FOREIGNER lead singer Kelly Hansen spoke to Mike Hsu of 100 FM The Pike in regards to the legendary rockers’ not too long ago launched farewell tour. For the primary leg of the U.S. Reside Nation-produced trek, which kicked off on July 6 at Atlanta’s Ameris Financial institution Amphitheatre, FOREIGNER is being joined by LOVERBOY.

Requested if he and his FOREIGNER bandmates already know the place and when the ultimate present of the farewell tour will happen, Hansen stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We’re simply beginning to sort of wrap our brains round what that could be. And pay attention, there’s a variety of strain from a variety of totally different areas to get me to proceed to do that. And I am unable to see that I am gonna proceed to do that. So we’re now trying… ‘Trigger once you’re a band like FOREIGNER, you are already reserving a 12 months prematurely. So we’re already deeply into 2024. However we’ve not determined but the place the final present’s gonna be.”

The one remaining authentic member of FOREIGNER, guitarist Mick Jones suffered from some well being points starting in 2011, finally leading to coronary heart surgical procedure in 2012. Ever since, it’s by no means introduced whether or not he can be showing with the band for particular exhibits — it simply relies upon how he’s feeling.

Hansen informed 100 FM The Pike about Jones: “He is with us every time he is in a position to be with us. And he’s nonetheless the architect of this band. And he and I’ve labored intently for a few years. And the wonderful thing about it’s that we have at all times been very simpatico about our concepts and about how we predict issues ought to be carried out. So, yeah, every time he might be with us, he’s.”

After singer Lou Gramm left FOREIGNER in 2003, Jones took a while off earlier than regrouping a pair years later with a wholly new lineup, that includes Hansen and bassist Jeff Pilson, amongst others.

Gramm was the voice on FOREIGNER‘s greatest hits, together with “Feels Like The First Time” and “Chilly As Ice” from the band’s eponymous debut in 1977, and later songs like “Sizzling Blooded” and “I Need To Know What Love Is”.

Final month, Hansen informed Peachtree TV‘s “Monica Pearson One On One” that he hasn’t but determined what he plans to do after FOREIGNER completes what’s being billed because the band’s last-ever run of exhibits. “Properly, I’ve rather a lot to do earlier than I get to that place; I’ve a variety of exhibits I’ve gotta carry out, I’ve a variety of issues I’ve to do,” he stated. “However I do wish to, with my spouse and my household, determine what our subsequent chapter is and provide you with these solutions. As a result of I have been on the highway doing this for nearly 20 years, 9 months out of the 12 months away from residence, so it does not offer you a variety of probability to plan out the following place. However I wanna spend extra time residing my life.

“There are various kinds of folks on the highway,” he continued. “There are people who find themselves highway folks, who’re, like, that is what makes them occur, is that they need to be on the highway doing it; it makes their world full. And I’ve different passions, different issues I love to do. And I wish to reside life and I wanna be sure that I do it properly and provides myself time and never wait too lengthy to the place issues are too troublesome.”

Concerning what different issues he likes to do, moreover cooking, Hansen stated: “I am a motorcyclist, and I wish to work on these and previous automobiles and issues like that. And I like — the delight of residence possession; I like to truly make things better round the home and do issues. So I take pleasure in doing that. And I at all times haven’t got sufficient time to do it. And I actually hate having to pay another person to do it. [Laughs]”

Hansen beforehand mentioned FOREIGNER‘s resolution to name it quits this previous February in an interview with the 96.1 KLPX radio station. He stated: “Certainly one of my issues that was vital to me is that I not be on the market doing these songs that I should not actually be doing anymore ‘trigger I am unable to do them anymore. I wanna do these songs justice and ship them robust and vibrant after which stop whereas we’re forward like that. I’ve seen far too many people who find themselves — for most likely many alternative causes — nonetheless on the market when possibly they should not be. And I assume everybody has their very own view of their vainness, whether or not it is visually or instrumentally or vocally, and I feel that we’re actually at a peak proper now. It is getting more durable and more durable to do that actually troublesome, difficult however fantastic catalog of songs yearly, and I simply wanna do them proper. And I do not wanna begin having to do much less of them proper.”

This previous January, Hansen was requested in an interview with Rob Rush Radio if that is certainly FOREIGNER‘s last-ever trek. Kelly stated: “Our plan is to do that into 2024. I have been requested many occasions by many alternative folks to proceed doing this. And, actually, for me, it is a matter of with the ability to carry out these songs on the degree they deserve and that the followers deserve, and I can’t permit myself to do lower than that, simply as a human being.

“It is gotten more durable and more durable yearly to sing this nice catalog of songs,” he admitted. “And it possibly seems like I am whining. I am not making an attempt to whine; I am actually lucky to have the ability to have carried out this and do that with the band. It is simply I do not wanna sacrifice the standard of those songs and the efficiency of those songs. So I feel it is higher to say, ‘You recognize what? I am gonna go away right here robust and let the reminiscence of this reside factor be robust as nicely.”

Requested what he’ll miss essentially the most about touring with FOREIGNER, Kelly stated: “Wonderful crowds and superb band. I imply, what an amazing band with those who all of us take pleasure in being round one another. We take pleasure in one another’s firm, and taking part in a catalog of songs that you simply could not dream of, you could not purchase. And as a singer, to sing so many hits songs — from the beginning of the present to the tip of the present, there isn’t any fluff or filler — and that is only a dream to have occur. And so I am gonna miss all that. And it has been a tough resolution to make, however I feel it’s a must to get on to those issues early and be sure you’re doing the fitting factor. I’ve seen far too many different reside entities occur that I actually really feel should not be on the market anymore.”