If Kevin Cronin knew about this he would definitely reach out. Kevin Cronin is just one of the nicest guys in rock music and still going strong today as soon as the pandemic is over. Actually he does Camp Cronin every week on RUclips.
My old man literally went airborne in a ford ranger over railroad tracks, taking me to a little league football game when I was little and guess what was playing in the background hahaha
I REALLY like that cowbell, yup, needs more cowbell, Jamel needs to get him a cowbell to clang along . Even if there's no cowbell in the song cause it just needs some more cowbell!
If every artist could see the joy, energy, and respect you bring to their music then nobody would ever block you! Thank you for always keeping everything positive!
REO is one of those bands you rock out to when you're hanging with your friends. This is definitely one of the bands you have in the rotation at a cookout or a party. Jamel, you pick some great music to react to. Keep rockin' and keep great music alive.
I'll be honest - I was waiting for this one!! My all-time favorite REO song, and genuitely believe it's one of the best (and dangerous) driving songs. :)
This is one of my all-time favorite songs. The energy this song exudes is off the charts. Every instrument is on point, as is Kevin's vocals. Love this.
I remember when I first heard this song on the radio back in the day. It was first REO song that I had heard and is still my favorite!! Also my favorite album of theirs!! You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish!!
In times like these, songs like Roll With The Changes and Feelin Stronger Everyday by Chicago are still very relevant and applicable to this strange year of 2020. Hopefully better times are ahead.
OH YES STYX......."Grand Illusion" "Renegade" any of these."Come Sail Away" will be played at my funeral. "Too much Time on My Hands" I could go on and on.
AHH! YES! REO is one of those bands that have so many great songs that it's hard to pick a favorite. This one, however, really is one of my very favorites by them! Great song!
The smile on Jamel's face throughout most of the song says it all about his reaction to the song, no words needed. I thought of another REO song while watching this, Tough Guys. Tough Guys has some of the best/funniest lyrics ever written.
Awesome reaction! REO SPEEDWAGON is one of my favorite bands out of the 70s( best decade ever). they used to come to town often or somewhere near me, but not so much lately. I've saw them several times in the 70s and would definitely pay to go see them again. hard to believe they've been playing rock and roll for 50 years and still going strong!
One of the most under-rated bands.They make such wonderful records. Critics treat them like some kind of bubble gum music studio band. If this is on in your car, better watch your foot on the accelerator!
I'm 65 years old and listened to and played rock and roll for over 50 years... certain songs like this one can trigger so much emotion in me personally... thank you so much for listening and appreciating this performance with me....that band, this song, pure perfection... Top Ten All Time! yep and Amen.
What an anthem! This song came out when I was a teenager, and I'm almost 60. I can honestly say it has always been one of my top 5 favorite songs and I still listen to it regularly.
This came out when I was in HS. To this day it is my all time favorite song - enjoyed watching you enjoy this song. We need more songs like this today that lifts your spirit and just make you feel good!
My favorite REO song. It's been with me every time my life has changed, for better or worse. It's cathartic to me, and helps me let go of whatever attachment I'm feeling for whatever came before. Thank you very much for covering it, Jamel!
Absolutely, positively and without a doubt, "Golden Country" on the double live album, "You Get What You Play For," is my all-time favorite REO recording. The lyrics and the music span the years and are so relevant today.
Love REO, one of my favorite bands of all time! Maybe just a suggestion another band from this era STYX, I know you have done a few of their songs but their library is extensive. I would love to see reactions to The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands well really any of their stuff is great! 🎤🎶🎹🎶
The lead guitarist, Gary Richrath (RIP) was a great player and underrated. He is often overlooked. If you want to hear his ability, listen to "The Flying Turkey Trot" from their first live album, "Live: You Get What You Play For!" This was released in 1977, before REO mellowed out some and began releasing lighter songs that Kevin Cronin (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) wrote. Gary Richrath ended up quitting the band in 1989 over artistic differences.
Several have said it, but when that Hammond B3 organ hits, it's like a church organ,and the "Keep on Rollin/Keep on Rollin" sounds like a church choir. But it has the absolutely amazing Les Paul that sounds like the strings are on fire. One of REO's best songs.
You putting up so many great videos today and every day...us enjoying your dancing, your reactions.....THAT is why you've gathered another 1000 subscribers!! It was reading 538K yesterday...look at it now! TY, sir!
