![]() I would never say never, but from having had that experience, I think people who aren’t musicians or trying to make a living as an artist will understand that it’s just become the norm now, you don’t pay for anything you just get it for free. In fact we did “Flame Still Burns”, and we’ve done certain things and added them to pieces of our releases lately, but I think it’s going to be more a song or two at a time from now on. I don’t think that model really works anymore I think it’s better to do a song or two at a time. ![]() Mick was coming out to LA, and it was incredibly exhausting, it was a lot of hard work, took up any empty time that we had and our energy, and it took huge amounts of money to complete that record, and the day that it was released people were trading it for free on the internet!! That’s really disappointing when you know how much time and effort you put in to something. The one story that I constantly tell, is that we took a year in 2009 to create “Can’t Slow Down” and we were on the road in America and Europe, and in all our “off” time we were writing and recording, in New York and LA. Kelly: I think that you’re likely to hear new songs, I don’t know if it makes sense to do an entire CD anymore in this day and age. Mark: It is, and it’s a wonderful DVD, I would definitely recommend it! We are actually fans from way back and we loved the album “Can’t Slow Down”, it’s been almost ten years since we had some original Foreigner music, are we likely to see another new album from Foreigner? Kelly: Well, yeah, there were a lot of goose bumps actually! You are used to hearing and playing these songs in a certain way for so long, and then you have this added dimension which is just huge, it was quite moving. Mark: Did you find it very different working with an orchestra on stage compared to the traditional rock band? Dave had had this experience before doing stuff with Evanescence, but there was making sure you chose songs that work with an orchestra, and will be complementary, and then flushing out those arrangements so that they are complementary and actually expanding their composition, not just mirror it. Kelly: Well, there were several months of preparation, preparing the arrangements, and Mick was in New York meeting with Dave Eggar and Chuck Palmer, and then they would get together with a cello player, then a violinist and a trumpet player and they would work on these parts of pieces with singular instruments. Mark: Wow! Is it something Mick’s been working on for a long period of time? Was it a long term project? I think it shows a real side to the band performing these songs, with the juxtaposition of this fantastic, epic sound of an orchestra, and they are all volunteers by the way! It’s exciting times you’re coming over to Australia, and coming over here to sunny Perth too! I’ve been watching the DVD all week, and it’s amazing! A lot of bands have done that, but not pulled it off as well as you guys have. Mark: Hi, Kelly thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. We talked to the man with the golden voice – Kelly Hansen to find out all about the tour and the release of the mighty ‘Foreigner with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus’ ![]() For fans in Australia and New Zealand the great news is that they’re coming over to see us in October – but it’s not going to be just any rock show – this time they’re giving their catalogue the orchestral treatment. With a band with a pedigree like Foreigner an introduction seems rather redundant – a classic rock giant with songs that have more than stood the test of time. ![]()
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