Kansas was a great band from the 70's. Kansas's musical style is a fusion of hard rock, southern rock & progressive rock. "Carry On Wayward Son" & "Dust In The Wind" are their 2 biggest hits. But they had other good songs such as "Point Of Know Return", "Hold On", "People Of The South Wind", "Play The Game Tonight", "Fight Fire With Fire", "All I Wanted" etc.

I bought the album when this was new, but now I always think about the TV show "Supernatural." They played a lot of great music on that show. Great song. Thanks for the memories.

I was in ninth grade when this song came out what a wonderful time it was for music. The wizard that’s on the album cover my dad actually took that cover and drew it for me and painted it so I can hang it on my wall, One of my favorite bands.

An absolute classic, just an all time great, great song. Dust In The Wind should be next from them. Dee will ❤️ that one. Always great to pick up things you missed the first time around that make you appreciate it more.

The Wall, Miracles Out of Nowhere, Point of Know Return, Song For America, Spark of the Tempest...so many fantastic songs.

@loudog2326

2 жыл бұрын

Song For America !!

@BlackCatLover

2 жыл бұрын

So many great songs! Kansas is one of my favorite bands since the early 70s. The early records are the best!

Awesome the way Steve Walsh goes between singing, keyboard/organ and drums so effortlessly!! P. S. RIP Robby Steinhardt 1950 - 2021 (the guy with the big hair & beard). He played violin on Dust In The Wind.

I think a lot of people like me who grew up with this song take it for granted because we've now heard it 1,000 times but really is a great song, with a terrific arrangement harmonies, and performance.

Ah yes, the pride of Lawrence and Topeka Kansas! Got to meet and party a little with the band in the early 80`s. I was a roadie for another local band and we all did a free benefit concert at Shawnee Mission park in the Kansas City area, and Kansas Headlined! Very down to earth guys that live and breath music!

So much Kansas out there to listen to. They have so many great songs before (and after) this one

I love this song. Always have but I have never seen them perform live. WOW. I need to show them more respect too!!❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for this good song. Kansas is not one of my personal favorites, but I certainly respect their craft. What I really do love is seeing you Chod really get into a song and the analysis you give. Please don't loose that. I have always admired your intelligence about music.

first time I heard Kansas, I told my other musician friends, "this is no garage band." Amazingly intricate music.

One of Brian May and Bob Catley (Magnum vocalist) favourite bands! May said when on tour and Kansas were supporting Queen, that he though that a Kansas record was playing. It was the band doing their sound check! He couldn’t believe what he was hearing became a massive fan and friend of the band, and a Taylor also to a lesser degree.

RIP Big Red. Steve Walsh...another stellar Rock Voice.

My first concert was Kansas in 1976 on tour for this album (Leftoverture) They stretched this song to almost 15 minutes, and it was great. Many concerts, many artists over this years, that one was still in the top 3.

@TresLanes

2 жыл бұрын

They were my 1st concert a yr later. Nov '77. Absolutely stunning band. I still daydream about that night and wish so bad that I could re-live it again.

This is the first band I ever saw in concert, way back in the early 80's. These guys are super talented musicians. Great stuff.

One of the greatest songs of all time. Every time I hear it I hear something new. So good. 👌🏼

One of our 70s greats. I love the hair and facial hair too. In the 70s we just loved hair.

The "Dust in the Wind" video is awesome!!

So great to see a reaction from someone who really appreciates the musicians and the skill of them playing - loved it.

And this is the original vocal track not the remastered 90s version. I Like this one better, much clearer.

Their greatest hits album will absolutely blow you away…their transitions were great and they were a tight band.

I have had the extreme good fortune to have seen KANSAS Live 4 times. Phil Ehart is my Favorite Drummer. He plays melodies not just rhythm patterns. Every member is a musical GENIUS. This song is usually extra long and a crowd favorite to close their shows. Steve Walsh is Keyboards and a great vocalist. Robby plays Violin like NOBODY else. Kerry on Guitar is phenomenal along with Rich and Dave….AWESOME performance every time.

