Back on the Road Again Reo
| REO Speedwagon | |
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 REO Speedwagon performing live at the Ruby Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, in 2010 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Champaign, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1967 (1967)–present |
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| Associated acts | Styx |
| Website | reospeedwagon |
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| By members | See Onetime members |
REO Speedwagon (originally stylized every bit R.Eastward.O. Speedwagon) is an American rock band from Champaign, Illinois. Formed in 1967, the band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved pregnant commercial success throughout the 1980s. The group's best-selling album, Hi Infidelity (1980), contained four Us pinnacle twoscore hits and sold more 10 million copies.
Over the course of their career, the ring has sold more twoscore million records and has charted thirteen top 40 hits, including the number ones "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling". REO Speedwagon's mainstream popularity waned in the late 1980s, only the ring remains a popular live act.
History [edit]
Germination [edit]
Ad for a Reo Speed Railroad vehicle
In the fall of 1966, Neal Doughty entered the electrical technology programme at the Academy of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, as a inferior. On his first dark, he met swain student Alan Gratzer. They held an impromptu jam session in the basement of their Illinois Street Residence Hall dormitory[one] [2] and soon started a rock band. Gratzer had been a drummer since high school, and was playing in a local group on the weekends, while Doughty had learned some Beatles songs on his parents' pianoforte.
Doughty began to follow Gratzer'southward band, somewhen sitting in on a vocal or 2. The keyboard actor was the leader, but several other ring members were unhappy with the situation. On the last twenty-four hours of the university'southward spring semester, guitarist Joe Matt chosen the band's leader and told him that he, drummer Gratzer, and bassist Mike Blair had decided to leave the band to start a new one with Doughty.
They made a list of songs to learn over the summer break, and Doughty landed a summer task to buy his first keyboard. On his Farfisa organ, he learned "Light My Fire" by The Doors. The members returned to school in the fall of 1967 and had their first rehearsal before classes started. They named the band REO Speedwagon, from the REO Speed Carriage, a 1915 truck that was designed by Ransom Eli Olds.[3] Doughty had seen the name written across the blackboard when he walked into his History of Transportation course on the first solar day they had decided to look for a name. Rather than pronouncing REO as a single word equally the motor company did ("REE-oh"), they chose to spell the give-and-take out, pronouncing each alphabetic character individually ("R-E-O"). An advertising in the school paper produced their start job, a fraternity party that turned into a food fight. They connected to perform cover songs in campus bars, fraternity parties, and university events. The first lineup consisted of Doughty on keyboards, Gratzer on drums and vocals, Joe Matt on guitar and vocals, Mike Blair on bass and vocals.
In early 1968, Terry Luttrell became lead vocalist, and Bob Crownover joined as the guitar thespian, replacing Matt. When Mike Blair left the ring in mid-1968, Gregg Philbin replaced Blair, Marty Shepard played trumpet and Joe McCabe played sax until McCabe moved to Southern Illinois University. Crownover played guitar for the grouping until mid-1969 when Bill Fiorio replaced him. Fiorio and so departed in late 1969, eventually assuming the name Duke Tumatoe, and went on to form the All Star Frogs. Steve Scorfina (who would keep to found progressive rock/album-oriented rock band Pavlov'southward Dog) came aboard for over a year, composing with the band and performing live, before being replaced past Gary Richrath in late 1970.
Richrath was a Peoria, Illinois-based guitarist and prolific songwriter who brought fresh original fabric to the band. Richrath had driven 100 miles (160 km) to see the band and go a part of it. He is quoted equally saying "I'grand going to be a part of that band whether they like it or not", and and so went about making it happen. With Richrath on board, the regional popularity of the band grew tremendously. The Midwestern Us was the original REO Speedwagon fan stronghold and is pivotal in this menstruum of the ring'due south history. They gained a major supporter in the St. Louis, Missouri-based radio station KSHE, whose status as one of America's nigh influential rock stations boosted their platform beyond the Midwest.
