Alan Greenwood (born October 20, 1951) is an American rock musician who was a founding member and
keyboardist
A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical ins ...
of the rock band
Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. He performed on the albums ''
Foreigner'' (1977), ''
Double Vision'' (1978) and ''
Head Games'' (1979).
In 1981, Greenwood formed the band
Spys with former Foreigner bass player
Ed Gagliardi, John Blanco, John Digaudio and Billy Milne and recorded the albums ''Spys'' (1982) and ''Behind Enemy Lines'' (1983).
Greenwood played keyboards on one-time
Rainbow
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(and future
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen ( ; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist. He first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical playing style in heavy metal, and has released 22 studio albums in a career spanning ov ...
) frontman
Joe Lynn Turner's 1985 debut solo album, ''
Rescue You''.
Discography
Foreigner
*1977: ''
Foreigner'' (#4 US)
*1978: ''
Double Vision'' (#3 US, #32 UK)
*1979: ''
Head Games'' (#5 US)
*1982: ''
Records'' (#10 US, #58 UK)
*1992: ''
The Very Best ... and Beyond'' (#123 US, #19 UK)
*1993: ''
Classic Hits Live/Best Of Live
''Best of Live'', alternatively known as ''Classic Hits Live'', is Foreigner's first live album. It was released in 1993, and contains live versions of many of their well-known songs all of which were taken from various concerts between 1977 and ...
''
*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'' (#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: ''
Rescue You'' (#146 US)
*1998: ''
Hurry Up and Wait
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''
*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
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and an EML 101 synthesizer, and I think I had an Orchestron, but that's all been changed. Now I use a cutdown
Hammond B-3
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, an
ARP Omni, and a
Wurlitzer electric piano
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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, which is a really nice little programmable synthesizer."
References
Living people
1951 births
American rock keyboardists
Foreigner (band) members
20th-century American keyboardists
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