Kevin Cronin *Vocalist* REO Speedwagon (mini doc)
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Kevin Cronin lead vocalist for REO Speedwagon. A short documentary as we go into his beginning in music, his in and outs with the band and what he is up to today and lots more. Please like and subscribe to the channel.
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I also have a video out on Gary Richrath you might be interested it. Here is the link. ruclips.net/video/yi2uyIFSFq4/видео.html
I still enjoy reo live shows.
The band was always Gary’s and when he left, no more Reo Speedwagon. I watched them for the guitar performances
I really believe that when Alan left the heart of the band died. He kept Kevin and Gary together. Alan said that when he left Gary took it hardest and was in tears.
I could believe that. Them 5 guys had a very good sound together for a long time. It was special. Thanks for watching!
Hmm never thought about Allen Leaving I was thinking it was Gary Amazing band. My two favorite bands reo and blue oyster cult. Still locked in my head when Allen said the hotel room feels like a prison cell in 84
Gary is the reason I play a Les Paul!! I hope the book is out soon!!
I hear ya on Gary. I am looking forward to the book. Thanks for watching!
Oh heck yeah! Me too.
That's a damn fine reason. Loved Gary.
Love me some REO SPEEDWAGON 🎸🎶💖 Meeting them in the 80's is something I will never forget. I'm so glad I got to meet Gary. He was the coolest. I will never forget it.🎸🎶💖
Gary was the best for sure!!! Thanks for watching.
I saw REO SPEEDWAGON back in 2019 and they sounded great! Definitely one of the best bands of the 70's and 80's. Even though some of the original members aren't with the band anymore, they still are a great band with a great sound! Kevin rocks and the band is currently on tour with Styx and Loverboy in 2022! Rock on REO SPEEDWAGON and keep "Rolling with the Changes! " I will always be a "LOYAL REO SPEEDWAGON" fan!
Thanks, for sharing. Yes only the strong survive. I'm a local rock star in the midwest, lucky to still be alive, feeling for Gary....saw them in 78 or so, oh how many times me and well, some girl rocked out to REO...
You're welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Finally someone thinks the same way I. After the split nothing was the same.
Agree..Nothing was the same after that. Hard for fans to accept that. Thanks for watching!
Well said. A lot of this was covered in the MTV “behind the music” documentary. Kevin started singing soft rock in that higher register and the songs didn’t feel like 1970s party & hard rock anymore. It was irritating to gary - and To a lot of his old Fan base and I have a feeling Gary felt he was letting down the old fans. The older, long time fans were always very important to reo
Right on. I think they lost a lot of fans even before the Gary and Kevin split, but after that it really went down hill. Thanks for your comment and watching.
You do a great job with these videos!! Your commentary is heartfelt and you have a warm voice and wonderful delivery! I've subscribed and am looking forward to the presentation. Wish you all the best👍
Well thank you very much. Appreciate your support. Hope you enjoy the videos I have and the ones I am working on coming in the near future.
Love your narration!
Glad you enjoy it!
No Kevin Cronin, no REO Speedwagon. Great front man and still touring in 2022. Kevin Cronin's talents in music are like Tom Brady's talents with football. Keep pushin guys and thanks for many years of great music.
Another banger. You should do a documentary on Joe Walsh. He was awesome with the James Gang & the Eagles. He had several great solo albums as well. He was awesome on Dayrls House. Appreciate you and your channel.
Thanks Mark. Joe Walsh would be a good one for sure. He has a great history and story. I will put it on my list. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
Yeah, no question about it, that slightly awkward looking kid from high school done real good! REO have certainly been only a shadow of what they once were in these latter years but I'm happy that Bruce Hall has stuck it out alongside Kevin, he was a major influence on me making bass the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't know that Kevin was writing his story but I'll keep a keen eye out for that when it arrives. Another great video here, RD, I really enjoyed the one you produced on Gary too. You have a very pleasing storytelling style. Best regards to you.
