Remedy

Let’s get one thing abundantly clear; Lou Graham is one scary lookin’ dude. That and he has a monster voice. The band has decided to take on another Foreigner tune, called Double Vision. You’ve likely heard the song a thousand times before as it’s been given plenty of air time by radio stations across the country but here’s a refresher if you can’t quite remember how the tune goes.

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The song is certainly more manageable than the other song we play by Foreigner, entitled “Hot Blooded,” which always leaves me gasping for air by the end but it’s a challenge nonetheless. The trouble that you get into with singing Lou Graham material is that if you try to sing it like he sings it, you’ll eventually end up feeling like you’ve had your throat massaged by sandpaper. So the moral of the story, as it is with a lot of these songs, is that you need to focus on making the song your own, and sing it in your own voice, not Lou Graham’s. Easy enough one would think as I have a decent enough voice but the dilemma is that when people hear us playing the song, they expect it to sound like what they know, love and remember it to be. So while you try to sing the tune in your own voice, there’s still a nagging desire to try and sound like Lou Graham so people feel like they are hearing the song they know, love and remember it to be.

There obviously has to be a happy medium. Hopefully I’ll be able to find where that is on this tune!