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Bio: Began playing music in clubs @ the age of 13 while simultaneously getting published in school mags. Moved on to TV and has shot everything from naked women to wolves! He's traveled a 1/2 mile under the earth and a 1/2 mile above with his cameras! Currently working on a documentary, a book and attempts to sleep. LIVE'N'LOUD
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Foreigner is alive in a foreign land
The German “Bang Your Head Festival” might not be the venue that one would picture the hit -making rock band Foreigner to be performing at, but in 2006, they jammed out and had a great reception. Recorded live, this is Foreigner: Alive & Rockin’.
Founder/guitarist Mick Jones has been performing with keyboardist, Jeff Jacobs, and saxophonist, Tom Gimbel, for quite some time. More recent additions have been Jason Bonham (Airrace, Virginia Wolf, Bonham), son of legendary Led Zeppelin drummer, John Bonham; bassist, Jeff Pilson (Dokken, Dio) and vocalist, Kelly Hansen (Hurricane).
Hansen doesn’t seem too into the set for the first couple of songs, “Double Vision” and “Head Games,” but by the time the band gets to “Dirty White Boy” he starts to liven up a little. His vocals not only match former drummer/vocalist Lou Gramm, but at times, Hansen seems to be able to hit some notes that Lou can no longer hit (at least the last time I saw him perform with Foreigner after his battle with and surviving brain cancer). Although the concert is high quality and professionally shot, whatever cameraman was in the pit on the front row seemed to get a lot of crotch shots of Hansen.
Being a hard rock festival, the band omitted songs such as “Say You Will” and “I Want To Know What Love Is.” They stuck with the rocking tunes such as “Cold As Ice,” “Starrider” (with Mick on keyboards along with Jacobs), “Feels Like The First Time,” “Urgent,” a great version of “Juke Box Hero” where the band is introduced and Bonham goes into a drum solo as part of the medley of “Juke Box Hero” and “Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” The set is finished out with “Hot Blooded.”
The DVD includes some behind-the-scenes of a meet and greet with the band and a couple of decent length interviews with Jones & Hansen. There is an extremely short interview with Bonham. Being someone who has shot interviews with many bands, I understand how that works. Sometimes the band is rushing to get onstage or to make the tour bus and you grab a band member and shoot out as many questions as you can in a 3 or 4-minute period before they have to jet. None of the interviews are really that great, mainly due to the people doing the interviewing and not the band. Still, it may hold some interest for fans.
The disc is 100 minutes long, widescreen and has Dolby Digital Stereo or Surround 5.1 as audio options. Find out more about the band at Foreigner Online or Eagle Rock Entertainment.
