Just got in from the after party, awesome show they played for 2 1/2 hrs straight. There's No Place Like Home ...... is in the can & coming soon.
IT WAS BITTERSWEET I wish founding members Robbie Steinhardt and Dave Hope could have made the show, it would have been nice to see the whole group together again for the anniversary. Other than that they rocked the house, except for one small technical moment when they lost the sound for a moment in mid song but they picked it up at the break where they left off and I'm sure it will edit in fine on the DVD. Steve's voice was in strong form ,although not the youthful range he had some thirty years ago. It was Kansas stripped down to their best , Gone were the Pyro and lasers of the past, no back flips over the keyboard rack or handstands on the organ from Steve Walsh just the sound that took them to the top many years ago.
Steve Morse from Deep Purple sat in on his Kansas songs from his time in the 80s and the finale where all the guys Kansas past and present played some songs together.
I can't believe it has been thirty-five years where did the time go? I remember when they came back from recording the first album and had a release party. They played at the Agricultural Hall at the fairgrounds, no seats, everyone sat packed on the concrete floor. They had no money for effects so someone got the bright idea to fill a metal strip with gunpowder and ignite it, at the front of the stage, it almost singed off their faces. As I made my way up the walkway to the concert hall tonight ...just for a brief moment I swear I saw that old yellow" White Clover" School Bus parked out back waiting as it had faithfully for many years for the boys to load up after the show.
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"Carry on, oh, wayward son. There'll be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest. Don't you cry no more."
Mercy sakes alive! How well I remember that album. Remembers (not a typo) me of my wilder days.
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Just got in from the after party, awesome show they played for 2 1/2 hrs straight. There's No Place Like Home ...... is in the can & coming soon.
IT WAS BITTERSWEET I wish founding members Robbie Steinhardt and Dave Hope could have made the show, it would have been nice to see the whole group together again for the anniversary. Other than that they rocked the house, except for one small technical moment when they lost the sound for a moment in mid song but they picked it up at the break where they left off and I'm sure it will edit in fine on the DVD. Steve's voice was in strong form ,although not the youthful range he had some thirty years ago. It was Kansas stripped down to their best , Gone were the Pyro and lasers of the past, no back flips over the keyboard rack or handstands on the organ from Steve Walsh just the sound that took them to the top many years ago.
Steve Morse from Deep Purple sat in on his Kansas songs from his time in the 80s and the finale where all the guys Kansas past and present played some songs together.
I can't believe it has been thirty-five years where did the time go? I remember when they came back from recording the first album and had a release party. They played at the Agricultural Hall at the fairgrounds, no seats, everyone sat packed on the concrete floor. They had no money for effects so someone got the bright idea to fill a metal strip with gunpowder and ignite it, at the front of the stage, it almost singed off their faces. As I made my way up the walkway to the concert hall tonight ...just for a brief moment I swear I saw that old yellow" White Clover" School Bus parked out back waiting as it had faithfully for many years for the boys to load up after the show.
There's No Place Like Home ......
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