Live You Get What You Play For

Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977. It was recorded from February to November 1976 at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri and the Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978. This album's live version of the song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and has since become a classic rock radio staple. The song refers to the band being stuck in a harsh winter blizzard, after a show in Boulder, Colorado at a bar named Tulagi. The band had decided to prank its tour manager by intentionally getting lost, but then inadvertently became genuinely lost as a dangerous winter storm approached. Producer John Stronach was fired by the band after his mix of this album "sounded like a studio album". The band then did its own mix of this album, which became their first album to sell over a million records.

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