VideoHere Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 this is called "lou gramm formerly of foreigner" i stubbled upon on amazon.com he sounds so un-lou gramm...i never even heard of this release. have you? http://www.amazon.com/Lou-Gramm-Formerly-Of-Foreigner/dp/B0055EHWBG/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1332445496&sr=1-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I dunno man, it sounds like it could be him, or be someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Well it seems that the new lead singer for Foreigner sounds more like Lou Gramm than Lou Gramm does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoHere Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 tommy, lou's been through a lot of bad stuff. hansen is good, but gramm had more dynamics, grit, and sheer intensity. i've got an email into the record co. i've got to know if that's him. he sounds so different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 To be honest I haven't listened to much of the new guy so I'm not familiar with the vocal details. Actually, although I liked Foreigner back in the day, when they first came out, I never really studied Lou's voice or listened to Foreigner a whole lot. What I know of Hansen only comes from a song I heard and a preview for a concert. In those short clips I was like ...what? that's not Lou Gramm? This is even the first time I'm hearing his name I'm sure if I made a good comparison of the two I'd notice the difference more. Like the new guy for Journey. NOT like Steve Perry IMO. Tommy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoHere Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 tommy, i don't want to bore the rest of the folks with my lou gramm posts (i'm a huge lou gramm fan). lou gramm is one of those singers who if you take the time to listen to him, you can really learn to appreciate just how skilled he was. truly amazing vocal ability. i turned a lot of the folks on the forum on to him. but a lot of foreigner was top 40 stuff, and his voice went unnoticed by a lot of hard core rock fans. he really never got the credit he deserved. he was foreigner like freddy mercury was queen. they are two very unique voices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Yea, I'm sure there is a lot of stuff I missed. But, I am familiar enough to know how great a singer he is. I mean, I have "attempted" to sing along Double vision, Dirty White Boy, Long Long Way from home......forget about it! It's like, I get most of the song and feel good until "those parts!" If you know what I mean. Tommy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Validar Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I've seen that video above before. Tough to watch. Very sad. Kelly Hansen is great for Foreigner. For a long time, I didn't want ANY part of Foreigner with him on vocals. I didn't give it a chance. Then, I caught a concert on HDNet, and was very surprised. At first listen, the Gramm similarities are present, in the sense of overall tonality. But the more you listen, the more you hear the differences. Hansen has a bit of a cleaner tone, and less of the punchy wallop Gramm used to deliver. To me, Gramm will always be an icon. I think one of the reasons he didn't get the recognition he deserved is because the average Joe doesn't really understand the degree of difficulty in singing many of the Foreigner songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronws Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 There is also a difference in Lou Gramm before and after his stroke. I think, for him to come back after that debilitating event is all cajones (pardon my profanity, or not.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoHere Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 web, you have to know i'd be coming after you on this remark...lol!!! first off, lou gramm had a non-malignant brain tumor removed that almost killed him, which seriously damaged his pituitary gland. sources close to him said he's on a daily regimen of all kinds of meds. contrary to popular belief, he has had "some" vocal training, even thought of teaching vocals. there's no way he could have sang the songs he did without some degree of it. as validar said, his songs are very challenging and he really gave it his all...i've seen early foreinger over a dozen times. from the shows i went to, he was amazing live. i invite you to check out these songs other than the more familar ones we know: the places he takes his voice are truly amazing foreigner - blinded by science foreinger - i'm gonna win foreigner - heaven on our side shadow king - you don't even know i'm alive foreigner - that was yesterday foreigner - heart turns to stone foreigner - break it up foreigner - rain in this unflattering video, one of the worst, he shows signs of being a little doped up. the way he was pronouncing his words was indicating that. the way he pronounced "waiting" was a clue that something was not quite right with him that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Bad technique only lasts so long, poor guy Nuff said What does that mean? Did Lou sing wrong? @ VIDEOHERE I just did some listening and comparisons. Actually it didn't take much. I listened to a couple of Foreigner songs (Gramm) and then listened to Hansen. Specifically Cold as Ice. At a quick listen there is a similarity but now that I listen there is more difference than similarity. Even how he pronounces some words. And you're right about the lack of grit Tommy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoHere Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 sorry, i did it out of respect to lou. that's the worst one out there. let's remember how he sounded in his heyday. if he had bad technique, he never could have lasted as long as he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronws Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Amen, brother Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoHere Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 yes, but to get back to the original reason for the post. go back to the amazon link i posted at the beginning. scroll down to the song samples... that doesn't sound like lou.how could this be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoHere Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 i really am puzzled on this web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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