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Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:47 pm**

Captured, Hi Infidelity and Paradise Theater were my first LPs that I purchased on my own. Hi Infidelity was the surprise. I only knew Keep On Loving You initially but this turned out to be a great album. Listening to Take It On The Run and Don't Let Him Go, you realise what a great guitarist Richrath was. The track I Wish You Were There was also unique as they turned out a great Gospel rocker with that number.
This album went on to be the best selling rock album that year and ushered in a new genre with their #1 hit Keep On Loving You . After all these years, this album still sounds great.

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:12 pm**

Don't Let Him Go is a great rockin track.
Like you, I originally bought it for KOLY but
the entire album is great.

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:36 pm**

LLL wrote:I wore out not one, but two 8-tracks of High Infidelity. Loved this album and Richrath was terrific.

My two 8-tracks were Infinity and Escape. I couldn't afford to upgrade to a cassette player for my car.

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:09 pm**

LLL wrote:I wore out not one, but two 8-tracks of High Infidelity. Loved this album and Richrath was terrific.

Kind of ironic that this album (a change toward pop from rock) really began there height of popularity and then immeadiatly after they started a downward spiral

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:28 pm**

Richrath should be a poster boy for what drugs and booze can do to a career. The man was very talented.

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:44 pm**

I had all three as well.....played the hell out of them and wish I still had my vinyl collection.....lost in my parents divorce!!!Ugh!

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:36 pm**

Best years ever in rockmusic, 1980-1981, Captured, Escape, Hi Infidelity, Paradise Theatre, Foreigner 4, Rainbow's Dificult to Cure, Michael Schenker's debut album, all classics...

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:21 pm**

High Infidelity has such a great sonic to it. It's very crisp & clean, and well-mixed. Never really cared for REO that much, but this is one of the best sounding albums of all time in my book.

later~

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:27 pm**

Arkansas wrote:High Infidelity has such a great sonic to it. It's very crisp & clean, and well-mixed. Never really cared for REO that much, but this is one of the best sounding albums of all time in my book.

Yeah, that album was very well produced. I remember listening to that one, E5C4P3 and Foreigner 4 all the time. A lot of my friends were into Paradise Theater, but I never cared for Styx. The first albums that really got me listening to rock were Van Halen's first three albums, Rush's Moving Pictures and Kix's first album.

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:43 pm**

i remember getting albums in the mail from the tape club columbia house regularly.well this was in 1984 right when the wheels are turnin' album came out that had can't fight this feeling.i got that album and high infidelity too.well i get this big brown package in the mail one summer day and i remember my grandmother was watching me and my sister.well i open this up and my grandmother immediately locked eyes on the hi infidelity album cover.at first she didn't think it was appropriate for me to have the album.she stayed very close when i put it on the turntable,lol.i've got a picture from march of 1983 where i got the cassettes kilroy was here,frontiers and pyromania.i'll post it here if it will show up...

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:37 am**

NealIsGod wrote: Kix's first album.

That is a group I haven't heard mentioned in a long long time.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:00 am**

mikemarrs wrote: lol.i've got a picture from march of 1983 where i got the cassettes kilroy was here,frontiers and pyromania.i'll post it here if it will show up...

Great memory jogger having that pic must be. Those albums had just been released.

Whats the 4th cassette?

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:03 am**

StoneCold wrote:
mikemarrs wrote: lol.i've got a picture from march of 1983 where i got the cassettes kilroy was here,frontiers and pyromania.i'll post it here if it will show up...

Great memory jogger having that pic must be. Those albums had just been released.

Whats the 4th cassette?

i think it was a beatles.thing about me was i was never big into toys even when i was little.some kid might've asked for a GI joe or something but i wanted music.when MTV first came out we didn't have cable so i'd spend entire weekends at my aunt glued to the television.i had a huge crush on joan jett after i got the album bad reputation.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:07 am**

In late '81 HiInFi was HUGE. Bigger than escape.

