The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 75

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ONLY SUN Enjoy the finest Ice Cream in the world BASSETTSI THIS rock 96 Foreigner At Home On Charts ft FROM PAGE IE Double Vision Dirty White Boy (all top ten) and the latest Head Games Though the band planwhich songs will be singles Gramm says "you do kinda know what will sound good to your own ear on the radio We try to put 10 songs on an album the average these days is eight or nine and five or six of them are contenders for I singles" THE NAME Foreigner came "out of a dictionary" says Gramm and only later did they think about the fact that half of the members (Jones McDonald and Elliott) were British while the other three were American The 50-50 situation changed when Britisher Rick Wills formerly of Roxy Music replaced American Gagliardi as bassist this year Gramm labels as "unfounded" the complaint by some critics and New Wave artists that Foreigner is a "dinosaur dinosaur as in too big too stodgy and on the way out are too many sides to us to describe us that way A lot of critics say kind of dated or something but a lot of coming out in the New Wave is a throwback to the But no matter what the New Wavers think of his band Gramm likes much of the New Wave music i and roll is getting a kick in the pants The way things were in the early-to-mid there was not very much interesting to listen to And I think things will keep changing I just hope its not one dominant sound I hope there are many new waves" HE IS HAPPY with the develop--ment from the multi-layer harmonies which dominated the first LP to the rock of Head Games most abrasive energetic album yet "If the other albums were high-gloss this one would scrape your knuckles" Gramm says In fact he adds Head Games had to be toned down lyrically It was almost bitter It is still rougher than the other two" (Ironically producer Roy Thomas Baker who worked with the group for the first time with Head Games has worked mostly with slick acts like Queen and The Cars) under the critical eye" he says because of the quick and steady success "But if the first album had sold a couple hundred thousand copies we would have developed the same Head Games has brought the band a bit of from feminists who objected to the cover (a teenage girl looking rather scared 1 in a restroom) Gramm says The cover is intended to be cute 1 like a cartoon Gramm says "The girl is being naughty erasing the graffiti in the restroom looking at whoever buys the album been The scene is a play on the title Head Games GRAMM SAYS that "a lot of peo- pie are looking for things" to criti- cize citing objections to the tune Women which uses female stereotypes in a way that be any more and that some stations play Dirty White Boy which is song about an irresponsible kid not a racial song" For all the recording success Foreigner is "basically a live band" Gramm says and it laden its records with effects that be performed on stage This he says is part of the reason why tour has done so well during a time when the economy has "forced kids to be a little more select about which concerts they go to They make their choice" definitely take a juvenile ap- proach to our music It has to be fun for us and the he con- I tinues It must be fun because he says the touring and recording schedule has left him with no time tor things like a family band is 24 hours a day and OK" FOREIGNER with Blackfoot 7pm Sunday at tha Hoiywood Sportfttortum rtrvJ Nckf 18 25 pod 875 ptu Mrvic Ctiaro WEEKEND FRl SAT MUSIC MAKERS GRAND OPENING RECORD TAPE Barbra Snvisaml r- WIFEMISTRESS ca Starts' TODAY WOMETCO 27TH AVE DRIVE IN 3700 NW I7TM ST 691-6934 WOMETCO RIO 323 Nl 1 AV 3716706 LTrluASD CONCORD TAN 11)09 4W AO 41 331-2203 CONCORD TRAP" i No Mor te LnouH Duet With CXxvtb 4ummr) tmi SBedb af A 3 RATED FEATURES! 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