Death of a Band … REO Speedwagon

[Tree of Knowledge 1,699]

Last Show is tonight in Las Vegas. 
 

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kevin-cronin-reo-speedwagon-interview-2024/

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

2 hours ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

Last Show is tonight in Las Vegas. 

Until the next money grab 

[supermike80 1,803]

Some awesome tunes.  Good guitar

[edjr 6,578]

5 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

Some awesome tunes.  Good guitar

Gary Richrath - RIP

[supermike80 1,803]

2 minutes ago, edjr said:

Gary Richrath - RIP

Yup.  Awesome

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

Kings of the county fair concert.

[jerryskids 6,561]

I was in HS in the early 80s, did a lot of slow dance grinding to their tunes.  

Also, Roll with the Changes is one of my favorite songs evah.   

[edjr 6,578]

53 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

I was in HS in the early 80s, did a lot of slow dance grinding to their tunes.  

Also, Roll with the Changes is one of my favorite songs evah.   

 

Went to see Reo and Styx for my 50th summer of 22  

[jerryskids 6,561]

2 hours ago, edjr said:

 

Went to see Reo and Styx for my 50th summer of 22  

Another great song.  Never got to see REO, bummer.  I did see Styx just before Covid hit, they were great.

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I read about this death of REO a couple weeks ago and looked in to it a little bit.  Basically, REO has been down to three "original" members for a long time.  I put original in quotes because Kevin Cronin was in and out of the band a couple of times in the early 70's before becoming the long term lead singer so he's borderline on being called an original member.  But of the band members of the established band they were down to three members - Bruce Hall, Neal Doughty, and Kevin Cronin.  Neal Doughty had already announced he was retiring from touring.   This comes down to a bit of a rift between Kevin Cronin and Bruce Hall.  And it takes a majority of those three to decide whether "REO Speedwagon" tours and when they all voted Bruce and Neal said no which means Kevin Cronin can't use that name.  But he's still touring with the lead guitarist and maybe the drummer that's been in the band forever.  For all intents and purposes it will still be REO except they probably won't do the songs Bruce Hall used to sing on tour.  Bruce Hall used to contribute one or two songs per album that he wrote and sang.  So they won't do the one or two of his songs of his in concert they typically do. 

All that being said, Kevin Cronin's band is touring with Styx and Don Felder next year and we have third row seats when they come to Denver in June.

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2 hours ago, edjr said:

 

Went to see Reo and Styx for my 50th summer of 22  

We saw them on that tour too

[Nomad99 699]

Time for them to fly.....

[edjr 6,578]

1 minute ago, Nomad99 said:

Time for them to fly.....

Roll with the changes

[easilyscan 858]

My fav.

 

[weepaws 3,154]

Songs all sounded the same.  

[Mike Hunt 261]

Who is the lead singer?  That is all that matters.  The rest of the band members are a dime a dozen.

[kutulu 1,659]

6 hours ago, weepaws said:

Songs all sounded the same.  

Like your posts

[weepaws 3,154]

2 minutes ago, kutulu said:

Like your posts

We agree.  Thanks. 

[kutulu 1,659]

5 minutes ago, weepaws said:

We agree.  Thanks. 

We don't. Fock off. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[weepaws 3,154]

33 minutes ago, kutulu said:

We don't. Fock off. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We agree once again. 

[thegeneral 2,897]

Heard it from a friend who

[kutulu 1,659]

3 minutes ago, weepaws said:

We agree once again. 

Pretty sure the entire bored agrees on that

[weepaws 3,154]

1 minute ago, kutulu said:

Pretty sure the entire bored agrees on that

Right, we agree.  

[frank 2,276]

1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

Heard it from a friend who

 

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 Every time a hurricane is on its way to me, I think of this song and…

 

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[Tree of Knowledge 1,699]

They should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.