Returning to REO's "Hi-Infidelity".....

NIce...I was expecting some flaming...actually song for song..."U cant tune a piano..." is the best REO LP...includes Rollin with the changes...and Time for me 2 fly...and the great jam TUrkey trot...in all seriousness...comparing Journey,Styxx,Kansas,etc is like splitting hairs...they all had their moments and contributed heavily to the birth of stadium and mulit-platinum late 70s/early 80s FM AOR rock...the main weakness above anything else is the lack of quality lyrics...for the most part the playing and songwriting is there...albeit in a somewhat cheesy fashion...but that is the fun of rediscovering old LPS...its like going into a time machine!

.".expecting"? You were inviting some dirt, so I was just trying to help out...

Ok, forgot about U Can't Tune A Piano. Actually that was pretty good in its day--for rock/pop, and the guitarist Gary Richrath(sp?) was really something. I still think Styx was a cut above the others in stage presence and sheer talent. Kansas, maybe Boston is a peer with REO, while Journey definitely heralded the end of decent stadium bands and paved the way for sugar pop and the death of good fm radio.

Still and all a fun bubble gum era band, however the best musician oriented bands of that day, ELP, YES, Jethro Tull, Elton, Supertramp, Eagles, Chicago thoroughly outdrew, outperformed and outclassed REO as a band. They were good for openers... :)

saw reo at the elks city club in portsmouth ohio when they were a midwest boogie band(about the time of their first lp)...excellent....but my all time favorite rockers were no other than ann arbor's brownsville station(god bless cubby coda). they could upstage 'any' headliner in those says......

Anyone have the two-fer cd of REO 1 and REO 2. I was wondering about the quality of the sound, re-mastered in 2007?

REO was Gary Richrath... Cronin and company(which I believe they are touring without Richrath currently) are not worth an opening slot.

Journey- I would have to disagree on the quality of musicianship here..Jonathan Cain is a pretty decent keyboard player and Steve Smith is an incredible drummer....

Funny how most think Steve Perry was the original singer of the band...Wasn't brought on until four years after the bands inception...(Golden Gate...)