When that album made the Top 30, did you feel like youd made it? This is the lineup featured on the quintet's 1971 self-titled debut recording for Epic Records. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Having lost their recording contract with Epic, REO Speedwagon ended up releasing Building the Bridge (1996) on the Priority/Rhythm Safari label. I went to a doctor and he told me I shouldnt sing for three weeks. They are from Champaign, Illinois. Many of their hits were inspired by the ups and downs of the band members' relationships. I dont know that anyone could have foreseen what was gonna happen with that record. In 1972, he was fired from the group, and was only reinstated four years later. His lead vocals allowed REO to complete Ridin the Storm Out . Thats how we connected. Yeah, in some ways! Three bands were the undisputed arena rock kings of the early '80s -- Styx, Journey, and REO Speedwagon -- yet all weren't overnight success stories (in fact, each group initially pursued different musical styles -- prog rock, fusion, and straight-ahead hard rock, respectively, before transforming slowly into chart-topping mainstream rockers). Speedwagon Ridin' the Storm Out", Recording Industry Association of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ridin%27_the_Storm_Out&oldid=1150253432, Wally Heider Recording Studios, Los Angeles and Record Plant, Los Angeles, This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 03:16. [4] Doughty had seen the name written across the blackboard when he walked into his History of Transportation class on the first day they had decided to look for a name. In 1981 the band had their greatest success with the ten million selling album Hi Infidelity. So I just started trying to sing as little as possible at rehearsals. Maybe too much, Your lyrics in that song are at times venomous: You played dead/But you never bled/Instead you lay still in the grass/All coiled up and hissin. But I went with it. Both men begin nodding their heads to the song, and Johnny, with some amount of surprise, says to Daniel, "You like Speedwagon?" But it was a really important song for me, very personal. He left the band during the recording of the Ridin The Storm Out album, due to creative differences. Record World said of the title track that it has "a good mix of hard It was right after Elton Johns Madman Across The Water was released, and there was a song on it, Holiday Inn, that I used to sing it in folk clubs in Chicago. [23] REO and Chicago teamed up once again in the summer of 2018 for a 30-city tour.[24]. They made a list of songs to learn over the summer break, and Doughty landed a summer job to buy his first keyboard. Weve not been in a great deal of contact in the past 20 years. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. So what is it that keeps you going after all these years? Hopefully that will open a door for us. They were less well-received. REO Speedwagon Albums and Discography | AllMusic But I said: Dude, thats perfect! The song had been a little too sweet.