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Podcast: What the Riff Next Gen
Episode: 1980 - December: REO Speedwagon “Hi Infidelity”
Description: Hi Infidelity would be the biggest selling rock album of 1981, and would be the high water mark for REO Speedwagon. The band at the time was Kevin Chronin on lead vocals, Gary Richrath on lead guitars, Neal Doughty on keyboards, Bruce Hall on bass, and Alan Gratzer on drums.
REO Speedwagon started out in 1967, and the name comes from a 1915 truck called the REO Speed Wagon. Neal Doughty saw the name on the blackboard in his History of Transportation class as an electrical engineering major at the University of Illinois in Champaign, and thought the name was co...