Gary Richrath -
Official site. History, interviews, news articles, photo gallery, MP3s, CD
information, lyrics, and FAQs about REO's former lead guitarist.
REO Speedwagon - Official site.
Appearances, newsletter and merchandise.
REO Speedwagon Fan Club -
Newsletter, concert photos, interviews, reviews, memorabilia, tour schedule,
message center, polls, and links.
Articles
Am I
Right? - REO Speedwagon song parodies, misheard lyrics and untapped
commercials
Faceless Bands
- Reprint of infamous Rolling Stone article describing REO, Foreigner, Styx
and Rush. Take the "Who's who?" test.
Singer now enjoys Speedwagon's trip - Kevin Cronin discusses the band's
low point of playing county fairs and contemplates selling off their
equipment. (January 19, 2001)
Name Game - The former REO Speedealer learns you can't fight this
feeling or a big-name band. (August 31, 2000)
No Mo' REO - Details of legal dispute between REO Speedealer and REO
Speedwagon. (March 25, 1999)
War
Horses From 70's Tour Together - Instead of Can't Stop Rockin',
naysayers might wish to rename the REO-Foreigner-Frampton tour Can't Stop
Wheezin'. (August 30, 1996)
Saber
On-line - REO Speedwagon talk about their early years. (November
4, 1987)
MusicMoz: REO Speedwagon - Comprehensive discography of the band's
musical releases, videos and soundtracks, complete with biography, reviews
and images.
REO - UK site featuring
biography, discography, concert finder, trivia and links.
Epinions.com -
"The show was lackluster, even for two of the best arena bands in history."
Ink19.com - "This may be the single most embarrassing, hackneyed piece
of marketing crap to ever be foisted on music purchasers."
Rockwriter -
"There's plenty of good music in REO's set, but little that hasn't been
recorded in better live versions elsewhere."
DVD.net -
"The REO Home Game is...50 completely ridiculous trivia questions served up
on static screens that would most likely even have the band's mothers
scratching their heads in complete befuddlement."
Epinions - REO
Fanatic - "When greedy record companies behind your once-favorite band
try to rip off fans again and again, it's time to take a stand."
Music-Reviewer - "The label that tried to resurrect the career of
Christopher Cross either haven't learned their lesson yet, or still believe
they'll strike lightning in the nostalgic bottle.."
Classical Music Review - "Before the success of High Infidelity allowed
Kevin Cronin to assume a dictatorship role, thus turning REO into corporate
rock, this is what REO was all about."
Epinions.com -
Daumco - "Many times their live shows were more exciting than their
records, which is why You Get What You Play For, a live run-through of their
greatest hits, is one of their better albums of the era."
Digitally Obsessed - "Despite these terrible interviewing skills, the
band does well at describing what makes them tick."
Open Up And Say - "For those who are rabid fans of a group and who have
not had their fill of VH1 "Behind The Music" documentaries"
Video
Vista - "Unfortunately, the host and interviewer - a blonde bimbo called
Alex - does a very poor job..."
Classic rockers REO Speedwagon rebound after a mid-career slump - St
Joseph Civic Center, St. Joseph, Missouri. "They never had a drummer explode
onstage, but REO Speedwagon singer Kevin Cronin admits that things got
pretty Spinal Tap-ish for his band in the early 1990s." (2003/10/21)
Rock Dinosaurs Show They're Not Extinct - MCI Center, Washington DC.
"These throwbacks may not have had an original musical idea since
shag-carpeted vans cruised the highways, but they give the audience exactly
what it wants." (July 23, 2003)
Loopfest -
Tweeter Center, Tinley Park, IL. "The band encored with an abbreviated
version of its classic performance piece, 157 Riverside Avenue, which sadly
lacked the humor and impact the band once gave to the song as an impromptu
jam in its heyday." (July 19, 2003)
Kweevak:
Classic Rock's Main Event - Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY. "This concert tour
is aptly named the Main Event because the show has the feel of a circus,
rock concert and professional boxing match all in one." (July 13,
2003)
Review: Journey, REO and Styx - Blue Cross Arena, Rochester, NY. "To
quote the kid from Sixth Sense, 'I see dead people.' No wait, it's the
Classic Rock's Main Event Tour." (July 9, 2003)
Styx And REO
Speedwagon - Memorial Coliseum, Portland OR. "Kevin Cronin looked and
spoke more like the Reverend Horton Heat than the walking fro I remembered."
(March 30, 2002)
The Wayback
Machine - TD Waterhouse Center, Orlando, FL. "REO's music was a huge
part of my life during my high school years in the late 70's. Their lyrics
influenced my approach to life more than my parents, my Catholic upbringing,
or any of my teachers at school." (February 6, 2001)
Styx, REO Still
Have 80's Enthusiasm - Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN. "Lead singer Kevin
Cronin, who was obviously inspired by the crowd's response to his music, was
overzealous in telling stories with each song. Cronin droned on about a few
of his songs while the audience waited patiently for him to begin the next
number. Unfortunately, the REO show was too much like a Behind the Music
special." (November 19, 2000)
Styx, REO, Money Flood Fans With Hits - Post Gazette Pavilion,
Pittsburgh, PA. "He might've been sporting a new punky blond hairstyle, but
Cronin's high, reedy voice sounded just like it did on his band's hits of
yore." (June 7, 2000)
Too Much Time On My Hands - Tweeter Center in Mansfield MA. "I was
astounded that so many people with so few teeth and even fewer chromosomes
were there...spiritually, emotionally and physically." (May 30, 2000)
Entertainment Ave: REO Speedwagon - Review of a concert with Foreigner
and Peter Frampton at The New World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, Illinois.
(August 1, 1996)
Speedwagon Takes 'Em Back to Reagan Rock - Station Square, Pittsburgh,
PA. "The only real problem with an REO show is the show itself, with its
arena rock theatrics and Cronin lapsing into a Sam Kinison voice anytime he
feels like asking the crowd how it's doing." (July 26, 1994)
GuitarTabs.com
- Tabs to 157 Riverside Avenue, Say You Love Me, Son of a Poor Man, Only the
Strong Survive and 8 others
Harmony-Central.com - Chords and Tabs for Just For You, 'Til the Rivers
Run Dry, Roll With The Changes, Can't Fight This Feeling, Take It on the Run
and Keep Pushin'
