Dennis Elliott

February 16, 2005 8:20 PM

Drummer turned sculptor: mellow, intriguing wood sculpture from Dennis Elliott, also known as the former drummer from the hard rock band Foreigner.
posted by livingsanctuary (25 comments total)

Someone kill hard rock, so it can roll over in its grave after that sentence. :)
posted by Dark Messiah at 8:37 PM on February 16, 2005

Foreigner hard rock. The best hard rock ever. WTF, Yo?
posted by punkbitch at 8:41 PM on February 16, 2005

What about drum-n-bass DJ Niel Young?
posted by squirrel at 8:41 PM on February 16, 2005

Hell yeah! I mean, come on... when one thinks of "hard rock," who doesn't automatically think of the band who sang "I Wanna Know What Love Is"?!?
posted by miss lynnster at 8:48 PM on February 16, 2005

(Asia kicks Foreigner's ass.)
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 8:52 PM on February 16, 2005

"Hot Blooded" = hard rock? What's next, Journey touted as death metal?

Enough slamming - some of the turnings are rather attractive. Always been a big fan of burl turnings.
posted by FormlessOne at 8:52 PM on February 16, 2005

Nice work (I liked the kinetic pieces), but Foreigner as hard rock? FSV of "hard" rock, maybe.
posted by jlkr at 8:56 PM on February 16, 2005

Don't they have machines to do this kind of thing now?
posted by psmealey at 9:00 PM on February 16, 2005

Burl Turnings? Now that was some hard rock! "have a holly, jolly, christmas, it's the best time of the year!"
posted by jonson at 9:20 PM on February 16, 2005

Negative Approach is hard rock. Blue Cheer is hard rock. Heck, even Rites of Spring could be considered hard rock. Foreigner is rock that is the polar opposite of "hard".

Why yes, I do feel better now!

[The very first LP I ever bought with my own money was Foreigner's Head Games. 'Twas just a young lad then. Rev on the red line!]
posted by intermod at 9:31 PM on February 16, 2005

I am going to regret asking this, but if not hard rock, then what genre is Foreigner's music? "I Want to Know What Love Is" is the only soft tune on an otherwise rocking albums -- and although I have never seen the band live, on the live DVDs I own, the music, is quite loud and fast.
posted by livingsanctuary at 9:58 PM on February 16, 2005

"power ballads" and "hard rock" = antithetical.
posted by u.n. owen at 10:02 PM on February 16, 2005

Can't a hard rock band have the occasional ballad?
posted by livingsanctuary at 10:17 PM on February 16, 2005

Foreigner is Hard Rock, Pop/Rock, Arena Rock and Album Rock.
posted by ikalliom at 10:44 PM on February 16, 2005

This thread is one of the most unintentionally funny things I have read in a while. Good work everybody.

Of course, I originally opened the thread to post some snark about Foreigner being 'hard rock'.
If Foreigner = Hard Rock then Enya = Soft Rock?.
posted by asok at 2:31 AM on February 17, 2005

Does the sculpture give you super-powers?
posted by furiousxgeorge at 4:53 AM on February 17, 2005

Does the sculpture give you super-powers?

Yes, it makes you into a Jukebox Hero.
posted by Slothrup at 5:37 AM on February 17, 2005

Yanni Live at the Apocalypse. Now that's hard!
posted by ZenMasterThis at 5:37 AM on February 17, 2005

Back in the eighties, we called this Corporate Rock. (sorry about the vice link - it was the best I could find.)

I do love "Juke Box Hero" though - don't tell anybody.
posted by lilboo at 7:02 AM on February 17, 2005

No self-respecting sculptor, who's not a stoner taking high school art as a bird course, would make an ashtray. Yeah, that's right, I'm as cold as ice.
posted by picea at 8:01 AM on February 17, 2005

According to the people who award Grammies, if Jethro Tull is heavy metal, then Foreigner comfortably fits inside the hard rock genre.

lilboo is correct. We also used to refer to them as "Butt Rock", a subgenre of corporate rock where the qualification was that the content of 80% of a band's songs had to be about seducing high school girls.
posted by psmealey at 8:07 AM on February 17, 2005

I do love "Juke Box Hero" though - don't tell anybody.

It's a good song. Shout your love for it from the rooftops.
posted by jonmc at 8:15 AM on February 17, 2005

Real Rhapsody calls it AOR, so there. I played a charity softball game against them when I was an intern at WLRS in Louisville when their debut record came out. Don't even remember who won...

'That Was Yesterday' is definitely their best moment and it's not even in the top 20 of their songs played on RR. Humph.
posted by OneOliveShort at 10:39 AM on February 17, 2005

AOR seems right.
posted by Bugbread at 1:44 PM on February 17, 2005

AOR is a marketing term like "classic rock," that tells you nothing about how it actually sounds. I'd just file them under general "rock."

Oddly, considering how ardent a defender of this kind of stuff I am, I don't own a single Foreigner record. Ah, well, Foghat was better anyway.
posted by jonmc at 4:28 PM on February 17, 2005