I don't mind them being mentioned together,they're both unique in their own ways.
Although it's unintenionally funny watching Russell Hitchcock (curly haired one) & Graham Russell (blonde guy) in that current TIME/LIFE "Soft Rock" commercial.
Last comment on "phoning",if these acts were doing so,their fans would know it from the first song or two and leave. (That's why I left a Foreigner concert in '04. Lou Gramm was so off key that night ugh!