'Most people, who know me, know that when I lay my hands on the keys what comes back is not rock 'n roll,' he adds. The same goes for the Tubes, who I co-wrote 'She's a Beauty,' with. I believe I took him a little too far to my side,' he recalls. Not because of Alice, but more due to my ineptness at producing that kind of music. Reflecting back, Foster says this project was not one of his best. The 1978 concept album chronicled Cooper's time inside a New York sanatorium during a rehab stint for alcoholism. One of his early production credits was Alice Cooper 's fourth studio record From the Inside. He played on a pair of George Harrison records ( Extra Texture and Thirty Three & 1/3 ) and also lent overdubbed piano to Lynyrd Skynyrd's third studio album Nuthin' Fancy (1975). In his CSHF acceptance speech, Foster shared some simple advice another mentor, Quincy Jones, once gave: 'The three ingredients to a hit record are: the song, the song and the song.'Īs a keyboardist during this early chapter of his career, Foster kept searching for those key ingredients. Thanks to Banks' tutelage on the art of arranging - and the hard work of gigging in bands throughout the early-to mid 1970s - Foster's songs kept getting better. 'In my early 20s I wrote some songs and some got recorded, but looking back they were just awful.' 'As a songwriter, I bloomed late,' Foster says. The impresario took Foster under his wing and encouraged the teenager to write. 'When I go to the doctor's office, still to this day, when they ask me my occupation, I always reply musician.'Īfter studying music at the University of Washington at 13, the prodigy moved to Edmonton, Alberta where he led a nightclub band in a joint owned by jazz piano player and arranger Tommy Banks. 'It sounds cliché, but it's true,' says the 72-year-old, reflecting on a life spent searching for the right notes. One morning his mom was dusting the family piano when she hit a key by accident and David said, 'That's an E!' naming the correct note. The son of a blue-collar worker and homemaker, Foster started playing - and studying - piano at age four. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.David Foster was born in Victoria, British Columbia. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a 'scraper' or 'downloader' program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.

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