Speaker 1: Hey, this is Michael Brustin, a keyboardist and fearner, and
Speaker 1: you are listening to a Doctor Sky Experience on Talk
Speaker 1: Radio seventy seven.
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Speaker 2: and gentlemen. Today, without further ado, we are going to
Speaker 2: introduce one of the great band members of one of
Speaker 2: the most iconic rock bands in history, Foreigner, and just
Speaker 2: a few moments we'll be introducing the keyboardist, Michael Bluestein,
Speaker 2: who's going to tell us a little bit more not
Speaker 2: only about the band, but more importantly about the farewell
Speaker 2: tour twenty twenty three that he's involved in with this
Speaker 2: iconic band, a real classic here in America, but a
Speaker 2: little background on Our Special Guests Byba Bluestein began piano
Speaker 2: studies at age nine. Growing up, he was exposed to
Speaker 2: a wide range of artists, including Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Boston, Mozart,
Speaker 2: The Who, and jazz pianist.
Speaker 1: The Onliest Moment.
Speaker 2: After studying at Berkeley College of Music, Michael made his
Speaker 2: way up to Los Angeles, where he played with Stevie Nicks, b.
Speaker 2: K Anglethias an Astussian, and with the house band of
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel Live. Michael describes the experiences playing Oh the
Speaker 2: classic Parigner songs as quote, truly surreal. I grew up
Speaker 2: hearing and loving all these songs. I've ever dreamed that
Speaker 2: I would have the chance to be in the band
Speaker 2: playing with them. The energy on stage is amazing and
Speaker 2: I love looking out and seeing everyone singing along with
Speaker 2: every word. End quote. With that, let's welcome the keyboards
Speaker 2: from this iconic band, follow the Michael blue Seen Welcome
Speaker 2: to the show. Thank you, Hey, hey Dad, great to
Speaker 2: be here. Hey, thank you so much, my friend. You
Speaker 2: know the tour, let's talk about it, historic farewell tour.
Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty three and beyond. Sorry to to report
Speaker 2: those words. But this band is what about fifty watch
Speaker 2: fifty years old? Is that correct? In my recollection? Well,
Speaker 2: I formed it.
Speaker 1: You know, kind of towards the end of seventy six,
Speaker 1: and the first single feels like the first time came
Speaker 1: out in seventy seven and the rest of history as
Speaker 1: they say. But so yeah, not quite fifty, but kind
Speaker 1: of approaching rapidly approaching that fifty year mark.
Speaker 2: Totally incredible, Nick Jones, Ian McDonald of King Crimson lou
Speaker 2: Graham Foreigner And you know, it's interesting the namesake. I'm
Speaker 2: reading this, I need little bit of help from you, Michael,
Speaker 2: that the name foreigner is simply the fact that they
Speaker 2: had a bunch of foreign guys playing in the band.
Speaker 2: And is that simply how the name foreigner came about?
Speaker 2: I mean it seems pretty obvious.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean that that is for one, one
Speaker 1: angle on it. I mean, it was kind of half
Speaker 1: and half English guys and American guys, and they came
Speaker 1: up with this that that this concept that no matter
Speaker 1: anywhere wherever they were going in the world, one of
Speaker 1: them would be a foreigners based on the different the
Speaker 1: different book, you know, not nationality.
Speaker 2: Is there, just to remind everybody listening to the Doctor
Speaker 2: Sky experience. Here, I'm the powerful talk radio seventy Southern
Speaker 2: w ABC, beaming out of the United States, the nation,
Speaker 2: the world, and Michael, I'm sure even out into the cosmos.
Speaker 2: Today we're talking with the keyboardist, Michael Lustein, one of
Speaker 2: the members of this iconic band as we keep talking
Speaker 2: about here, and rightfully so, they've earned their right, ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, to play music, playing at loud and crowd.
