Kevin Cronin

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2,143 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 21 Jan

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Kevin Cronin | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 21 Jan 2026 podcast

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?

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.

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