I think that McDonald needed a job so he was in Foreigner for some years. Their next album was recorded as a quartet (with additional session musicians), called "4", and the band became even more commercial and successful in the eighties. Jones saw the band mainly as his band, so the other 3 (Gramm, Elliott and new bassist Rick Wills) supported Jones, and both McDonald and Greenwood were fired. Also there were problems with keyboard player Al Greenwood, who also wanted to write more songs for the band. By the time of their third album called "Head Games" (1979, with Gagliardi being fired before recording it), which was also co-produced by both, problems started when McDonald wanted more to be guitar player most of the time and also wanted to write more songs. By the time they had the band with their six original members (Jones, McDonald, Gramm, keyboardist Al Greenwood, drummer Dennis Elliott, and bassist Ed Gagliardi) and they had a recording contract with Atlantic, both became co-producers of the albums of the band, but Jones was the Musical Director, so he had the main power to say which musical style the band was going to follow.Jones said that he was working very well with McDonald for the first two albums, "Foreigner" (1977) and "Double Vision" (1978), because he admired McDonald`s as multi-instrumentalist (he played horns, woodwind, keyboards and guitars and also sung backing vocals). So, he joined the band Jones was forming. He also found McDonald, who had been working in other things, not in music. He started recruiting musicians in New York, which was the city he lived since the split of Spooky Tooth. I remember that I read that the band was really started by guitarist Mick Jones, who was unemployed at that time (1975-76) after the split of Spooky Tooth, a band he played between 19. They reproduced the notes of the booklet of that Box Set. I visited some years ago one website dedicated to Foreigner (I think that it was Rhino Records website announcing the new Foreigner Box-Set which title I can`t remember now).
I think that some people ask themselves why McDonald was playing in Foreigner.
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