Imagine a time when you could go to a concert where the band members wrote their own lyrics and played their own instruments to the music they created…where the music was powerful, energizing and upbeat… and where the songs were not full of vulgar words… I lived in that time… it was awesome…. Maybe someday again..
The best song in the history of rocknroll. We had the best music, cars, clothes, and the best guy hair EVER!!! So glad I was a part of it...back then!!!
Girls and Boys went into their perspective bathrooms, we knew Boys couldn't get pregnant and decent jobs were waiting for us out of HS without dropping $400K. There was the Nam war but it was safe times and people actually cared for each other.
Yes it was! I just wish When I was 15 years old in 1980 I would’ve slowed down and really appreciated how blessed I was to live in the greatest era of music, culture and the once great 🇺🇸!!!
@@mikemiller5072 I always say I grew up on the set of the Andy Griffith Show, it was literally identical. As the decades rolled by the crazy generation took over and Mayberry became uninhabitable.
1978, hmmm, lets see. Navy onboard USS Independence; Italy, Spain, Israel, France. Married to Cindy. Driving a '66 Malibu and Rodeo bull riding. Mike, Jack, Tom, Rusty, and Jim. Mom and Dave still alive. Listening to Eagles, Rush, Breakfast in America, Boston, and REO. Yeah.
Iam 68 and still these guys and there music love them rock music was awsome back then .not the music to day this song coming up is there there best to me I love. Bailey porter
WORKED 'EM INTO A GOD DAMNED FRENZY !! 69 years old here. WISH I would have been there ! Saw them in 20015 (?) thereabouts at the CONCORD PAVILLIAN in Concord, Calif. WHAT A BAND, Kevin !
I was 11 years old when I first heard REO Speedwagon. My dad sent me to a summer camp in New York state in 1978 from Venezuela and this album (you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish) was maybe the first album I have ever purchased. This is, and still are, my favorite rock band. I was lucky enough to see them perform live 3 times in the 80s. Now I'm 57 years old and would really like to see them live one more time... 🤞
"Heard the thunder clapping, felt the desert burning...." definitely one of the greatest rock songs of all time. I was 20 year old 2nd year college student living in the dorms when the album came out. This song was the fuel for my soul. Love hearing it again. There was no social media or smart phones back then. We ate, slept, learned enough to keep from flunking out of school, partied our brains out and x&@# alot. Then we would wake up the next day and do it all over again. Ode to be young and free.......
Billy Squire would embarrass him. Cheryl Crow knows more power chords than that clown 🤡. I'm going to say it..... WITH hesitation.... Ace Frehley's a better guitar holder on stage.?
As I approach my 70th, I am still thrilled by this sound. Love REO, Journey, Styx, all of the solid rock bands from the late 70's to the mid 80's. This is Rock and Roll!
I feel ya brother from one ole dude to another kids today dont know what is was like to be in the pit with kevin and gary and the guys jamming 10 feet in front of your face.
Zombies is right! Look where there heading us. Confusing and communism . No togetherness. But hey we got are old tunes to cheer us up! Living it up while we're going down!!!
When people keep going on about Eddie van halen, just listen to Gary richrath, this was a guitarist who had feeling like Eddie could only dream about, RIP Gary your music will live forever
@@lm4278 Lol. I loved, loved REO and still do! And had I not been in the Navy at the time, headed to Italy marriage and children, I would've loved going to one of their concerts. And did you mean "sight" instead of "site"? But, you do you as the kids say.
REO. Without a doubt 1 of the greatest rock bands of all time. When bands had their own signature sound. If u grew up in the 70s 80s. When Reo came on the radio. By the 1st beat you knew immediately who it was. Journey Foreigner Styx Kansas Boston Tom Petty etc etc. So thankful to have been around for all of them. Kevin Cronin incredible vocals. Gary. Amazing lead guitar RIP Gary.