The band signed to Epic Records in 1971.[3] Paul Leka, an East Coast record producer, brought the ring to his recording studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut where it recorded original fabric for its first album. The lineup on the first anthology consisted of Richrath, Gratzer, Doughty, Philbin, and Luttrell.[three]
Early on years [edit]
With their equipment being hauled to dates in a friend's station wagon, REO played bars and clubs all over the Midwest. The band's debut anthology, R.E.O. Speedwagon, was released on Epic Records in 1971.[3] The most popular track on this tape was "157 Riverside Artery". The title refers to the Westport, Connecticut address, where the band stayed while recording in Leka's studio in Bridgeport and remains an in-concert favorite.
A newspaper ad for a concert featuring REO in Indianapolis in 1973.
Although the rest of the band's lineup remained stable, REO Speedwagon switched lead vocalists three times for their first three albums. Luttrell left the ring in early on 1972, eventually becoming the vocaliser for Starcastle. He was replaced by Kevin Cronin.[3] Cronin recorded i album with the band, 1972's R.Eastward.O./T.W.O. but left the band during the recording sessions for 1973's Ridin' the Storm Out because of internal conflicts.[4] Ridin' the Storm Out was completed with Michael Bryan Murphy on lead vocal, and it featured Neal Doughty'due south "wailing storm siren" synthesizer intro on the championship track. Irish potato stayed on for two more than albums, Lost in a Dream and This Fourth dimension We Hateful It, before Cronin returned to the fold in Jan 1976 and recorded R.E.O., which was released that aforementioned year.[3]
Cronin's render came after Greg X. Volz turned downwards the position for lead vocalist after becoming a Christian.
In 1977, REO convinced Epic Records that their strength was in their live performances. Ballsy agreed to permit them produce their showtime live anthology, Live: You Get What Yous Play For, which was somewhen certified platinum.[3] That same year, the band moved to Los Angeles, California.
In 1977, bassist Gregg Philbin left the band.[3] Depending upon which ring member is expressing an opinion, it was either considering Philbin was disenchanted with the new corporate-structure REO where Cronin and Richrath got bigger slices of the pie instead of the equal credit they one time shared as a "garage ring", or he was asked to leave over his lifestyle issues affecting the music quality.[5] Philbin was replaced with another Champaign, Illinois musician, Centennial High School alumnus, Bruce Hall,[ii] to record You lot Can Melody a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish.[three] The album was released in 1978 and has received FM radio airplay over the years, thanks to songs like "Gyre with the Changes" and "Time for Me to Wing". The album was REO's first to make the top 40, peaking at No. 29. The album sold over two meg copies in the US, ultimately achieving double platinum status.
In 1979, the band took a turn back to hard stone with the release of 9 Lives.[iii]
Mainstream success [edit]
On November 21, 1980, Epic released How-do-you-do Adultery,[3] which represented a modify in audio, going from hard rock to more pop-oriented material.[6] Hullo Infidelity spawned four hitting singles written past Richrath and Cronin, including the chart-topping "Keep On Loving You" (Cronin),[iii] plus "Accept It on the Run" (#five) (Richrath), "In Your Letter of the alphabet" (#xx) (Richrath), and "Don't Permit Him Go" (#24) (Cronin), and remained on the charts for 65 weeks, 32 of which were spent in the peak ten, including 15 weeks atop the Billboard 200. Hullo Infidelity sold over 10 1000000 copies.
The ring's follow-up album, Good Trouble, was released in June 1982.[3] Although it was not as successful as its predecessor, the anthology performed moderately well commercially, featuring the hit singles "Proceed the Fire Burnin'" (U.Southward. #vii), "Sweet Time" (U.South. #26) and the Album Rock chart hit "The Cardinal."
Ii years later, the band released Wheels Are Turnin', an album that included the #1 hitting single "Can't Fight This Feeling" plus three more hits: "I Practice' Wanna Know" (U.S. #29), "One Lonely Night" (U.South. #19), and "Alive Every Moment" (U.S. #34).[3]
REO Speedwagon toured the United states of america in 1985, including a sold-out concert in Madison, Wisconsin in May.[seven] On July thirteen, on the manner to a testify in Milwaukee, the band made a stop in Philadelphia to play at the Usa leg of Alive Aid, which broke a tape for number of viewers. They performed "Can't Fight This Feeling" and "Ringlet with the Changes" which featured members of the Beach Boys, the band members' families, and Paul Shaffer on stage for backing vocals.
