‘Slow Ride’ for a good trigger: Foghat headlines Rock & Roll for Children benefit in Silver Spring

You’ve most likely taken many a “Slow Ride” across the Beltway in rush-hour site visitors, however this weekend it’ll be for a good trigger.

Foghat headlines the Rock & Roll for Children benefit live performance at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Saturday, March 9, with the Fleetwood Mac tribute band Tusk opening up.

“It’s for a good trigger,” Foghat drummer Roger Earl instructed WTOP. “I’m so joyful that I and the entire band have a likelihood to do that benefit for the Rock & Roll for Children Foundation. I’m actually wanting ahead to doing this.”

You’ll hear a set record of classic-rock hits like “Slow Ride,” which first captured rock radio in 1975.

“At the start it was 7:40 [minutes long],” Earl stated. “We launched it as a seven-minute single, however after all DJs again then, a variety of them began slicing the ending half out anyway, so we remixed the top, nevertheless it’s a basic tune. It really began out with a John Lee Hooker riff and we added Foghat to it. Instead of a shuffle, it was a two-four [tempo]. At the start of the music, Nick [Jameson] stated, ‘Just go bang,’ which I did. I like my job.”

Founded in Rockville, Maryland, in 2008, the Rock & Roll for Children Foundation has raised over $1 million for numerous youngsters’s charities, together with over $500,000 for The Children’s Inn on the National Institutes of Health, which permits households to remain on campus with their youngsters as they obtain prolonged experimental therapies.

“It’s such a fantastic place the place youngsters can have a respite from the care and their households can keep collectively,” founder Jon Belinkie instructed WTOP. “People don’t notice that The Children’s Inn, whereas situated in the D.C. space, serves youngsters from 105 completely different nations, 1,500 households from all around the world. None of those youngsters or households should pay to remain there. That’s why it’s so vital that we do what we do to assist them pay for these things.”

You may also bid on all types of journeys, experiences and rock ‘n roll memorabilia, together with Foghat’s authentic line of wine bottles and one in every of Earl’s former Ludwig guitar kits used on precise Foghat excursions from 1985 to 1996.

“There’s an incredible public sale with an unbelievable array of music memorabilia,” Belinkie stated. “We have guitars from The Stones. We have a signed guitar from Taylor Swift, then Taylor reached out and despatched one other one along with her image airbrushed on it. She occurs to be very philanthropic and has been completely supportive of us yearly.”

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