Mike Reno is still feeling the love. More than 20 years since Loverboy's last hits in the United States, he and the rest of the band are on tour and getting the best reception they've received in a long time.

"The shows have been bigger," the 54-year-old Reno said in a telephone interview from his home in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Younger crowds showing up, everybody knows the words. It's becoming crazy."

The band is back on a tour bus for the first time in several years after flying from date to date, which proved to be too much of a hassle, he said.

That bus stops Friday night in Clinton, Iowa, for the city's annual Riverboat Days.

Fans are singing along with tunes such as "Turn Me Loose," "Working for the Weekend" and "Hot Girls in Love."

"I'm getting the feeling they're connecting with the energy," Reno said. "We're rocking pretty hard and they pick up on that. It's a lot more positive vibe."

A hit that's rarely played is Reno's duet with Heart's Nancy Wilson, the ballad "Almost Paradise" from the "Footloose" movie soundtrack.

"We need a woman," Reno explained, noting that Loverboy is all-male. "You can't sing that duet with your bass player."

When there is a female backup singer available, "We love doing it. We just don't do it every day."

The band received its biggest honor earlier this year by being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Reno said he was honored by, yet leery of, the inclusion.

"If you're inducted into the Hall of Fame, it's like your career is being celebrated and done. I don't feel done."

Reno said he and other Loverboy members are into several current bands, including All-American Rejects.

"It's almost like they've read our playbook," he said. "Their songwriting is snappy, they've got hook lines, they've got themes."