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The Best Show on WFMU => Dear Tom => Topic started by: Julie on December 19, 2008, 12:30:54 AM

Title: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: Julie on December 19, 2008, 12:30:54 AM

Dear Tom,

Do you like REO Speedwagon? I wish I didn't, but I secretly do. Would you be so kind as to play one of their rotten hits at the beginning of your show next week? That would really be great!

Sincerely,

Julie

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: Spoony on December 19, 2008, 12:37:27 PM

OREO Speed Dealer? Have they had a song on the radio that I might have heard?

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: Big Plastic Head on December 19, 2008, 01:23:30 PM

Quote from: Spoony on December 19, 2008, 12:37:27 PM

OREO Speed Dealer? Have they had a song on the radio that I might have heard?

There actually was a band called REO Speedealer (http://www.last.fm/music/Speedealer). They had to drop the 'REO' part after REO Speedwagon's lawyer called them up.

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: Tom Scharpling on December 22, 2008, 09:55:06 AM

I am not a huge REO Speedwagon fan.

You can play them at home from 8:04-8:15 and pretend that it's me playing them!

Trying to find a solution here -

Tom.

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: redmedicine on January 10, 2009, 01:09:45 AM

Tell me this isn't just a little bit awesome ... 

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgLPriZUSA[/youtube]

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: Phantom Hugger on January 10, 2009, 10:32:47 AM

I always felt that REO SW were a little bit of a bait and switch. Their name and logo imply something along the scale of a Deep Purple in heavy duty rock, but then you drop the needle and basically get a watered down Kansas.

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: dave from knoxville on January 10, 2009, 11:10:08 AM

I played basketball with those guys, on this great 8-foot goal. It's a long story. It happened in the summer of 1982, the same year I met Imelda Marcos, Peter Max, Walter Cronkite, Red Skelton, and Dave "Please come to Boston" Loggins.

I did not tell them that I hated their "new" singer (he had turned them into hits, and had been in the band, I would think, 3 or 4 years at that point.) They were really great guys, though. The thing that impressed me most about them was that they were these big family guys, and what all of them wanted most was to use the phone to call home.

For the record, they probably were closer to the Deep Purple model before pretty boy joined and turned them into MTV stars.

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: masterofsparks on January 10, 2009, 11:39:10 AM

Quote from: dave from knoxville on January 10, 2009, 11:10:08 AM

For the record, they probably were closer to the Deep Purple model before pretty boy joined and turned them into MTV stars.

Similar to Journey, then.

Title: Re: REO Speedwagon?
Post by: buffcoat on January 10, 2009, 05:02:43 PM

When I was younger, I got REM and REO Speedwagon confused.






And by when I was younger, I mean up until I saw this post.  :(