Speaker 2: Over what eighty million records sold worldwide and over thirty
Speaker 2: seven million records sold in the United States, that is
Speaker 2: no easy thing to do. Talk a little bit more
Speaker 2: about the great history of this band and what does
Speaker 2: it mean to you to be part of it. It's
Speaker 2: such a high honor.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think that you know, it's sort
Speaker 1: of the whole thing was born at a real classic
Speaker 1: time in rock and roll late seventies or just so
Speaker 1: many American, so many great artists, you know, American British
Speaker 1: that were exploding on the scene. And you know, that
Speaker 1: sort of era of music is just such a big
Speaker 1: part of the culture. And you know, whether you're talking
Speaker 1: about you know, Boston or Journey or Foreign Rio or Styx,
Speaker 1: all these great anthemic songs everyone remembers from, you know,
Speaker 1: their high school years, college years.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: In my case, I was eight years old and feels
Speaker 1: like the first time came out. I was born in
Speaker 1: sixteen years old, so you know, I was a kid
Speaker 1: hearing these songs and just loved them. And you know,
Speaker 1: Lou Graham's voice was just always this powerful, spine tangling,
Speaker 1: goosebump inducing, you know, vocal performances on these tunes. So
Speaker 1: it definitely made an impression on me. And I have
Speaker 1: lots of memories as a kid listening to all these
Speaker 1: all the tunes, Double Vision, Head Games, cold As, I
Speaker 1: feel like the first time jud Bucks, Hero Urgent, you know,
Speaker 1: waiting for a girl like you. You know, all these
Speaker 1: tunes just really everybody knows them, you know, especially if
Speaker 1: you grew up around that time, but not not only
Speaker 1: if you grew up around that time. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we're seeing the kids and the grandkids of these people
Speaker 1: out there that now you know, they grew up then
Speaker 1: that we're in high school then, and it's pretty awesome
Speaker 1: how it's survived, and you know through the generations. Here
Speaker 1: you know, and people are still loving these tunes and
Speaker 1: they're still relevant. They're still part of the fabric of
Speaker 1: the American experience, the European experience, you know, when of course,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to know what love is that
Speaker 1: I didn't even mention which was the biggest hit of
Speaker 1: all amazing that was a worldwide hit. So you know
Speaker 1: that no matter where you go, everyone knows that prom
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's pretty incredible to be a part of
Speaker 1: this legacy, this repertoire of songs. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty insane catalog. That's just you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's classic in every sense.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael, in case people out there listening have never
Speaker 2: been to a live concert as foreigner, you have some
Speaker 2: make great opportunities here as you talk about the historics
Speaker 2: farewell to or twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, those
Speaker 2: at the home here in Arizona. You're coming to the
Speaker 2: auctionen pavilion here. This is coming someday to the August
Speaker 2: at twenty at seven pm. It's your tickets, of course,
Speaker 2: where the tickets are sold all over the place, and
Speaker 2: that should be an outstanding concert when also on stage
Speaker 2: as what we have Loverboys, Is that correct.
Speaker 1: That's right, Lover Boys. It's been really a great, a
Speaker 1: fitting double bill. We love those guys. They of course
Speaker 1: have some really memorable, huge smash hit songs as well,
Speaker 1: and we've just really enjoyed getting to hear their set
Speaker 1: and getting to hang with them backstage, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's just had a really great vibe all around musically
Speaker 1: and personally. So I think you'll be fine that it
Speaker 1: just the pairing of those two bands of Lover Blayne Foreigner,
Speaker 1: we just feel is really working. And wow, it just
Speaker 1: gets it gets fans really pumped up by the time
Speaker 1: we get on stage.
Speaker 2: Sure it does, you know. I remember, going back, Michael,
Speaker 2: a few years ago, we were listening to the band
Speaker 2: play live, of course, out in the most amazing epitheater
Speaker 2: Talking Stick here in Arizona, and boy, there wasn't an
Speaker 2: empty seat in the crowd. I mean, people were jumping up,
Speaker 2: moving to the music, you know, going with lip syncing
Speaker 2: and singing the songs. Even more than lip syncing, they
Speaker 2: were doing the own things.
Speaker 3: Three.
Speaker 4: For more than four decades, our next guests have been
Speaker 4: singing the soundtrack of our lives. They first wore up
Speaker 4: onto the scene, and the seventies were chart topping hits
Speaker 4: like Feels Like the First Time and Cold as Ice.
Speaker 5: There currently on their global farewell tour and joining us
Speaker 5: with a very special performance, Please welcome one of the
Speaker 5: most popular rock bands in all time, Warner. Yes, what
Speaker 5: a trick for us treating I mean, you guys have
Speaker 5: decided this is your last final tour. What's it like
Speaker 5: saying goodbye?