The list of bands you listed blew me gently off my feet and back to those days. I like to say we were having a better time than we knew. Thank you to all my yankee buds from Youngstown OHIO after the steel mills where grandpa worked long ago had all closed. To Houston TX they came. And with many of the crew, 2/3 actually, were wetbacks-their word, they taught us gringos it meant they swam the river and they got wet. But my northern guys brought this music to me and put it in my face! Thanks again
This is one of the most impressive live performances caught on film from them in their prime. Actually of all time im seriously like... Wow, I'm 28 and i remember my friends dad loving REO back when we were kids but i never listens to them really until now. Heard em on the radio today and i had to finally check them out, LOVE IT.
Dear God in heaven! Please bring back the great music before I die!!! This was absolutely the best era in rock in my lifetime and has been so degraded by the garbage today. Feel good, rock good and totally rememberable times! So happy to have lived through it! So sad it’s gone. 😢
I may have not existed during this time, but I grew up with its music, none of that mainstream stuff, just the old hit music from the 70's, 80's, and 90's
Nope...early 70's to late '70's REO...before their mushyshyte in the '80's...they were rockers in the '70's...then went popmushyshyte like Chicago, Styx, Journey etc.
IMO, Tuna Fish was the last great album for REO. They became more mainstream with Hi Infidelity, but less rock. Hard to argue with the commercial success, but I missed Get What You Play For…
This song has it all. Great voice, great lyrics, an amazing hook, wicked guitars, keyboard lead and it moves like a Corvette rolling down the freeway at 150 mph. This is a bad azz rock song.
@@OdintheGermanShepherd why don't you read a book lmao. I have one word for you: Napalm. If you think the 70s weren't messed up you missed a lot in school. Interesting that you assume I'm a young person listening to the dustiest old music around and not just more educated than you all apparently are.
Yep just horrible treatment of gays, blacks , latinos and women, Vietnam, Watergate. Drought in Africa, yeah it was a piece of cake.I suppose if you are an ignorant white male the world looked peachy. I am a white male and it looked pretty messed up to me. but the music made it seem better than it was.Fool
@Erik Larson I really needed you to point out to me I won’t be here. Thanks for the amazing insight. I never should’ve suggested I would delete the comment. What a dumb ass remark.
On a an optimistic note I would like to think with sharing of the music it can always be built upon. There is an explosion of talent being unlocked by the internet.
Gary was REO for me. When he left they weren’t the same. I stood 20 feet away from him in 1978 and watched them play this in San Bernardino. Perfection
When did growing up lead to growing old, but it did. We are the last generation to carry some wonderful memories of a different America. No cell phones, no computers, 3 or 4 TV stations that signed off the air at around midnight with the national anthem. We did have some great cars and great music and a lot of great times.
Anyone listening to this in 2024?
☝️😎
👍
Is anyone NOT listening to this in 2024?
Song is still relevant in 2024 too.
Ummm. Yeah
Imagine a time when you could go to a concert where the band members wrote their own lyrics and played their own instruments to the music they created…where the music was powerful, energizing and upbeat… and where the songs were not full of vulgar words… I lived in that time… it was awesome…. Maybe someday again..
Saw them in concert in Buffalo NY and they were awesome and sound exactly the same. I agree I miss our music......
Straight up and I concur. My older brother played this song for me, noe I'm hooked
They should have been in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame many years ago. Instead they put in many undeserving individuals
The best song in the history of rocknroll. We had the best music, cars, clothes, and the best guy hair EVER!!! So glad I was a part of it...back then!!!
Not really
It's not even REO's best song 🤣
I want my hair and body back, still got my music!!!
@@dwave81that’s entirely subject isn’t it? Bit pretentious aren’t we 😂
Yeah I'm going after mine too...I WILL GET IT BACK! 😂🎉 @@MollieC-uc1fk
Back when everything was so simple not a care in the world
I hope we get back there asap!
Girls and Boys went into their perspective bathrooms, we knew Boys couldn't get pregnant and decent jobs were waiting for us out of HS without dropping $400K. There was the Nam war but it was safe times and people actually cared for each other.