Dust in the wind…it’s so beautiful, she’ll love it

Love this track, so doe's ma boy Dean on Supernatural 🙂

Right ON BROTHER! 👊🍾🥂 LOVE how much you dig & appreciate Kansas for all the changing time signatures, key changes and sheer eclecticism! When I was a kid in the 70s I was blessed enough to see KANSAS. One of the most-if not THE most unusual thing I ever saw in the countless concerts I’ve seen was the keyboardist doing HANDSTANDS- YES-HANDSTANDS ON HIS ORGAN WHILE HOLDING ACTUAL CHORDS!!! One of the absolute most ORIGINAL bands EVER. Progressive, country roots hard rock, and with truly PHENOMENAL MUSICIANSHIP!

No auto tune here....Pure talent. ;)

If Dee likes this maybe you should treat her to some Grand Funk Railroad. Show her the video of "We're an American Band" and the live version of "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "The Locomotion". Oh you're right Dee, I did blast this on my 8-Track back in high school.

@erink695

2 жыл бұрын

Grand funk railroad " inside looking out"

Absolutely amazing band. Other really good songs... from this same album (Leftoverture): Miracles Out of Nowhere, The Wall, What's On My Mind, Magnum Opus. from Masque: Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel), Mysteries and Mayhem, The Pinnacle. from Point of Know Return: Paradox, The Spider/He Knew, Closet Chronicles, Hopelessly Human. from Song for America: Song for America, Down the Road, Lonely Street. from Kansas: The Pilgrimmage/Apercu, Death of Mother Nature Suite, Bringing It Back (cover of JJ Cale). Two post-2015 albums are "The Absence of Presence" and "The Prelude Implicit" both of which are filled with great songs.

When this song came out, a lot of people still had 8-track players in their cars. Cassette decks were on the rise but I'm pretty sure there were more 8-tracks than cassette decks. With an 8-track player there were 4 stereo tracks. You could select tracks 1, 2, 3 or 4 but you couldn't rewind, although you could fast-forward. So if you wanted to cue up a certain song to play for someone, you almost had to do it ahead of time and then pull the tape out of the machine at the spot you wanted someone to hear. The player would automatically change from, for example, track 2 to track 3, when it got to the end of that track so you may have to hit the track selector to go to the track your song was on.

Kerry Livgren the heart of Kansas.

Seen them live twice. Steve Walsh was something else live. Running around like a balloon with the air being let out of it and doing handstands while playing the keyboards.

The sudden change-ups/transitions in the music are a good part of what characterizes what was known as Progressive (or Prog) Rock in the 70's. The musicianship on this is off the hook! 70's was my youth and this is my all-time favorite song from back then, so thanks for playing it.

Kansas is a great band with regular dudes that I got to meet back in the 70's. To me, the music on their previous albums is just as great as that one song. You need to dig deeper in their catalog instead of sticking with their greatest hits package. I love the way you have been exposing people to Gentle Giant that got relatively no radio airplay. There are many great band/artists that did not receive the attention musically that they deserved. The Meters, King's X, Masters of Reality, Maceo and the Macks and Dumpstaphunk are a few that get little or no airplay.

If you want a real musical roller coaster ride from Kansas, it's Miracles Out of Nowhere. Love them or hate them, I don't think any other band had more raw musical talent than these guys.

Kansas wrote several of their songs with a Christian bent. Wayward Son, Dust in the wind and others.

@crusheverything4449

2 жыл бұрын

Dust in the Wind does not have a Christian bent. It was inspired by a Native American poem. Carry On Wayward Son could be interpreted as having a Christian bent, but it wasn’t written as such. The writer, Kerry Livgren, became a born-again Christian in 1979, three years after COWS and two years after DITW.

