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Lou Gramm
American
Musician
About the author
When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Will
#Years
#First
#Writing
#Spring
Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Style
We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Play
#Writing
We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#People
#Experience
#Press
#Gain
#Weight
The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Now
#Future
#Focus
Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Technology
It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#People
#Today
#Music
We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Play
You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Work
#Ideas
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#End
#Pretty
#Sheep
#Accident
As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Will
#Beginning
I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Years
I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Now
#Singing
I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Road
#Diet
I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Ideas
I opted out of the band.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Singing
I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
I gave my life to Christ about 1991.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Life
#Christ
Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Years
#Health
A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Right
#Will
#Play
#Ideas
It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Time
#Writing
It was kind of fun being the headliners.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Fun
#Being
It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Style
#Nothing
#Music
In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Work
#Ability
#Pretty
#Road
#Company
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
Lou Gramm,
American
Musician
#Work
#Ability
#Road
#Company