@@jfpbear it had a lot more to do with being young at the time rather than the times themselves
One of THE BEST groups of all time. The 70’s and early 80’s were a great time to be alive.
Absolutely yes it was the best time ever ❤
If you were a straight white male. Otherwise not so much.
I "kind of," recall the 80s in S.Miami... lol it was awesome
The 80 s. E en Better.
Yes it was!
I just wish When I was 15 years old in 1980 I would’ve slowed down and really appreciated how blessed I was to live in the greatest era of music, culture and the once great 🇺🇸!!!
They don't make music like this any more
That keyboard run and Gary’s guitar rifts TELLS you it’s REO and nobody else
The Best and greatest hammond-Organ-Solo in Pop-Rock-story
Windows down....18 rolling ...after midnight....just having a blast 😅😅😅
This original lineup was never replicated..dear Heavens, Gary Richrath you knew who it was just by the sound of his guitar. Never replaceable.
We are tired of the same old story's
COVID 19
Keep on rolling
Roll with the changes
Still listening to REO in 2024. One of the greatest songs and bands of all timed
I thank God! I grew up and lived through the greatest decades of Rock n Roll! Thank you REO!!
It could not get better then being a teenager in the 70s in the midwest
@@mikemiller5072 I always say I grew up on the set of the Andy Griffith Show, it was literally identical. As the decades rolled by the crazy generation took over and Mayberry became uninhabitable.
Donald so true!
One of the best rock and roll songs EVER!.
yes
This song never gets old. Wish I'd been there.
This is a great driving song….windows rolled down and rocking.
RIP Gary Richrath Gone but always remembered and forever loved 🎸💗🎸
These were the good old days.
Musicians actually had talent And girl's looked good in a tube-top.
Sadly, those days are gone.
Great song ❤ Great hair ❤ Great music 2 grow up 2 😊
1978, hmmm, lets see. Navy onboard USS Independence; Italy, Spain, Israel, France. Married to Cindy. Driving a '66 Malibu and Rodeo bull riding. Mike, Jack, Tom, Rusty, and Jim. Mom and Dave still alive. Listening to Eagles, Rush, Breakfast in America, Boston, and REO. Yeah.
Sadly, there is no music like this anymore
It would be cool to see your young self in some of these old videos.
The coolest of times and music.
How lucky were we?
Extremely Lucky 😊
I was lucky...saw REO, Boston and Fleetwood Mac at the apex of their career...also' Yes on their Tormato tour...times were cool; loved the tubetops!
The Hair and fashion makes the Rock N Roll Music that much BETTER!!!!
The look of their fans=pure JOY.
Iam 68 and still these guys and there music love them rock music was awsome back then .not the music to day this song coming up is there there best to me I love. Bailey porter
Brings back the best memories. 🤘🏼🎸🥁🎸🤘🏼🥁
In the year twenty five twenty five ,
The world will still be listening to the 70’s and 80’s rock and roll music .
How the hell can you not like that goddamn!
I consider this to be their best song ever!
Thank you!!! REO SPEEDWAGON
WORKED 'EM INTO A GOD DAMNED FRENZY !! 69 years old here. WISH I would have been there ! Saw them in 20015 (?) thereabouts at the CONCORD PAVILLIAN in Concord, Calif. WHAT A BAND, Kevin !
This simple line if your tired of the same old story then turn some pages. Speaks mountains to my soul
I've been rolling with the changes for many years now. Thank you REO..😜
I was 11 years old when I first heard REO Speedwagon. My dad sent me to a summer camp in New York state in 1978 from Venezuela and this album (you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish) was maybe the first album I have ever purchased. This is, and still are, my favorite rock band. I was lucky enough to see them perform live 3 times in the 80s. Now I'm 57 years old and would really like to see them live one more time... 🤞
Gary's playing and presence is undeniable great.
What a time for music and thank God I was in it all
Yep, I was there, The, Best, Times
Excellent song. 80S ROCK!
