We went to School in Missouri so our school was on each of their earlier tours when they moved their own equipment-I have their first two Albums/ Wow/ they are still good
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Me 8 31 1962. We lived thru the late 70s and 80s. So lucky
I'm 64...REO Speedwagon is still one of my favorite bands. Not one band these days even comes close to knowing how to create this music. I am so thankful that I grew up in the 70's. All of those clasic rock and roll bands!!!
I'm 68, remember them for quite a while as opening band at concerts before they came into their own. Loved the early stuff, some didn't like them going over to bubble gum music but very talented & underrated group esp. Gary Richrath .
Bassist/vocalist, Bruce Hall's voice was absolutely the perfect choice for this classic REO hit! I love Kevin's pipes, but Bruce's tone rocks and rips this tune like no other! 😎 And Gary's guitar speaks for itself... simply one of rock's premier guitarist's... ever! 🪨 🎸
Gary always looked like he was having the best time of his life while he was playing, smiling a lot and playing to the crowd and camera. Very underrated guitar player.
I agree. He was always moving to the beat and smiling. Seen them many times when Gary was with the band. Dave is awesome but huge shoes to fill. RIP Gary
The rock music of 70s and 80s was just perfection. REO, Journey, Foreigner....nothing comes close since, especially live. Zero autotune, 100% raw talent.
Man you people stuck in the past cracked me up. I really like the music of my youth to REO Speedwagon and foreigner forget journey but there’s plenty a great music today as well.
Wayne Oost Gary is the most underrated lead guitar magician in the history of rock and roll. That said, he tragically drank and ate his way out of the band and to his coffin. RIP. Dave Amato is talented but he’s no Gary
Gary Richrath would have turned 73 today. Gary Dean Richrath October 18, 1949 Peoria, Illinois - September 13, 2015 Gary was originally a sax player. And self taught himself on the guitar.. I'm glad he did that.. Rock In Peace Gary..
And that ladies and gentlemen is how you burn the frets off a double cutaway Les Paul while the rest your kickass band tear it up live. This band NEVER gets the credits they have earned. Gary's guitar work, just wow. Bruce's vocals simply rock. Sooooo much talent on that stage. Love REO.
I was in HS when high infidelity came out..........everyone had the album or cassette. Between Back in Black and reo, they ruled the airwaves in Detroit. WRIF ... BABY
Didn't know how fucking good I had it back then !!!!
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Im 62, i take 1 day a month. Sit in my lazy boy drink half a bottle of knob 120 and watch you tube. Reo cheap trick elo styx foreigner judas priest triumph on and on and on. Best music the planet will ever know. Im blessed.
Wow...Gary Richrath kicked some serious guitar ass...that is one man that did not die with the music left in him...he shared it and like many others, I am in awe. Thank you REO for working and playing hard. RIP Gary!
Yes indeed Gary was the best and at his prime in the 80's. I heard a interview one day where Kevin stated " You guys come to see the REO show but I get to look to my left and see the Gary Richrath show. That has always stuck with me and so true. RIP Gary you are not forgotten.
My very first concert was REO Speedwagon on their You Can Tune a Piano tour in Detroit. UFO backed them up. That concert set the bar extremely high. Seeing shows at Cobo Arena in the 70's was a magical experience and has made me appreciate live music and to be a musician myself, ever since.
Roger Slemer Oh Man! I have to take it back! You are right! Roger Fisher is THE most underrated! Great point! Love his playing on the first 4 heart albums!
Man I have loved this song since I was a kid. My dad always listened to some awesome music that inspired me to be the only female drummer in middle/high school :) This is one of the best REO songs ever!!
This is absolutely one of the greatest live bands I have ever seen...Im 67 and have been going to concerts since I was 15 and these guys leave it all out there! Coming to Dallas in August and I will be there!!
How is is possible to play that guitar and make it sing the way Gary does, and he does it so effortlessly? REO Speedwagon is one of the hardest working bands ever!
