REO Speedwagon performed their last present on Saturday (December twenty first) at Las Vegas’ Venetian Theatre. Nonetheless, the identical actual band lineup will proceed to tour subsequent 12 months, billed as Kevin Cronin.
Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that REO Speedwagon would cease touring after 2024 attributable to “irreconcilable variations” between singer Cronin and bassist Bruce Corridor, and that the Vegas gig could be their final.
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That mentioned, Cronin not too long ago introduced a co-headlining 2025 North American tour with Styx, and can carry out with the identical musicians — simply not below the REO Speedwagon title. Corridor stopped touring with the band in 2023, so he wasn’t a part of REO Speedwagon’s most up-to-date lineup anyway. It seems that for authorized causes, Cronin and firm can’t use the title REO Speedwagon transferring ahead.
The ultimate lineup for REO Speedwagon consisted of Cronin, lead guitarist Dave Amato and drummer Bryan Hitt, who’ve performed in REO Speedwagon since 1989, together with keyboardist Derek Hilland, a member of REO Speedwagon since January 2023, and Matt Bissonette, who has been REO Speedwagon’s touring bassist since November 2023. That very same lineup will head out subsequent 12 months on Cronin’s tour with Styx.
So, with all that in thoughts, REO Speedwagon’s last present (in title solely) featured a 19-song setlist, starting with their 1980 album, Excessive Infidelity, performed in its entirety, and ending with the classics “Can’t Struggle This Feeling” and “Roll With the Adjustments” (together with relations and crew).
Throughout a five-minute farewell speech from the stage, Cronin thanked all of the basic REO Speedwagon members, even Bruce Corridor, saying, “We couldn’t have finished it with none of these guys.”
He went on to say, “I really feel unhappiness that that is the ultimate REO Speedwagon live performance, and on the similar I really feel grateful to have been a part of this unimaginable experience. We now have all been brothers on this superb musical journey known as REO Speedwagon, and I want you all nothing however one of the best — and after I say you, I imply everybody who has been a part of this band, a part of our crew and a part of the REO Speedwagon fan household.
He continued, “The REO Speedwagon title is being retired tonight, however the music, the spirit, the songs of REO Speedwagon will stay on with this band and with me below the title Kevin Cronin. We hope you be part of us on that journey. And now, let’s roll with the adjustments — what do you say?”
See video footage of the Vegas present, together with Cronin’s onstage speech, under, and decide up tickets to Cronin’s co-headlining tour with Styx at this location.
Setlist:
Don’t Let Him Go
Carry on Loving You
Observe My Coronary heart
In Your Letter
Take It on the Run
Powerful Guys
Out of Season
Shakin’ It Unfastened
Somebody Tonight
I Want You Had been There
Music Man (acoustic)
In My Desires (acoustic)
Time for Me to Fly
Maintain Pushin’
Dwell Each Second
Golden Nation
Ridin’ the Storm Out
Can’t Struggle This Feeling
Roll With the Adjustments (V.I.P., wives, youngsters, managers and crew sang final refrain)