One of my two favorite bands
Well done
Thank you, interesting!
You are welcome!
Sorry, but R.E.O. died when Allan and Gary departed from the band. That's why you never heard another top 40 from R.E.O. It took all of them to keep the family producing hits that made the charts.
I totally agree and stated that in the video.
Yes! The music lost its vibe.
REO Speedwagon was one of my two favorite bands back in the late '70s and up through Hi Infidelity. I just jammed out on the 2 LP You Get What You Play For a couple of days ago. What a great set of songs and performances there!
I hated to see Gary Richrath go and then decline. His guitar sound was very unique and you knew who you were hearing, even if you weren't familiar with the song, when you heard Gary playing.
I'm glad that he did come up on stage and play with REO Speedwagon shortly before he died. I hated to see Gary leave and I'm going to look for that video you did on him right now.
Like you, I lost interest in the band about the same time you did and it's never been the same since. I've seen them a number of times over the last 30 years almost. And they have put on some good shows especially when they start throwing in some songs like Golden Country. But it never did sound quite the same and his other band members eventually dropped out it became less and less, already after being a lot less after Gary's departure, of the classic REO Speedwagon sound.
Great videos and artists you have done the short documentaries on. I'm really enjoying them so thanks!
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Some of them old classic bands once they lose a lead singer or a lead guitar, especially one like Richrath it's pretty much over. The sound and the mojo of the band changes and the fans move on. Happens to all of them.
Glad you are enjoying the videos. Thanks for watching!
@@RiverDocs yep, it's a sad but true fact indeed. That magic, chemistry, and the sound has to change when that happens. Especially when it's a band like REO Speedwagon. There's no replacing members in their case. 👍
He’s really good - just ask him.
Love Kevin, love REO, but...oh, my, the hair...🤣🤣🤣
I was hopeful that during the 2-year break with COVID, REO would put out a new album as they are touring with Styx and Loverboy. I don't think I'll go as same of songs and set. I do give them credit for sticking around so long but don't want to pay to see them anymore. They do still have 3 original members, so I still consider them REO. I will miss these older bands as they are all great and don't like many new bands; I love classic rock.
Actually, Neal Doughty is the only original member. Heck, Gary wasn't even an original. They had some decent success before the Hi Infidelity album and that record put them in the stratosphere. However, they seemed to stop being a hard rock band and became a ballad band. Live they were still that great Midwest band because they always toured. Their present line up has been the longest incarnation of REO. The Hi Infidelity era was their best line up (IMO) with solid records a few years before and a few years after. Dave Amato is an awesome guitarist, but Gary Richrath and Kevin Cronin were the heart of REO.
What kind/model guitar is that you show at about 2:58? That acoustic is gorgeous!
Have no clue. It was some stock photo I had around. You can tell it has a new bridge put on it. I just thought the body had a lot of "character" so I used it :-)
Sounds like a relationship that might have benefited from hiring a group therapist.
He had a nice voice at one time for doing vocals with REO.
I always thought his voice and Gary's guitar complimented each other. Thanks for watching!
@@RiverDocs Gary was one of the most underrated guitar players of all time. It's sad they never gave him his dues.
I agree Robert. I don't know if you have watched it yet but I did a video on Gary a couple of months ago. If you get a chance watch it. I think it is pretty good.
ruclips.net/video/yi2uyIFSFq4/видео.html
I have a second cousin named Mike Murphy who was the other singer. I think tney made a couple.of albums then Kevin came back
I made that comment before watching this. Thanks for acknowledging Mike. Lol. I didnt expect that.
Hi Infidelity was an awesome record
Great man,Great singer and Great songvriter. Have followed this band since day one. I like the other singers to but for me..Kevin Cronin should be in Reo Speedwagon. Simple as that.
Gary and Kevin were truly the core of this band. I was happy to see that Gary at least had a couple reunions with the band before he passed, but it would have been really cool if they had fully regrouped earlier.