This is easily one for the "Gary Richrath is a bad ass" highlight reel. I can remember watching this specific video on a Saturday night back when MTV played music. Every Saturday night they would play an entire concert by one of my favorite bands. I remember thinking: a) Man...Bruce is a really talented singer! b) Man...I wish REO would have remained a rock n roll band! c) Gary Richrath is easily THE most underrated guitar player in the world. I had always been a fan of Gary's, but I believe this song really highlighted the aggressiveness of his playing. His "straight through a Marshall" tone was impeccable. The color he would add to a song by way of a simple string bend or artificial harmonic (chirp) was revolutionary. As far as I'm concerned, Gary IS and will ALWAYS be REO Speedwagon. Absolutely no disrespect to the current lineup...but once Gary was gone...it wasn't the same. Gary...I pray you realize how much you're missed. You were the guitar hero of my teenage years...and the one responsible for improving my life. On behalf of thousands of other guitar players, thank you! We will never forget you.
Rock and Roll!!! ❤ Gary will always have a place in my heart. He used to call me his little brother,. I'm an old roadie who was lucky enough to have worked with this awesome guy, Thank you, Gary and Michael, Fun st all costs! 🤘👍😎
Lol, 61 here too, and by the looks of the replies, you've got a lot of company! 👍 I actually met Bruce Hall in a small club near Wilkes-Barre, PA (of all places), back in like '90 or '91, and man, super nice guy. 🤘
This is one of my all time favourite rock tracks. EVER. The guitar solos are just out of this f world and I have listened to this track literally thousands of times over the years. Some days I just put it on repeat for the whole day! I had just found rock music and this track has stayed with me all my life and will continue to do so until I leave this place. If I could I'd have it at my bloody funeral!
REO would never have made it to the ''Big Time'' without Gary in my opinion. He made it look so easy , and to say he was underrated is an understatement from what i understand. Guys like Gary, Randy Rhoads , Eddie Van Halen dont come around too often . We were lucky to have had them with us in our time , thats for certain. If i could only turn back time .
Now that's how you play guitar! From now on! THAT'S HOW YOU Play! You play just like that! What a song! What a band! Long live REO Speed wagon! Wow! 😊 Shawn
I comeback couple times a month to watch this video!! Takes me back to my youth .Cruzin, crankin this as loud as I could get it!!! In my 74 Charger.. 😃
Loved REO until they got into the sappy power ballads of the 80's. I know they sold more records when they did that, but I like their harder/edgier sound of the 70's.
Exactly. Those ballads served me well though. Mostly High Infidelity. But then I got married and I could throw that crap out. Then I got old but I have UA-cam. Life is cyclical.
Yes indeed Gary was the best and at his prime in the 80's. I heard a interview one day where Kevin stated " You guys come to see the REO show but I get to look to my left and see the Gary Richrath show. That has always stuck with me and so true. RIP Gary you are not forgotten.
Been going to ROCK concerts since the late 70s and I can honestly say that REO is one of the few bands I have seen that sound just like STUDIO but louder! Always impressed by them.....
Damn I need a cigarette after that. Now that's how it's done not like the crap of today. I am so thankful that I grew up at a time when music was actually made by real musicians and singers (again) not like the crap of today.
as a truck driver this was always my anthem...I quit driving 9 years ago and now the reason I did and I are no longer together so it would appear that it is time to roll down the windows and crank this song up cause I'm going back on the road again...
one of the best bands around! I got to share the stage with REO Speedwagon back in the early 80s was a great time and date became very very very good friends with Gary I miss him each and every day we'll Jam again Gary that's for sure Rest in paradise my friend
After a song like this, Bruce Hall should have been tapped as lead singer and front man for the band. Under his leadership, REO never would have turned into a bubblegum 1980s pop band.
I've had that thought before. I grew up down the street from Bruce and his 3 bass playing brothers. He never played a ballad before he joined Speedwagon.
I've never been to a Metalica concert, but I can imagine, and I haven't seen Speedwagon since Mike Murphy was with them in about '74. I saw them with Cronin around time of T.W.O. album. Lutrell I saw a bunch of times, the rockinest version. Cronin and Brian Hit sat in with our band at a local club about 10 years ago. Kevin was flabbergasted that we didn't know his songs. Get a grip dude. We faked our way through Keep Pushin and Roll with the Changes. Two really strong songs. I think I'm just a little bitter at how quickly Gary was thrown under the bus when he needed the band the most.
