well, four and or four was a game changing
record for so many, for me in particular freshman year
of high school. It was just front to back. I
don't think there's there's no it's a no skip record,
which is not to suggest that there are others.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I mean song for song. Yeah, it was one locker
after another.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah. I still have the T shirt from them and
it's still fit from that, and just a great record cover.
Conceptually too, you were down to four players. I don't
suppose you get you get any you You really did
have great solo success too, Midnight Blue a chart topper.
Never minded what you know, never mind your contribution to
(04:37):
the Lost Boys soundtrack. Any of those getting into the
set at Oakdale this December.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think Midnight Blue will be on that list.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's a tremendous one. Yeah, and then what's next. I
hear you've announced you you haven't, but you've announced your retirement.
I feel like you have before.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I've got a new album coming out in.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
February, Fantastic news.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's a solo record, Yes it is, and I'll be
taken out my band and we're going to promote the album,
and I think when that's over with it, I'm going
to hang it up.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Do you know the first single off that record yet?
Do you have a record title? I'd love to hear
about it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
The record title is called released.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Really that's a great one. And what any idea? What
I know? The game has changed. You might be like
many there's no such thing as first singles anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But yeah, I don't think we've made that decision yet.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You haven't. Yeah, anyone involved in the record familiar names,
names that I might know that my listeners might know.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I don't think so. No, Well, it's all self contained
within the band.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, well that's exciting too. So beyond this tour, we
get another low Graham solo tour. Do you have a
highlight in your career, a moment or just a period
of time where you're like that that was the pinnacle
that That's what I think about on my darkest days.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I think tell Jam two was it was a real highlight?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What was what was that again tell jam two. Oh yeah, yeah, sure,
And there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Were over five hundred thousand people. Yeah, and they had
three PA systems set up a quarter of a mile
apart from each and you know that for the people
who were way out there, there was a three second
delay in what they heard from the PA.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But I'll never remember, I'll never forget that that that
when when that amount of people cheered and applauded for you,
it was like thunder coming down the long Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, you still get that kind of applause. I'll tell
you when you guys started urgent last time around. And
never mind the sax solo in that, which was so
I want to say it was unexpected, it was unexpected
for foreigner, but I mean this, you know, in the
early eighties saxophone was a very popular instrument. But what
a wicked solo in that your vocals and that I
(07:24):
mean one of our greatest rock vocalists, Lou Grimm. I
mean only you, I think could get away with a
song called Dirty White.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Boy to a certain degree. I didn't get away with it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, I would imagine there was was there heat even
back in like nineteen seventy seven for a song you
know the Head Games? Was it the Head Games cover?
The girls all scared in the bathroom? I would imagine
there was a little heat there.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh yeah, that and Dirty Life Lay. We got banned
in Boston way and they caught a lot of black
and banned completely in the Bible Belt. They banned the
album because of the Bible Belt.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I get. I don't get what Boston's all about. Boston's
a little bit lost on me. What's that all about.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I can't remember a big station in Boston back in
those days.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, so that's so that's probably why you're like, look,
we've got to write a song like I've been waiting
for a girl like you. Like that probably is what
got us one of the best love songs ever recorded.
Never Mind, I want to know what love is. LOUI
could gush forever. They are a legend.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh thank you so much, And.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Thousands upon tens of thousands of rock fans agreed. Lou
Graham from Foreigner, we can't wait to see you here
in uh December at the Oakdale December nine, and I
personally truly cannot wait for that soul. How many solo
records have you done? What is this number?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Number? Just to be number four is number four.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay, looking forward to that released and that'll be in
the new year and just in away the holidays. Lou Grem, Yes,
you do the same.
Hey, this is Vinny.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hi Benny, this is Graham.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
No, this is the legendary Loug. Do you not say
this is the legendary Lou Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Do you not introduce yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
You absolutely should, Holy Cow the voice himself. You know,
just a few years back, I took my teenage son
to see Foreigner, a Mohegan son. I was still going,
you know. I mean, Mick was one of my favorite
guitarists coming up as a kid, and I wanted my
son to hear this great catalog. He loves Foreigner, He's
(00:34):
got the greatest hit. Cold his Ice is one of
his favorite songs. And we were shocked when out of
nowhere it was announced we're bringing out someone special tonight
and Lou Graham took the stage. You did about five
songs that night. I'm sure you recall this, and then yeah,
and then you were off and running and now you
know you're back with the boys and it's we're getting
(00:57):
you at the Oakdale Theater. You know, nice Christmas time
show December ninth. How did that come to be that
you decided you did a few songs. Then Kelly Hansen
came back. I think he did even a few together.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
How did that come to be?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
First, I want to say that, unfortunately, Mick is not
in good health.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I've heard, I have.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Heard, and he at that point since two thousand and
six two and seven was the only original member that
was playing what he actually put the new former together.