"Heard the thunder clapping, felt the desert burning...." definitely one of the greatest rock songs of all time. I was 20 year old 2nd year college student living in the dorms when the album came out. This song was the fuel for my soul. Love hearing it again. There was no social media or smart phones back then. We ate, slept, learned enough to keep from flunking out of school, partied our brains out and x&@# alot. Then we would wake up the next day and do it all over again. Ode to be young and free.......
Gary Richraft is easily one of the biggest underrated guitar players ever...the dude was awesome! Rest easy, Gary!
Billy Squire would embarrass him. Cheryl Crow knows more power chords than that clown 🤡.
I'm going to say it..... WITH hesitation.... Ace Frehley's a better guitar holder on stage.?
@Just Done damn bro you tried to troll but it was pretty weak 🤣
@@sbgog93 very weak
Scott Wells who went to NHS? ANY CHANCE?
🤘🏻😭 RIP G.R.
Not a cell phone in sight! I like it!
They just need to JAM them at all concerts
The days when music was fun and people could have fun without worrying about being shot.
Turn it up til your ears bleed! Gary ROCKED!!! What a jam- always makes me feel good when I hear it. 👍🎸🥁🇺🇸❤️
As I approach my 70th, I am still thrilled by this sound. Love REO, Journey, Styx, all of the solid rock bands from the late 70's to the mid 80's. This is Rock and Roll!
You know it brother!
Arena rock the best!!!
Styx is not a rock band.
I feel ya brother from one ole dude to another kids today dont know what is was like to be in the pit with kevin and gary and the guys jamming 10 feet in front of your face.
@gazza p
Yeah we sure did. REO helped get us here.
What a cool time it was! No phone addicted zombies.
Back when we got together to listen to a whole album!
Zombies is right! Look where there heading us. Confusing and communism . No togetherness. But hey we got are old tunes to cheer us up! Living it up while we're going down!!!
I don't mind being old now because I got to be young then. And trust me....we had a frigging BLAST!!!!
We sure did!!!! DAMN man!!
The great annunciation King. What's crazy is this is the encore so ng. My mind would of been blown.
My first concert man it was great to be alive
When people keep going on about Eddie van halen, just listen to Gary richrath, this was a guitarist who had feeling like Eddie could only dream about, RIP Gary your music will live forever
Love this song and yes people do still listen to this today!
Gary Richrath was such a great guitarist..... RIP brother.
He was way underrated... what beautiful and soulful playing.
Ten seconds in and I'm instantly transported to the late 1970s.
Exactly 😂
1984 High School Graduate, still rocking. Will never be another REO !!!!
Love this song. Came out the year I was born, 1978. My mom used to jam it in the car all the time, glad I got to see them once in concert.
There are no security guards between REO and the audience...those were the days, that was the music
It's amazing. It's also lovely to see so many people in the moment, no phones, and just enjoying their music.
And everyone is White. What a wonderful site.
@@lm4278 Lol. I loved, loved REO and still do! And had I not been in the Navy at the time, headed to Italy marriage and children, I would've loved going to one of their concerts. And did you mean "sight" instead of "site"? But, you do you as the kids say.
@@DreamingDarlin Yes. Incorrect spelling. TY. Typing fast and jamming. My bad!!
Man, if this doesn’t throw you back in the 70’s & 80’s, I don’t know what will!! Awesome times to live and be part of this music!!!
They opened for the Doobie Brothers in 1973 in Dallas TX and blew them out of the water to say the least better than awesome
SAME, at ANY age, WE Love REO. We especially like Roll w the Changes 🤩😘💌
REO. Without a doubt 1 of the greatest rock bands of all time. When bands had their own signature sound. If u grew up in the 70s 80s. When Reo came on the radio. By the 1st beat you knew immediately who it was. Journey Foreigner Styx Kansas Boston Tom Petty etc etc. So thankful to have been around for all of them. Kevin Cronin incredible vocals. Gary. Amazing lead guitar RIP Gary.
