REO Speedwagon performed their ultimate present on Saturday (December twenty first) at Las Vegas’ Venetian Theatre. Nonetheless, the identical actual band lineup will proceed to tour subsequent 12 months, billed as Kevin Cronin.
Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that REO Speedwagon would stop touring after 2024 because of “irreconcilable variations” between singer Cronin and bassist Bruce Corridor, and that the Vegas gig could be their final.
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That mentioned, Cronin not too long ago introduced a co-headlining 2025 North American tour with Styx, and can carry out with the identical musicians — simply not below the REO Speedwagon identify. Corridor stopped touring with the band in 2023, so he wasn’t a part of REO Speedwagon’s most up-to-date lineup anyway. It seems that for authorized causes, Cronin and firm can’t use the identify REO Speedwagon shifting ahead.
The ultimate lineup for REO Speedwagon consisted of Cronin, lead guitarist Dave Amato and drummer Bryan Hitt, who’ve performed in REO Speedwagon since 1989, together with keyboardist Derek Hilland, a member of REO Speedwagon since January 2023, and Matt Bissonette, who has been REO Speedwagon’s touring bassist since November 2023. That very same lineup will head out subsequent 12 months on Cronin’s tour with Styx.
So, with all that in thoughts, REO Speedwagon’s ultimate present (in identify solely) featured a 19-song setlist, starting with their 1980 album, Excessive Infidelity, performed in its entirety, and ending with the classics “Can’t Struggle This Feeling” and “Roll With the Modifications” (together with members of the family and crew).
Throughout a five-minute farewell speech from the stage, Cronin thanked all of the traditional REO Speedwagon members, even Bruce Corridor, saying, “We couldn’t have executed it with none of these guys.”
He went on to say, “I really feel unhappiness that that is the ultimate REO Speedwagon live performance, and on the identical I really feel grateful to have been a part of this unbelievable journey. We have now all been brothers on this wonderful musical journey referred to as REO Speedwagon, and I want you all nothing however one of the best — and once I say you, I imply everybody who has been a part of this band, a part of our crew and a part of the REO Speedwagon fan household.
He continued, “The REO Speedwagon identify is being retired tonight, however the music, the spirit, the songs of REO Speedwagon will dwell on with this band and with me below the identify Kevin Cronin. We hope you be a part of us on that journey. And now, let’s roll with the adjustments — what do you say?”
See video footage of the Vegas present, together with Cronin’s onstage speech, beneath, and decide up tickets to Cronin’s co-headlining tour with Styx at this location.
Setlist:
Don’t Let Him Go
Carry on Loving You
Comply with My Coronary heart
In Your Letter
Take It on the Run
Robust Guys
Out of Season
Shakin’ It Unfastened
Somebody Tonight
I Want You Had been There
Music Man (acoustic)
In My Desires (acoustic)
Time for Me to Fly
Hold Pushin’
Reside Each Second
Golden Nation
Ridin’ the Storm Out
Can’t Struggle This Feeling
Roll With the Modifications (V.I.P., wives, youngsters, managers and crew sang final refrain)