Alan Greenwood (born October 20, 1951) is an American rock musician who was a founding member and

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of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. He performed on the albums '' Foreigner'' (1977), ''

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'' (1978) and '' Head Games'' (1979). In 1981, Greenwood formed the band Spys with former Foreigner bass player

Ed Gagliardi Edward John Gagliardi (February 13, 1952 – May 11, 2014) was an American bass guitarist, best known as the original bass player for the 1970s rock band Foreigner. He was a member of Foreigner from the beginning in 1976. Gagliardi, most notably ...

, John Blanco, John Digaudio and Billy Milne and recorded the albums ''Spys'' (1982) and ''Behind Enemy Lines'' (1983). Greenwood played keyboards on one-time

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(and future Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force) frontman

Joe Lynn Turner Joe Lynn Turner (born Joseph Arthur Mark Linquito, August 2, 1951) is an American singer known for his work in the hard rock bands Rainbow, Yngwie J. Malmsteen and Deep Purple. During his career, Turner fronted and played guitar with pop ro ...

's 1985 debut solo album, ''

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''.

Discography

Foreigner

*1977: '' Foreigner'' (#4 US) *1978: ''

'' (#3 US, #32 UK) *1979: '' Head Games'' (#5 US) *1982: ''

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'' (#10 US, #58 UK) *1992: '' The Very Best ... and Beyond'' (#123 US, #19 UK) *1993: '' Classic Hits Live/Best Of Live'' *1994: ''JukeBox Heroes: The Best Of'' *1998: ''The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is'' *1999: ''The Platinum Collection'' *2000: ''Hot Blooded And Other Hits'' *2000: ''Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology'' *2002: '' Complete Greatest Hits'' (#80 US) *2002: ''The Definitive'' (#33 UK) *2004: ''Hot Blooded And Other Hits'' *2005: ''The Essentials'' *2008: '' No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner'' (#132 US) *2009: ''

Can't Slow Down Can't Slow Down may refer to: * ''Can't Slow Down'' (Lionel Richie album) or its title song, 1983 * ''Can't Slow Down'' (Saves the Day album), 1998 * ''Can't Slow Down'' (Foreigner album), 2009 * "Can't Slow Down" (song), by Hedley from their a ...

'' (#29 US) *2014: ''The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991''

Ian Lloyd

*1980: ''Third Wave Civilization''

Spys

*1982: ''Spys'' *1983: ''Behind Enemy Lines'' *1996: ''Spys / Behind Enemy Lines''

Joe Lynn Turner

*1985: ''

'' (#146 US) *1998: '' Hurry Up and Wait'' *1999: ''Waiting For A Girl Like You'' (EP) *2016: ''Street of Dreams – Boston 1985''

Jennifer Rush

*1987: '' Heart Over Mind'' (#118 US, #48 UK)

Garbo Talks

*1998: ''Garbo Talks''

Equipment

As per an interview conducted by Dominic Milano from Contemporary Keyboard (Keyboard since 1980), and appeared in the April 1979 issue, Greenwood states, "When I first got into Foreigner I had a Hammond L-100 and an EML 101 synthesizer, and I think I had an Orchestron, but that's all been changed. Now I use a cutdown

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, an

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, and a

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. I still use the same EML 101, which I've had for about six years, and I just got an

Oberheim OB-1 The Oberheim OB-1 was a monophonic, programmable, analog synthesizer introduced by Oberheim Electronics in 1978. It originally sold for $1,895 and was the first analog synthesizer capable of storing patches. The design was a replacement for the pre ...

, which is a really nice little programmable synthesizer."

References

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