Speaker 3: It's it's it's mixed, you know if this is going
Speaker 3: to go into twenty twenty four because we can't get
Speaker 3: everywhere in a year, but we're experiencing it on the fly,
Speaker 3: real time. How it feels to be in front of
Speaker 3: a crowd that you think you might not see again.
Speaker 3: So bittersweet?
Speaker 4: Really, No, what are you doing for school programs? I
Speaker 4: know you've given so much to fans, but you're also
Speaker 4: giving back to the community.
Speaker 3: We've been working with a Grammy Foundation for a long time,
Speaker 3: more than a decade, and helping bring attention to the
Speaker 3: lack of funding for school choirs, and on this tour,
Speaker 3: we're having choir competitions. The winner of the competition gets
Speaker 3: a Bose l one system with our partners nice there,
Speaker 3: and we donate money to the choirs, and it's all
Speaker 3: about giving them the experience and also helping fund music
Speaker 3: in the arts.
Speaker 5: That's so cool because the music is so important. Kelly,
Speaker 5: you joined the band in two thousand and five, correct,
Speaker 5: What was it like stepping into such an iconic group.
Speaker 3: Well, I have had a little conversation with myself and said,
Speaker 3: do you think you can do this? And sometimes you
Speaker 3: just have to have belief in yourself and take a leap,
Speaker 3: and it seemed to have worked out.
Speaker 4: So it did work out. And look at what I'm holding.
Speaker 4: This is such a treat right here. What do you
Speaker 4: think it is about your music that has resonated with
Speaker 4: so many people over the past what four decades?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: It's the catalog, It's it's a wonderful catalog of songs
Speaker 3: with its sixteen top thirties and over eighty million records sold.
Speaker 3: And I think the quality of the material is really
Speaker 3: what's important.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 5: So you guys have as many hits as Fleet with
Speaker 5: Mac they're in the Hall of Fame. You guys have
Speaker 5: been eligible to be in the rock and roll Hall
Speaker 5: of Fame for a long time for a while, but
Speaker 5: continue to be overlooked. What do you think it's going
Speaker 5: to take I don't.
Speaker 3: Think that that's really what's important. I think what's important
Speaker 3: to us is that our fans show us that they
Speaker 3: love us. And I don't know rock and roll hall
Speaker 3: of fame a set standard of what they think is important.
Speaker 3: I mean influence. How many people have been influenced to
Speaker 3: pick up a guitar or sing because of this band.
Speaker 3: I consider that influence.
Speaker 4: It is all right, thank you very much. And now
Speaker 4: here is Farder with one of their songs, of course
Speaker 4: that I love.
Speaker 2: I want to know what love is. I want that song.
Speaker 6: I've been waiting for this song. Please give it to us,
Speaker 6: all right, get a.
Speaker 7: Take a little time, little time to thinkings over, better
Speaker 7: read between the lines.
Speaker 8: In case I need and win a moulder.
Speaker 7: This mountain, mounts Clive.
Speaker 8: Feels like a world upon my shoulder. Through the clouds,
Speaker 8: I see the shine. Excuse me, warms like gross colder.
Speaker 5: In my last.
Speaker 4: There's been punicking.
Speaker 8: I don't now you fucking sa sit.
Speaker 4: Down now, I'm Chael, so.
Speaker 8: You change this.
Speaker 7: I want to know nothing.
Speaker 3: I want you shine.
Speaker 4: I want to see nothing.
Speaker 2: Well that was amazing. I want to know what love is.
Speaker 2: Was really outstanding. They actually brought on stages you know better,
Speaker 2: I'm local, you know, chorus, young children they had singing
Speaker 2: in the chorus that was just so amazing, which I
Speaker 2: find fascinating. But we haven't forgotten our friends back at
Speaker 2: WABC in New York because according to the great schedule here,
Speaker 2: as you folks know best, September second, Syracuse, New York,
Speaker 2: September third, the pnd Bank Arts Center in Home Down,
Speaker 2: New Jersey, and all the way going into the latter
Speaker 2: part of twenty twenty three, November the seventeenth, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: How do you guys do it? It must be amazing talk
Speaker 2: about being on the road. I mean, you know people
Speaker 2: who see these concerts. I mean obviously myself, I don't
Speaker 2: know all the back of the details, but you love
Speaker 2: what you do. But boy, that drains a lot of
Speaker 2: your battery energy every day to beyond as much as
Speaker 2: you guys are, so that must be pretty challenging to
Speaker 2: be on sport. Describe that for them don't understand what
Speaker 2: we're talking.