I remember him with Purple Haze, Feather Train, One Eyed Jacks and Silver Bullet. I never saw him with Jessie Ross Band and I've never seen him in person with Speedwagon.
I love watching this video. Not only is Gary Richrath a great guitarist, but he has a charisma about him with that infectuous smile that just makes me want to watch him. Outstanding performance by Bruce Hall on vocals tops it off.
In an interview in the 2000’s, Bruce Hall was asked if drugs and alcohol had on any effect on his touring and he said “I don’t remember the 80’s.” Rock and Roll! Exemplary! “My Grand Slam is supposed to come with sausage.”
When REO still had guitar cords and knew how to rock. Kevin Cronin almost made it through a song without having his voice heard alone, but not quite. I swear the man loves hearing himself.
@@mikealter7712 I thought was just a tidy way to let the engineers get the mic levels adjusted back again before the transition into the next song. Could very easily be wrong, though.
I think this was around 1979. I saw them in Oct 79 and didn't know one band member from the other. We stood up front on the right side of the stage and it's the best concert memory I have. Gary always smiling and playing the hell out of that guitar. He had such a stage presence and we couldn't have got a better view of that show on that night. Back on the road is my fav reo song!
I had similar memory of them in mid-late 70's. Concerts where they were the opening acts & not the main course. But they came into their own perhaps w/help of commercialism. This tune my fav also.
I heard both, The '80's had the "new" rock edge, and some of the greatest albums ever created were at Westwood One. True some of the bands faded away, but it was the retaliation against disco that made them impressive. I will agree that the '70's saved rock..........but, I received My License in ' 82, and the rest as they say is History.
Would have loved to have seen Bruce Hall sing more, he had a voice for rock. And the only thing missing from Gary's playing was smoke coming from that fret board. I loved watching him play this, he was having a blast.
What made Gary such a great rock 🎸guitarist? He wasn't afraid 2b melodic w/bite! He could shred and play 2 the song! Reo was never the same after Gary left! RiP! Rock 🎸on!🤘🤩🤟
To me this one of my top 5 Rock songs of all time... Kicking Ass. Unbelievable guitar play by highly underrated gary and i love the raw singing of bruce hall.
another band from life has called it quits. Thank you REO Speedwagon for some of the best Rock n Roll of my youth. The 70s and early 80s.( I'm 64)
Will miss you guys- Heard that The Drummer has a restaurant south of Here around Bonita Springs Fl
We went to School in Missouri so our school was on each of their earlier tours when they moved their own equipment-I have their first two Albums/ Wow/ they are still good
Me 8 31 1962. We lived thru the late 70s and 80s. So lucky
You're absolutely right . They were a true rock and roll band. Saw them in Owensboro,Ky in 2023. So goodddddd still
Not so fast, bub.
I got tickets to see them again this May...
I'm 64...REO Speedwagon is still one of my favorite bands. Not one band these days even comes close to knowing how to create this music. I am so thankful that I grew up in the 70's. All of those clasic rock and roll bands!!!
I'm 63 and I love them!!!! ❤🎶❤️
I'm 62 and still love this music.
I'm 68, remember them for quite a while as opening band at concerts before they came into their own. Loved the early stuff, some didn't like them going over to bubble gum music but very talented & underrated group esp. Gary Richrath .
70s were awesome!! Tons of the greatest music ever!
I think my favorite REO Speedwagon tunes!
Gary Richrath You are the best and you’re very missed God bless you and your family ladies were the best
80’s
Lol
Bassist/vocalist, Bruce Hall's voice was absolutely the perfect choice for this classic REO hit! I love Kevin's pipes, but Bruce's tone rocks and rips this tune like no other! 😎 And Gary's guitar speaks for itself... simply one of rock's premier guitarist's... ever! 🪨 🎸
Plus, he wrote it! Couldn't agree more!
Agree totally! I actually wish Kevin hadn't jumped on to sing the second verse with him here.
