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" After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. "
Black Sheep
End
Sheep
" A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away. "
Listen
Three
Ideas
" As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out. "
Long
Think
Believe
" Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again. "
Never
Again
Beginning
" Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing. "
Album
Working
Health
" For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning. "
Shape
Brain
Years
" I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be. "
Used
Starting
Look
" I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now. "
Older
Find
I Am
" If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road. "
Work
Better
Enough
" I gave my life to Christ about 1991. "
Gave
My Life
About
" I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can. "
Gym
Week
Road
" I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well. "
Ideas
Well
Own
" In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road. "
Work
Road
Better
" I opted out of the band. "
Band
Out
" I think we are looked upon as a veteran band. "
Think
Looked
I Think
" It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front. "
Seventies
Sticks
Front
" It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing. "
Time
Out
Pad
" It was kind of fun being the headliners. "
Being
Kind
Fun
" It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music. "
Like
Yes
Style
" I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too. "
Drummer
Singing
Did
" I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. "
Operation
Brain
Remove
" Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us. "
Think
People
Today
" Regardless what technology is, I like analog too. "
Like
Too
Technology
" The future is finally something that we can now put into focus. "
Now
Finally
Something
" We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers. "
Covers
Some
Beatle
" We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me. "
Real
Me
Tell
" We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing. "
Writing
Involved
Still
" When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years. "
Finish
Early
Brand
" Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band. "
Good
Style
Real
" You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push. "
Little
Work
You
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