I remember cholos cruisin' in lowriders blastin' those tunes. Folks that wouldn't touch a rock record were playing it. REO, right there by Rick James and Shalamar. :lol:

It was the must have album (8track?) of the year.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:12 am**

mikemarrs wrote:
StoneCold wrote:
mikemarrs wrote: lol.i've got a picture from march of 1983 where i got the cassettes kilroy was here,frontiers and pyromania.i'll post it here if it will show up...

Great memory jogger having that pic must be. Those albums had just been released.

Whats the 4th cassette?

i think it was a beatles.

Looks about right, can't remember which album that is though.

I was the same way. When I earned money of my own, first thing I bought was a decent stereo with a record player.

Thanks to a rerun of Ed Sullivan I experienced a latter day BeatleMania. Other kids were singing "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin" and I didn't know what the hell kinda music that was. :lol:

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:20 am**

For your 80's flashback enjoyment.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EYnlhA-1Q

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:26 am**

richrath must have a pretty bad alcohol issue but if he ever did clean up i don't see why they wouldn't let him back in because he was a big part of the sound that made them successful.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:28 am**

portland wrote:For your 80's flashback enjoyment.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EYnlhA-1Q

Cool, how about.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8pr533yOE

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:31 am**

time for me to fly and roll with the changes are two of my favorites.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:34 am**

Since 78 wrote:
portland wrote:For your 80's flashback enjoyment.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EYnlhA-1Q

Cool, how about.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8pr533yOE

I just love the music of back then.....what is it change your AV day?

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:39 am**

portland wrote:
Since 78 wrote:
portland wrote:For your 80's flashback enjoyment.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EYnlhA-1Q

Cool, how about.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8pr533yOE

I just love the music of back then.....what is it change your AV day?

Who me?

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:41 am**

Since 78 wrote:
portland wrote:
Since 78 wrote:
portland wrote:For your 80's flashback enjoyment.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EYnlhA-1Q

Cool, how about.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8pr533yOE

I just love the music of back then.....what is it change your AV day?

Who me?

Great minds think alike.....that is my new fav!

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:52 am**

mikemarrs wrote:time for me to fly and roll with the changes are two of my favorites.

Yep, "You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish" best album name ever! :lol:

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:52 am**

portland wrote:
Since 78 wrote:
portland wrote:
Since 78 wrote:
portland wrote:For your 80's flashback enjoyment.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EYnlhA-1Q

Cool, how about.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8pr533yOE

I just love the music of back then.....what is it change your AV day?

Who me?

Great minds think alike.....that is my new fav!

Had mine first!

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:21 am**

mikemarrs wrote:richrath must have a pretty bad alcohol issue but if he ever did clean up i don't see why they wouldn't let him back in because he was a big part of the sound that made them successful.

Huge from I have read and seen. Stories of him missing for days then going to his house and him being so drunk he can't do anything. Watch VH1 Behind the Music.. They go into a lot of detail.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:25 am**

I was so geeked for their follow up album but when Good Trouble came out, I was a little underwhelmed. By the time Wheels Are Turnin' arrived, Reo was off my radar completely.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:50 am**

Hate to turn the album review into a general REO thread, but...
Bruce Hall's 'Back on the Road Again', is all-time fave and one of REO's rockin'est songs.

Here's REO from the vintage file.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QXHhgM_ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sITjUlC ... re=related

later~

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:12 am**

157 Riverside Ave (Live)!!

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:52 am**

Abitaman wrote:
mikemarrs wrote:richrath must have a pretty bad alcohol issue but if he ever did clean up i don't see why they wouldn't let him back in because he was a big part of the sound that made them successful.

Huge from I have read and seen. Stories of him missing for days then going to his house and him being so drunk he can't do anything. Watch VH1 Behind the Music.. They go into a lot of detail.

they probably all partied but when business was at hand everyone got serious and sober but richrath simply couldn't stop.i saw the behind the music years ago and its very sad.you'd think that gary would finally get it together.some people are so bad they get lost in the haze of addiction where nothing else matters.been through it myself.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:31 am**

The fact that he is still alive is a wonder. I thought it was really sad at the end of the BTM where it sounded like both Kevin and Gary wanted to get it together again but neither one of them was willing to make the call...