We recorded the album and toured extensively all over North America. He was everything from being a show man to teaching me recording techniques to meet and greets and how you treat people, he was the guy. He really lived the rock star life which you know was part of his story and part of the tragedy as well. We got the deal to do it and then all they wanted us to do was tour and tour.
Did Gary ever talk to you about joining REO again? Did you ever get to hear that kind of side from him in your talks with him?
It must have been a thrill playing with him as well. The grunge was coming out, the Seattle flavour, but you know, those songs, they hold the test of time.
I remember some of the songs that I was doing back then because we started out with a real small set and then we kept growing more and more. My voice resonates with that, I can really do well with those songs, and it was great. The older albums to me are my favourites. When I met him and started playing with him he had a lot of pride in that album.
I try to do the best of both worlds but obviously giving Gary the edge. Those are fun songs to sing to, I really enjoy them and so does the crowd. That was one of the things that he taught me.
I wrote this one years ago and it has those guitar riffs that go in and out of the vocal lines. Tell me the story behind the name Project was about having too much fun at night, working way too late in the studio. My favorite part of the set last night was making it through this minute segment of songs that we recorded when I was in my early 20s. The fact that we were able to get up there and just kick some ass last night, it felt really good. He wrote that song, and he was the son of a poor man.
Playing that song just brings his spirit back to life. You know, the thing about Gary is that he was one of the first real guitar heroes. He had it going on big time back then.
He deserves to be up there with the rest of them. I had a chance to reconnect with my family. All three of my children had moved into apartments. Two were college students, and one was working. Both of my boys, their campus shut down, so it was kind of silly for them to have apartments. Everybody moved home. I feel great sadness for the families who have had such hardship over the past year and a half and for anyone out there who lost a loved one.
Hopefully people are getting back to work as the country opens up again. It was a love fest. Home News. Issued at the tail end of , it became one of 's biggest albums -- spawning one of the best-known power ballads of all time, "Keep on Loving You," as well as such popular rock radio hits as "Don't Let Him Go" and "Take It on the Run.
Issued in , Life as We Know It managed to go gold, but their fans' sudden disinterest coupled with turmoil between certain bandmembers led to the exit of both Richrath and Gratzer by the end of the decade. REO opted to soldier on, however, with replacement members Dave Amato ex- Ted Nugent , guitar and Bryan Hitt ex- Wang Chung , drums in tow, as their track compilation The Hits proved to be a steady seller over the years.
With interest at an all-time low, REO were set to pack it up for good until a sudden wave of renewed interest in classic rock bands of yesteryear began to sweep the U. In a episode of VH1's Behind the Music series that focused on REO Speedwagon , Cronin and Richrath cleared up any misconceptions of ill will existing between either camp and voiced approval of a possible reunion in the future.
When REO returned to the studio later in the s, however, it was without Richrath. Find Your Own Way Home , the band's first studio album of new songs in more than ten years, featured Cronin along with founding member Neal Doughty on keyboards, longtime bassist Bruce Hall , and '80s additions Amato and Hitt.
This lineup also released an unabashed record of Christmas songs in , titled Not So Silent Night. Richrath died in September at the age of REO Speedwagon continued to tour in the back half of the s, often teaming up on bills featuring Styx and Chicago.
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