@martinkulkarni3569

2 жыл бұрын

Christianity didn’t come to Livgren and Hope until after that period. It was later. Atheist myself, but accept that it probably saved Dave Hopes life, otherwise he’d be dead from drug abuse.

@crusheverything4449

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinkulkarni3569 - I believe Dave said as much himself.

@martinkulkarni3569

2 жыл бұрын

@@crusheverything4449 So have Kerry and Rich in separate interviews I have seen and read.

Great prog group they have other tunes try Song for America, or the pinnacle.

With so many timing and chord changes this is one of the hardest songs in history to play with all the speed changes in it.

I absolutely love this song. It is one of my all time favorites.

I saw them in a club in Tulsa that had a saltwater aquarium all around the outside walls with sharks and eels etc. swimming around. The stage was circular in the middle of the club. Steve Walsh was still able to play his keyboard in a hand stand. Best concert I've ever been to.

Chod you are now keenly aware of how many more times you need to listen to Many of These Songs again, and again. When the band is so tight, they keep on amazing us, listen after listen.

Talent upon talent upon talent ect equals quality music.

One of the best bands ever.

Kansas “Leftoverture” was the first album I purchased with my own money. I was 9 and had to have it. It didn’t disappoint!

Tambourine man...great violinist. RIP Robbie Steinhardt. Saw them live....amazing, and even more so when an unknown Cheap Trick opened!

Oooo the sounds of the 70's we will never hear music like this anymore it is so sad need more music like this more

Awesome video, awesome band awesome song!! "Supernatural" show made this song even more popular!! 😊💓🤘✌️

Robbie Steinhardt played violin and cello, here he is only singing back up vocals.

The one and only song for the show super natural. No other song would do

You're right Wilburn, the song gets better every time you hear it.

They had lots of great prog rock songs. There are some great examples below, to which I would add anything on this album ("Leftoverture" including "Magnum Opus" - a must listen), anything on "Point of Know Return," and the long version of "Song for America."

It's such a pretty song, people seem to miss the jams! A MOST rockin' song.

Can’t go wrong with this rabbit hole. So refreshing for you young man that you will not let great music go by the wayside I thank you for that and of course that makes me a supporter of you and your channel keep up the great work. Peace love and joy to you and yours

These guys rock. Musicians at the core

Love their hair also Dee! 😊🎸❤️🐕

you guys should do a reaction to Song for America by Kansas

@mlinderict

2 жыл бұрын

Long (album) version, please!

@TresLanes

2 жыл бұрын

YES......the long version is so much better and FLAWLESS!!

Saw them in 1981 - still one of the best concerts ever : )

Of course I’ve seen Kansas live, twice at the LA forum, Thin Lizzie opened for them and the second time I don’t remember.. it was lotta fun a lot of great music… “Portrait, He Knew” that was my favorite song…

One of my all time top 10 songs of my life! So glad to see you get so excited about the great music of my youth!😀

I liked this song from the first time I heard it but it's refreshing it to experience it through your eyes.

Brings back memories. It was discribed as "organized concussion"

Absolutely phenomenal!!

KANSAS was one of the best concerts I have been to !!!!!

Love the braids and pig tails Dee...looks fabulous 😬...Chod...😜😂😬 Kansas is very under rated, they"re fire 🔥

i saw them in st. louis,, really good live..the whole group and roadies was all family ,good folks..

She likely heard this song on the TV show"Supernatural" which used the beginning of the song

I bet this one song took weeks if not months to arrange. There are so many layers and transitions in this one song. The song is a Masterpiece.

I had great pleasure to see many concerts live! Will always be bad company fan for all times! But kanas was the #1 live show I ever saw!

When you can, show Dee the video for Dust In The Wind. If she enjoys Robby Steinhardt (Baruch Dayen Ha'Emet/RIP) here, she'll love seeing him singing and on violin.

Drummers dream song! So many changes!

70s memories always pop up when I hit it on the classic rock station.

@WILBURN REACTIONS - love the way you kit Sounds!

