LOU GRAMM - The Voice Of FOREIGNER To Embark On Extensive North American Tour
May 20, 2015, 9 years ago
If you listen to classic rock radio on a daily basis, you'd be hard-pressed to go a full day without hearing the distinctive and powerful vocals of Lou Gramm blasting through your speakers. As the voice of Foreigner, one of rock's most popular and successful bands, Lou can be heard on every single one of the band's classic hits, which includes sixteen Top 30 songs and nine Top 10's over the years. For those into chart success, that's one less than the Eagles and the same as Fleetwood Mac.
Here are the Top 10's: "I Want To Know What Love Is”, “Waiting For A Girl Like You”, “Double Vision”, "Hot Blooded”, "Urgent”, "Feels Like The First Time”, "I Don't Want To Live Without You”, "Say You Will" and "Cold As Ice”. You know them well. And let's not forget "Head Games”, the rock anthem "Juke Box Hero" and other rockers such as "Dirty White Boy”, "That Was Yesterday”, "Blue Morning, Blue Day,” "Long Long Way From Home" and "Break It Up" that cracked the Top 30.
By 1980, Foreigner's first eight singles (from their first three albums, Foreigner, Double Vision and Head Games) entered the Billboard Top 20 charts, making them the first band to achieve that feat since the Beatles.
On Friday, June 5, fans are in for a real rock and roll treat as Lou will performing a vast selection of those Foreigner hits, along with such solo hits as "Midnight Blue" and "Just Between You and Me" with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Guest Conductor: Brent Havens) and his band at the Delta Classic Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lou and his band - currently comprised of brother Ben Grammatico on drums, Michael Staertow on guitar, AD Zimmer on bass and Andy Knoll on keyboards - have been on the road since the beginning of the year and have already performed a few dozen shows to date. After the Chastain Park Amphitheater performance in early June, Lou will continue to tour throughout the year - see current itinerary below.
May
23 - Bakersfield Rockin Country Festival - Bakersfield, CA
June
6 - Old Shawnee Days Festival - Shawnee, KS
20 - Hard Rock Rocksino - Northfield, OH
27 - Rockin Ribs Festival - Augusta, NJ
July
10 - Peacefest - Peace River, AB
11 - BobStock - Fort Morgan, CO
16 - La Fete Du Lac Nations - Sherbrooke, QC
19 - Great S. Bay Music Fest - Patchogue, NY
27 - Olds Agricultural Grandstand - Olds, AB
31 - Rockin on the River Series - North Tonawanda, NY
August
28 - Beacon Theatre - Hopewell, VA
29 - DeKalb Corn Festival - DeKalb, IL
September
3 - Minnesota State Fair - St. Paul, MN
12 - Clovis Music Festival - Clovis, NM
Additional dates to be announced.
