Live: You Get What You Play For Explained

Live: You Get What You Play For
Type:	Live album
Artist:	REO Speedwagon
Cover:	Live You Get What You Play For.jpg
Released:	March 1977^[1]
Recorded:	1976
Venue:	Soldiers 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
Length:	77:47 (LP edition) 68:35 (CD edition) 80:34 (Two-CD edition)
Label:	Epic
Producer:	John Stronach, Gary Richrath, John Henning
Prev Title:	R.E.O.
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish
Next Year:	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 song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, but has since become a classic rock radio staple. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.

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.

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)  – 3:34
3. "Any Kind of Love"  – 3:33
4. "Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)" (Kevin Cronin)  – 6:27

Side two

5. "Keep Pushin'" (Cronin)  – 3:59
6. "(Only A) Summer Love"  – 6:06
7. "Son of a Poor Man"  – 5:25
8. "(I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come" (Cronin)  – 4:46

Side three

9. "Flying Turkey Trot"  – 2:34
10. "Gary's Guitar Solo"+  – 6:10
11. "157 Riverside Avenue (Doughty, Gratzer, Luttrell, Philbin, Richrath)  – 7:35
12. "Ridin' the Storm Out"  – 5:34

Side four: Encores

13. "Music Man" (Cronin)  – 2:29
14. "Little Queenie"+ (Chuck Berry)  – 4:45
15. "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

• Kevin Cronin – lead vocals (except on "Only a Summer Love"), rhythm guitar
• Gary Richrath – lead guitar, lead vocals on "Any Kind of Love" and "Only a Summer Love"
• Neal Doughty – keyboards
• Gregg Philbin – bass, backing vocals
• Alan Gratzer – drums, backing vocals

ProductionProduction as listed in album liner notes.

• John Stronach - production, engineering
• John Henning - production, engineering, mixing
• Gary Richrath - production, mixing
• Bruce Hensal - engineering
• Pete Carlson - engineering
• Jack Crymes - engineering
• Kelly Kotera - engineering
• Rick Sanchez - engineering
• Mike Klink - engineering
• Vartán Kurjian - illustration
• Justin Carroll - illustration
• Tom Steele - design
• Lorrie Sullivan - photography

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog #
USA	March 1977	Epic Records		E-34494
USA	1977	Epic Records	Tape	EGT-34494
USA	1977	Epic Records	8 Track	E34494
UK	August 1977	Epic Records
USA	1988	Epic Records	CD	EK34494
Japan	2011	Sony Music	2-CD (DSD-Remaster)	EICP 1486-7

Notes and References

1. Web site: Great Rock Discography. 685.
2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

   . Joel Whitburn . Top Pop Albums . Seventh . 2011 . Record Research . 978-0-89820-183-3.