The main singer of a classic rock group feels “disturbed and injured” for being “consciously excluding” from the next group meeting.
Reo Speedwagon’s vocalist, Kevin Cronin, will not participate in a special “retrospective” concert due to a programming problem.
Cronin criticized event organizers for not choosing a date when the four members of Reo Speedwagon were available in the comments section of a Facebook publication Last week.
“Instead, they chose on June 14, 2025, a date I knew before I was committed before perform with Styx and Kevin Cronin Band In Bend, Oregon, “Cronin wrote.
“In the background line, I am asked to take part in an event on a date where I cannot be in person. And then I be falsely accused of rejecting the invitation. I am deeply annoyed and injured for all this,” the singer continued. “After all I have done to help build the legacy of Reo Speedwagon, I think I have won and deserve to be included in any case that honors this legacy. Instead, I have been excluded.”
Cronin added that Reo Dave Amato and Bryan Hitt veterans were not invited to the Champaign event.
Neal Doughty, Bruce Hall, Terry Luttrell, Mike Murphy, Steve Scorfina, Alan Gratzer will be part of the program together with special guests. There will also be a segment in Memoriam for the missing Gary Richrath and Gregg Philbin.
Reo Speedwagon separated last year due to “irreconcilable differences” between Hall and Cronin, report On the desire to return to a farewell tour after recovering from subsequent surgery.
Hall said that the city of Champaign asked the band members to participate in the next event to raise money for cancer research through the Reo Speedwagon Foundation. On Monday, Hall confirmed that Cronin was also invited.
“I have not seen anywhere it has been said that he rejected it and I know he has been asked to participate virtually. I hope he will do it,” Hall wrote on Facebook. “This event was created to provide the founding parents, the original singers and the Classic Line of Reo an opportunity to meet and say a suitable farewell. An opportunity to honor the memory of Gary Richrath and Gregg Philbin.”
“What is most important, the income will go to the Reo Speedwagon Fund for the rare research of Gufitt Cancer Center Cancer. The hospital that saved my son’s life. As anyone can be” deeply disturbed and injured “that is why it is beyond me,” said Hall. “Neal, Alan and I do not pay us. We are happy to have this amazing opportunity to combine one last time and raise money and awareness for such a wonderful cause.”
Cronin joined the band in 1972, shortly after Reo Speedwagon’s debut album was published. As a main singer for five decades, Cronin sang and wrote or wrote the songs “Keep on Loving You”, cannot fight this feeling “” Roll with changes “and” Keep fire burning “, among others.
Gratzer formed Reo Speedwagon with Doughty, his classmate at the University of Illinois, in the late 1960’s. Gratzer co-wrote the band’s first songs, performed in hits such as “Keep on Loving You” and “Take It On the Run”, provided the support and co-production vowels of 1980’s “Hi infidelity” album. In 2019.
“To honor the legacy of Reo Speedwagon – a concert event – back where it started” is scheduled for 19:30 on Saturday, June 14 at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois. Tickets They are currently on sale.
Meanwhile, Styx and Cronin Tour “Rock Brother” It will include the stop at the Xfinity Center of Mansfield on July 19, 2025.