There are an increasing number of these “appreciation” videos. Some are really good, others not so much. Yours is the best, in my opinion. I really enjoy them. Well done. Thanks.👍
Jamel...Welcome to every summer of the 1980's! REO was an amazing band to watch live, and were always on our summer concert list! So many great memories seeing them live at Red Rocks outside of Denver. Memories of great times, and of friends who are no longer with us. This song brings goosebumps for the performance, and tears remembering my friends. Thanks for taking me back...
@@jamesfletcher3651 You're more than welcome. Been there, done that myself. It's definitely tough if you have a kid especially. Hang in there and keep your head up.
Here is a fun story about Kevin Cronin. We are from the same suburb in Chicago (Oak Lawn). When my dad was young he had a band and as everyone would say, "little Kevin Cronin" would come hang over the back fence and say, teach me how to play guitar! So my dad and his band would kind of laugh (not in a mean way, it's just that KC was so insistent). So "little Kevin" would hang out and learn how to play guitar. Yrs later my dad's band got an amazing record contract, but because they fought so bad between themselves they blew it. But a lot of great bands came out of the Chicago area around that time, REO, Styx, Cheap Trick. Years later after REO had made it big, Kevin always came back for Oak Lawn days, rode in the parade and was always very good to the community.
DOG! Thank u so much for rockin this song I've requested more than a few times. What a scintillating rocker! So happy you liked what I've loved for decades now. There are about 10-15 songs I will never tire of, and this is one. No breaks necessary. I hear it now, and it is just as fresh as my first listen way back when.
Kevin Cronan on vocals and piano alongside Gary Richrath on lead guitar this band was heaven. This is my favorite song by REO Speedwagon. This is the one and only song from my teenage years that I actually blast the radio when it comes on. My all-time favorite and it broke my heart when Gary split with the band. The feeling he put into his guitar work hits me right in my soul now as it did back then.
I was born in 1960 and my husband of 43 years that I've known all my life grew up on all the great music of the 70's, 80's and the 1990's I raised our 4 children with music from morning until bed.there were so many greats back than and I took my kids to concerts and told them everything not only about the music but the bands and their history, my oldest daughter who is now 42 text me and said thank you mom for introducing me to the best music ever.
REO has always had a great sound.just like their contempraries Journey and Foreigner...havent heard ya hit Scorpions yet ! might a suggest No One Like You - Scorpions..xoxo
'Loved watching your reaction to Roll With The Changes! '60 yr old white dude here. 'Have seen REO perform this song live multiple times. This song is quietly becoming my all-time favorite...well, maybe, 2nd to...can't even say it (Southern Rock 'N Roll Respect...about stairways...I am a one-time, public school teacher of Little Lee). My insight into music is mainly from a guy noted in Appetite For Dysfunction, by Vicky Hamilton...who attributes her knowledge from this guy as well. In other words...love this song...love your reaction. Why is our country falling apart?...find this one...The Monkey's Michael Nesmith - Cruisin'
I can and have listened to this song multiple times in a row in the car on the highway for many years and it never gets old. Listening to it with Jamel is like listening to it for the first time. His reaction makes you feel so good, he should bottle it and sell it. As someone that suffers from major depression, to sit here, listening and smiling with Jamel's reactions, I am grateful for him. Jamel, you are an amazing blessing my friend. Never change.
I have always loved this song, great message, lyrics, instrumentals, arrangements... I am still amazed with Kevin's vocals...I can't imagine all written into the score...unique and impressive...sounds so good, great energy!!!
I can't believe you posted this today. I searched for a reaction to this song because I was having a shitty day and it's one of my favorite songs to pick me up. Just one of those crazy things lining up, I guess. Thanks for the reaction, I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I do! In My Dreams is another banger by REO that I'd recommend
I'm smiling the entire time watching 👀 ☺ your reaction. REO was my obsession during middle school and high school. Class of 85. Saw them and Journey, of course, live back in the day.
Now, imagine watching those dudes live, they were just unbelievable, amazing. By those dudes I mean the lineup they were famous for in the late seventies and eighties. I was lucky enough to have watched them three times in concert
I know it wasn't released as a single, but my favorite song by REO Speedwagon was, is, and always will be Wish You Were Here from their Hi Infidelity album.