1987's Life equally We Know It saw a decline in sales,[iii] simply still managed to provide the band with the elevation-20 hits "That Ain't Love" (U.S. #16) and "In My Dreams" (U.S. #19).[8] The Hits is a 1988 compilation anthology[3] which independent the new tracks "I Don't Want to Lose You" and "Here with Me". These were the last songs recorded with Gary Richrath and Alan Gratzer. "Hither with Me" cracked the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and the meridian x on the Adult Contemporary nautical chart.
Changes in the 1990s [edit]
Past the late 1980s, the band's popularity was starting to pass up.[6] Original drummer Alan Gratzer left in September 1988 subsequently he decided to retire from music to open a eating house. In early on 1989, Gary Richrath was fired after tensions betwixt him and Kevin Cronin boiled over.[9] Cronin had been playing in The Strolling Dudes, a jazz ensemble that included jazz trumpet thespian Rick Braun (who had co-written the abovementioned "Here with Me" with Cronin), Miles Joseph on lead guitar and Graham Lear on drums. Lear had already been invited to join REO in September 1988 equally Gratzer'due south successor and Joseph was brought in as a temporary stand-in for Richrath. Back up singers Carla Twenty-four hours and Melanie Jackson were as well added. This lineup did just one show, on January seven, 1989, in Viña del Mar, Chile, where it won the award for all-time group at the city's annual International Vocal Festival. Afterward that, Miles Joseph and the support singers were dropped in favor of former Ted Nugent guitarist Dave Amato (who was brought aboard in May 1989) and keyboardist/songwriter/producer Jesse Harms.
The 1990 release The Earth, a Minor Human, His Domestic dog and a Chicken, with Bryan Hitt (formerly of Wang Chung) on drums, was a commercial thwarting.[3] The album produced only 1, and - to appointment - the band's last Billboard Hot 100 unmarried, "Love Is a Stone," which peaked at No. 65. Harms, disenchanted past the album'south failure, left the group in early on 1991.
Shortly afterwards his departure, Richrath assembled former members of the Midwestern band Vancouver to class a namesake band, Richrath. After touring for several years, the Richrath band released Only the Strong Survive in 1992 on the GNP Crescendo label. Richrath (the band) continued to perform for several years before disbanding in the tardily 1990s. In September 1998, Gary Richrath briefly joined REO onstage at the County Fair in Los Angeles to play on the ring's encore song, "157 Riverside Avenue". He and then joined REO in one case again in Los Angeles in May 2000 for the same encore but no serious plans for a reunion ever materialized.
Having lost their recording contract with Epic, REO Speedwagon ended up releasing Building the Bridge (1996) on the Priority/Rhythm Safari label. When that characterization went bankrupt, the anthology was released on Castle Records, which also experienced financial troubles. REO Speedwagon ultimately self-financed this endeavor, which failed to chart. The championship track did brand R&R's AC Top 30 nautical chart.
Revival of the hits [edit]
The commercial failure of the band's newer material with its revised lineup demanded a change in marketing strategy. As a consequence, Epic began re-releasing recordings from older albums with updated artwork and design.
Since 1995, the characterization has released over a dozen compilation albums featuring greatest hits, including 1999'south The Ballads which features 2 new songs: "But for You" (Cronin and Jim Peterik) and "Till The River'south Run Dry out" (Cronin). In 2000, REO teamed upwardly with Styx for an appearance at Riverport Amphitheater in St. Louis, which was released as a live concert video Arch Allies: Live at Riverport. The REO portion of the show was released once more nether three split titles: Live - Plus (2001), Alive Plus 3 (2001) and Extended Versions (2001) (which was certified gold by the RIAA on Apr 26, 2006). REO once more teamed with Styx in 2003 for the Classic Rock's Primary Event tour which besides included another band from their common rock era, Journeying.
2000–present [edit]
The ring released a self-financed album entitled Find Your Own Manner Domicile in April 2007. Though it did not nautical chart as an anthology, it produced two singles "I Needed to Fall" (Cronin) and "Notice Your Own Way Home" (Cronin) which appeared on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart.