So he's been playing with them for he said, I
don't know, fifteen sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
They have the onset of Alzheimer's. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh, that is unfortunate. That's forgetting some of the greatest
guitar parts and rock songs the last forty years, if
not probably more than that. I did have the pleasure
the honor of interviewing Mick upon the release of your
Mister Moonlight record. You may not recall that one too fondly,
but it was exciting. You know, Lou Graham was back
(02:06):
and so I did interview him way back then for
that album. That's how long I've been doing this.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I actually remember that album very fondly. I think it
was one of our best albums, but it didn't get
it didn't it didn't get the promotion.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yes, yeah, yeah, uh. You know it's interesting too. When
you took the stage, there's so many foreigner songs and
records that I believe, uh don't get the attention. It's
got to be tough to put together the set lists too.
But when you did Blue Morning, Blue Day, this is
one of my favorite foreigner songs too, and I thought
(02:45):
it was like my own problem okay, and hearing you
even say so, it's like, oh, maybe Lou Graham that's
a personal favorite of his too. But I realized looking around,
oh man, everybody loves this song. I thought I had
my own personal connection with it, but people went nuts
for it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, not one of the best chart toppers that band
ever had, but in anybody else's book, number eleven is
pretty damn good.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It is damn good. You know there's another song off
that record too. You're all, I.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Am, Oh, that's a nice song.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh man, would you ever do something like that? And
here's another one for you. Look, I always felt like
rev on the Red Line never never got it to
do it? Another just another gem? Do you have personal
favorites that you would love to do? But it's like, look,
you know you have. So there are just so many
hits that fighting for them would be like you know, why, Bob,
(03:36):
people want the hits?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, there are a lot of great stuff. It is
we have to we have to be pretending we're the
grateful dead.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Could you do? I mean, could you maintain that? Could
you keep doing? Because I'll tell you I want nightlife?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I great song.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, Well, four and or four was a game changing
record for so many, for me in particular freshman year
of high school. It was just front to back. I
don't think there's there's no it's a no skip record,
which is not to suggest that there are others.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I mean song for song. Yeah, it was one locker
after another.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah. I still have the T shirt from them and
it's still fit from that, and just a great record cover.
Conceptually too, you were down to four players. I don't
suppose you get you get any you You really did
have great solo success too, Midnight Blue a chart topper.
Never minded what you know, never mind your contribution to
(04:37):
the Lost Boys soundtrack. Any of those getting into the
set at Oakdale this December.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think Midnight Blue will be on that list.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's a tremendous one. Yeah, and then what's next. I
hear you've announced you you haven't, but you've announced your retirement.
I feel like you have before.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I've got a new album coming out in.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
February, Fantastic news.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's a solo record, Yes it is, and I'll be
taken out my band and we're going to promote the album,
and I think when that's over with it, I'm going
to hang it up.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Do you know the first single off that record yet?
Do you have a record title? I'd love to hear
about it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
The record title is called released.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Really that's a great one. And what any idea? What
I know? The game has changed. You might be like
many there's no such thing as first singles anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
But yeah, I don't think we've made that decision yet.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You haven't. Yeah, anyone involved in the record familiar names,
names that I might know that my listeners might know.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I don't think so. No, Well, it's all self contained
within the band.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, well that's exciting too. So beyond this tour, we
get another low Graham solo tour. Do you have a
highlight in your career, a moment or just a period
of time where you're like that that was the pinnacle
that That's what I think about on my darkest days.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I think tell Jam two was it was a real highlight?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What was what was that again tell jam two. Oh yeah, yeah, sure,
And there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Were over five hundred thousand people. Yeah, and they had
three PA systems set up a quarter of a mile
apart from each and you know that for the people
who were way out there, there was a three second
delay in what they heard from the PA.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But I'll never remember, I'll never forget that that that
when when that amount of people cheered and applauded for you,
it was like thunder coming down the long Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, you still get that kind of applause. I'll tell
you when you guys started urgent last time around. And
never mind the sax solo in that, which was so
I want to say it was unexpected, it was unexpected
for foreigner, but I mean this, you know, in the
early eighties saxophone was a very popular instrument. But what
a wicked solo in that your vocals and that I
(07:24):
mean one of our greatest rock vocalists, Lou Grimm. I
mean only you, I think could get away with a
song called Dirty White.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Boy to a certain degree. I didn't get away with it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, I would imagine there was was there heat even
back in like nineteen seventy seven for a song you
know the Head Games? Was it the Head Games cover?
The girls all scared in the bathroom? I would imagine
there was a little heat there.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh yeah, that and Dirty Life Lay. We got banned
in Boston way and they caught a lot of black
and banned completely in the Bible Belt. They banned the
album because of the Bible Belt.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I get. I don't get what Boston's all about. Boston's
a little bit lost on me. What's that all about.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I can't remember a big station in Boston back in
those days.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, so that's so that's probably why you're like, look,
we've got to write a song like I've been waiting
for a girl like you. Like that probably is what
got us one of the best love songs ever recorded.
Never Mind, I want to know what love is. LOUI
could gush forever. They are a legend.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh thank you so much, And.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Thousands upon tens of thousands of rock fans agreed. Lou
Graham from Foreigner, we can't wait to see you here
in uh December at the Oakdale December nine, and I
personally truly cannot wait for that soul. How many solo
records have you done? What is this number?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Number? Just to be number four is number four.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay, looking forward to that released and that'll be in
the new year and just in away the holidays. Lou Grem, Yes,
you do the same.
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