The Brotherhood of Rock Tour will deliver two of traditional rock finest’s Vegas residencies to amphitheaters and arenas throughout America this summer time. STYX and the Kevin Cronin Band, led by former REO Speedwagon frontman Kevin Cronin, will rekindle their longtime partnership with 40 dates together with full-album performances of STYX’s 1977 blockbuster The Grand Phantasm and REO Speedwagon’s 1980 smash Hello Infidelity. Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder will open all exhibits.
STYX and Cronin introduced the tour with a trailer through which Cronin and STYX’s Tommy Shaw change our bodies, Freaky Friday-style. The trek kicks off Could 28 in Greenville, S.C. on the Bon Secours Wellness Area and concludes Aug. 24 at Milwaukee’s American Household Insurance coverage Amphitheater. This enterprise comes on the heels of residencies the place each STYX and Kevin Cronin Band (then performing below the REO Speedwagon title) performed these albums and different hits for sold-out crowds at Vegas’s Venetian Theatre.
The Brotherhood of Rock Tour marks STYX’s first time performing The Grand Phantasm in full on tour since 2010. The triple-Platinum LP options a few of STYX’s best-loved hits, together with “Come Sail Away” and “Fooling Yourself.” Hello Infidelity, which is Diamond-certified with 10 million copies offered within the U.S., was the biggest-selling album of 1981 and boasts the No. 1 hit “Keep on Loving You” in addition to the top-five hit “Take It on the Run,” each of which can be a part of Cronin’s present together with different REO hits like “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” “Time for me to Fly,” and “Roll with the Changes.” Felder’s set every night time will embody the enduring Eagles observe “Hotel California,” which he co-wrote.
STYX and REO Speedwagon beforehand toured collectively in 2000 and 2001, at which era they got here collectively to kind the 501(c)3 nonprofit Rock to the Rescue. The group nonetheless collects funds for native charities at each STYX tour cease.
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