The list of bands you listed blew me gently off my feet and back to those days. I like to say we were having a better time than we knew. Thank you to all my yankee buds from Youngstown OHIO after the steel mills where grandpa worked long ago had all closed. To Houston TX they came. And with many of the crew, 2/3 actually, were wetbacks-their word, they taught us gringos it meant they swam the river and they got wet. But my northern guys brought this music to me and put it in my face! Thanks again
Rock and Roll as it was meant to be! Great band live too
Couldn’t have said it any better, word for word Tim! Journey, foreigner,petty etc 🎉 CHEERS
Great vocals, great guitar leads, great keys, and a solid rhythm section. Without a doubt, one of the greatest Rock bands of all time! (Class of '83)
Let’s add Supertramp, Chicago and just for kicks Guns N Roses. ☺️
Gary made REO Speedwagon I love this song
This is one of the most impressive live performances caught on film from them in their prime. Actually of all time im seriously like... Wow, I'm 28 and i remember my friends dad loving REO back when we were kids but i never listens to them really until now. Heard em on the radio today and i had to finally check them out, LOVE IT.
Simply The Best. A song that parents can let their kids listen to without fear of it infecting them with something nefarious...
Dear God in heaven! Please bring back the great music before I die!!! This was absolutely the best era in rock in my lifetime and has been so degraded by the garbage today. Feel good, rock good and totally rememberable times! So happy to have lived through it! So sad it’s gone. 😢
Agreed!!!
100% behind you on that, man.
I am absolutely agree with you 😂
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I may have not existed during this time, but I grew up with its music, none of that mainstream stuff, just the old hit music from the 70's, 80's, and 90's
I think the best part is the organ solo. It is so driving, energetic, high-energy that it gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Wow!!!!
I saw these guys in Birmingham in 88. Truly wonderful!!!!
No song brings me back to the 70’s and 80’s like this song does. The best era of music, period. I was lucky to grow up in this era.
Can never go wrong with late 70's / early 80's Reo Speedwagon.
Nope...early 70's to late '70's REO...before their mushyshyte in the '80's...they were rockers in the '70's...then went popmushyshyte like Chicago, Styx, Journey etc.
Best live band in late 70s early 80s
IMO, Tuna Fish was the last great album for REO. They became more mainstream with Hi Infidelity, but less rock. Hard to argue with the commercial success, but I missed Get What You Play For…
Gary Richrath is one of the most underated guitarists of his day.
That's what happens when you have to compete against jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, rory Gallagher, Eddie Van Halen, etc.
Under rated by whom? What does that even mean? For 50 years he was at the top of his game and everyone knew it.
Easily in the top 10 of all time.
dont forget Randy Rhodes@@uncleremus7380
I love to go back in time to the 70's or 80's and never come back.
@Danny Dan I'm in too.
Im 30 i wish it was 1985
Yessss
You are right about that
🥀AMEN TO THAT🥀
That piano pounds like a locomotive in the background, ROLLIN' over EVERTHING!
Jon Lord & Ritchie started this... Thank Gawd!!! Rock On Everybody!!!
This song has it all. Great voice, great lyrics, an amazing hook, wicked guitars, keyboard lead and it moves like a Corvette rolling down the freeway at 150 mph. This is a bad azz rock song.
Isn't that the truth? I always speed while listening to this song. Great, great song.
It is a great song to drive fast with.
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Agreed..Love The keyboard
AMEN BRO..ONE OF THE MOST BADDASS SONGS EVER..R.I.P. GARY RICHRATH..🙏👊💯
The Only song ever written that should never end
Sorry I have to disagree stay with me by the faces should have never ended
HAHAHA....TRUTH
Wow, I just found them in 1980, didn't realize they were an older band
Same here.
Oooh! REO Speedwagon is coming to Phoenix on September 11th!!!! I'm so excited!!!!
Gary Richrath - one of the MOST underrated axemen! He ROCKED
Loved Gary Richraths playing. Solos just fit the songs, and very melodic.
