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“It’s not only well-earned, but I think it’s a great addition to what we’re doing, especially in Vegas.” We really wanted to really create some fanfare about him coming on and playing,” Hansen said. The show also marks the album’s 40th anniversary.įoreigner’s co-founder Mick Jones, the last original member still touring with the band, makes something of a theatrical entrance deep into the show. The current show picks over the band’s best-selling album, “Foreigner 4,” released in 1981. But it took me a while to work up to ‘Urgent’ and ‘Juke Box Hero, things like that.” “I’m not saying they’re easy, they are all challenging songs. “I kind of just went through the set list, and ‘Double Vision’ is one of the easier songs, ‘Dirty White Boy’ is one of the easier songs,” Hansen said. I’m going to really take it easy.”īut there are no truly “easy” songs in the Foreigner arsenal. I would sing to the easiest songs and then go, that’s it. “I had stereo mixes I could sing to, and would slowly warm up and sing just one or two songs a day. “I had all of the songs set up on my home studio, but without lead vocals,” Hansen said. There’s 100 things that have to be thought about during the show, not to mention the singing.”Īnd singing Foreigner’s hits is also a mental and physical challenge. “There’s myriad things that I do and say, and there’s blocking and places you have to go. “I had to get videotapes and review the show, because I couldn’t remember all of the nuances,” Hansen said. Hansen was in peak vocal condition in Friday’s show, and the band album-worthy versions of such classic-rock anthems as “Head Games,” “Cold as Ice,” Waiting For a Girl Like You” and “I Want to Know What Love Is.”Ĭoming out of COVID, Hansen found he needed to return more than his vocal conditioning. And so, I am really happy with the turnout we got last night and how we’re continuing to support and spread the message.” “But this was a really great way for the Foreigner entity itself to do something. “My wife (professional photographer Anna Hansen) is from Poland, and she knows people in the area, and we’re very much seeing what’s going on and exploring personal ways we can help people,” Hansen said in a phone chat Saturday afternoon. Lead singer Kelly Hansen is personally touched by the ongoing Russian invasion in the country. Our fast math says it was a $13,000 haul on opening night. Add to that take from Friday’s show was an auction of eight signed guitars the Red Cross sold for $1,000 apiece. The band is teaming with American Red Cross Ukrainian relief efforts by donating $5,000 from each show through April 9.
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(John Katsilometes/Las Vegas Review-Journal) people of Ukraine are feeling the love from a rock show on the Strip.įoreigner has returned to The Venetian Theatre, debuting its updated “Best of Foreigner 4 Live” production Friday night. Foreigner performs at The Venetian Theatre on Friday, March 25, 2022.