Deen Castronovo sang it just as well, AND played drums at the same time. It's a shame he had "issues" but I'm glad he is sober now. ruclips.net/video/-gomgFZsG-0/видео.html
Man!! When we were listening to this song in high school (1978) we didn't have a care in the world and look where we are NOW and everything we've been through! But we STILL just gotta keep on rollin' and Turn Some Pages!! My high school boyfriend lost both his wife and his son to heroin and that's just ONE of the sad friend stories.
I hadn't listened to early REO in a long time and a few weeks ago I got back into it! I relearned why I fell in love with their music and especially Neal's keyboards!
I just stumbled onto Jamal doin an REO search. I'm not able to stop smiling and singin along to the best song ever! Watchin this dude's natural and genuine appreciation and love of this song was inspiring!
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Check out "Golden County" if you haven't already.
I just bought a shirt!
@John Simard I heard the one where you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.
How can we pay to have a request reacted to. I'm addicted. Please take my money.
JAJ, here is the live, Midnight Special performance of "Roll w/ the Changes". Great quality and performance.
ruclips.net/video/eGgLPriZUSA/видео.html
Jamel is exactly the person artists want to listen to their songs. The respect he has for every aspect of a great song is amazing.
Yeah their stuff was great until the 80s sellout. Then came the second worst LP release ever (High Infidel)..... Slow Hand edges it out by a hair.
Jamel seems to truly want to share his obvious love of good music to anyone and everyone. We feel it brother loud and clear. So much respect.
There is a 21 year old up-and-comer that does reactions to a lot of songs similarly, Jay Rah Vision Room is hos RUclips handle.
If Kevin Cronin knew about this he would definitely reach out. Kevin Cronin is just one of the nicest guys in rock music and still going strong today as soon as the pandemic is over. Actually he does Camp Cronin every week on RUclips.
MistiAnne Locke i really like that song, but not any of their other songs.
A screaming Les Paul Guitar, a scorching Hammond b-3 organ, Kevin Cronin's voice, And Jamel. HELL YEAH!
^^^ this
Can I add 100 upvotes?
Don't forget the Smashing Drums and Thumping Bass baby!!!
Jamel now is part or REO...just love it
And the gospel choir!
Gary Richrath is criminally underrated as a guitarist. Truly shred on the double live album.
Bones Jackson yes, one of the best!
Couldn't agree more.
He is surely missed.
To the Ab-So-lute...!!!
He should watch the video of them playing this song. Just seeing Gary play at the same time gives you a completely wonderful feeling.
This song will get you a speeding ticket. Ask me how I know.
"Radar Love" made me get a ticket last year.
😂
Yep! Been there!!
Ok, how do you know 😂😂😂
My old man literally went airborne in a ford ranger over railroad tracks, taking me to a little league football game when I was little and guess what was playing in the background hahaha
Gary Richrath (May he Rest In Peace) could flat out play.....
So true.
Absolutely one of the most underrated rock guitarists in history. He had such a great sound.
Dave is outstanding, but Gary was one of a kind.
@@joeday4293 And stage presence. He so enjoyed playing!
So smooth and he was very melodic, he had a great feel with those bends. I love this song and Riding the Storm Out.
"If you're tired of the same old story, turn some pages". I need to hear that every now and then.
One of the GREATEST songs in Rock & Roll history! Your reactions are PRICELESS! Thank You!
Gary Richrath.......one of the most under appreciated guitarist of the rock era. RIP to one of the best.
Love me some Gary!!! Style all his own, r.i.p. to one of the greats!
It's good to roll with the changes, but it's also good when Jamal whips out that look when the church organ chimes in!
Knew it was gonna happen and I was waiting for it, just grinning. :) great to see his reaction.
The BEST moment in the video bar none. Watched it a few times just to see that again - lol! /d
exactly!
Yep....I was just waiting to see his reaction when it kicked in!!
I'm with you, but Ridin the Storm Out edges this out as my favorite. Jamel should check that out too!
I knew when the keyboard kicked in that those eyebrows were going up, one of my favorite REO Speedwagon songs.
We all need more cow bell and church organ in our lives.
You've got that right!
Hammond B3 w/ the Leslie speakers! A staple of 70’s rock!
I REALLY like that cowbell, yup, needs more cowbell, Jamel needs to get him a cowbell to clang along . Even if there's no cowbell in the song cause it just needs some more cowbell!