REO Speedwagon continues to bout regularly, performing generally their classic hits.[10] They teamed up with Styx to record a new unmarried entitled "Can't Cease Rockin'", released in March 2009, as well equally for a full bout that included special guest .38 Special.[xi]
In Nov 2009, REO Speedwagon released a Christmas album, Not So Silent Night...Christmas with REO Speedwagon. [12] On December 2, the band released an online video game, Find Your Own Way Home, produced by digital design agency Curious Sense. The game was the first "downloadable coincidental game" produced with a rock band and was cited by numerous publications including The New York Times equally an innovative marketing product for a music act.[xiii] In mid-2010, the band — then touring with Pat Benatar — announced that it would release a 30th ceremony deluxe edition reissue of Hi Infidelity.[14]
Primary Street in Champaign, named REO Speedwagon Fashion in honor of the ring
REO Speedwagon headlined on the M&I Classic Rock Stage at the Milwaukee Summerfest on June 30, 2011. On March 11, 2012, Kevin Cronin appeared on the Canadian reality TV series Star Académie. He sang a sampling of REO's hits with the prove'south singing finalists.
On November 22, 2013, they announced a do good concert with Styx titled "Rock to the Rescue" to heighten money for the afflicted families of the tornadoes in central Illinois. The concert was held on December 4, 2013, in Bloomington, Illinois. Richard Marx joined REO on stage for a joint functioning of two of his hit songs. Gary Richrath reunited with REO ane final time for a performance of "Ridin' the Storm Out" to end REO'due south gear up at the sold-out concert. Richrath stayed on stage to assist with the encore of "With a Little Help From My Friends" along with REO, Styx, Richard Marx, and others. Richrath was originally from the town of East Peoria which was damaged during the tempest. Families impacted by the storm and first responders sat near the stage for this special REO concert.
In early on 2014, it was announced that REO Speedwagon and Chicago would be teaming up for fifteen dates throughout 2014.[xv] Gary Richrath died on September xiii, 2015, due to complications from surgery.[xvi] In 2016 the band went on tour with Def Leppard and Tesla.[17]
The ring performed with Pitbull the vocal "Messin' Effectually" live on the ABC Television set evidence Greatest Hits in 2016; that version of the song was also released as a unmarried on iTunes.[xviii] The ring toured the UK arena excursion with Status Quo in December 2016.[nineteen] The ring toured the US with Styx and Don Felder on the "United We Rock" tour, debuting June twenty, 2017, at the Sunlight Supply Amphitheater.[twenty] In 2017, the How-do-you-do Infidelity album received the Diamond Award for official U.S. sales of over 10 1000000 copies.[21] REO and Chicago teamed up once again in the summer of 2018 for a thirty-city tour.[22]
The band appeared in an episode in the third season of the American TV series Ozark, which was released on Netflix on March 27, 2020. After the appearance, four of REO's songs reentered the Billboard rock charts.[23]
In 2021, REO Speedwagon was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Illinois Rock & Curlicue Museum on Rt. 66 located in Joliet, IL. web|url=https://roadtorock.org
Band members [edit]
Current members
- Neal Doughty – keyboards (1967–present)
- Kevin Cronin – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards (1972–1973, 1976–present)
- Bruce Hall – bass, bankroll and pb vocals (1977–present)
- Dave Amato – lead guitar, bankroll vocals (1989–present)
- Bryan Hitt – drums, percussion (1989–nowadays)
Old members
- Alan Gratzer – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1967–1988)
- Joe Matt – atomic number 82 guitar, lead vocals (1967–1968)
- Mike Blair – bass, bankroll vocals (1967–1968)
- Terry Luttrell – atomic number 82 vocals (1968–1972)
- Bob Crownover – lead guitar (1968–1969)
- Gregg Philbin – bass, backing vocals (1968–1977)
- Joe McCabe – saxophone (1968)
- Marty Shepard – trumpet (1968)
- Beak Fiorio – atomic number 82 guitar (1969)
- Steve Scorfina – lead guitar (1969–1970)
- Gary Richrath – lead guitar, occasional vocals (1970–1989; died 2015)
- Mike Murphy – atomic number 82 vocals, occasional rhythm guitar (1973–1976)
- Graham Lear – drums (1988–1989)
- Miles Joseph – lead guitar (1989; died 2012)
- Carla Day – backing vocals (1989)
- Melanie Jackson – backing vocals (1989)
- Jesse Harms – keyboards (1989–1991)
Discography [edit]
Studio albums
- R.Eastward.O. Speedwagon (1971)
- R.E.O./T.West.O. (1972)
- Ridin' the Storm Out (1973)
- Lost in a Dream (1974)
- This Time We Mean It (1975)
- R.E.O. (1976)
- You Can Tune a Pianoforte, only Y'all Can't Tuna Fish (1978)
- Nine Lives (1979)
- Hello Adultery (1980)
- Adept Problem (1982)
- Wheels Are Turnin' (1984)
- Life equally We Know It (1987)
- The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken (1990)
- Building the Bridge (1996)
- Find Your Own Way Dwelling house (2007)[6]
- Non And then Silent Night ... Christmas with REO Speedwagon (2009)
See also [edit]
- List of artists who reached number one in the United States
References [edit]
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- ^ a b "Famous residents, former residents". Champaign News-Gazette. January 15, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k fifty m due north o p q Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Curtailed ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1006. ISBN1-85227-745-nine.