Wow .... yea this guy is more rock than pop.
@@l8tapexNot that Cronin didn't do great stuff, but I can't help but wonder what Hall and Rickrath could have done if allowed to progress beyond this
He has way more of a hard rock voice than Kevin.
Gary always looked like he was having the best time of his life while he was playing, smiling a lot and playing to the crowd and camera. Very underrated guitar player.
Two words why:
Dr
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Effortless
He enjoyed what he was doing, as did the rest of the band!
I agree. He was always moving to the beat and smiling. Seen them many times when Gary was with the band. Dave is awesome but huge shoes to fill. RIP Gary
@@SuperGalefordMusic is the best drug.
The rock music of 70s and 80s was just perfection. REO, Journey, Foreigner....nothing comes close since, especially live. Zero autotune, 100% raw talent.
It really was perfect
Amen to that! @ djm4457, I grew up in the 80's listening to all of them. Boy,how I miss those days!
Man you people stuck in the past cracked me up. I really like the music of my youth to REO Speedwagon and foreigner forget journey but there’s plenty a great music today as well.
Put in some Loverboy & Honeymoon Suite & NOW WE'RE ROCKIN'!!!!!!
I would add Billy Squire and AC DC..........All of those bands ruled the airwaves
in '81.
REO was never the same after Gary was gone. One of the greatest guitar players for sure. Seen him live and up close several times. RIP brother.
That he was he was immortal REO went down after running Gary off
Amen and hallelujah! Agreed
Wayne Oost Gary is the most underrated lead guitar magician in the history of rock and roll. That said, he tragically drank and ate his way out of the band and to his coffin. RIP. Dave Amato is talented but he’s no Gary
Right on...🎸 There will never be another one...!!! I just can't handle Cronin...
Gary Richrath would have turned 73 today.
Gary Dean Richrath October 18, 1949 Peoria, Illinois - September 13, 2015
Gary was originally a sax player. And self taught himself on the guitar..
I'm glad he did that.. Rock In Peace Gary..
Gary was guitar God !
And that ladies and gentlemen is how you burn the frets off a double cutaway Les Paul while the rest your kickass band tear it up live. This band NEVER gets the credits they have earned. Gary's guitar work, just wow. Bruce's vocals simply rock. Sooooo much talent on that stage. Love REO.
Gone MUCH too soon... #oldtyedyeguy
@@oldtyedyeguy aaaa
Gary Richrath is a GOD. I owe my love of playing, to HIM.
Bruce Hall and Gary Rick rath rock this song
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Gary was the best guitar I ever saw
He was damn good. One of my favorites too.
When ROCK WAS ROCK 😊😊😊
Best bands Ever!! AMEN TO THAT❤!
Gary played his heart out on this song, totally AWESOME!
That's all he knew how to do.
No Scabby Radish. Gary was an excellent guitarist who played well on all their music.
This Song Kicks Ass
Don't give af what anyone thinks. One of the best bands ever. Their live performances proving this.
I was in HS when high infidelity came out..........everyone had the album or cassette. Between Back in Black and reo, they ruled the airwaves in Detroit.
WRIF ... BABY
Undisputed
I loved you the day i met you and i will you love to the day i die..Classic ❤ REO
My absolute favorite REO song. Thankful to see em twice back in 78 n 81
My favorite too ❤️
The problem with radio is that they have 100% forgotten about great songs like this.
Didn't know how fucking good I had it back then !!!!
Im 62, i take 1 day a month. Sit in my lazy boy drink half a bottle of knob 120 and watch you tube. Reo cheap trick elo styx foreigner judas priest triumph on and on and on. Best music the planet will ever know. Im blessed.
That dude should have sang more often, one of my favorite REO songs
Definitely sounds like rock. He should have been the lead singer.
My favorite. Brother
Kevin Cronin@@johnmourer5747
damn right. maybe their music wouldnt have ended up the way it did.
Bruce Hall is awesome
Wow...Gary Richrath kicked some serious guitar ass...that is one man that did not die with the music left in him...he shared it and like many others, I am in awe. Thank you REO for working and playing hard. RIP Gary!
