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Live: You Get What You Play For

Live: You Get What You Play For
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Live album by REO Speedwagon
Released January 1977
Recorded 1976
Genre Rock
Length 74:72 (LP edition)
68:35 (CD edition)
80:34 (Two-CD edition)
Label Epic
Producer John Stronach, Gary Richrath, John Henning
REO Speedwagon chronology
R.E.O.
(1976)
Live: You Get What You Play For
(1977)
You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish
(1978)
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Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977 (and years later as a single CD). It was recorded at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas, the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977. The song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.

The Japanese CD reissue released in 2011 restores all the songs to their original full lengths, including both "Gary's Guitar Solo" and "Little Queenie".

(+) Appeared on the original double-LP release of the album, but omitted from the original single CD release. They are included on the new 2011 Japanese "remaster" two-CD release.

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