The way he interacts with the crowd,” calls for participation, Gimbel said. Kelly Hansen, our lead singer, sings these songs to perfection. “Summer is the rock-and-roll season,” Gimbel said. The band takes its long list of hits and more to Inn of the Mountain Gods on Friday to help bring summer to a close. Every band we work with, we have a great time, like Journey, we’ve been partying with them since the ’90s. The bass player for Styx is a golf buddy. “Everyone from Def Leopard are the coolest guys,” Gimbel said. It makes it very pleasant when they can come to the shows and they know all the songs.”Īnd part of the fun has been getting to tour and hang out with other bands, such as Def Leopard, Styx, Kansas, Loverboy and others that continue to perform for fans of classic rock. The people are the essential ingredient to what we have. People thank us for keeping the music going and keeping it alive. “In the old days, there was 20 or 30 bands (playing this kind of music). Gimbel says that as long as fans continue to sing along, Foreigner will continue to tour. People in all different countries sing those songs really loudly with us. That’s why he and Lou Gramm are in the Songwriting Hall of Fame. “We travel all over the world and we get to see how far reaching his songwriting has been. “(Jones) is a tremendous global talent,” Gimbel said. That’s the kind of stuff I love the crunchy rhythm guitar parts that Mick Jones played – those big, giant power chords, like ‘Double Vision.’ That’s near and dear to my heart.”īut even with that radio-ready sound, Gimbel said, the songs wouldn’t still be around if it wasn’t for the songwriting talent of Jones and Gramm. And it’s the kind of music that fit my palette perfectly. “Foreigner sounds really good on radio and jukeboxes,” Gimbel said of Foreigner’s hits, which mainly came in the 1980s. While Jones remains the band’s lone original member and others have come and gone, Foreigner has remained a staple of rock radio. The band was formed in 1976 by veteran British musicians Mick Jones, original rhythm guitarist, keyboard player and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald and American singer Lou Gramm. Gimbel said that going from one of his favorite rock bands, straight into another, was a blessing. “When they would cheer, the sound was like a jet airplane taking off.” “I think there was 200,000 or 400,000 people there, or something,” Gimbel said. Gimbel fondly remembers performing with his fellow Bostonians in Aerosmith at that memorably muddy Woodstock festival. I feel fortunate and blessed to work with them.” “I hoped that something good would happen if I worked hard and had some lucky breaks. “I don’t know if I ever thought I would be here,” Gimbel said.
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