Entre_Perpetuo Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 REO and BTO (aren't you glad I didn't toss REM into this?). Pick one and tell us why! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 I'm going straight ticket REO here. BTO may be more technically skilled or something like that, but REO Speedwagon's brand of AOR (and their murky precursors to the style) is candy to my ears. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Count me among those who love REO. Good straight forward, no frills rock. Gary Richrath was an underappreciated guitarist with great tone. Kevin Cronin had a knack for writing the best songs to capture how it feels when a relationship goes downhill. Time For Me to Fly will always remind me of a particular girl from my late teens-early 20s. I'm tired of holdin' on, to a feelin' I KNOW is gone, I do believe that I've had enough. Oh and Hi InFIdelity is phenomenal. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystal Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 REO Speedwagon by a long shot dude!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 BTO to me their greatest hits are greater than REO greatest hits. I certainly was exposed to them an earlier age. not particularly passionate about either though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 I've never owned an album from either band. I know, from radio play, BTO so I can name a few songs from them. I couldn't name a single REO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) I like REO up through Hi Infidelity. Got way too schmaltzy after that. Richrath was a killer guitarist. I like almost all of BTO. Think R.E.O.T.W.O. is a really underappreciated album.I can't choose one or the other.Saw REO on the Hi Infidelity tour and then again about 5 years ago and BTO in '75 and '77 iirc. Edited March 30, 2020 by driventotheedge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Bachman and Turner are real men, macho men, manly men. They sing about truckin', sledgehammers, and other manly things. Kevin Cronin is not. He sings about feelings, love and other sissy things. BTO wins in a landslide. ;) ;) 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinwoodsman Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) Randy Bachman bailed out of the Guess Who in 1970 to live a healthier lifestyle and started a new band entitled Brave Belt. That band morphed into BTO by 1973 and enjoyed a kick ass sophomore album with Not Fragile which was the first 33.3 rpm vinyl album I bought. Age 14. I still enjoy that album with Fred's driving vocals and the great dual lead guitars in several songs. I never did buy an REO album even though they were popular here. I actually prefer REM tbh lol. Edited March 30, 2020 by Tinwoodsman 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoopid Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 38 Special over either. ;) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianice Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 BTO hands down--------Stayed awake all night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Randy Bachman bailed out of the Guess Who in 1970 to live a healthier lifestyle and started a new band entitled Brave Belt. That band morphed into BTO by 1973 and enjoyed a kick ass sophomore album with Not Fragile which was the first 33.3 rpm vinyl album I bought. Age 14. I still enjoy that album with Fred's driving vocals and the great dual lead guitars in several songs. I never did buy an REO album even though they were popular here. I actually prefer REM tbh lol. the guess who are far better than bto or reo in my eyes. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Randy Bachman bailed out of the Guess Who in 1970 to live a healthier lifestyle.... .... and then became such a control freak over the band that his brother, guitarist Tim Bachman, quit the band. No premarital sex, drugs or alcohol while on tour? Come ON, Randy.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushFanForever Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) It took Randy Bachman a total of nearly 9 years (beginning as a member of Chad Allan and the Reflections in 1961 releasing their first minor single to the metamorphosis of The Guess Who featuring Burton Cummings) to achieve massive global success with 'American Woman' single and album in 1970. It took REO Speedwagon a total of 9 years (beginning at a group forming in 1967 and releasing their first album in 1971), to achieve massive global success in 1980 with Hi Infidelity in 1980. See article here and here. It was a long road to success with both acts. Then again with Bachman-Turner Overdrive, success didn't take years this time. However like RUSH, BTO toured over 300 dates a year. See article here. On a global scale, BTO is known for Not Fragile and REO Speedwagon for Hi Infidelity. Edited March 30, 2020 by RushFanForever 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinwoodsman Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Randy Bachman bailed out of the Guess Who in 1970 to live a healthier lifestyle and started a new band entitled Brave Belt. That band morphed into BTO by 1973 and enjoyed a kick ass sophomore album with Not