Vocal Analysis featuring Steve Walsh of Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son" LIVE
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2023
- I won't try to hide it... I love this song and I adore Steve Walsh's voice! Today we're watching a live clip of the band Kansas performing "Carry On Wayward Son."
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My man went on stage wearing nothing but Larry Bird shorts, tube socks, and sneakers, busted out one-man-bongo+keyboard solo, played tetherball with a mic stand, and then proceeded to Van Damme kick his way to the end of the song while playing the keyboard. Dude was definitely dressed for the occasion. 10/10. Would carry on again.
Couldn't have said it better. There must be some kind of award for this. I'm sure the groupies came up with something commensurate.
Now I remember why I had such a huge crush on Steve Walsh after seeing Kansas live several times in the late 70’s,,,whew, what a voice and body to match!! 😍
When I saw them I thought he was gonna bounce off the bench into the lights!
During a time he was sponsored by "Adidas" (from Lp liner-notes), and he was also doing "Handstands" on the keys for many years!
Serious rock star shit.
Back in the day, Kansas, REO, Styx, Heart and many others. What a time for music!
Steve Walsh will never get his due he was just an amazing live performer. Great keyboard player. Songwriter He he really gave it his all every night.
One can never understate the importance of Robbie Steinhardt’s harmony vocals on the sound of the band.
RIP Robbie
Like Michael Anthony in Van Halen
Yes, I was going to make this very comment. Those two guys are what creates the sound that we're so used to hearing.👍
Not just the backing vocals, some of their best songs are where Robby and Steve traded lead vocals!
And Chris Squire in YES. Rest In Peace. 🥲@@jimherron5540
I fell in love with they’re music first, thanks to my big brother!
Kansas was my First Concert 77-78, It was one of my most cherished memories, it takes me back when I listen to them , which We Call “The Good ‘Ole Days!” When Musicians had Talent!!
Steve Walsh imo, is one of the top 5 rock vocalist ever!
I agree completely. I have a couple of others...Robert Plant, Ronnie James Dio, Marko Heitala. Haven't figured out my fifth yet.
@@tomfavorite1020 Steve Perry from Journey comes to mind.
100%
@@tomfavorite1020 you can’t have a top five list without Paul Roger’s/bad company
@@iamclarasentience250 I thought about Paul also. Great choice and hard to argue with. I have been trying to come up with some criteria so my choice is not so subjective.
I love to see Steve Walsh get some well-deserved recognition. They guy is easily one of the greatest rock singers AND Hammond players ever! And he’s not too shabby on those congas, either, eh?
One of the most underrated and best bands in the last fifty years, Kansas was so gifted and tight musically. Steve Walsh had a terrific voice; so recognizable with a great range. I saw them live in 1976 for $8 and years later have to say it was one of my best purchases ever
maybe 500 years 😀😀
Underrated????
@@BrandonWestfall Perhaps I used the wrong word; no matter, Kansas will live forever
I agree that Kansas is underrated because they certainly deserved more airtime with some of their other great songs. Kansas is truly awesome!
Steve Walsh was probably the best live rock vocalist of that era. His range was surprisingly high but had a rich deep sound even up in the stratosphere. He would go from a lyric emotional sound to wild resonant scream tone in the same song. I never thought the studio recordings caught him as well as their double live album. He was just glorious, and absolutely underappreciated.
Steve Walsh is one of the best vocalist EVER! Period. Full stop! I’ve seen KANSAS several times & they never disappoint. They are one of my favorite bands. Truly talented musicians. Their song structure is insane!
i 100% agree. there is not and has never been a voice like his in his prime.
Robbie Steinhardt also had a great singing voice (he only sang lead on occasion), and he harmonized so well with Walsh.
Steve Walsh is one of the best rock singers EVER. His range is unbelievable too. They kind of change the chorus note choice a bit from the studio recording but it's still awesome.
This specific live Kansas performance is one of the best in the history of rock. Steve Walsh is phenomenal and one of a kind musician. My God. Kansas is one great band!
You fall in love with Steve Walsh every time you hear him sing it's very special gives me chills brings tears to my eyes so brilliant ❤️🤍⚡
I saw him on this tour wearing the exact same thing. He was like this the entire time. I'll never forget him singing Dust In The Wind after running all over like a madman. The guy was in incredible shape.
"ALL THE WORLD"(From the álbum "Masque" ) is also a great example of technic of vocals using high and low notes...Steve Walsh is one of the most underrated frontman...
This is the concert finale so Steve had already sung 90 minutes or more at the start of this song. Phenomenal vocal stamina.
I think my favorite Steve Walsh performance is on Closet Chronicles or maybe The Wall. Such an amazing voice.
The Wall live - see 2 for the show - is just a spectacular piece of vocal work. But also, let's go back an album, icarus, pinnacle & all the world - Steve in prime form. IMHO no one could sing those songs other than Steve. And there were plenty of singers with range at this time - Steve Perry, Mickey Thomas, Brad Delp, etc - but , again IMHO ( which is pretty close to gospel 🙂), they couldn't touch the stuff Walsh was doing .