Speaker 1: About, Well, it definitely does, you know. I think that
Speaker 1: there's though there is some drainage, as you said, you know,
Speaker 1: to I like that drain to the battery, you know,
Speaker 1: to the body. There's a lot of travel. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all feel like the travel is the hardest part.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, get the getting of the stage,
Speaker 1: you know, not not that running around in one hundred
Speaker 1: and three degree heat is easy on stage, especially you know,
Speaker 1: the time of the year. We just did three shows
Speaker 1: and Texas that will take its toll on.
Speaker 2: You know, Arizona someday, right, Oh god, I know, uh.
Speaker 1: Well I did hear. I have heard that they did
Speaker 1: blow some cold air on a Sunner stage. They're driving
Speaker 1: this Americans on stage from whatever well there, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, there is certainly a draining component to it,
Speaker 1: but it's also energizing. You know, we get our batteries
Speaker 1: recharged by the crowds that we get, you know, in
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm that that's coming back to us. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's you know, the travel is the hardest part, and
Speaker 1: you know, getting on buses, getting on planes, you know,
Speaker 1: but sort of drudgery of that can can take its toll.
Speaker 1: But we all try to eat well and take care
Speaker 1: of ourselves out here and do what we need to
Speaker 1: do to stay fresh. And obviously sleep is a huge
Speaker 1: part of that for everyone. So we do our best
Speaker 1: to get that done. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we love what we're doing. And you know, you just
Speaker 1: like practicing an instrument and getting better at that or
Speaker 1: whatever your craft is. I mean, there's a there's some
Speaker 1: travel chops that get developed, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know, if after you're doing it, you sort of
Speaker 1: get it, it becomes a well illed machine in the
Speaker 1: sense of you know, you know, you know what your
Speaker 1: rituals are, packing and unpacking. You know, you know what
Speaker 1: you have to do to get to get up and
Speaker 1: ready in time, and to do the things you need
Speaker 1: to do during the day before you lead the hotel
Speaker 1: and get to the venue, and you just sort of
Speaker 1: that part of it, you know, it almost gets to
Speaker 1: be second nature too. So yeah, that's uh, it's a challenge.
Speaker 2: But one no, I don't know how I could do it.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. But God bless you guys, because again on
Speaker 2: the very positive side of the Sohole interview, you're as
Speaker 2: energized as you can be one and ten percent, and
Speaker 2: that's exactly the gie that audience loves, and that energy
Speaker 2: is definitely two directional. I want to also mention to
Speaker 2: you right now. Of course, we're going to be hearing
Speaker 2: a little excerpt from an interview that was done with
Speaker 2: the band and Good Morning America just recently talking about
Speaker 2: this historic farewell tour twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: and I think that really says it well, Michael. You know,
Speaker 2: obviously you're out there in the public eye for so long,
Speaker 2: this great band, part of American culture in the rock
Speaker 2: and the old world. But I want to just transition
Speaker 2: to something here and see if you can help us out.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of big fans of Vinyl out there.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not amazing the resurgence of vinyl. Everywhere
Speaker 2: I go bookstores and other big music stores. Vinyl has
Speaker 2: really shocked at the top, bigger than what STD is.
Speaker 2: But is it true that you have a gold Vinyl
Speaker 2: commemorative album that people can get to and also a
Speaker 2: black version of that talked about that that's amazing for
Speaker 2: big fans of vinyl.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. We've been selling them in all the
Speaker 1: shows and actually really a lot of we're selling find
Speaker 1: edition of the black vinyl. That's every day we get
Speaker 1: to the venue and we're just they've got them lined
Speaker 1: up for us to sign. They've been selling quite well
Speaker 1: at the shows. People can also get them at Foreigner
Speaker 1: online dot com. Yes, that's right, that's the one. I think,
Speaker 1: all the all the merchants available there, all the different
Speaker 1: kinds of vinyl that you said, the golden and the
Speaker 1: black versions. So yes, it's wonderful. I mean that's kind
Speaker 1: of you know, full circle, right. I mean it comes
Speaker 1: back to when the band first came out, you know,
Speaker 1: and all those iconic albums on on vinyl, Double Vision,
Speaker 1: head Games, you know, the first album just entitled Foreigner
Speaker 1: and you know Foreigner for Agent Provocateur, all those classics
Speaker 1: that were people were used to hearing on vinyl.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a sort of of kind of bringing
Speaker 1: it all back home.
