[Heeplist] [HC] Kansas

[Jay Pearson]

WOW indeed!!!! Thanks for the review, Dave!

I have seen Kansas more than any other band, and I've never seen a set list like that! I've never seen them do Nobody's Home, Rainmaker, or Magnum Opus, and a couple of others I've only seen once!!  Not surprised about Child of Innocence, since Robby sings that.

I'm really sorry to hear about Robby, I hope he comes out okay. The band really misses his presence. Glad to hear that Dave & Kerry both played. I would definitely buy a DVD of this show.

Would love to see Heep go back and do more Magician's Birthday-type shows like they did about 10 years ago for a few years. Love those special shows!!

Jay
sp - Black Crowes


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 From: Dave Crookham <crookham at peoplepc.com>
To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time) <heeplist at travellersintime.com> 
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:17 AM
Subject: [Heeplist] [NHC] Kansas
 

A few people were interested in the Kansas 40th anniversary show, so I'll 
give my take on it. First - just WOW! One of the most magical live music 
experiences I've ever had. Most Kansas concerts I've been to previously 
lasted about 90 minutes. This one ran an incredible 3 1/2 hours. 15 minutes 
of that was an intermission where Phil Ehart emceed and gave away signed 
memorabilia to some lucky seat holders. They also showed best wishes from 
some other groups and celebrities(Styx, BOC, Heart, John Corbett, Steve 
Morse, Tony LaRussa and Gary Sinise among them). They also showed a trailer 
from a Kansas documentary coming out next year, and brought Robby 
Steinhardt's daughter onstage since he was unable to attend and play with 
the group since suffereing a heart attack and having quadruple bypass 
surgery last weekend. Ehart says he is doing well.



I've seen Kansas several times, and this was by far the best. Walsh's voice 
is still shot, but it wasn't as painful sounding as some past shows I've 
seen. The first set was with the Pittsburgh River Symphony. I was expecting 
a small group of players, but there had to be around 80 symphony members. 
They and Kansas were both incredibly tight. It's amazing how complex their 
sound is with just keyboards, bass, drums, violin and just 1 guitar for the 
most part. Rich Williams is highly underated on guitar, and Phil Ehart is 
still a total beast on drums. I included the set list below so you can get 
an idea what was going on. The only song I really wished they had played and 
didn't was "Child Of Innocence".



This is the first time I think I've actually seen the band, having 
previously seen them before and after he was in the band the first time, but 
not during. He is every bit as good on violin and probably better than 
Steinhardt. Where Robbie is really missed is that he was always the front 
man during the shows. Other than Ehart's intermission duties the band spoke 
very little, other than a thank you for applause after many numbers. Steve 
Walsh is notoriously shy and spends his time at the back of the stage near 
the drums playing keys and singing. Billy Greer did do some speaking between 
songs, but mostly just to introduce Dave Hope and Kerry Livgren when they 
came out to play.



Dave Hope is now an anglican minister, and actually came out and played with 
his collar on. He seems to be a big personality, and interracted a lot with 
the front of the audience while he was on stage.



Kerry Livgren is an amazing man. He suffered a massive stroke in 2009 that 
probably should have killed him, and was told at the time he would probably 
never totally recover his speech or be able to play music again much less 
walk. The last I had read, I thought he still wasn't able to play guitar and 
just expected him to play keys. Instead, he came out with his guitar, and 
even flawlessly knocked out the solo on "Carry On Wayward Son". Miracles Out 
of Nowhere indeed!

The whole night just totally exceeded expectations. I sure hope they 
recorded it.





SET ONE

Instrumental

Belexes

Point of Know Return

Song for America

On the Other Side

Nobody's Home

Hold On (with Kerry Livgren)

Dust in the Wind

Rainmaker

Cheyenne Anthem (Greer vocal)

The Wall (with Hope on bass and Livgren on keys)



SET TWO

Paradox

Can I Tell You

Journey from Mariabronn

Icarus II

Icarus -- Borne on Wings of Steel

Down the Road

Magnum Opus

Miracles Out of Nowhere (with Hope)



ENCORE

Lonely Wind

He Knew

Fight Fire with Fire

Carry On Wayward Son (with Livgren)





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