Kevin Cronin

When is he going to stop playing this stupid song?

I'm in a rock and roll band.

And there's a certain type of song that's an REO Speedwagon song, and some songs are not REO Speedwagon songs.

And I would contend that if a member of REO Speedwagon writes a song... So I'm sitting there playing this.

All of a sudden, and I didn't have a chorus, and I'm just playing along, and it's kind of dark, and then this chorus came to me, and it's like this hopeful chorus...

And Rich Rath, I don't know, I don't exactly know what was in his head, but at some point he got plugged in his Les Paul with a curly cord directly into a Marshall, which is how he used to play.

Sometimes he had a wah-wah pedal, that was it.

And he started playing along with me.

Or he might have just been trying to drown me out so I would stop playing this stupid slow song.

But at one point, we kind of hit on something.

And I'll never forget, I stepped at the piano and I looked at him.

And we looked at each other and it was like, we kind of knew that something had, some brain cells had, something had sparked.

It was like, oh, this is what we've been trying to do for the last four years.

Without thinking that we were trying to do it.

I think it became that.

Jam band, yeah.

Well, that was the way to get your record on the radio.

Sure.

But for us, we were like time for me to fly.

You mentioned time for me to fly.