Talk:REO Speedwagon

message: I do feel there is a negative bias in some parts of this article. I don't know who is doing it. They may think they are being fair.
Obvioulsly, REO is not as big as we were in the Eighties, but our career is not in ruins. We chose to finance the last CD ourselves, since our management has promotion and distribution departments. Every band wants its own record label.
We were set for a major arena tour in 2007 with Boston, but then came the tragic death of Brad Delp. The Def Leppard tour this year involves nearly twenty shows, not just a "handful." Some of these extra buzzwords do seem to create a false impression.
Implying that the Arch Allies project is a recycled version of the original live album is not accurate at all. Our biggest hits did not exist during the first live album, and the 2000 version includes a ten-camera video.
It is true that we play a lot of casinos and fairs whenever major tours don't pan out. We know our fans like these intimate showrooms and family-friendly grandstands. 
I know Wikipedia is not supposed to be a promotion tool, but an overly negative tone, based on inaccurate information, is harmful to the band and its fans.
ND  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nealdoughty (talk • contribs) 19:09, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Status 

message: In the history section, it says: In 1971, GM gave the band rights to the name and logo. Where did this information come from? This statement is incorrect, as GM never had any connection to or ownership of REO Motor Car Company. REO was owned by White Motor Corporation from May, 1957 until August, 1971. It was then sold to F. L. Cappaert, who owned it until the 1975 bankruptcy.
Starlite64 (talk) 23:10, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably just someone inserting nonsense into the page.  He made a few other nonsensical edits to other articles.  --Mwalimu59 (talk) 22:09, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Why doesn't this article have a Members section? As it is, it's extraordinarily difficult to tell who played what and when without poring through the entire text of the article. Chubbles (talk) 17:39, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you think it would improve the article, you don't have to wait for someone else to do it.  By all means, feel free to create the section yourself and add it to the article.  --mwalimu59 (talk) 20:28, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Members

message: I'm rewriting the lede and it will be in a state of flux for a bit.  Please bear with me.  A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 22:04, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I'm done, I think.  Hopefully, this gives a better perspective on the band's history as well as its current status.  A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 23:46, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm rewriting the lede 

message: Can we think of a more neutral title for this section besides "hard times"?  Perhaps "Waning popularity" or "Declining popularity" or something?  A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 03:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hard times 

message: "Current" header in article has text reading "last year" in reference to a tour REO did (something regarding a cruise ship, Styx, Boston, members of Toto).  Unfortunately "last year" has no meaning since the reader has no idea of when this reference was added.  I don't know the actual year of the tour; would someone who knows please fill it in?
Tigger-ibby (talk) 08:28, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You make a good point.  That is why terms like "Currently" and "last year" are frowned on in favor of something like "As of October 2009".  --mwalimu59 (talk) 16:11, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor point - dating tour w/ Styx? 

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message: From the linked article, the Speed Wagon wasn't introduced until 1915, and only some of them were fire trucks - unlike the delivery van in the illustration, for instance. This has passed into urban myth, but has anyone a reliable source? Ian Dalziel (talk) 19:37, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  1911 Fire Truck? 

message: I removed "Psychedelic" from the list of genres.  I'm hard-pressed to think of any songs that are psychedelic, but perhaps I'm forgetting some?  A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 09:18, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Psychedelic" rock?