Yes indeed Gary was the best and at his prime in the 80's.
I heard a interview one day where Kevin stated " You guys come to see the REO show but I get to look to my left and see the Gary Richrath show. That has always stuck with me and so true.
RIP Gary you are not forgotten.
There was just nothing like the music of the 70's! Even the concert atmospheres rocked! Hasn't been the same since.
My very first concert was REO Speedwagon on their You Can Tune a Piano tour in Detroit. UFO backed them up. That concert set the bar extremely high. Seeing shows at Cobo Arena in the 70's was a magical experience and has made me appreciate live music and to be a musician myself, ever since.
+Mike LaPlante I was there too!! Best concert ever!!
Diana Gruver wish I was an adult back then. The world was a better place
my favorite concert back in Miami same album 1978
Hey gorgeous I saw you on the back on the road again live 2010 version! You told Kevin to shut the hell up!😂😂😂😂😂😘
THE most underrated guitar player in the history of rock. No question.
100% agreed Gary and Roger Fisher from Heart two of the most marginally underrated guitarists in the world
Roger Slemer Oh Man! I have to take it back! You are right! Roger Fisher is THE most underrated! Great point! Love his playing on the first 4 heart albums!
Agree, as well Elliot Easton, and in my opinion Don Felder though he got credits, he is insanely underrated and under appreciated in the industry.
Mark Cox No. Robin Trower is.
Don't dismiss Warner E. Hodges.....
D A M N. Bruce ROCKED that song, and Richrath can f***ing SHREDED it!!
And with such ease!
Bruce Hall is a much better singer for a rock band than Cronin.
@@dlshigh don't know if i'm just being too picky, but i never liked the way Kevin draws out his R's when he sings lol
Man I have loved this song since I was a kid. My dad always listened to some awesome music that inspired me to be the only female drummer in middle/high school :) This is one of the best REO songs ever!!
Drummer, that’s awesome!
You go girl! Show them how it's done. ❤
Good on u ...keep pounding
You and me too baby...had some good times and party's in the back seat listening to reo....😜👍😘
Gary played his ass off every time he played. What a guitar player he was.
Haven't heard this song in YEARS. One of my favorite REO tunes. One of their vastly under rated ones.
RIP Gary , you guys ROCKED ,with the best of them 😮😊😅
This is absolutely one of the greatest live bands I have ever seen...Im 67 and have been going to concerts since I was 15 and these guys leave it all out there! Coming to Dallas in August and I will be there!!
How is is possible to play that guitar and make it sing the way Gary does, and he does it so effortlessly? REO Speedwagon is one of the hardest working bands ever!
I WAS WALKING DOWN 6TH ST IN AUSTIN..AND HEARD THAT WAILING
GUITAR..COME FROM A BAR..AND
INSTANTLY KNEW..IT COULD ONLY BE GARY..SO BLESSED TO SEE THAT
This is easily one for the "Gary Richrath is a bad ass" highlight reel. I can remember watching this specific video on a Saturday night back when MTV played music. Every Saturday night they would play an entire concert by one of my favorite bands. I remember thinking: a) Man...Bruce is a really talented singer! b) Man...I wish REO would have remained a rock n roll band! c) Gary Richrath is easily THE most underrated guitar player in the world. I had always been a fan of Gary's, but I believe this song really highlighted the aggressiveness of his playing. His "straight through a Marshall" tone was impeccable. The color he would add to a song by way of a simple string bend or artificial harmonic (chirp) was revolutionary. As far as I'm concerned, Gary IS and will ALWAYS be REO Speedwagon. Absolutely no disrespect to the current lineup...but once Gary was gone...it wasn't the same. Gary...I pray you realize how much you're missed. You were the guitar hero of my teenage years...and the one responsible for improving my life. On behalf of thousands of other guitar players, thank you! We will never forget you.
A raw tone with 10 pounds of enthusiasm is hard to beat no 10 tons
Amen brother
Rock and Roll!!! ❤
Gary will always have a place in my heart.