Fragile which was the first 33.3 rpm vinyl album I bought. Age 14. I still enjoy that album with Fred's driving vocals and the great dual lead guitars in several songs. I never did buy an REO album even though they were popular here. I actually prefer REM tbh lol. the guess who are far better than bto or reo in my eyes. That's a new poll for a new day ... before the C word reared its ugly head, Randy, Burton and Fred had a new Canadian tour lined up for 2020. Burton's voice is shot and has been for 30 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushFanForever Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 That's a new poll for a new day ... before the C word reared its ugly head, Randy, Burton and Fred had a new Canadian tour lined up for 2020. Burton's voice is shot and has been for 30 years. It would've been a Bachman-Cummings tour for 2020. Fred Turner retired in 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Bachman and Turner are real men, macho men, manly men. They sing about truckin', sledgehammers, and other manly things. Kevin Cronin is not. He sings about feelings, love and other sissy things. BTO wins in a landslide. ;) ;) manly indeed i assume not fragile came out after fragile ( by yes )? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoopid Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) I know, from radio play, BTO so I can name a few songs from them. I couldn't name a single REO. Are you sure you don't have them reversed? Commercially (including radio/airplay) REO was a much larger success, both in overall album sales and singles for the same duration of time in the 70s. That said, BTO would be considered more in line with classic rock and REO by today's standards would be leaning more towards soft rock, at least several of their biggest hits. So depending on what radio station you were listening and in what era, you may have rarely heard one or the other band. In the 1980s they were still being lumped together on most rock radio stations, but at some point I seem to recall hearing REO on easy listening (soft rock) stations as well and overall I don't hear REO that very often anymore because if I listen to music of that era streaming it's usually more geared toward "classic" rock. Also, BTO are southern rock so that's another way in which you could be more familiar with them [Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special, Allman Bros, etc] Edited March 31, 2020 by stoopid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) I voted REO but it's very close for me. My college roommate was a huge REO fan of everything before Hi Infidelity and that influenced me a lot. I still think of them as the band that did Riding the Storm Out and Roll With The Changes rather than the later stuff. (They had an excellent 70's album called You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tune a Fish. ). I love their early sound. I love the sound of BTO also, though; it's weird because they had mad skillz in the Guess Who but I think of BTO as basically garage rock. Great garage rock, though, right up there with Grand Funk! :heart: Let It Roll! Edited March 31, 2020 by blueschica 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 Bachman and Turner are real men, macho men, manly men. They sing about truckin', sledgehammers, and other manly things. Kevin Cronin is not. He sings about feelings, love and other sissy things. BTO wins in a landslide. ;) ;) manly indeed i assume not fragile came out after fragile ( by yes )? Indeed! Bachman said he thought Fragile was an ironic name for a rock album, and said he felt his own bands music could be drop-kicked without breaking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 BTO hands down--------Stayed awake all night. You’re thinking of Krokus. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushFanForever Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 It was Fred Turner's 'gravel truck' John Fogerty type of vocal style that made BTO be hard rocking. At the same time, when you hear songs like 'Blue Collar' and 'Lookin’ Out for No. 1', you wonder if that's the same band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 REO baby clean sweep. Mick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken hawk Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Tough choice but i went with REO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Bachman and Turner are real men, macho men, manly men. They sing about truckin', sledgehammers, and other manly things. Kevin Cronin is not. He sings about feelings, love and other sissy things. BTO wins in a landslide. ;) ;) manly indeed i assume not fragile came out after fragile ( by yes )? Indeed! Bachman said he thought Fragile was an ironic name for a rock album, and said he felt his own bands music could be drop-kicked without breaking. nice when i was kid, i lived in buffalo ny and being so close to canada, i think ( or really guess ) the radio stations there in the 70s played more canadian music than those further to the south?? guess who, bto, gordon lightfoot etc probably why i am such a rush fanboi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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