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I recently stumbled upon a 2 disc greatest hits at a local library called No End in Sight, decided to take it out...... must say I enjoyed it a lot, never realized just how many big Aor songs these guys had.

Reading liner notes, Thomas Dolby appears as a keyboard player, that's him on "Waiting for a girl like you" doing the intro. I think he's on some other songs from 4 as well (Break it up?). They guy from the Science song [:D]

I do remember being surprised by the Dolby connection when I read about it some years ago.

I would be curious to see a list of all his studio work sometime.

I saw them in concert last year. I have never, EVER been a Foreigner fan by any stretch of the imagination but just felt like doing something random. I loved seeing them perform all their hits live. I'm at the point now where most eighties acts will jostle up some nostalgia in me. What a fun show that was.

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No stranger to backing up many big name acts, here's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dolby" target="blank">Wikipedia excerpt</a> on Mr. Dolby:

[i][b]By far the most significant session relationship for Thomas in the early days was when he contributed the signature synthesizer sound on the track "Urgent" on Foreigner's 1981 album 4. On the same album he played the atmospheric synthesizer intro to the mega-hit "Waiting For A Girl Like You". The fees from this work, including tour dates, bankrolled the studio time for the recording of the 1980's benchmark album 'The Golden Age Of Wireless' from which his solo career began.[/b]

In a 1985 news clip about synthesized music Dolby was shown (along with the industrial musician, [b]Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame) with Trent's early band, The "Exotic Birds".[/b]

In 1985, Dolby appeared at the Grammy Awards, which were televised, along with Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. All four musicians were successful in the mid-1980s music scene, and they were also all keyboard and synthesizer experts. That same year, [b]Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie's band[/b].

In the same year, [b]Dolby appeared as co-producer on Joni Mitchell's album Dog Eat Dog[/b].

[b]Dolby was also the producer for Prefab Sprout's albums Steve McQueen, From Langley Park to Memphis and Jordan: The Comeback.[/b]

Dolby continued to perform live in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [b]He supported Depeche Mode in their Rose Bowl concert on June 18, 1988[/b]. [b]In 1990, he appeared in the huge Roger Waters charity concert performance of Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall in Berlin[/b]. Dolby played keyboards in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (sung by Cyndi Lauper), and then played the Teacher's role in the sequence "The Trial".

He appeared on-stage with the reunited [b]Soft Boys in San Francisco on April 7, 2001 and played synthesizer on "You'll Have To Go Sideways", "Evil Guy" and Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine". "Evil Guy", from that evening's sound-check, wound up on the Soft Boys' 2002 EP Side Three.[/b] It was not the first time Dolby and members of the Soft Boys appeared on record together. Dolby played keyboards on [b]Robyn Hitchcock's first solo album, Black Snake Diamond Role[/b]. Meanwhile Hitchcock appeared on Dolby's The Flat Earth, performing the role of Keith on "White City." Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman recorded and toured with Dolby in the 1980s, including the Live Aid performance.

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WOW, I never knew about the Depeche Mode connection, and on such an historic date. Fascinating!

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The only Foreigner song I like is "That Was Yesterday" from 1985 (and I always liked the album cover for [i]Agent Provocateur[/i]). I guess I don't mind "I Don't Wanna Live Without You" from 1988, either. But that's about it.

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

I love New Wave, and a lot of rock music as well.

I always liked Foreigner. I was 18 in 1981 when they were huge, but they had some awesome singles from the first cords of the 1977 Foreigner album, you knew they were producing some good rock-n-roll music.

All of these are on my itunes with Urgent getting the most play, as well as Urgent being on my ipod when I run:
Feels Like The First Time
Cold As Ice
Long, Long Way From Home
Hot Blooded
Blue Morning, Blue Day
Double Vision
Dirty White Boy
Women
Head Games
Juke Box Hero
Urgent

I met Thomas Dolby in Boulder, Colorado in Oct. 2006, he was (I hate to say it) playing at the opening of the 29th St. Mall. He played all his hits and everyone sang along to "She Blinded me with Science." I loved hearing "Europa And The Pirate Twins" and my personal favorite "One Of Our Submarines." I never got to see him in the 80's so it was a real treat to hear him play live and meet him after the show.

He didn't seem to care that it was outside, at an outdoor mall setting, and that it was cold; The crowd of several hundred gathered early to the stage waiting and gave him a warm reception when he appeared on stage... wearing a long coat and his completely shaven head with very some cool glasses. I shot some nice pics of the concert (I should post up a few) for my client, and got to talk briefly with him after the show, he was gracious to all that I saw talking with him. It was a real pleasure to see Thomas Dolby live.

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^^^^^ Very Cool Indeed! ^^^^^

Nice to know he was willing to perform at such a modest venue without all the pretense that often accompanies artists of lesser integrity and inflated egos.

Please do post some of those pics![8)]

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[quote][i]Originally posted by Retro_NRG[/i]
<br>No stranger to backing up many big name acts, here's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dolby" target="blank">Wikipedia excerpt</a> on Mr. Dolby:

[i][b]By far the most significant session relationship for Thomas in the early days was when he contributed the signature synthesizer sound on the track "Urgent" on Foreigner's 1981 album 4. On the same album he played the atmospheric synthesizer intro to the mega-hit "Waiting For A Girl Like You". The fees from this work, including tour dates, bankrolled the studio time for the recording of the 1980's benchmark album 'The Golden Age Of Wireless' from which his solo career began.[/b]

In a 1985 news clip about synthesized music Dolby was shown (along with the industrial musician, [b]Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame) with Trent's early band, The "Exotic Birds".[/b]

In 1985, Dolby appeared at the Grammy Awards, which were televised, along with Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. All four musicians were successful in the mid-1980s music scene, and they were also all keyboard and synthesizer experts. That same year, [b]Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie's band[/b].