He used to call me his little brother,. I'm an old roadie who was lucky enough to have worked with this awesome guy, Thank you, Gary and Michael,
Fun st all costs! 🤘👍😎
Dear God, PLEASE give us back Gary Richrath. We will send you Kanye West and Justin Beiber.
+Andrew Chase Couldn't say it better if I tried.
i wouldnt mind trading 10 shitty pop star souls for him
Hell yeah
no kidding agree 100%
Andrew Chase
that sounds like a great idea! 👍👍
Memorial Day 2024 and still listening to this band..
61 now 😃😃
I'm 60 and still listening to ALL of the music from those days!! I'm right there with you!!!!
Gotcha 62 not by much
78 and listening the day after the 4th of July! Love REO and hate Gary is no longer with us! Got to see them twice while they were all together!
Lol, 61 here too, and by the looks of the replies, you've got a lot of company! 👍 I actually met Bruce Hall in a small club near Wilkes-Barre, PA (of all places), back in like '90 or '91, and man, super nice guy. 🤘
64 here! And I hear ya !!!!!
This is one of my all time favourite rock tracks. EVER. The guitar solos are just out of this f world and I have listened to this track literally thousands of times over the years. Some days I just put it on repeat for the whole day! I had just found rock music and this track has stayed with me all my life and will continue to do so until I leave this place. If I could I'd have it at my bloody funeral!
Best song with rocker Gary and noy sappy ballad guy Kevin Cronin.
I’ve always loved this song.
These guys are all awesome. But Gary. Wow. Something about the way he plays and his movements ❤️❤️❤️
REO would never have made it to the ''Big Time'' without Gary in my opinion. He made it look so easy , and to say he was underrated is an understatement from what i understand. Guys like Gary, Randy Rhoads , Eddie Van Halen dont come around too often . We were lucky to have had them with us in our time , thats for certain. If i could only turn back time .
Back in the day... REO cranked, cruising around in my muscle car with my high school sweetheart. Damn where have the years gone?
VTV this thing called aging
Like Seger wrote/sang, ‘...20 Years, Where’d They Go? 20 Years, I Don’t Know...’.
My favorite REO song, Gary and Foghat's Rod Price were two of the most underrated guitarists, RIP to both.
Now that's how you play guitar! From now on! THAT'S HOW YOU Play! You play just like that! What a song! What a band! Long live REO Speed wagon! Wow! 😊 Shawn
I come here once a week...what a monster he was! Miss him terribly!! A true legend...don't make em like that anymore...
No one will EVER bring this song to life like Gary Richrath. Gary, we miss you, man.
Always my favourite REO classic , one of the best guitar solos ever
How could anyone sit still while listening to this classic hit!!
No comments in the past 7 years is shameful.. Gary Richrath is a King And he carried REO
He sure did!!!! ❤🎶❤️🎶❤️
Seen many of the top guitar players in the world and Gary is definitely with them
Nah. Give credit where credit is due...
My Favorite REO Song!!!! Gary Shreds On The Guitar!!!! Excellent Job On Vocals And Song Writing Bruce!!!!🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶
I comeback couple times a month to watch this video!! Takes me back to my youth .Cruzin, crankin this as loud as I could get it!!! In my 74 Charger.. 😃
Gary was one of my guitar heros! He made it look like he was a vessel that music flowed through!
YEAH!! Gary.. WE love you!! 🎸🎸
My fav REO song.. period.. love the guitars...music was so much better back then.. today's music stinks..
You my friend are right 👍🏼
Technically speaking, it all sounds the same. That is a scientifically proven fact.
I agree!
Loved REO until they got into the sappy power ballads of the 80's. I know they sold more records when they did that, but I like their harder/edgier sound of the 70's.
@@lisanorris4921 I feel the same. When REO released High infidelity, I had enough!! (Top 40) The late Gary Richrath quit when REO went top 40.
My favorite REO song!!❤
Early REO was a very good rock n roll band, not yet too commercial.
One of the Best life videos EVER
Gary is shredding the threats in this song
Damn! What a live performance-that lead guitarist kicked ass! That’s a timeless song!
One of the greatest rock songs, ever - IMO
I like Bruce Halls voice better than Kevins, more rock-n-roll sounding. Am I the only one?