Damn right!!!
Truth!
If every artist could see the joy, energy, and respect you bring to their music then nobody would ever block you! Thank you for always keeping everything positive!
@@ingridfitz6671 For sure!
Yes! But the artist's are not the lawyer's and executive's with $$ in their soul who can not see the bigger picture's
Its not the artists that block and claim videos, its the recording companies that own the rights to the songs.
@@johncopple6479 except Don Henley. He, and his team take down and copyright claim videos every day.
REO is one of those bands you rock out to when you're hanging with your friends. This is definitely one of the bands you have in the rotation at a cookout or a party. Jamel, you pick some great music to react to. Keep rockin' and keep great music alive.
Then "I can't fight this feeling anymore" comes on and the radio goes off
I'll be honest - I was waiting for this one!! My all-time favorite REO song, and genuitely believe it's one of the best (and dangerous) driving songs. :)
DITTO
I hear ya, foot goes to the floor, and the dashboard instantly becomes a piano and Hammond B3.
Amanda I'm waiting for Riding the Storm Out another driving song.
Yup
Yep this is a GREAT driving song and WILL get you a ticket
This is one of my all-time favorite songs. The energy this song exudes is off the charts. Every instrument is on point, as is Kevin's vocals. Love this.
So true!!
Such an underated band when it comes to rockin" out! R.I.P. Gary Richrath, you are missed.
My favorite REO song. I try to make this my motto. Life can be tough.
bondoly66 me too....
Same here. I love that line “if you’re tired of the same old story then turn some pages”. Words to live by
Yep, it’s a major spiritual/ psychological tenet that we create suffering when we resist reality, especially changes we have no control over!
Amen!
I knew that organ solo was going to get you! I was waiting for that moment!
REO: "Would you like a little funk with that church organ?"
Jamel: "Yes please"
REO: 😎
One of the best rock songs ever written, performed by one of the best rock bands in the industry.
I remember when I first heard this song on the radio back in the day. It was first REO song that I had heard and is still my favorite!! Also my favorite album of theirs!! You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish!!
In times like these, songs like Roll With The Changes and Feelin Stronger Everyday by Chicago are still very relevant and applicable to this strange year of 2020. Hopefully better times are ahead.
Still agitating for Atlanta Rhythm Section, "I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight."
roll with does not mean just lay back and accept, we roll with it, we get it and prepare...is all good
Amen Brother!
@Steve Yeah, pretty much. Roll with it.
@Steve U big mad. Must not be any fun.
"Roll With The Changes" is quite possibly my favorite R.E.O. song and ". . .Tuna Fish" is definitely my favorite R.E.O. album! Great pick!
Yes!
Love seeing all the Foreigner and REO on here lately.. need to get more Styx into the mix. :)
Suite Madame Blue
Yes,yes and yes!!!😊🥰🤣
Oh yes! I blew up my first stereo on that song!
Jefferson Starship!! The Mickey Thomas era, please. Similar genre to this...
I even like Styx new stuff loved their recent The Mission album
OH YES STYX......."Grand Illusion" "Renegade" any of these."Come Sail Away" will be played at my funeral. "Too much Time on My Hands" I could go on and on.
AHH! YES! REO is one of those bands that have so many great songs that it's hard to pick a favorite. This one, however, really is one of my very favorites by them! Great song!
No doubt it's my favorite by them. Also one of my all time favs.
100%
157 Riverside Avenue.....live...
I'd forgotten how good a song this is. Have to put it back in my lineup now for sure
This is their best work. One of my all-time favorites... great to see Jamel "going to church" like he was in the choir!
The smile on Jamel's face throughout most of the song says it all about his reaction to the song, no words needed. I thought of another REO song while watching this, Tough Guys. Tough Guys has some of the best/funniest lyrics ever written.
Truth!
They think their Full of Fire, but She thinks their Full of Shit. LOL.
Scorching guitar work, RIP Gary Richrath, you rocked hard.
Agreed, 100%. He was the spark that lit that band. I miss him. There will never be another like him.
Unfortunately he drank even harder!
Awesome reaction! REO SPEEDWAGON is one of my favorite bands out of the 70s( best decade ever). they used to come to town often or somewhere near me, but not so much lately. I've saw them several times in the 70s and would definitely pay to go see them again. hard to believe they've been playing rock and roll for 50 years and still going strong!