Speaker 2: Well as this that wasn't enough, Let's talk about something
Speaker 2: else here that I have in my hand that I
Speaker 2: couldn't put it down. It's the audio CD and the
Speaker 2: DVD with the twenty first century Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Now,
Speaker 2: this one, folks, knocks it out of the park because
Speaker 2: I can't think of a more better blending of the
Speaker 2: different genres of music and incorporating what a classical orchestra
Speaker 2: an amazing chorus in with the sound and music of foreigners.
Speaker 2: Talk about that because that is that's something for everyone.
Speaker 2: In other words, you have somebody out there that would
Speaker 2: say terribly and I would never agree with them. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm not in the rocket roll. They like the audio
Speaker 2: files for classic music or such. For Wow, isn't this incredible?
Speaker 2: I mean this set that audio CD and DVD's it
Speaker 2: must have describe that whole process of where it was
Speaker 2: done and a little bit of the backstory that we
Speaker 2: may not have been able to capture from watching it
Speaker 2: on the DVD.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty special event. We were performing at
Speaker 1: a festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. We've done that festival twice now,
Speaker 1: with both times with this orchestra made of Swiss musicians
Speaker 1: from that region. Lake Lucerne is this beautiful lake in
Speaker 1: Switzerland with you know, views of the Alps in the background,
Speaker 1: and it's just a really gorgeous, scenic, fairy tale kind
Speaker 1: of city, really beautiful city and amazing hotel right there
Speaker 1: on the lake that we were staying, a hotel Schweizer.
Speaker 1: It's called Schwizhoff, that's it. And yeah, we did this
Speaker 1: performance and recording with the orchestra of the twenty first
Speaker 1: century Orchestra that you described, and it was a blast.
Speaker 1: You know. It's part of this festival, so all kinds
Speaker 1: of other bands playing throughout the weekend, throughout the week
Speaker 1: you know. I think at one point where I just
Speaker 1: went in, Fire was there and a lot of classic
Speaker 1: band Howard Jones kind of, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of classic bands at a classic artists they
Speaker 1: call it Retrofest and yeah, which we've been there twice
Speaker 1: now and one of them was recorded, and it was
Speaker 1: just a really great opportunity. And like you said, I
Speaker 1: chanced to hear all the songs and all the music
Speaker 1: in a different context in the classical more of the
Speaker 1: classical contest text of course. Still there's you know, the
Speaker 1: full rock band combined with the classical instrumentation, which is
Speaker 1: just seems to work really well.
Speaker 2: Most beautiful And if you're a big fan of Foreigner,
Speaker 2: who isn't if you're missing something in your audio collection
Speaker 2: and now DVD collection, you got to get a copy
Speaker 2: of this. It's just beautiful. Just a few more minutes
Speaker 2: with you as time permits here and I do appreciate
Speaker 2: your time, and say hi to Kelly Hanson. Kelly was awesome,
Speaker 2: like yourself and talking to us about a year or
Speaker 2: so ago, and I got to ask this, and now
Speaker 2: we're positive. He always want to be positive. But it
Speaker 2: was tough during COVID, right, I mean, God bless all.
Speaker 1: The bands in the world.
Speaker 2: All everything was just kind of like coming to a
Speaker 2: grinding hole. But describe that period because it was something
Speaker 2: that maybe a lot of music acts and bands couldn't survive.
Speaker 2: Warner came out well, but that was a tough time.
Speaker 1: Obviously, it was a tough time and we were really sidelined.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of false starts. You know, there
Speaker 1: was a thought of Okay, we're not going to cancel
Speaker 1: these shows yet, I think we're going to be good.
Speaker 1: Then get closer and closer, and the promoters would pull
Speaker 1: the plug because we just weren't there yet, and there
Speaker 1: were still, you know, resurgences of the virus happening in
Speaker 1: different areas depending on where we were going. You know,
Speaker 1: we had to just cancel postpone, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of trips, a lot of tours, and we got
Speaker 1: going again. I think our first shows back were in
Speaker 1: May of twenty twenty one, so compared to a lot
Speaker 1: of artists, a lot of bands that we got out
Speaker 1: there probably as soon as it was possible, you know,
Speaker 1: and of course there was still a lot of protocols
Speaker 1: in place at that point, a lot of masking, still
Speaker 1: a lot of the distancing and everything. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: sort of here we are, I mean over two years
Speaker 1: later and on and going wrong end, but yeah, we did.