Nope...
metoo i like the original singer
No sir, you're not.
Ageed. He has stronger voice. Not as nasally.
@@HollyDennisInteriors you tube has a pbs concert with original band
I luv REO i can definitely remember partying to this because we lived on the back roads
This is & will always be Gary Richraths band...
AMEN!!!
Yep. I gotta agree. Look what happened to them after he was fired. Massive mistake, like shooting oneself in both feet.
RIP Gary - you frikking rocked!
Gary Richard is with out a doubt one of the most Underrated guitarist of all time
Loved to hear when REO really rocked! Long live Gary! You'll be in our hearts forever!
When bands could really play live without backing tracks. Saw them a few times....always a great show.
Richrath was badass and the driving force behind REO. You can tell his playing by the sound of your ear.
Gary, so much overlooked, stupendous guitarist, made it look so easy!! RIP Gary
One of the most classic rock songs in that era. Absolute rocker.
Back when REO was a Kick Ass Rock band. Not that love ballad crap they play now.
Exactly. Those ballads served me well though. Mostly High Infidelity. But then I got married and I could throw that crap out. Then I got old but I have UA-cam. Life is cyclical.
@@adrianhrachovy5861 Take special note of how REO hasn’t had a hit since Gary left.
this song is great! I'm 21! And I listen to it non-stop! That's what it means, music will never die! rock is always alive!🔥💙
THANK YOU,U GIVE ME HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.IM A 59 YO ROCKER,REMEMBER THIS CONCERT
I'm 65 and still crank this tune up !
61 here and remember when this song was new! Rock On my young friend!
Best REO Song IMO...Gary is Tearing up That Axe !!
Awesome version of this classic. Gary plays this like no one since.
I could watch Gary play all day long!!!
I have this VHS tape. There are back-stage scenes that are priceless. At one point, Gary holds up his fret hand to show that his fingers are bleeding.
Where was the show? OKC, maybe?
@@tommymcweedface229 this show is Denver, CO...
Such a bunch of talented musicians!I just wish I got to see them live when Gary was still in the band!! RIP Gary Richrath ❤️
Yes indeed Gary was the best and at his prime in the 80's.
I heard a interview one day where Kevin stated " You guys come to see the REO show but I get to look to my left and see the Gary Richrath show. That has always stuck with me and so true.
RIP Gary you are not forgotten.
I just love Gary’s playing the band was never the same after Gary left RIP Gary we miss you
REO rocking it!! What a great rock song... blasting it on the old cassette on a road trip on leave back to my youth!
Wow,i'm ashamed it took me 40 years to find this amazing preformance.
They tore it up.
Been going to ROCK concerts since the late 70s and I can honestly say that REO is one of the few bands I have seen that sound just like STUDIO but louder! Always impressed by them.....
Seen them 5 times. Never with Gary, sad face.
They are very good live, no doubt. Saw them 4 times, But have to say Bob Segar was IMO, saw him 4 times also. Don't get me wrong loved both concerts.
I could not agree more.
Still jammin' to this in 2024🤘🎶BOTRA RS❤️
Damn I need a cigarette after that. Now that's how it's done not like the crap of today. I am so thankful that I grew up at a time when music was actually made by real musicians and singers (again) not like the crap of today.
Hear hear ..
I'll take up smoking again and join you, I think!
as a truck driver this was always my anthem...I quit driving 9 years ago and now the reason I did and I are no longer together so it would appear that it is time to roll down the windows and crank this song up cause I'm going back on the road again...
one of the best bands around! I got to share the stage with REO Speedwagon back in the early 80s was a great time and date became very very very good friends with Gary I miss him each and every day we'll Jam again Gary that's for sure Rest in paradise my friend
After a song like this, Bruce Hall should have been tapped as lead singer and front man for the band. Under his leadership, REO never would have turned into a bubblegum 1980s pop band.
I've had that thought before. I grew up down the street from Bruce and his 3 bass playing brothers. He never played a ballad before he joined Speedwagon.
Ballads are good for getting chicks to like the band, you ever been to a Metallica concert? About 200 dude's for every chick.
