Showing posts with label REO Speedwagon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label REO Speedwagon. Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2025

REO Speedwagon - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 7-2008

I like REO Speedwagon at about the greatest hits level. If I were to post a concert from them, I would have preferred it to be from their early 1980s peak in popularity. But they performed for "PBS Soundstage" in 2008, so that's what I'm posting here. I'm committed to posting most any episode of this show I can find.

Given that this is a fairly recent professionally recorded TV broadcast, I was surprised to discover there was a major flaw: the vocals were way too low in the mix. It was very noticeable. But I was able to fix that using the UVR5 audio editing program. After that change, this sounds very good.

REO Speedwagon sold about 40 million records, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. They were led by two singer-songwriters, Kevin Cronin and Gary Richrath. Some founding band members left by the time of this concert, including Richrath. But Cronin still led it, and they played all their biggest hits here, including the ones written by Richrath. It seems the band retired in 2024.

Here's their Wikipedia page:

REO Speedwagon - Wikipedia 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Find Your Own Way Home (REO Speedwagon)
02 Take It on the Run (REO Speedwagon)
03 Keep Pushin' (REO Speedwagon)
04 Can't Fight This Feeling (REO Speedwagon)
05 Dangerous Combination (REO Speedwagon)
06 Time for Me to Fly (REO Speedwagon)
07 Don't Let Him Go (REO Speedwagon)
08 talk (REO Speedwagon)
09 Keep On Loving You (REO Speedwagon)
10 Roll with the Changes (REO Speedwagon)
11 Riding the Storm Out (REO Speedwagon)
12 talk (REO Speedwagon)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nbFbScBh

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/s5lUq7uefF0BxlU/file

The cover is a screenshot taken from a video of this exact concert. I used Krea AI to flesh out the details of a low-res image.