Kevin Cronin

Oh, wow.

Yeah, we couldn't beat them.

you know what we call in the biz demoitis yeah so uh but in our case you know i was the only one who i heard these demos i i listened to them over and over and over driving around you know uh la and i was like i'm starting to fall in love with the way not just the songs i normally i hear the demos like oh you got to put this here and move this i'm listening i'm going this is

I don't see that much work that I have to do on this, on the arrangement side or on the lyric side.

It sounded really good to me.

Gary has some guitar parts that were just like, how did he do that?

The feedback that opens the album, we can never duplicate that.

But I had to convince the band.

Yeah.

And the engineer who, you know, it was just a rough demo.

And I'm like, these are... So we went back to the studio, played Beat the Demo, finally couldn't do it.

And we ended up using the demos as the foundation and built the album on those tracks.

So I just feel like... And then the album goes on to be one of the biggest albums there is.

It just...

i like the fact that it started so organically that there was no you know ariel speedwagon gets a rap for uh that we somehow uh manufactured uh uh the power ballad and and hey uh of course we wanted our record to get played on the radio who doesn't but

Keep on Loving You, I woke up in the middle of the night, kind of felt my way down the hallway of my little house in Woodland Hills, sat at my little Wurlitzer red plastic piano that Gary Loaizo had owned, and played that little piano part of Keep on Loving You, wrote those verses.

I know where it came from, it just happened.

There it was and I went back to bed because I was too tired.

Next day, I go into SIR where we were rehearsing and I immediately sat at the piano and started playing those verses over and over again.

You can imagine the band is sitting there going, what the is this guy doing?