Gary Richrath, guitarist - obituary

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In , the album was re-released as part of the Limited Edition 3. All tracks written by Kevin Cronin except where noted. Formed in , the band cultivated a following during the s, Hi Infidelity contained four US Top 40 hits and is the groups best-selling album, with over ten million copies sold.

REO Speedwagons mainstream popularity dissipated in the s but the remains a popular live act. In the fall of , Neal Doughty entered the engineering program at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. On his first night, he met another student, Alan Gratzer and they held an impromptu jam session in the basement of their Illinois Street Residence Hall dormitory, and soon started a rock band.

Gratzer had been a drummer since high school, and was playing in a group on the weekends. Doughty started to follow around Gratzers band, eventually sitting in on a song or two, the keyboard player was the leader, but several other band members werent happy with the situation. They made a list of songs to learn over the summer break, on his Farfisa organ, he learned Light My Fire by The Doors.

The members returned to school in the fall of , and had their first rehearsal before classes even started. Rather than pronouncing REO as a word as the motor company did. An ad in the school produced their first job, a fraternity party that turned into a food fight. They continued to cover songs in campus bars, fraternity parties. The first lineup consisted of Doughty on keyboards, Gratzer on drums and vocals, Joe Matt on guitar and vocals, Mike Blair on bass, in early , Terry Luttrell became lead singer, and Bob Crownover joined as the guitar player, replacing Matt.

When Mike Blair left the band in the summer of , Gregg Philbin replaced Blair, Marty Shepard played trumpet, Crownover played guitar for the group until the summer of when Bill Fiorio replaced him. Fiorio then departed in late , eventually assuming the name Duke Tumatoe, steve Scorfina came aboard for over a year, composing with the band and performing live, before being replaced by Gary Richrath in late Richrath was a Peoria, Illinois-based guitarist and prolific songwriter who brought fresh original material to the band, with Richrath on board, the regional popularity of the band grew tremendously.

The Midwestern United States was the original REO Speedwagon fan stronghold and is pivotal in this period of the bands history, the band signed to Epic Records in Rock music — It has its roots in s and s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music.

Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Punk was an influence into the s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop.

Similarly, s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation.

Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition.

These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in , said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll.

Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late s and early s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country.

In , Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Hard rock — Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mids, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. During the s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock.

Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the s, only a few hard rock bands from the s and s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument.

Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice.

In the late s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the s, in the s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in , and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou.

In the s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton.

Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March , Epic Records was launched in by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label.

Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By , the musical base had been expanded to include all genres.

This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. It also handles the catalog of recordings produced by Phil Spector and this is not to be confused with the defunct British independent label Legacy Records.

The Essential series are one-to-two disc compilations of an extensive catalog. On occasion, albums in series would have a limited edition third disc. As of , several volumes in the Essential series are available on Vinyl LP.

A spinoff series, Setlist, features compilations of live performances. The first several albums come in a special Eco-packet and to save paper, a PDF file is included on the disc, containing photographs, credits and this was met with criticism as the discs were easily scratched.

Thus, in recent years, Playlist albums came packaged in standard, reception on the Playlist series varies between editions. Record producer — A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording.

Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums.

In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording.

Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the s and s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process.

Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded.

As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the s, e. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance.

Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu. AllMusic — AllMusic is an online music guide service website. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. His brother is Wisconsin weatherman and politician Sean Cronin, REO Speedwagon switched lead vocalists three times for their first three albums.

Terry Luttrell left the band shortly after the group recorded its album in Cronin recorded one album with the band, s R. O, but left the band soon after, because of missed rehearsals and creative disagreements. Ridin the Storm Out was the third release with as many singers. Murphy stayed on for two albums, before Cronin returned to the fold in Cronins return came after Greg X. Volz turned down the position for lead vocals due to his conversion to Christianity, the bands success hit its peak in the late s and early s, but are still releasing records such as Find Your Own Way Home in Their most famous album, Hi Infidelity, sold over 10 million copies, kevin has stated in various interviews that they play for free but get paid for the traveling.

Cronin was a celebrity contestant on Dont Forget the Lyrics. Gary Richrath — Gary Dean Richrath was an American guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist and a songwriter for the band R. In , he and other members of the band took over production, on November 22,, REO and Styx announced a benefit concert titled Rock to the Rescue to raise money for the affected families of the tornado in central Illinois. Families affected by the storm and first-responders sat near the stage for special concert.

As of , Doughty is the last original member still playing with the band and he formed the band in the fall of , with original drummer Alan Gratzer.

The latter two songs charted as Billboard singles, with One Lonely Night cracking the top 20 and his most notable playing includes the Hammond Organ solo on Roll With The Changes and the honky-tonk piano work on Riverside Avenue.

He notes the beginning to Cant Fight This Feeling is the most difficult and he was an early adopter of the Moog Synthesizer, which can be heard on the opening swoop of Ridin The Storm Out.