I just love 1970s REO speed wagon!
70's REO was Hard Rock, while 80's REO where Pop Rock.
I love songs like this -- songs that hit the ground doing about 80 and never let up.
"Time for me to Fly" This was their Masterpiece album
You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna 🐟 Fish. 😆 lol. Great album title!
The title of the album was "You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish"....."Time For Me To Fly" was a cut off the album.
But they obviously TRIED! Got a picture of an attempt right behind Jamal.
I USE TO think REO WAS A 80s BAND LOL ,, WELL I was so WRONG , Released in 1978
THE 70s were so UNDER RATED
" felt the desert burnin until you fall on my like a sweet sun shower." One of my favorite lyrics. Awesome song.
One of the most under-rated bands.They make such wonderful records. Critics treat them like some kind of bubble gum music studio band. If this is on in your car, better watch your foot on the accelerator!
I'm 65 years old and listened to and played rock and roll for over 50 years... certain songs like this one can trigger so much emotion in me personally... thank you so much for listening and appreciating this performance with me....that band, this song, pure perfection... Top Ten All Time! yep and Amen.
Yes! Finally! My favorite REO song!
Same!!! 🎵🎶
Me too! And You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish is one of their best albums!
Man when the electric organ kicks in.....wow baby!!
We were happy back then. 73 and still loving our music
What an anthem! This song came out when I was a teenager, and I'm almost 60. I can honestly say it has always been one of my top 5 favorite songs and I still listen to it regularly.
This came out when I was in HS. To this day it is my all time favorite song - enjoyed watching you enjoy this song. We need more songs like this today that lifts your spirit and just make you feel good!
Jamel, your reactions are priceless. You bring a new appreciation to songs that I have listened to for years and years. Thank you.
My favorite REO song. It's been with me every time my life has changed, for better or worse. It's cathartic to me, and helps me let go of whatever attachment I'm feeling for whatever came before.
Thank you very much for covering it, Jamel!
If you want to hear their best it's "Golden Country" LIVE. Trust me on this.
Absolutely, positively and without a doubt, "Golden Country" on the double live album, "You Get What You Play For," is my all-time favorite REO recording. The lyrics and the music span the years and are so relevant today.
Yes
Been requesting Golden country for MONTHS!!!# IT IS A MUST!!!
I was going to suggest Golden County Live also ! Awesome song ! Great lyrics a d smoking guitar by Gary.
I like Ridin the Storm Out live.
Styx and REO Speedwagon performed this song together on the Arch Allies Live in St Louis album - what an amazing performance.
Every time they come to St. Louis my son and I go. It's one amazing concert. Espically when they were here with Styx.
I saw a performance where Tommy Shaw sang it better than Kevin Cronin!
@@reno145 Tommy is a heckuva singer.
Love REO, one of my favorite bands of all time! Maybe just a suggestion another band from this era STYX, I know you have done a few of their songs but their library is extensive. I would love to see reactions to The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands well really any of their stuff is great! 🎤🎶🎹🎶
The lead guitarist, Gary Richrath (RIP) was a great player and underrated. He is often overlooked. If you want to hear his ability, listen to "The Flying Turkey Trot" from their first live album, "Live: You Get What You Play For!" This was released in 1977, before REO mellowed out some and began releasing lighter songs that Kevin Cronin (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) wrote. Gary Richrath ended up quitting the band in 1989 over artistic differences.
Several have said it, but when that Hammond B3 organ hits, it's like a church organ,and the "Keep on Rollin/Keep on Rollin" sounds like a church choir. But it has the absolutely amazing Les Paul that sounds like the strings are on fire. One of REO's best songs.
You are on a roll with some timeless classics. Thanks.
My favorite of theirs, and one that I had wanted you to get to for a long time. Thanks so much!
Same!!!
YOU CAN TUNE A PIANO,BUT YOU CAN'T TUNE A FISH. One of their best albums. Keep on keeping on Jamal I love seeing and hearing your reactions
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You putting up so many great videos today and every day...us enjoying your dancing, your reactions.....THAT is why you've gathered another 1000 subscribers!! It was reading 538K yesterday...look at it now! TY, sir!
I’ll bet you’re the preferred reaction person, by all artists, on You Tube. You do fantastic work. It’s so real and not fake.
