Posted by Nick on 7/3/2008, 9:33 am, in reply to "They must have a deal with God"
And if I recall, it was on July 4th as well. Weird.
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: When Nick and I saw them in Cincinnati years
: ago, it started raining during "Riding
: The Storm Out." No one cared, and like
: your show, they kept playing.
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: Yep. You guessed it. REO Speedwagon was
: playing Ashburn, Virginia this past Saturday
: and man did that show rock! Those guys can
: still bring it to the stage, engage the
: audience and still keep going for more!
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: They opened with Don't Let Him Go and then
: went into Keep Pushin' followed by Tough
: Guys . They did a couple of their new songs
: and one from when they were a bar band: Son
: Of A Poor Man .
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: The weather was threatening to break on us
: all night. There were thunderstorms going
: throught the area and the wind was gusting.
: At one point, there were roadies crawling
: all over the stage trying to tie things down
: but REO kept right on playing through.
:
: They did have to stop the show for about
: five minutes while the hanging speakers were
: secured but other than that, the rocking
: continued.
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: Somewhere in the middle of the show, it did
: rain hard … for about two minutes. Some
: people began to leave. Kevin Cronin got on
: the microphone and yelled, “Hey! Where is
: everyone going! We’re the band that wrote
: ‘Riding The Storm Out!’”
:
: Rather than do an encore, they just played
: the entire set straight through. Their last
: song was Riding The Storm Out . It started
: with the drummer banging on the gong and
: then an air-raid siren wailed. It was
: awesome. It was like being 15 years old
: again.
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: After the show, Kevin Cronin stayed on stage
: to sign autographs. People were giving him
: all sorts of stuff to sign. Scrap sheets of
: paper, hand-held paper fans, etc. I gave
: him something more interesting to sign.
: That picture is below.
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: Great concert!
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: Tom L.
: Class of ‘84
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