Foreigner - Live (Blu-Ray)

On DVD and Blu Ray...
BUT unlike the previous edition on Blu Ray ...this has some songs that were dropped from it so this is the preferred edition.

If you have the Sound Stage show on regular DVD you have this show..its 105 minutes.

I would have given it 4 stars because the other Blu Ray by Foreigner Rockin at the Ryman [Blu-ray]
beats this hands down....while the shows are similar the other Blur Ray has 4 songs from THIS show as a bonus, along with three very well produced recent music Videos AND a couple of interviews with Mick and Kelly. What keeps this at 5 stars is the very low price I paid Amazon for it....so value for money they even out in my opinion...and I'm glad to have both!

by the way ...both shows were shot in widescreen and HD so they both look amazing!

I had to do a follow up on the last rating to give my point of view. I'm a foreigner fan at heart from the first vinyl lp to the Lou Gramm solos and Shadow King CDs. I have seen them live in concert in the '70, `80s and `90s. Their latest CD "Can't Slow Down" is a rock classic cd that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Kelly Hanson vocal is hauntingly like Lou Grams and is the soul mate for the new Foreigner. I didn't come to this conclusion by the new CD, but after seeing Foreigner in concert last year. They were the headliner along with Styx and Steve Winwood. I went to it this concert just to hear Steve Winwood and his classic music, Mr. Winwood totally let me down by not doing any of his early solo lps. Foreigner then took the stage after a great hour set of Styx and it wasn't until about the third song until the music started to kick-in; weaving their newest CD selections with the older classic. I have to say that it was the best concert musically that I've been to date. Lou Gram has move in another direction with his music and I respect that, but Kelly Hanson could have not been a better match vocally for Foreigner.
If you haven't figured out by now that Mick Jones' writing and producing IS Foreigner and you only know half the story. The music, the sound and the energy, it's all there with the new Foreigner and for three decades, they are still making great Rock `N Roll for us "the classic rockers" and the new generation. Charles S. in Va Bch VA.

In 1977 a group of musicians came together to form the band Foreigner. Several had been in some major bands in the past including Spooky Tooth and King Crimson, making them one of the first of many "super bands" as groups with members in other bands were called. Their initial outing contained several hits and made them a staple on rock radio for years. They've changed line ups over the years but Mick Jones has remained a constant and he still rocks out over 30 years later.

FOREIGNER LIVE features the most current line up for the band in 2008 when this was made. Released before, the DVD is now available in blu-ray format, increasing not just the great picture quality but the sound as well. When it comes to watching AND listening to this great band perform in 5.1 DTS you'll know that investing in the surround system is well worth doing.

The line up of the band featured here includes Jones, Tom Gimbel who toured with Aerosmith, Jeff Pilson who was one of the original members of Dokken, Michael Bluestein who played with Boz Skaggs and Stevie Nicks, Jason Bonham son of Led Zepplin drummer John Bonham and new lead singer Kelly Hansen. All of them are insanely talented individuals but it is Hansen who pulls off the most amazing thing for any member in the group. That's because Hansen, as lead singer, sounds nearly exactly like original singer Lou Gramm. Face it, the vocals are what make most bands recognizable. To find someone who not only can perform as if he's been there all along but to make the songs sound like they did originally is amazing.

The DVD was part of the SoundStage series that filmed in Chicago and used a standard backdrop with screens displaying the name of the featured guest. Add to that the lights the band uses and the fact that they don't rely on the props but more on their musical ability and you have a dynamite DVD. What amazed me most was that while I thought I was a so so fan of the group, I found that there were more songs I liked by them than I realized. It made me want to dig out the greatest hits CD to listen to while driving!

The set list for the DVD is as follows, featuring all the great hits of the band and one new original song:

1. Night Life
2. Head Games
3. Gold As Ice
4. Waiting for a Girl Like You
5. Too Late
6. Say You Will
7. Long, Long Way From Home
8. Double Vision
9. Blue Morning, Blue Day
10. Dirty White Boy
11. Starrider
12. Feels Like the First Time
13. Urgent
14. Juke Box Hero
15. I Want to Know What Love Is
16. Hot Blooded

Two songs have always been special to me among the hits by Foreigner. The first was "Juke Box Hero", a song that captured the dream of every young man who ever had the desire to be a rock star, and face it we all did at one time or another. The story of a young man who can't see the show but listens outside and does everything he can to make it to the top is storytelling at its best from someone inside the world being sung about.

The second was "I Want to Know What Love Is". Why? Because the day my son was born that was the number one single in the U.S. I even purchased a 45 of the song (remember those?) and enclosed it in the baby book we made for him. It remains there to this day, never played.

Fans of rock music will find this to be a completely entertaining DVD to add to their collection. Those who thought they weren't Foreigner fans will discover that they actually liked more songs than they remembered. And for those who haven't heard them at all, sit back and enjoy one of the great rock bands of all time.