Regardless, Dave Amato is a hell of a guitarist, and he does a great job keeping REO going certainly not Richrath, but very good. Same goes for Bryan Hitt, he’s a beast of a drummer. I’m glad they’re still touring, and (in my opinion, at least) they sound great.
the band still rocks..still sells out shows..the new Drummer and Guitarist have been with them for over 30yrs and technically are better musicians than the originals. Richrath wrote some great tunes but drugs got in the way. Bruce, Neal and Kevin are still in the band so it isn't just Kevin using the name
You’re right, I saw them five years ago and they sounded great.
Unfortunately no matter what Kevin reveals in his book he will probably be chastised. I loved Gary very much and was crushed when he and Alan were no longer a part of the band. I just feel that no one has the right to judge what happened between two people who were like brothers for so many years. Brothers sometimes have differences and fights. Anything that may have been said between Kevin and Gary, Kevin now has to live with. From what I understand they had both resolved any issues between them a couple years before Gary's death. And Kevin has said that he had hoped Gary would rejoin the band just a couple years after leaving, but of course that didn't happen. Very few people really know what went down and I'm sure those few all have their own versions. And whether you agree with Kevin taking the band his direction or not, they still sell out shows and put on one hell of a show.
I didn't hear you say anything about where Gary was actually going to take over the band, but Kevin threatened to sue, and then ended up taking R.E.O. over and away from Gary.
There is a lot of things I left unsaid. It gives you all something to talk about.
@@RiverDocs covers your butt too.lol
Which I also understand, especially in this day and age.
You and i must be about the same age guy. I was listening to one that you did on Kiss earlier and totally understand the people being messed up at the concert. Things were crazy back then, and until the late 70s it seemed that the law wasn't doing much or anything to stop it, then they cracked down hard.
I still think that we grew up during the best time in music, and pretty much everything else as far as that goes. Cheap gas, cheap "fast" muscle cars, cheap houses and beautiful young ladies that wasn't afraid to show some skin, yet a lot of them still had scruples.
@@edarnold1426 LOL kind of, a little, but also to get youtube to keep your video up in the searches and showing its impression the amount of comments helps boost a lot. That and the amount of watch time. I got a three videos about Grand Funk on Mark and Don and a reunion. You would not believe how many comments just say "no farner no funk" ha ha but they keep the videos ranking up there.
Oh yeah concerts back then were a whole different animal than they are now for sure. Lots of drink and drugs. We had tailgate parties at the venues 🙂 I got another video I will do sometime in the near future about a Nugent concert I went to. It was a general admission(the first and last at the arena in St Louis)..so first come first serve on the seating...doors opened at 6:00 we got there at noon and the lines were already forming. This was in 78 I believe. By the time the doors opened and the out of control crowd pushed the turnstiles over, busted in the doors, and people were trampled... it was a madhouse. Cops drove by all the time and did nothing about the alcohol and drugs going on all day long.. I'll tell the whole story on video someday.
I'm 64
@@RiverDocs I'm 63 but by your time periods on the videos I figured it was close. Just wondering, did you ever happen to make it up to the Michigan jam in 77. That's around 130 mile north of here. If your like me, you are probably very happy that cellphones and cameras were not a good thing.
@@edarnold1426 No but I did make a few Super Jams at Busch Stadium in St Louis. I talk a little about one in the Gary Richrath video. Check it out. I use my cell phone for two things. Talking and text and that is it. I hardly ever carry it with me, couldn't tell you where it is right now lol
kevin cronin best vocalist of reo speedwagon other vocalists didn't pan out.
Agree!!
I hope you do realize that Kevin and Gary reconciled before Gary’s death and that led to Gary rejoining REO for one song back a year before Gary’s death.
I do respect your opinion about the post Richrath albums. However, I loved their post Richrath albums and the first album “The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog, and a Chicken” had some really good rockin’ songs on it. “Live it Up”, “Go For Broke” being two of them.