That’s a rabbit hole 🕳 you gotta explore! Great memories 👍

I was born and raised in Kansas. I was in my first year of college and was driving between Wichita and Pittsburg, Kansas in the middle of nowhere. I was struggling to tune into a radio station on my AM. I tuned into a station and this song came on. It was fading in and out. I had one hand on the wheel and the other on the dial desperately trying to keep the song tuned in. As soon as I got back to Pitt State, I asked my friends if they knew what the song was, no one knew. It was several months later that I heard the song again and found out it was Kansas. Every time I hear this song, it takes me back to that lonely stretch of road straining to hear this masterpiece.

Huge hit from being to end

Yes, Chod this band is TIGHT!

Genius song that has everything….

When I was a kid. The band bought an apartment building in College Park Ga. They would practice there every day. My two friends, David and Larry, and I would ride our bikes over and sit on a hill behind the building and listen to them practicing this song. Everytime I hear it. I go back to that hill.

The album was done. Livgren came in literally on the last day and said that he thought he might have something. That "something" was Wayward Son.

And Now for the rest of the story. Carry On was the last song recorded from Leftoverature. It was brought in by Kerry Livgrin as the band was getting ready to pack up their instruments. The band gave it a listen and recorded it that day. Keep in mind they had heard from Don Kirschner that even though their albums were well-received, they just couldn't get radio play and if something big didn't happen with this album it was probably their last shot. The rest is history.

Saw them live with a then unknown band before Budokan, Cheap Trick. Hell of a show!

The tambourine player is also the greatest violinist in rock n roll

LOL..The singer here used to live right up the street from me. The dude jogs every fucking day and is a little bitty guy and drives a huge ass Harley. Had a great Halloween display every year. I met him back when they were first writing Dust in the Wind. His name is Steve Walsh.Try "No one together" by them it's a real hoot.

Back in the day when this was hot for some reason Kansas NEVER played in Nebraska. I lived there so a buddy and I had to go to Red Rocks (Colorado/God's Cathedral). Very well worth the trip and a nice ride on a couple of Harleys with our girls. I've seen them since then with the new band members in Reno (Harrah's outdoor venue) Still killin' it. I still have this LP./Album. "Point of Know Return" and "Dust in the Wind" are two other deep songs from that era 45 years ago. I almost got my tirfecta with them scheduled to play again on 05/06/22 but they canceled so it's Alice Cooper again but I'm not complaining.

Such a masterpiece

They are still performing today. Now 50 yrs and counting! A very deep rabbit hole

Check out The Wall, Your Reason To Be, Point of no return, magnum opus, Band Of Miracles Out Of Nowhere.

The voices are what gets me. They blend so well.

After you paused the video and your wife commented on their hair, when you started the video back up she fluffed her hair. Lol

Chod your hair looks great!

I know I'm WAYYYY late to this particular game, but you should please, pretty please, check out the song, "Hold On", from this album. You are truly welcome. It's my total pleasure... 😊

I've seen Kansas twice. Once (believe it or not) with Queen in an arena in Dayton, OH, the other time more recently in a bar in Cleveland. They are great. In the bar Steve Walsh must have been jacked up on something because he kept on doing hand stands on the keyboard.

Awesome track!

You’ll love this. In 1999 I saw Kansas open for Yes at the star lake amphitheater in Pittsburgh. My daughter’s first concert.

that whole album is fantastic, Dee the hair is 70's hair lol dust in the wind is one you should do. Dee I used to blast this in my care sing as high as I could get right along with it.

Masterpiece!!!

The guy with the big hair and beard is the ate great Robbie Steinhardt. He was the band's violinist, but this song has no violin part.

Love this song!

Yeah, we were definitely BLASTED this back-in-the-day!!! And I lived in Kansas when it came out so that made it extra special!!!

There's a whole lot of elements in common with Since You Been Gone by Rainbow. And yes, you should listen to Rainbow - Since You Been Gone, I Surrender and All Night Long.