{"id":30701,"date":"2024-10-25T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/rick-wills-al-greenwood-on-playing-with-foreigner-again-suddenly-weve-become-legends\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:02:27","slug":"rick-wills-al-greenwood-on-playing-with-foreigner-again-suddenly-weve-become-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/rick-wills-al-greenwood-on-playing-with-foreigner-again-suddenly-weve-become-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Wills & Al Greenwood on playing with Foreigner again: \u2018Suddenly we\u2019ve become legends\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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L-R: Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, Rick Wills\/ courtesy of Disney+ and The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Foreigner<\/strong> opens their Las Vegas residency at The Venetian on Friday \u2014 and they just announced the band\u2019s original members, and recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees,\u00a0Rick Wills<\/strong> and Al Greenwood<\/strong> would be joining them for the shows.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Wills\u00a0tells ABC Audio that fans could be seeing even more appearances in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe three of us have committed ourselves to be more involved with the current band for the next couple of years,\u201d Wills shares, referring to himself,\u00a0<\/strong>Greenwood and Lou Gramm<\/strong>. \u201cIf they want to say Foreigner with original and current members, we think this is\u00a0the time to do it because we all feel alike about what we do.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

He adds, \u201cThey feel our involvement will help; because of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, suddenly we\u2019ve become legends.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Only Wills and Greenwood are committed to the residency, but Gramm is in talks to appear at some shows in 2026, a year that will mark a huge milestone for the band.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a 50th anniversary coming up, so we’re doing some special projects for that,\u201d Greenwood says. \u201cSo we’re aligning things to be synchronized when we have our 50th anniversary of the release of the first record.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Foreigner was formed in New York City in 1976. The original lineup featured Mick Jones<\/strong>, Gramm, Greenwood, Dennis Elliott<\/strong>, Ed Gagliardi<\/strong> and Ian McDonald<\/strong>. They released their self-titled debut in 1977, featuring the hit songs “Feels Like the First Time” and “Cold as Ice.\u201d Wills joined the band in 1978.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foreigner\u2019s residency at The Venetian runs until Nov. 9. They will then resume their Farewell tour on March 13 in Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span>foreigneronline.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L-R: Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, Rick Wills\/ courtesy of Disney+ and The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foreigner opens their Las Vegas residency at The Venetian on Friday \u2014 and they just announced the band\u2019s original members, and recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees,\u00a0Rick Wills and AlRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}