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There are few examples of a live recording of a song being far far superior to the studio version. The live version of REO Speedwagon’s Ridin’ the Storm Out is one. The live version was released on the 1977 double LP Live: You Get What You Play For. The record was recorded at  Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia.

The song hit #94 on the Billboard charts in 1982.

The song refers to the band being stuck in a harsh winter blizzard, after a show in Boulder, Colorado at a bar named Tulagi (now closed). The band had decided to prank its tour manager by intentionally getting lost, but then inadvertently became genuinely lost as a dangerous winter storm approached.