Foreigner was only given a one-hour set to work with this night, and considering the name of the festival, they wisely shelved their mega-hit ballads like "Waiting For A Girl Like You" and "I Wanna Know What Love Is" and stuck with only the heavier hits from their first four albums.

It was still bright and sunny out when the band hit the stage, but that did not detract from the show at all. With the familiar Foreigner logo draping the back of the stage, the band kicked off the set with "Double Vision," and I was immediately impressed with how good these guys sounded live.

Most importantly, a reconstituted Foreigner could not be taken seriously without a vocalist who could do justice to the extraordinary vocal talents that Lou Gramm brought to the mix. According to Mick Jones, toward the end of about six months of auditioning numerous vocalist and listening to hundreds of tapes, he finally received a tape from the former lead singer of the '80s glam-metal band Hurricane, Kelly Hansen, belting out a few Foreigner classics. Jones was completely blown away.

Rightly so! Hansen is not only a great vocalist who is able to sing in the same style as Gramm, but he is also a charismatic stage presence who infuses just the right amount of his own personality into the songs to make them his own. He reminds me a little bit of a young Steven Tyler.

"Head Games" and "Dirty White Boy" are delivered next and you can see the crowd slowly being won over. Since most of these songs were such monster radio hits you will want to hear them played mostly true to form, but the band takes many improvisational liberties that only make them better.

This is none more true than with the next song, "Cold As Ice," which features some dazzling harmony vocals involving all of the band members, as well as a cool bluesy breakdown where Jeff Jacobs gets to strut his stuff on the organ and synthesizer.

By the time the Foreigner 4 classics "Urgent" and "Juke Box Hero" are trotted out to close out the set, the crowd are all on their feet, with fists pumping, and heavy metal salutes flying.

Multi-instrumentalist Tom Gimbel handles the sax solo on "Urgent" and blows it out of the park. As commented on during the interview feature, they knew they had won over this metal crowd when Gimbel was out at the front of the stage blowing his sax solo, and the entire crowd where pumping their fists in praise.