Bruce Corridor says he and Kevin Cronin have agreed to place apart their latest feud and carry out collectively as REO Speedwagon for an important day later this month.
“REO Speedwagon is coming again to campus, the place the place all of it started, to guide this 12 months’s Illinois Homecoming Parade as our grand marshals on Friday, Sept. 26,” Corridor wrote on the Fb put up embedded under. “The band members may even take part in sport day because the pregame Siren Sounders and can take the sector with Barry Houser and the Marching Illini to collaborate on a one-of-a-kind REO-themed halftime present that may characteristic a medley of the band’s hit songs.”
Corridor later confirmed that along with Cronin, keyboardist Neal Doughty and drummer Alan Gratzer – each founding members of the group – will seem on the present. The latter duo met whereas attending the College of Illinois within the mid-’60s, making the upcoming occasion an vital homecoming for the group.
Cronin has not confirmed or commented on Corridor’s announcement as of press time.
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In September of 2025, REO Speedwagon introduced that they might stop touring, as Corridor and Cronin have been unable to agree on plans for Corridor to return to the highway following a go away of absence for again surgical procedure.
“The consensus feeling is that I haven’t got ok posture to carry out at a degree anticipated by our followers,” Corridor mentioned on the time.
“I noticed the X-ray [of Hall’s back] and I am like, dude, ‘I do not see how you are going to be prepared by March 1st, June 1st,’” Cronin later defined. “I mentioned, ‘If I have been you, man, I’d simply sit out the 12 months.’ And he did not take very kindly to that.”
Why the Kevin Cronin Band’s Touring Days Have been Brief-Lived
After the breakup, Cronin started touring beneath his personal identify, utilizing the very same lineup that had been performing as REO Speedwagon throughout Corridor’s absence. The Kevin Cronin Band opened for Styx on the Brotherhood of Rock tour this summer time, however final month the singer revealed that he could be pressured to dismantle the group’s longtime touring crew.
“It isn’t straightforward going out because the Kevin Cronin Band, I’ll inform you,” he informed UCR. “You may’t overestimate the facility of the identify REO Speedwagon and that ubiquitous, winged brand. They imply so much to individuals. I can sit right here and say that the Kevin Cronin band is doing the identical factor till I am blue within the face, however when individuals see the Kevin Cronin Band, there is a query — ‘I ponder what that is gonna be?’ — whereas should you see REO Speedwagon and the winged brand on the invoice, it is ‘I do know what that’s.'”
REO Speedwagon Albums Ranked
REO Speedwagon’s catalog and profession have been marked by dizzying highs and massive setbacks. Here is a ranked look again.
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