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Live: You Get What You Play For

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Released
  
January 1977

Artist
  
REO Speedwagon

Label
  
Epic/Sony Records

Recorded
  
1976

Release date
  
January 1977

Genre
  
Hard rock

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Length
  
74:72 (LP edition) 68:35 (CD edition) 80:34 (Two-CD edition)

Producer
  
John Stronach, Gary Richrath, John Henning

Live You Get What You Play For (1977)
  
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Similar
  
REO Speedwagon albums, Hard rock albums

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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). It was recorded at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas, the Market Square Arena 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. The song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.

Contents

The Japanese CD reissue released in 2011 restores all the songs to their original full lengths, including both "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie".

Vinyl version

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

Personnel

  • Kevin Cronin – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Neal Doughty – keyboards
  • Alan Gratzer – drums, percussion, background vocals
  • Gregg Philbin – bass, background vocals
  • Gary Richrath – lead guitar, lead vocals (co-lead on track 3 (chorus), lead on track 6)
  • Production (as listed in CD liner notes)
  • John Stronach - production, engineering
  • John Henning - production, engineering, 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
  • Songs

    1Like You Do6:43
    2Lay Me Down3:34
    3Any Kind of Love3:33

    References

    Live: You Get What You Play For Wikipedia