Pitch perfect. You can hear the short small runs and vibrato here and there as evidence of vocal dexterity, so evident. Again pitch perfect. Kansas is such a tight band. Great live band. Top notch vocals.
Listening to Steve from day One and to this day, his all around vocal facility remains as startling as it was then. Although Steve Perry with his Ultra Polished head voice perfection could easily match his range and clarity, Steve Walsh just had more tools in his box adding the perfectly applied fine distortions and fat, warm, tonal dynamics that are the necessary requirements of any ginuine ROCK Performance. For rock vocalists, the ability to develop and maintain ones facility over decades can be overwhelming and has proven for most to be simply impossible. At a young age and for the many decades that followed, Steve Walsh had set incomparable standards while millions listened in stunned silence wondering, How it could be possible that ANYONE could demonstrate such an amazing Vocal Prowess as he. What an EXTREMELY RARE Delight it has been for all of us.
Regarding harmonies, remember this is well before in-ears and only had foldback monitors. It was REALLY hard to hear yourself on stage back then. Great video. Thx!
Thank you for paying homage to Steve. However, may I chime in here? I realize Steve's vocals on this and Dust in the wind are what everyone hears and loves, but as someone who has studied his singing, you folks really owe it to yourselves to hear his voice on the first and second CD recorded before they achieved fame. His voice and skill, tone, range, and chest mix is off the charts in every sense of the word. The first CD is called Kansas, the second Song For America.
You forgot Song for America
@@gouldflaWill correct Thx
Steve Walsh has one of the clearest BRIGHTEST vocal tones in all of popular rock and roll. Plus, the dude can absolutely SKY.
Of course, he gets credit for it, but he is also, often not the first lead singer selected in all of the internet lists.
Not only that, but every person in the classic Kansas band was a MONSTER on their instrument. You observed how Steve could play this solo with his hair in his face.
But Kerry Livgren and Rich Williams were BOTH insane on guitar. Robbie Steinhardt (R.I.P.) was brilliant on violin and vocals. Dave Hope was a BEAST on bass. And Phil Ehart truly IS a drummer whose genius is underrated. (Just listen to all of the tempo changes on "Magnum Opus." CRAZY stuff.)
It was great to see your sheer delight at Steve's vocal performance. You're clearly a fan, enjoying this just as much as any of us other fans. (That is, if we were vocal coaches.)
Thank you SO much for posting this one!
Steve Walsh... the voice....
I've never seen anyone turn the keys into a bucking bronco. Definitely gonna look for more of this energy.
Hard working man, that Steve !
Only the "invisible drummer" Phil Ehart in the background works this hard.
Great performance of the whole band !
The studio version has him sustaining "don't you cry no more" for about 8-9 seconds. Amazing vocal ability.
Great Analysis:) I think Steve got his power from his shorts!
Definitely the shorts 🎶
Thanks a lot for sharing, Kansas is a one of the best rock progressive band
LMAOLMAO
those shorts are real sink or swim. you either rise to the occasion of wearing them or you crumble
😂😂😂
Yikes! I'm not much of a social media person at 73....but do so remember working with Kansas while Budd Carr was managing them, both at BNB and as a solo manager. Those guys were the sweetest most humble musicians with integrity when I met them in 1975.....what an integrated group until ....well you all know the story. I was there for there working through 1979....good memories mostly.
Thanks for this Steve is one of my all time favorites. His live performances were always on point. So accurate. He sang with such passion.
If I'm not mistaken, Steve Walsh was a soccer player and he used to be late for concerts because he was playing in a FOOTBALL match. The whole band is explosive and magical and I don't want to analyze it. I just want to sing, dance, move with and rock with them, but mostly appreciate them and THANK GOD he brought them to all of us. If I need help being inspired, I put their music on. We earlier Gen Xs did have the best music to grow up with.
Thanks for highlighting the complete amazingness of the mighty Kansas! Faultless music and singing in a live setting. If you want painful accuracy stay in a laboratory, this is how live rock music should sound - and then it’s topped off with Steve and Robbie’s vocals. Y’just can’t lose!
Thanks again from Ireland 🤘🇮🇪👍
His voice is just great.
She's mesmerised by Steve. I've watched this several times. She's well done and over.
An all-time great song, and incredible version. This reviewer is certainly starstruck, as am I. What a gorgeous man and gorgeous voice. It's not the easiest song to sing.
He had to be in such good shape to have the breath to sing and do all the moving he did on stage. No wonder he was sweating!
All the coke helped a lot as well.
Steve before he became, er, "stimulant-free." 😂 He is an exemplar of what I most often prefer in a vocalist and why. Someone can have all the technique, dexterity, and latitude in the world, but if I don't like the sound of their voice, none of that matters. And there's just something about his timbre that has always gotten right to my soul. It's something you either have or you don't. (That said, part of his appeal is how he actually used his considerable abilities, as well.) As I mentioned elsewhere, it's a shame that he did so much to harm that golden tenor.
I think this is my third time through this video and I caught something new in your observations with each viewing. Really great analysis.
