Ten Bands I will be forced to listen to in hell (Note: I did not write this, nor do I endorse it.)

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44. Funny story about Foreigner....

They were one of the "hot" popular bands when I graduated high school and for a few years after. At that time, you could drink and go to bars at 18. There was one place my friend and I used to go to that was a dive inside, but was popular because they served pitchers of beer and they'd put a tall (Tom Collins sized) glass of ice in the pitcher to keep the beer cold. This place had been around since the 60's, and had had no maintenance or updates since, to judge by the condition; they had trash cans under the leaky spots in the roof, and the bathrooms were still painted in psychedelic colors, and some of the toilets didn't work. Disgusting place, but it was packed on the weekends, because they were one of the few places in town where you could see a live band and get a pitcher of beer. The house band played Foriegner more that the top 40 stations did, meaning every other song was a Foreigner song. Anyway, there was always one of a couple of girls that would show up every weekend night who would come in and dance in front of the band; one of them would wear short shorts, and would turn toward the band and kick one of her legs up, showing her stuff to the band. The other girl would dance in front of the band, and untie her shirt and flash her breasts at the band ( this was in the time when girls wore shirts that were tied under the bosom to show off their midsection). Always during the Foreigner songs. My friend and I were of the opinion that those girls wanted to be goupies, and were pretty trashy about it, based on their actions both on and off the dance floor. One Saturday night, they were both there, this was the first time we had seen them there at the same time. My girlfriend looked at me as these two girls were gyrating on the dance floor, trying to outdo each other, and generally embarrassing women in general, and my friend said "Okay, this is it. We are NEVER coming to this place again!" And we never did....because the place burned down late that night. Later it was determined that the owner had torched it. It was never rebuilt. That and the incessant airplay probably contributes to my dislike of Foreigner, lol!