Styx at SPAC with Speedwagon Voice,Ex-Eagles Guitar Player
Styx headlines tour at SPAC in 2025.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The band Styx, and Kevin Cronin – the voice and writer behind REO Speedwagon’s greatest hits, join forces for their “Brotherhood of Rock” tour, that will kick off May 28 in South Carolina and stage a show at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Aug. 12.
Special guest Don Felder, a former lead guitarist for the Eagles, will also appear.
Styx and Kevin Cronin (as part of REO Speedwagon) first toured together in 2000 and in 2001.
Cronin can recall first seeing Styx singer Tommy Shaw performing with his seven-piece funk/rock band at the Rush Up club in Chicago during the the mid-‘70s REO hiatus, and subsequently bumping into him at O’Hare Airport a few weeks later.
“In no time I was back in REO Speedwagon and Tommy had become the newest member of Styx,” says Cronin, who began fronting REO Speedwagon in 1972. “REO and Styx dominated the Billboard charts in 1981 with “Hi Infidelity” and “Paradise Theatre,” but for reasons unknown we had never toured together. So, in the year 2000, Tommy and I decided to give it a shot…now, here we are 25 years later.”
For more information and tickets, go to: LiveNation.com.