Kevin Cronin has fired back at the fans of REO Speedwagon for supposedly not honoring Bruce Wall.
The backlash started when Cronin shared a post on Facebook about the recently passed Quincy Jones. He recalled his time with the record producer and shared a picture from the time they were together. However, Bruce Hall was missing from the picture. This caused a backlash and fans started asking questions about the matter.
A user commented, “I wish the band could stay together, but I can’t wait to see what is next!” Cronin replied, “The band you saw in Bloomington has every intention of staying together.”
Another mentioned Hall and asked why he doesn’t ‘honor’ him. “Why can’t you honor your brother Bruce Hall?”
“Or maybe the question is, why can’t he honor me,” Cronin replied. When another user asked where Hall was, the guitarist added: “Maybe you should ask Bruce…”
The comments came after Bruce Hall sent a message to Cronin about the ‘ugly mess’ that ended the band. “I’ve worked really hard trying to do what I can to get back in there, talking to the people and all this stuff,” Hall said in an interview with Eubanks Reality Check. “Kevin’s the one who’s made up his mind. I’m trying to get him to change his mind for some reason, but what if this is going to be the end and it should be? I think we’ve done this a long time and we’re still capable of putting on a good show.”
“It’s time to say goodbye, it’s a farewell time and that would be the right way to end the band instead of like this,” he added. “This is just an ugly mess and it’d be a perfect time to go out. It wouldn’t take maybe a year to hit all the good spots and say goodbye and thank you everybody for being so wonderful to take care of us this long. Then we could go home and KC could do whatever he wanted to do with his life after that, but the way he’s splitting like this now is not it’s not the right way to go.”
Cronin later added in a social media statement that the drama inside the band was more complicated than what it appears to be.
REO Speedwagon’s farewell tour still goes on. The tour ends at The Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 21.