That Bar Band Mentality
REO Speedwagon and HLN
“You and Huey both have quite the work ethic.”
Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon: I think part of it is a shared background as bands. Because if I were to guess, I would say that Huey Lewis & The News probably played its share of bars in the days before they got signed. Worked their way up the old-fashioned way. You play a small bar, and then next time you come to town, you play a little bigger bar. And little by little...
That's what REO did. We're both bar bands. Once you're a bar band, you always have that bar band mentality. You know, if someone offers you a gig and you pass it up, the next guy's going to get it. So, you end up working really hard.
Kevin Cronin website: https://www.kevincronin.com/