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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: walwarrior on August 04, 2006, 06:40:04 AM
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Anyone catch Kansas on this recent tour? I saw them last night in Baltimore, MD and they kicked ass. No encores though, What's up with that? I was right behind the FOH console and could see the setlist, of course they ended the show with Carry on Wayward son. Awesome show! They had two drummers at times, a guy flanked off to the drummers right, playing an electric kit mirroring the drummer beat for beat. Crazy!
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I saw them in the early '80s and they were spectacular. We were on the stage floor at Municipal Auditorium in Nashville at the very front and my girlfriend at the time passed out and I had to carry her through the crowd to the lobby. But that was kinda fun too. She was OK
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Ha ha! Good stuff! I had the same thing happen to me at a Rock Club in Baltimore, MD called Hammerjacks. We were watching Crack The Sky and my GF drops to the floor. I had to hump that sack through the crowd. She was like 100 sacks of potatos. At that time I was benchin' 275, yet I was still a weak POS. Not like she was fat, I was just hammered!
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I saw Kansas along with Heart (warmup band) back in the late 70's.
Man, I haven't heard someone else talk about Crack the Sky in years. Used to play some of their stuff. Nobody I know these days has any idea who they are.
Keith
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That...is about to change
http://www.crackthesky.com/ (http://www.crackthesky.com/)
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And if you want to get to the musical meat...crazy stuff!
http://www.crackthesky.com/boots.htm (http://www.crackthesky.com/boots.htm)
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Thanks Roger never saw the web site and thought they had been relegated to history.
I went to high school in Geneva. My wife and I rented a place on E. Main St. in Batavia during the early 80's. Well before the towns started to fix up the old factories into shops and such. As a matter of fact my wife's family still live in St. Charles.
Keith
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Ihese boys have come all the way down from an acid trip just to play for you. Would you please welcome Crack The Sky!!!
I think I still have my vinyl copy of Live Sky around here somewhere...
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If my memory servers me right, and if you listen to the WBCN broadcast in 1976, you should hear a familiar sound.
I don't remember much about the band, but, he was one of us.
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So who's playing guitar in Kansas, now that Steve Morse's in Deep Purple? Not the original guy is it, the guy who left the band to do Christian rock?
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hb3,
The Christian rock guy you mentioned is Kerry Livgren. I don't know if he's in the band now or not.
Mike
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Currently, the only guitar player for Kansas (http://www.kansasband.com/) is Richard Williams.
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My employer's Pep Band does a home-grown arrangement of Carry On My Wayward Son, and it's good.
John
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Keith, nice to know yet another board member has heard of Batavia (you, me, and Mike so far). Crack the Sky is awesome!
I was helping a 20-something girl here with her first MP3 player. She asked if I had anything I could download in there for her. Yaz? No. Blues from 1928-1935? No. Live GD? No. Esteban (sic) No. and on we went til we hit Queen Greatest hits.
After we were done she commented You don't listen to much mainstream music do you? Ha ha!! Crack the Sky is perfect example of that.
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Didn't Crack the Sky play She's a Dancer? My band has been toying with the idea of picking up that song. A little progressive for most of the venues we play but hey ... the musicians have to have fun sometimes too! :-) As far as Kansas ... I've seen them three or 4 times. Love-em. The last band I was in did a respectable version of Wayward Son. We're adding the keyboard player I had back then to my current band. I'm sure he'll want to bring the song back. Personally I'd rather do The wall or Miracles out of nowhere. Of course like She's a dancer these progressive tunes don't really have a place in bars where the people still think Play that funky Music and Give me 3 steps and the best tunes ever recorded. But again ... every now and then the band needs to do something just for themselves too! :-)
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Ray,
Yes, Crack the Sky does She's a Dancer. It is off of their first album. In a previous band we used to open with Hold On. In that same band we did Sweet Child of Innocence, Can I Tell You and Song For America (not all in the same show) by Kansas.
Keith
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Keith,
In the deep dark late 70's I use to play full time and we did Sweet child of Innocence and Wayward son. We also did some King Crimson like Fracture, 21st Century Schizoid Man and Larks Tongues in Aspic 1 and 2. But that was in the 70's when you could get away with progressive music! Now in my present band if we do more then one tune like YYZ by Rush we're pushing it. Gotta keep it bear drinking bar dance music. Oh well I can't complain ... I'm 49YO and I'm still working all I can handle. But the days when you could play progressive music half the night and still WORK were great days! (Of course I lost a lot of brain cells back then too so my memories may be a little fuzzy ... if you catch my drift!;-)