Time for Me to Fly - REO!!

DRUMMERS ROCK!




What can I say - I ran out to Newbury Comics and bought an REO Speedwagon Greatests Hits CD.

Yup - just really wanted it and have been listening on my MP3 Player in my blue Aveo Chevrolet for a few weeks. An interesting fact about REO Speedwagon - the name came from REO Speed Wagon, a flatbed truck and fire engine, manufactured by the REO Motor Car Company. ("R.E.O." are initials of the company's founder, Ransom Eli Olds, who also founded Oldsmobile, once a division of General Motors.)

Hey - I loved REO back in my earlier days and still do!

One of my favorites is TIME FOR ME TO FLY - REO Speedwagon
Great version for audio!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak6fZrkjWoA&feature=related


This link shows the Band - but the sound sound quality - well....eh..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8qukmiymUQ&feature=related

My eleven-year-old daughter, Sabrina likes KEEP ON LOV'N YOU - yup But I can only
rock out when she is NOT in the car - unless we are ROCK'N out to HER music - geez when did THAT happen to me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgT_mJXbvCQ&feature=related

CAN'T FIGHT THIS FEELING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd4j1Ms1VYE&feature=related

OK I love drummers - who dosen;t! I use to take drum lessons at BHS and love the drums. My daughter took lessons too. Years ago when I went to Emerson College my cousin Jim majored in Drums at Berklee College of Music. I also had a boyfriend who went to Berkelee he was a Bass Guitarist named Owen Yost. http://owenyost.com/

Owen played ALL around Boston. I swear I went to every club and every gig. He also played and traveled all around Boston with the James Montgomery Band. They even had a gig in the Virgin Island http://www.jamesmontgomery.com/ . I remember Owen flew me out there. It was amazing to be at Rainbow Beach where the was aqua water, the sand was white and tropical trees were breath taking!. Thanks for the memories!

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REO Speedwagon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon is an American rock band that grew in popularity in the Midwestern United States during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. REO Speedwagon hits include "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling". Both songs are power ballads, the former being prototypical of the genre and appearing on the group's most commercially successful album, Hi Infidelity, which also included the hit "Take It on the Run," a song that peaked at number five on the U.S. charts.

REO Speedwagon took its name from the REO Speed Wagon, a flatbed truck and fire engine, manufactured by the REO Motor Car Company. ("R.E.O." are initials of the company's founder, Ransom Eli Olds, who also founded Oldsmobile, once a division of General Motors.)
REO Speedwagon was formed by students attending the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, in the fall of 1967 to play cover songs in campus bars. The first line up consisted of Alan Gratzer on drums and vocals, Neal Doughty on keyboards, Joe Matt on guitar and vocals and Mike Blair on bass and vocals. In the spring of 1968, Terry Luttrell became lead singer, and Bob Crownover and Gregg Philbin replaced Matt and Blair. Joe McCabe played sax at this time until moving to SIU. Crownover played guitar for the group until the summer of 1969 when Bill Fiorio replaced him. Fiorio then departed in late 1969, eventually assuming the name Duke Tumatoe, and went on to form the All Star Frogs. Another guitarist, Steve Scorfina, came aboard briefly, and was replaced by Gary Richrath in late 1970.

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