@@bumpdunlop Hey bumpdunlop, I remember when Bruce Hall was in Silver Bullet. Used to see them at The Red Lion, Champaign.
I've never been to a Metalica concert, but I can imagine, and I haven't seen Speedwagon since Mike Murphy was with them in about '74. I saw them with Cronin around time of T.W.O. album. Lutrell I saw a bunch of times, the rockinest version. Cronin and Brian Hit sat in with our band at a local club about 10 years ago. Kevin was flabbergasted that we didn't know his songs. Get a grip dude. We faked our way through Keep Pushin and Roll with the Changes. Two really strong songs. I think I'm just a little bitter at how quickly Gary was thrown under the bus when he needed the band the most.
I remember him with Purple Haze, Feather Train, One Eyed Jacks and Silver Bullet. I never saw him with Jessie Ross Band and I've never seen him in person with Speedwagon.
Hell of a job bruce I love that song ,
Camera guy a plus
I love watching this video. Not only is Gary Richrath a great guitarist, but he has a charisma about him with that infectuous smile that just makes me want to watch him. Outstanding performance by Bruce Hall on vocals tops it off.
A true bad-ass...!!! Imho was THE band...I miss him dearly...
I grew up listening to them. I even saw them in concert in their hay days. The best!!! You can have all today’s so called music artists.
One of REO’s best songs!
In an interview in the 2000’s, Bruce Hall was asked if drugs and alcohol had on any effect on his touring and he said “I don’t remember the 80’s.” Rock and Roll! Exemplary! “My Grand Slam is supposed to come with sausage.”
When REO still had guitar cords and knew how to rock. Kevin Cronin almost made it through a song without having his voice heard alone, but not quite. I swear the man loves hearing himself.
So true, it's obvious he tried to steal the song away from Bruce Hall and make it his own during the finale.
Haha that is the reason because the end was horrible
Ted Ritola buy You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish, T.W.O., and riding the storm out and listen to them. That's when they really rocked.
Cronin, my least favorite rock performer. He had weird posturing and was just creepy to me.
@@mikealter7712 I thought was just a tidy way to let the engineers get the mic levels adjusted back again before the transition into the next song. Could very easily be wrong, though.
I think this was around 1979. I saw them in Oct 79 and didn't know one band member from the other. We stood up front on the right side of the stage and it's the best concert memory I have. Gary always smiling and playing the hell out of that guitar. He had such a stage presence and we couldn't have got a better view of that show on that night. Back on the road is my fav reo song!
I had similar memory of them in mid-late 70's. Concerts where they were the opening acts & not the main course. But they came into their own perhaps w/help of commercialism. This tune my fav also.
In my opinion, the best decade of rock music was the 1970s! The 1980s come in second.
I second that motion............it's passed and now law!
@@michaelmans4603U tell 'em, Mike.
I heard both,
The '80's had the "new" rock edge, and some of the greatest albums ever created were at Westwood One.
True some of the bands faded away, but it was the retaliation against disco that made them impressive.
I will agree that the '70's saved rock..........but, I received My License in ' 82, and the rest as they say is History.
@@FoolsAmongUsgot my Liscence in 73 and it Was Awsome!!!
@@Thataintnothing Muscle Cars.
That would be a Dream Come True.
Probably my favorite REO tune
REO- THE party band in the ‘70’s. Good jam!👍🎸🥁🇺🇸❤️
Would have loved to have seen Bruce Hall sing more, he had a voice for rock. And the only thing missing from Gary's playing was smoke coming from that fret board. I loved watching him play this, he was having a blast.
Dang I'm glad to hear y'all loved gary like I did. Gary's guitar solo was something else
What made Gary such a great rock 🎸guitarist?
He wasn't afraid 2b melodic w/bite! He could shred and play 2 the song! Reo was never the same after Gary left! RiP!
Rock 🎸on!🤘🤩🤟
To me this one of my top 5 Rock songs of all time... Kicking Ass. Unbelievable guitar play by highly underrated gary and i love the raw singing of bruce hall.
One of my favorite songs bad ass tune