There are an increasing number of these “appreciation” videos. Some are really good, others not so much. Yours is the best, in my opinion. I really enjoy them. Well done. Thanks.👍
That guitar work is the masterful Gary Richrath. Unmistakable Beautiful Guitar!!!!
Jamel...Welcome to every summer of the 1980's! REO was an amazing band to watch live, and were always on our summer concert list! So many great memories seeing them live at Red Rocks outside of Denver. Memories of great times, and of friends who are no longer with us. This song brings goosebumps for the performance, and tears remembering my friends. Thanks for taking me back...
Gary Richrath, the most criminally underrated monster player in rock history
Needed to hear this! Going through a huge change ( a Divorce) and this was a little encouraging. Thank you
Good luck, brother.
It'll get better. 👍👍👍
@@themaddane1550 Thank you
@@LordEagle Thank you
@@jamesfletcher3651 You're more than welcome. Been there, done that myself. It's definitely tough if you have a kid especially. Hang in there and keep your head up.
This song was done on a NASTY blues scale too. Those are some NASTY RIFFS!!! Love that old guitar sound. Just beautiful stuff.
One of the greatest rock n roll songs of all time!! Talk About jamming out! Whew!!!!
Golden Country is REOs' best song. It truly speaks of todays' goings on. It is from 1974 I think.
Thank you sooooo much for playing rolling with the changes. My favorite of all time along with time for me to fly YES!!!
Here is a fun story about Kevin Cronin. We are from the same suburb in Chicago (Oak Lawn). When my dad was young he had a band and as everyone would say, "little Kevin Cronin" would come hang over the back fence and say, teach me how to play guitar! So my dad and his band would kind of laugh (not in a mean way, it's just that KC was so insistent). So "little Kevin" would hang out and learn how to play guitar. Yrs later my dad's band got an amazing record contract, but because they fought so bad between themselves they blew it. But a lot of great bands came out of the Chicago area around that time, REO, Styx, Cheap Trick. Years later after REO had made it big, Kevin always came back for Oak Lawn days, rode in the parade and was always very good to the community.
Hey J, you should check out the band Head East and their song There's never been any reason
Good call!! Great tune!
YES!
Head East ROCKS
since you've been gone is one of my favorites
Great track from a great Album titled --"You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish"....
I like tuna. But isn't tuna fish redundant? You don't eat chicken bird, do you?
@@Lwize ..Apparently the humor in the album title flew over your head.....
@@RM-ks8pp Are we talking flying fish now?
Getting goospumps!!!! Keep on rolling🎹🎸🎶my daughter got me REO's greatest hits cd today ....sooo good!!!
DOG! Thank u so much for rockin this song I've requested more than a few times. What a scintillating rocker! So happy you liked what I've loved for decades now. There are about 10-15 songs I will never tire of, and this is one. No breaks necessary. I hear it now, and it is just as fresh as my first listen way back when.
Still hoping or Ten Years After “I’d Love To Change The World”. Studio version with lyrics would be best.
Same! Love that song!
YES.....great song. A favorite of mine.
That song by ten years after is ICONIC
Choo Choo Mama
I'm Going Home
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE “SIT DOWN, STRAP IN, SHUT UP AND HOLD ON” SONGS
Kevin Cronan on vocals and piano alongside Gary Richrath on lead guitar this band was heaven. This is my favorite song by REO Speedwagon. This is the one and only song from my teenage years that I actually blast the radio when it comes on. My all-time favorite and it broke my heart when Gary split with the band. The feeling he put into his guitar work hits me right in my soul now as it did back then.
I was born in 1960 and my husband of 43 years that I've known all my life grew up on all the great music of the 70's, 80's and the 1990's I raised our 4 children with music from morning until bed.there were so many greats back than and I took my kids to concerts and told them everything not only about the music but the bands and their history, my oldest daughter who is now 42 text me and said thank you mom for introducing me to the best music ever.
REO has always had a great sound.just like their contempraries Journey and Foreigner...havent heard ya hit Scorpions yet ! might a suggest No One Like You - Scorpions..xoxo
This and "Riding the Storm Out" are two of their best three. The other is "Golden Country". I recommend the live version.
REO made a ton of great music that is so underrated.
I'll add "Keep Pushin On" along with those three!
