![]() Part of the thrill of working on his own album, which he co-produced, was basically being in charge. It would leave me bitter, with a bad taste in my mouth.” They were being overproduced or there was too much harmony or any number of things were wrong. A lot of the time I was dissatisfied with the songs or their direction. The production goes the way he envisions it. I’d be there just in case, 12 to 16 hours a day, listening to all the songs. I was there while the songs were taking shape. “My contributions haven’t been that welcomed,” Gramm said. ![]() Gramm helps him write the songs but Jones and the co-producer-of-the-moment assemble the songs in the studio. What has been irritating him for years is his limited role in the creation of Foreigner’s music. Low-key, level-headed Gramm, 36, isn’t turned on by the notion of being a star. What has been bugging him about Foreigner? It’s not his relatively low visibility. I was free to do what I wanted then without anybody’s approval. “I could have done a solo album with the approval of the band members and management but I never got that approval. “I would have done this in 1982 but my contract limited me to recording just for Foreigner,” Gramm said. Gramm has been dying to record a solo album for years. Gramm’s first solo album, “Ready or Not,” has just been released by Atlantic Records. Fans know Foreigner and recognize Gramm’s high, intense, soulful vocals but not many people know his name. Though his voice is perhaps the most identifiable aspect of the band’s music, individual acclaim had eluded him. Gramm has been the voice of Foreigner on every album. Since the band’s first Atlantic Records album in 1976, it’s been wallowing in fame and fortune. For the last few years, Lou Gramm has been a man in a cage-a gilded cage known as Foreigner.
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