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“We played bars,” said Cronin, who took over as REO’s singer in 1972. “We had a 1972 Impala station wagon and a truck for the equipment. We played bars, worked our way up to bigger bars. Then there were small theaters and we got to be an arena band. I always got the feeling that people in the Midwest were rooting for us because we were underdogs that finally made it. Our first hit song was from our ninth album.
“I, frankly, don’t understand when I hear an artist talking about how they aren’t going to play their hits, how they don’t like their biggest songs,” he continued. “That makes absolutely no sense to me. To me, those songs are why we can still do it. It isn’t a coincidence. It just so happens, they are my favorite songs of ours.”
“I’m the quarterback of the band,” he said. “I kind of get a vibe from the crowd. Going from city to city, I don’t know why, but I remember which tracks off of the albums did well there. It’s different in every area of the country and I’ll call them out.” “I’d never been home for that long in 50 years,” he said. “I got to see the seasons change at my home. All my kids moved back in, colleges closed down and all that. I had my whole family around me for a year and a half. It was the closest my family has ever been. That kind of bond wouldn’t have happened without a worldwide pandemic.”
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