'Loved watching your reaction to Roll With The Changes! '60 yr old white dude here. 'Have seen REO perform this song live multiple times. This song is quietly becoming my all-time favorite...well, maybe, 2nd to...can't even say it (Southern Rock 'N Roll Respect...about stairways...I am a one-time, public school teacher of Little Lee). My insight into music is mainly from a guy noted in Appetite For Dysfunction, by Vicky Hamilton...who attributes her knowledge from this guy as well. In other words...love this song...love your reaction.
Why is our country falling apart?...find this one...The Monkey's Michael Nesmith - Cruisin'
I can and have listened to this song multiple times in a row in the car on the highway for many years and it never gets old. Listening to it with Jamel is like listening to it for the first time. His reaction makes you feel so good, he should bottle it and sell it. As someone that suffers from major depression, to sit here, listening and smiling with Jamel's reactions, I am grateful for him. Jamel, you are an amazing blessing my friend. Never change.
Look at you with the R E O. Lolol. He can be taught.😂😂😂😂Thanks Jamel. Love this tune.
Hey Starr! Fancy seeing you here! ♥️
Bill H Hi brother Bill! Jamel is my fave! So glad to see you here.
@@starrwilson6818 yes. He's a good spirit. How are things in Portland now? We were in Vale for a bit, but are staying in Idaho now.
Bill H you’d never know anything was happening if you weren’t downtown or watching the news. I posted a second Portland video the other day.
Bill H Idaho is beautiful.
Loved this album, the cover, & the title.
Loved your reaction man!! This is one of my all time favorite songs!!
I have always loved this song, great message, lyrics, instrumentals, arrangements... I am still amazed with Kevin's vocals...I can't imagine all written into the score...unique and impressive...sounds so good, great energy!!!
I can't believe you posted this today. I searched for a reaction to this song because I was having a shitty day and it's one of my favorite songs to pick me up. Just one of those crazy things lining up, I guess. Thanks for the reaction, I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I do! In My Dreams is another banger by REO that I'd recommend
"Don't Let Him Go",,, REO
I'm smiling the entire time watching 👀 ☺ your reaction. REO was my obsession during middle school and high school. Class of 85. Saw them and Journey, of course, live back in the day.
GOLDEN COUNTRY!!!
Such a great, uplifting song!
Check out their live version at Red Rocks where they team up with Chicago. Crazy good!
Red Rocks. Best venue ever, right up there with George, Washington. Saw BB King at Red Rocks, third row center. What a class act.
Now, imagine watching those dudes live, they were just unbelievable, amazing. By those dudes I mean the lineup they were famous for in the late seventies and eighties. I was lucky enough to have watched them three times in concert
I knew you’d love this when someone suggested it a while back! Church organ!!!! You’re so delightful! And I love REO SO MUCH!
I know it wasn't released as a single, but my favorite song by REO Speedwagon was, is, and always will be Wish You Were Here from their Hi Infidelity album.
Love that you love this song! Please do Journey's "Mother Father" -live from Houston-Steve Perry's best vocal PERFORMANCE-HANDS down!!❤️
Deen Castronovo sang it just as well, AND played drums at the same time. It's a shame he had "issues" but I'm glad he is sober now.
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Man!! When we were listening to this song in high school (1978) we didn't have a care in the world and look where we are NOW and everything we've been through! But we STILL just gotta keep on rollin' and Turn Some Pages!! My high school boyfriend lost both his wife and his son to heroin and that's just ONE of the sad friend stories.
Legendary song by a highly underrated band !
Golden Country
You need to do Turkey Trot by REO. AWESOME guitar solo by Gary Richrath.
Here I am playing air guitar while you jam to this song. It doesn't get any better! PHEW! This song wore me out! I'm ready for a :COLD ONE"!!!
I hadn't listened to early REO in a long time and a few weeks ago I got back into it! I relearned why I fell in love with their music and especially Neal's keyboards!
Please do a reaction of “Golden Country” by REO Speedwagon
By far their best song. They should have done more of the rocking and less of the sap and cheese.
I just stumbled onto Jamal doin an REO search. I'm not able to stop smiling and singin along to the best song ever! Watchin this dude's natural and genuine appreciation and love of this song was inspiring!
Gary Richrath was criminally underrated as a guitar player. Saw him live and he did things that night that was unreal!