2000 Great Songs #1293: Ridin' The Storm Out
Of all the Guilty Pleasures I've shamelessly included on this list to date, this may be the Guiltiest. Because, c'mon, it's REO Speedwagon ... not exactly the band to name-check if you're trying to establish your hipster cred. But... This one takes me back to the summers I spent at Camp North Star in lovely Hayward, Wisconsin. (Also the name of the camp in Bill Murray's Meatballs ... sadly, not the same camp.) The place where the suburban Chicago families would ship their kids for eight weeks each summer. Being the late 70s and early 80s, most of us arrived at our cabins with a small boombox and a case of cassettes, and spent a lot of our downtime between activities taking turns cranking up our personal faves. One of my camp friends had a copy of REO's You Get What You Play For , one of those obligatory 70s double-live albums from a classic rock artist whose studio work didn't get a ton of attention but whose live releases some traction. ( Frampton Comes Al...