- ^ Sheff, David (March 23, 1981). "Now It'south Cheat to the Beat, as Reo Speedwagon Finally Arrives with 'How-do-you-do Adultery'". People. Vol. 15, no. xi. Retrieved August xix, 2010.
- ^ "REO Speedwagon". En.allexperts.com . Retrieved January 15, 2017.
- ^ a b c Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Bully Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 810–811. ISBN1-84195-017-3.
- ^ Box Score Meridian Grossing Concerts. Billboard. June 1, 1985. pp. 48–. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ "Artist Chart History - REO Speedwagon". Billboard . Retrieved May nine, 2009.
- ^ "REO Speedwagon Will Dedicate Every Show to Late Guitarist Gary Richrath 'Probably Forever'". Billboard . Retrieved Oct 3, 2019.
- ^ "REO Speedwagon'due south Kevin Cronin on Louisville, power ballads and if my wife's a slut". Louisville.com . Retrieved Feb 24, 2010.
- ^ "Styx, REO Speedwagon Squad Up For "Rockin'" Tour, Single". Billboard . Retrieved April 29, 2009.
- ^ "Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
- ^ Elliott, Stuart (December 2, 2009). "REO Speedwagon Rocks On as a Game". The New York Times . Retrieved Dec ii, 2009.
- ^ "REO Speedwagon Plans 'Howdy Infidelty' 30th Anniversary Reissue, Tour". Billboard . Retrieved February 1, 2014.
- ^ "Live Nation Announces REO Speedwagon And Chicago Summertime Tour". AllAccess.com. Jan 13, 2014. Retrieved February i, 2014.
- ^ "Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon dies". Music-News.com. September 14, 2015. Retrieved Nov 2, 2015.
- ^ "Def Leppard Announce Summertime Tour With REO Speedwagon and Tesla". Ultimateclassicrock.com. February 29, 2016. Retrieved July eight, 2017.
- ^ "Messin Around - Single (United States)". iTunes Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved July eight, 2017.
- ^ "Uk TOUR WITH Condition QUO & THE LOUNGE KITTENS Announced". Reospeedwagon.com. March 21, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
- ^ "Styx, REO Speedwagon, Don Felder Set up for 'United We Stone' U.S. Tour, Starting June 20th". AllAccess.com. Feb sixteen, 2017. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
- ^ "REO Speedwagon'south 'How-do-you-do Infidelity' receives 10X Diamond Award". Upi.com . Retrieved October iii, 2019.
- ^ Filcman, Debra. "Chicago and REO Speedwagon Denote Co-Headlining Summer Bout". ultimateclassicrock.com . Retrieved November five, 2021.
- ^ April 2020, Scott Munro14. "REO Speedwagon drive back into the charts cheers to Ozark advent". Classic Rock Magazine . Retrieved April 16, 2020.
External links [edit]
- Official website
- REO Speedwagon at AllMusic
- How REO Speedwagon Got Their Proper noun
- REO Speedwagon Live Photograph Gallery
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speedwagon
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