In the same year, [b]Dolby appeared as co-producer on Joni Mitchell's album Dog Eat Dog[/b].

[b]Dolby was also the producer for Prefab Sprout's albums Steve McQueen, From Langley Park to Memphis and Jordan: The Comeback.[/b]

Dolby continued to perform live in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [b]He supported Depeche Mode in their Rose Bowl concert on June 18, 1988[/b]. [b]In 1990, he appeared in the huge Roger Waters charity concert performance of Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall in Berlin[/b]. Dolby played keyboards in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (sung by Cyndi Lauper), and then played the Teacher's role in the sequence "The Trial".

He appeared on-stage with the reunited [b]Soft Boys in San Francisco on April 7, 2001 and played synthesizer on "You'll Have To Go Sideways", "Evil Guy" and Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine". "Evil Guy", from that evening's sound-check, wound up on the Soft Boys' 2002 EP Side Three.[/b] It was not the first time Dolby and members of the Soft Boys appeared on record together. Dolby played keyboards on [b]Robyn Hitchcock's first solo album, Black Snake Diamond Role[/b]. Meanwhile Hitchcock appeared on Dolby's The Flat Earth, performing the role of Keith on "White City." Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman recorded and toured with Dolby in the 1980s, including the Live Aid performance.

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[quote][i]Originally posted by Riverman[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Retro_NRG[/i]
<br>No stranger to backing up many big name acts, here's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dolby" target="blank">Wikipedia excerpt</a> on Mr. Dolby:

[i][b]By far the most significant session relationship for Thomas in the early days was when he contributed the signature synthesizer sound on the track "Urgent" on Foreigner's 1981 album 4. On the same album he played the atmospheric synthesizer intro to the mega-hit "Waiting For A Girl Like You". The fees from this work, including tour dates, bankrolled the studio time for the recording of the 1980's benchmark album 'The Golden Age Of Wireless' from which his solo career began.[/b]

In a 1985 news clip about synthesized music Dolby was shown (along with the industrial musician, [b]Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame) with Trent's early band, The "Exotic Birds".[/b]

In 1985, Dolby appeared at the Grammy Awards, which were televised, along with Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. All four musicians were successful in the mid-1980s music scene, and they were also all keyboard and synthesizer experts. That same year, [b]Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie's band[/b].

In the same year, [b]Dolby appeared as co-producer on Joni Mitchell's album Dog Eat Dog[/b].

[b]Dolby was also the producer for Prefab Sprout's albums Steve McQueen, From Langley Park to Memphis and Jordan: The Comeback.[/b]

Dolby continued to perform live in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [b]He supported Depeche Mode in their Rose Bowl concert on June 18, 1988[/b]. [b]In 1990, he appeared in the huge Roger Waters charity concert performance of Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall in Berlin[/b]. Dolby played keyboards in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (sung by Cyndi Lauper), and then played the Teacher's role in the sequence "The Trial".

He appeared on-stage with the reunited [b]Soft Boys in San Francisco on April 7, 2001 and played synthesizer on "You'll Have To Go Sideways", "Evil Guy" and Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine". "Evil Guy", from that evening's sound-check, wound up on the Soft Boys' 2002 EP Side Three.[/b] It was not the first time Dolby and members of the Soft Boys appeared on record together. Dolby played keyboards on [b]Robyn Hitchcock's first solo album, Black Snake Diamond Role[/b]. Meanwhile Hitchcock appeared on Dolby's The Flat Earth, performing the role of Keith on "White City." Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman recorded and toured with Dolby in the 1980s, including the Live Aid performance.

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Sorry for the double post! He played(produced?) on some early T.Twins stuff as well - just a handful of songs.

And to tie this thread together: Tom Bailey from Thompson Twins played synthesizer on Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." You may now stop feeling guilty for liking it.

(FWIW, I love the 12" Dance mix of "That Was Yesterday," and I apologize to no one for it.

[quote][i]Originally posted by thefxc[/i]
<br>And to tie this thread together: Tom Bailey from Thompson Twins played synthesizer on Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." You may now stop feeling guilty for liking it.

(FWIW, I love the 12" Dance mix of "That Was Yesterday," and I apologize to no one for it.
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I believe Tom Bailey also played keyboards on "I Don't Wanna Live Without You," too...

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

Although not a bit fan of 70's era Foreigner (a couple of songs excepted), I thought they did a great job adapting to the 80's sound. It's cool that they were open minded enough to bring Bailey and Dolby into the recording sessions.

I've got all of their albums on vinyl through "Inside Information" (after which they should have called it quits), but "4" is the only one I enjoy listening to. "Urgent" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You" were AOR classics. The singles after that? Not so much.

[quote][i]Originally posted by thefxc[/i]
<br>And to tie this thread together: Tom Bailey from Thompson Twins played synthesizer on Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." You may now stop feeling guilty for liking it.

(FWIW, I love the 12" Dance mix of "That Was Yesterday," and I apologize to no one for it.
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Oh yeah, thats the jam man...the extended is wonderful. I've always liked Foreigner...I got to see them live w/Lou Graham, he/they were fucking amazing. say what you will, but that guy has some freakin pipes man.

"Keepin the '80s alive!"