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walwarrior
Junior
Username: walwarrior

Post Number: 24
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 6:40 am:   Edit Post

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!
57basstra
Advanced Member
Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 208
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 7:40 am:   Edit Post

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
walwarrior
Junior
Username: walwarrior

Post Number: 25
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 8:00 am:   Edit Post

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!
keith_h
Senior Member
Username: keith_h

Post Number: 525
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 10:51 am:   Edit Post

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
paulman
Member
Username: paulman

Post Number: 58
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 11:52 am:   Edit Post

That...is about to change

http://www.crackthesky.com/
paulman
Member
Username: paulman

Post Number: 59
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 11:55 am:   Edit Post

And if you want to get to the musical meat...crazy stuff!

http://www.crackthesky.com/boots.htm
keith_h
Senior Member
Username: keith_h

Post Number: 526
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 12:06 pm:   Edit Post

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
bsee
Senior Member
Username: bsee

Post Number: 1277
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 1:21 pm:   Edit Post

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...
lembic76450
Member
Username: lembic76450

Post Number: 95
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 2:42 pm:   Edit Post

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.
hb3
Intermediate Member
Username: hb3

Post Number: 139
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 4:22 pm:   Edit Post

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?
dadabass2001
Senior Member
Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 639
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 4:48 pm:   Edit Post

hb3,
The Christian rock guy you mentioned is Kerry Livgren. I don't know if he's in the band now or not.
Mike
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 4185
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, August 05, 2006 - 7:57 am:   Edit Post

Currently, the only guitar player for Kansas is Richard Williams.
811952
Senior Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 790
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Saturday, August 05, 2006 - 2:35 pm:   Edit Post

My employer's Pep Band does a home-grown arrangement of Carry On My Wayward Son, and it's good. :-)

John
paulman
Member
Username: paulman

Post Number: 61
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 9:29 am:   Edit Post

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.
88persuader
Advanced Member
Username: 88persuader

Post Number: 203
Registered: 5-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 12:52 am:   Edit Post

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! :-)
keith_h
Senior Member
Username: keith_h

Post Number: 539
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 8:03 am:   Edit Post

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
88persuader
Advanced Member
Username: 88persuader

Post Number: 204
Registered: 5-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:29 pm:   Edit Post

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!;-)

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