Kevin Cronin

I wanted to stay within the confines of REO Speedwagon, but I hired a vocal coach.

And I started working on my singing, working to really get the most...

that I possibly can out of my voice to put the most emotion into the songs to really get that thing that Becca Bramlett showed me back in the day in Nashville.

And so I really started working hard.

And when I leave here, I'm going to my vocal coaches.

He's in the neighborhood.

And so I really started putting in the 10,000 hours on my voice.

So when the band got back together after the pandemic, I was psyched.

And some of the guys in the band shared that excitement, and some of the guys didn't.

And so it became a little bit of a, like, wait a minute, what's going on here, you know?

And so...

uh, there was a little bit of a, of a, of a chasm, uh, opening within the band.

And then, then, uh, uh, you know, Bruce hurt himself.

Uh, our bass player, Bruce, who was my, my sidekick, every, every side project that I ever did, Bruce was always part of it.

And we were just, uh,

Simpatico.

Musically, he was a Beatles guy, as I am.

But Bruce heard his back a long time ago, and I had been working on a presentation for the band for a Las Vegas residency, which has to be different than what you do on tour.

So the idea was to perform the entire High Infidelity record all the way through with a massive audio-visual

presentation, different, very theatrical in a way, but still rock and roll.