Live: You Get What You Play For

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Live: You Get What You Play For
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Live album by
REO Speedwagon
ReleasedMarch 1977 [1]
Recorded1976
VenueSoldiers and Sailors Memorial Building, Kansas City, Kansas; Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; Kiel Auditorium, Saint Louis, Missouri; Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom, Atlanta, Georgia
Genre Rock
Length77:47 (LP edition)
68:35 (CD edition)
80:34 (Two-CD edition)
Label Epic
Producer John Stronach, Gary Richrath, John Henning
REO Speedwagon chronology
R.E.O.
(1976)		Live: You Get What You Play For
(1977)		 You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish
(1978)

Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977 (and years later as a single CD omitting "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie"). It was recorded at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977. [2] The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.

Contents

This album's live version of the song "Ridin' the Storm Out" (an earlier studio version of this song appeared on the band's third album Ridin' the Storm Out) reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and has since become a classic rock radio staple. The song refers to the band being stuck in a harsh winter blizzard, after a show in Boulder, Colorado at a bar named Tulagi (now closed). The band had decided to prank its tour manager by intentionally getting lost, but then inadvertently became genuinely lost as a dangerous winter storm approached. [3]

Producer John Stronach was fired by the band after his mix of this album "sounded like a studio album". The band then did its own mix of this album, which became their first album to sell over a million records. Afterward, the band continued to mix its own albums, all of which reached either gold or platinum sales results. [4]

The Japanese CD reissue, released in 2011, restores the album and songs to its original full length by including both "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie", which were omitted in the original single CD release due to time constraints. Sony Music also released the unedited double LP Epic master on its Legacy Label for Compact Disc in 2011 as well.

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Track listing

All songs written by Gary Richrath, except where noted.

Side one
  1. "Like You Do"  – 6:43
  2. "Lay Me Down" (Neal Doughty, Alan Gratzer, Terry Luttrell, Gregg Philbin, Richrath [a] )  – 3:34
  3. "Any Kind of Love"  – 3:33
  4. "Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)" (Kevin Cronin)  – 6:27
Side two
  2. "Keep Pushin'" (Cronin)  – 3:59
  3. "(Only A) Summer Love"  – 6:06
  4. "Son of a Poor Man"  – 5:25
  5. "(I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come" (Cronin)  – 4:46
Side three
  2. "Flying Turkey Trot"  – 2:34
  3. "Gary's Guitar Solo"+  – 6:10
  4. "157 Riverside Avenue (Doughty, Gratzer, Luttrell, Philbin, Richrath)  – 7:35
  5. "Ridin' the Storm Out"  – 5:34
Side four
Encores
  2. "Music Man" (Cronin)  – 2:29
  3. "Little Queenie"+ (Chuck Berry)  – 4:45
  4. "Golden Country"  – 8:12

Total length  – 77:18

(+) Appeared on the original double-LP release of the album, but omitted from the original single CD release. They are included on the 2011 Japanese "remaster" two-CD release.

Personnel

Production

Production as listed in album liner notes.

Charts

Chart (1977)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [6] 72

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [7] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog #
USAMarch 1977 Epic Records Stereo Vinyl E-34494
USA1977Epic Records Tape EGT-34494
USA1977Epic Records 8 Track E34494
UKAugust 1977 Epic Records Stereo Vinyl
USA1988Epic Records CD EK34494
Japan2011 Sony Music 2-CD (DSD-Remaster)EICP 1486-7

Notes

  1. ↑ The album's label credits Philbin and Richrath alone as the writers of "Lay Me Down", but the album R.E.O. Speedwagon , on which the song was first published, additionally credits Doughty, Gratzer, and Luttrell. BMI records (see BMI work #838213) confirm that the credit on R.E.O. Speedwagon is the correct one. However, given that all the tracks on R.E.O. Speedwagon are credited to Doughty/Gratzer/Luttrell/Philbin/Richrath, it is possible that the band had an agreement to copyright all their songs as group compositions (a fairly common practice) and that only Philbin and Richrath actually contributed to writing "Lay Me Down".

References

  1. ↑ "Great Rock Discography". p. 685.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Albums (Seventh ed.). Record Research. ISBN   978-0-89820-183-3.
  3. ↑ "Ridin' The Storm Out by REO Speedwagon". SongFacts. Archived from the original on April 8, 2025. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  4. ↑ Henke, James (March 19, 1981). "REO Speedwagon's Big Breakout". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  5. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. REO Speedwagon: Live: You Get What You Play For at AllMusic. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  6. ↑ "REO Speedwagon Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved July 8, 2023.
  7. ↑ "American album certifications – R.E.O. Speedwagon – You Get What You Play For". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved October 7, 2016.
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