Speaker 1: We were sidelined for about a year and a half really,
Speaker 1: and yes, yeah, I mean it was it was a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of time at home. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: for me, there were you know, it was bittersweet because
Speaker 1: it was it was nice to actually get to be
Speaker 1: at home or and do some other musical projects, you know,
Speaker 1: in my personal studio that had been put off for
Speaker 1: a while. I just didn't have as much time to do.
Speaker 1: So that was, you know, the sort of silver lining there.
Speaker 1: There were some more creative projects at home that I
Speaker 1: was able to dive into, but we were all missing
Speaker 1: being out there, and thank god, we were able to
Speaker 1: get it going again in May twenty one.
Speaker 2: Michael, just a couple of quick ones here, and I
Speaker 2: know your time is important, just like here, so I
Speaker 2: want to know something when you look at this whole
Speaker 2: world of the keyboards, Who in your mind in this
Speaker 2: dimssion is somebody that you really looked up to? I know,
Speaker 2: it's just labbed in your bio that we just read
Speaker 2: at the top of the show. So many different people
Speaker 2: that you've been around, But who who do you admire
Speaker 2: so much in the keyboard world throughout the UTU all time.
Speaker 2: It doesn't necessarily have to be in the rock genre.
Speaker 1: I would say that I have some people in different
Speaker 1: genres and different time periods that have been the biggest
Speaker 1: influence for me, the most impactful. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the closest to the rock and roll world. I mean
Speaker 1: Keith Emerson, Rememberson, Macol Palmer. He was a huge influence
Speaker 1: when I was first getting into playing rock keyboards and
Speaker 1: also discovering jazz and progressive music because he kind of
Speaker 1: brought those things together and obviously a strong classical influence
Speaker 1: in his style. Rick Wakeman of Yes also a big,
Speaker 1: big influence in that world. But then you know, on
Speaker 1: them getting further on into high school and college, I
Speaker 1: got more into jazz and went further back to people
Speaker 1: like Oscar Peterson from Canada, amazing jazz pianists, Bill Evans,
Speaker 1: Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock. Room's really large for me as
Speaker 1: a guy that was missed in the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people know him from Rocket,
Speaker 1: you know, his big hit Rocket from the early eighties,
Speaker 1: but he was an amazing jazz piano. Is an amazing
Speaker 1: jazz pianist who play with Miles Davis. Was part of
Speaker 1: Miles davis second big quintet in the nineteen sixties when
Speaker 1: Herbie was just you know, a young man. He was
Speaker 1: playing with Miles in the sixties and then he started
Speaker 1: his own group, the Headhunters, doing funk kind of funk
Speaker 1: jazz the seventies. And I love all that stuff, acoustic
Speaker 1: stuff with Miles and the funk stuff that he did
Speaker 1: with his own band. So I would say, yeah, Keith
Speaker 1: Jarrett and a lot of solo piano jazz stuff.
Speaker 2: And well that's a lot of people, you bet, a
Speaker 2: lot of talent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I have a lot of influences, diverse group
Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, And then I love you know, I
Speaker 1: mean Elton John and Billy Joel or two towering figures
Speaker 1: and pop piano and those guys what those guys did
Speaker 1: with Songwright.
Speaker 2: Wow, a lot of powerful, powerful answer to a great
Speaker 2: you know, world of music. But you know this is
Speaker 2: a bit I hate to say this. We hate to
Speaker 2: end these interviews here, but that's Foreigner Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: composed of Mick Jones, Kelly Henston, Bruce Watson, Jeff Pilson,
Speaker 2: Chris Frasier, Luis Moldonado and of course our special guest
Speaker 2: today Michael Lustin on keyboards. Thank you so much. I
Speaker 2: want to remind people to go to Foreigner online dot
Speaker 2: com from your entire tour schedule all their offerings that
Speaker 2: you can get. This particular interview conducted of course in
Speaker 2: August of twenty twenty three, regarding the historic Farewell Tour
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four. I do appreciate your
Speaker 2: time and godspeed to you and the band. Please stay
Speaker 2: on the line as we go to the heartbreak at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour that concludes this interesting addition,
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