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Live: You Get What You Play For

1977 live album by REO Speedwagon

Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977 (and years later as a single CD omitting "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie"). It was recorded at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977.[2] The song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, but has since become a classic rock radio staple. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.

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The Japanese CD reissue, released in 2011, restores the album and songs to its original full length by including both "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie", which were omitted in the original single CD release due to time constraints. Sony Music also released the unedited double LP Epic master on its Legacy Label for Compact Disc in 2011 as well.

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Track listing

All songs written by Gary Richrath, except where noted.

Side one
  1. "Like You Do"  – 6:43
  2. "Lay Me Down" (Neal Doughty, Alan Gratzer, Terry Luttrell, Gregg Philbin, Richrath[lower-alpha 1])  – 3:34
  3. "Any Kind of Love"  – 3:33
  4. "Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)" (Kevin Cronin)  – 6:27
Side two
  2. "Keep Pushin'" (Cronin)  – 3:59
  3. "(Only A) Summer Love"  – 6:06
  4. "Son of a Poor Man"  – 5:25
  5. "(I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come" (Cronin)  – 4:46
Side three
  2. "Flying Turkey Trot"  – 2:34
  3. "Gary's Guitar Solo"+  – 6:10
  4. "157 Riverside Avenue (Doughty, Gratzer, Luttrell, Philbin, Richrath)  – 7:35
  5. "Ridin' the Storm Out"  – 5:34
Side four
Encores
  2. "Music Man" (Cronin)  – 2:29
  3. "Little Queenie"+ (Chuck Berry)  – 4:45
  4. "Golden Country"  – 8:12

Total length  – 77:18

(+) Appeared on the original double-LP release of the album, but omitted from the original single CD release. They are included on the 2011 Japanese "remaster" two-CD release.

Personnel

  • Kevin Cronin – lead vocals (except on "Only a Summer Love"), rhythm guitar
  • Gary Richrath – lead guitar, lead vocals on "Any Kind of Love" and "Only a Summer Love"
  • Neal Doughty – keyboards
  • Gregg Philbin – bass, backing vocals
  • Alan Gratzer – drums, backing vocals
Production

Production as listed in album liner notes.

  • John Stronach - production, engineering
  • John Henning - production, engineering, mixing
  • Gary Richrath - production, mixing
  • Bruce Hensal - engineering
  • Pete Carlson - engineering
  • Jack Crymes - engineering
  • Kelly Kotera - engineering
  • Rick Sanchez - engineering
  • Mike Klink - engineering
  • Vartán Kurjian - illustration
  • Justin Carroll - illustration
  • Tom Steele - design
  • Lorrie Sullivan - photography

Charts

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Certifications

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Release history

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Notes

  1. The album's label credits Philbin and Richrath alone as the writers of "Lay Me Down", but the album R.E.O. Speedwagon, on which the song was first published, additionally credits Doughty, Gratzer, and Luttrell. BMI records (see BMI work #838213) confirm that the credit on R.E.O. Speedwagon is the correct one. However, given that all the tracks on R.E.O. Speedwagon are credited to Doughty/Gratzer/Luttrell/Philbin/Richrath, it is possible that the band had an agreement to copyright all their songs as group compositions (a fairly common practice) and that only Philbin and Richrath actually contributed to writing "Lay Me Down".

References

  1. [1]
    "Great Rock Discography". p. 685.
  2. [2]
    Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Albums (Seventh ed.). Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-183-3.
  3. [3]
    Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. REO Speedwagon: Live: You Get What You Play For at AllMusic. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  4. [4]
    "REO Speedwagon Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved July 8, 2023.
  5. [5]
    "American album certifications – R.E.O. Speedwagon – You Get What You Play For". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
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