Gary was truly great. Listen guitarist', he makes it sing. To soon gone.
What rating system did you use?
Awesome player
I think he also was their primary songwriter.
Born 1964, Damn! I had the best music to grow up to!
The music now is barely music… at least to me.
Fundamental in helping me make a life change in 1980. Listen to the lyrics baby ❤️🐺💪🏾💪🙏
his brain does 3 or more things at one time
this guy is a freak of nature...I love him
They were the sound of the 70s and early 80s. Reminds me of a time when the world wasn’t a crazy mess like today
You bet your ass! Pure rock and roll!
the world has ALWAYS been a crazy mess and if you don't think so then you're uneducated lol
@@max_xGrow up, little one…you’ll understand.
@@OdintheGermanShepherd why don't you read a book lmao. I have one word for you: Napalm. If you think the 70s weren't messed up you missed a lot in school. Interesting that you assume I'm a young person listening to the dustiest old music around and not just more educated than you all apparently are.
Yep just horrible treatment of gays, blacks , latinos and women, Vietnam, Watergate. Drought in Africa, yeah it was a piece of cake.I suppose if you are an ignorant white male the world looked peachy. I am a white male and it looked pretty messed up to me. but the music made it seem better than it was.Fool
We couldn't have known it at the time, but we had a 40 year golden era of Rock (50s to 90s), the likes of which may never come again.
Well, you have no idea what may happen in the future because you won't be here. But I agree that was the greatest era so far.
@Erik Larson I really needed you to point out to me I won’t be here. Thanks for the amazing insight. I never should’ve suggested I would delete the comment. What a dumb ass remark.
@@ArgoLupus nah man, you’re absolutely right. No need to delete
On a an optimistic note I would like to think with sharing of the music it can always be built upon. There is an explosion of talent being unlocked by the internet.
@@ArgoLupus Why? You are right!
mid to late 1970's was a great time to be a teen in the midwest .REO, Styx, Journey, Skynyrd etc etc etc
"You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish"❤❤❤ 3 times in Seattle.
There will never be times like this again..... Cant believe how lucky we were... You too?
The best!
Exactly!
yup I was in high school class of 82.
@@RRL110 80 here👍
Exactly, we had it all
2021: Still rolling with the "changes".
👍🤟
Back when times were good!
im 55 and this is awesome...plus im drunk
This is how we rolled in the late 70s.........
And an Amen to that, what great years they where. Those memories have become some of my greatest treasures.
Gary was REO for me. When he left they weren’t the same. I stood 20 feet away from him in 1978 and watched them play this in San Bernardino. Perfection
Blessed to see REO in Indianapolis in the late 70's
God I miss those days! The memories.... Man I'd give anything to turn back the ⏰ ❤️
Oh hell yeah.
Okay, it's settled: Boomers had the best music of all time.
Yeah.... that's what we've been telling ya. Enjoy! 🙂
We knew how to party too.😜
We were very lucky!!
Thanks, Mom and Dad!
Not boomers.. We Were Generation X.
Probably my favorite REO song
Spot on guys. The most amazing musical years.
Not a fancy show, just music! Good times.
4:00 engineering that keyboard like a steam locomotive.
I dont care who you are this takes you back to when life and times were really alright,really wonderful
Agreed🤘
You got that right! Oh how we miss these times.
If it weren't for this music and reading books and a joint every now and then I don't know why I'm still here#57yearsandstillrocken.
Good music makes good times, what happened to the good music?
When did growing up lead to growing old, but it did. We are the last generation to carry some wonderful memories of a different America. No cell phones, no computers, 3 or 4 TV stations that signed off the air at around midnight with the national anthem. We did have some great cars and great music and a lot of great times.
Einfach nur super!!
Habe sie 1985 in Stuttgart gesehen, damanls noch mit Gary und Alan. War echt genial.👍🎶
This is when music was fun and fun ahh did I say REO was fun?