{"id":31054,"date":"2024-12-16T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kevin-cronin-on-reo-speedwagons-retirement-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-did-i-ever-see-this-coming\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:04:02","slug":"kevin-cronin-on-reo-speedwagons-retirement-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-did-i-ever-see-this-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kevin-cronin-on-reo-speedwagons-retirement-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-did-i-ever-see-this-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Cronin on REO Speedwagon\u2019s retirement: \u2018Never in my wildest dreams did I ever see this coming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-16\/M_REOSpeedwagonKevinCronin_073124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Randy Holmes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>REO Speedwagon<\/strong> frontman <strong>Kevin Cronin<\/strong> wants fans to know he didn&#8217;t want the band to end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The group announced in September that after 2024 they would cease touring; in a new interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rock\/kevin-cronin-solo-career-reo-speedwagon-interview-1235857197\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billboard<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, Cronin says ending the group wasn&#8217;t his decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNever in my wildest dreams did I ever see this coming,\u201d he told the mag. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to end REO Speedwagon. This is sad, and I would do anything in my power to continue (as) REO Speedwagon.\u00a0I never quit the band; I never will quit the band. I just got outvoted and &#8230; have to stop calling it REO Speedwagon at the end of this year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The vote he\u2019s referring to was between the three members with controlling interesting in REO Speedwagon\u00a0\u2014 Cronin; founding member <strong>Neal Doughty<\/strong>, who retired from touring in 2023; and bassist <strong>Bruce Hall<\/strong>, who joined the band in 1977 and who hasn\u2019t toured with them since November 2023.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cronin is also upset Hall made comments on social media suggesting he was responsible for the end of the band.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a divorce of sorts and during a divorce things get a little muddy and things get a little sticky,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s never thrilling when things are said that are inaccurate and hurtful.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, &#8220;My hope is that there will come a time where the dust will have settled. My intention is to ask forgiveness for anything that I\u2019ve done or any hurt that I have caused Bruce. I don\u2019t like to have grudges with people. I like to forgive and be forgiven.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">REO Speedwagon\u00a0plays their final show Dec. 21 in Las Vegas. Cronin will head out on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevincronin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Brotherhood of Rock<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> tour with <strong>Styx<\/strong>\u00a0starting May 28 in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Randy Holmes REO Speedwagon frontman Kevin Cronin wants fans to know he didn&#8217;t want the band to end. The group announced in September that after 2024 they would cease touring; in a new interview with Billboard, Cronin says ending the group wasn&#8217;t his decision. \u201cNever in my wildest dreams did<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kevin-cronin-on-reo-speedwagons-retirement-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-did-i-ever-see-this-coming\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}