For sure.
I'm often amazed at fellow Kansas fans that don't get the difference between Steve, John Elefante, and Ronnie Platt.
I try to explain the difference between hitting the notes, and TONE, depth, warmth, soul etc...
@@Incomudro1963 Absolutely. Steve's tone was magic. He never got thin and whiney in the upper register of his voice. It was always strong and pleasing in his heyday. Ronnie hits the notes, but there is no real identity in his tone. John has gotten better with age. His vocals were a bit like cotton in the early years of his Kansas tenure, which can be attributed to the production at times. Vinyl Confessions had a rather dull sound in terms of its sonics. Wonderful arrangements and songs, however.
You guys are spot-on about Steve, John and Ronnie Platt. Steve in his prime was untouchable, IMO. Steve Perry gets all the love, but Walsh is better, if you ask me. John really has gotten better with age. As for Ronnie Platt, I can’t listen to him or even look at the guy. He has the strangest body language I’ve ever seen in a performer and there’s no soul or balls in his vocals. What Phil and Rich saw or heard in him is beyond me. They could’ve had Ted Leonard or Jerome Mazza?!! Total head scratcher.
@@crusheverything4449 great, great comment. Walsh was truly in a league of his own, and as you rightly say, untouchable back then; Perry, Lou Gramm, Brad Delp (who Steve gets lumped in with) although good in their own way, do nothing for me, and neither do the bands they sang for, yet Walsh sears me to the bone and I marvel at his tone, control, pitch, range and his ability to put some elusive magic into the delivery of Kerry's beautiful lyrics.
@@carlscarlet- I’m a big fan of Gramm and Delp, as well as Foreigner and Boston ( the debut and Don’t Look Back, anyway), but I do feel that Steve was breathing rarified air in the 70s. There is real emotional impact in the combination of his tone, range and inflections. Walsh was just a natural-born singer like no one else I’ve ever heard. On top of that - and I always mention this - he’s one of the wickedest Hammond players in rock.
I saw Kansas once… when they opened for Yes during the “Masterworks” tour. To say that it was an amazing night of music is a real understatement! Brilliance on display from Kansas’s first note to Yes’s last.
I saw that same show at DTE in Michigan. Killer show! I couldn’t believe that my two favorite bands were touring together! Steve has one of the BEST voices ever!
I saw them in Hartford on that tour. Interviewed Steve pre-show and then hung out with the whole band afterwards. Rich was telling some of the funniest road stories from back in the 70s. He’s a very jovial and funny dude! 😆
@@crusheverything4449 WOW!!!! That must have been a real treat! Yeah, I’ve seen Rich in a few videos & he seems to have quite the sense of humor! He’s an awesome guitarist! Definitely in my top ten of favs. What was Steve like?
Excellent band that I saw at MSG in 1977 while in High School. At that time a ticket was about $9.50, not orchestra, but got you into the concert. Glad you are discovering bands like this and particularly their masterpiece album Leftoverture.
Shame on me for hearing and loving this song a million times and only just now seeing it performed. What a musical beast he is. And the entire band is so tight. What a group of talent I took for granted. Thank you so much for reacting to this. Of all the reactions to music videos I've seen, I learned the most from this one!
one of my all-time fav rock vocalists! Steve's voice is amazing!
Saw them in concert back in the 1980’s. Fantastic concert..it’s actually on UA-cam.. Kansas at the Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh..
I just have to throw this in. It’s so encouraging to see a young person like yourself enjoying the 70’s bands like you are. I think sometimes it will be lost. The 1970’s was a magical time for rock. It really came into its own then..
The 70’s and 80's were a magical time for cocaine. It really came into its own then.
@@Mr.Ekshin😂
@@Mr.EkshinDon’t forget the opposite, but equally important (to some of us), Quaaludes. I loved them both, and often!
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Some of THE best music was created in the 70’s! Music that will never be made again. Even the bands that created masterpieces will never create that same level of music. As others have eluded to, it may have been the drugs.😂
Walsh was the perfect lead singer - and a hell of an entertainer and keyboardist.
I LOVE this performance.
I was fortunate enough to have seen Kansas live around this time period - both for the Monolith tour in '79, and the Audio Visions tour a year or two later.
Kansas were unbelievable back then.
A band full of multi taskers switching from keys to guitars, to congas, to the vibraphone, from acoustic to electric guitars, vocals...
Often all in the same song.
Closet Chronicles is a great example.
Kansas Monolith tour was my very first concert, and this is exactly how I remember it. Steve was a madman!
Steve's outfit is at great contrast to the guy wearing a tuxedo! 😂. The 70's were wild, man!
I have always loved this song. Epic in scope, masterfully played, and of course the amazing vocals. If you like his voice, check out their song All I Wanted.
Someone has a tiny little crush on young Steve Walsh I feel ;D great video
I've seen Kansas in concert at least 10 times (isn't it terrible I can't remember how many?). Thanks for posting this video! Kansas Two For The Show is one of the best live albums ever recorded. Lots of songs to choose from. More please!
Agree with that. Two for the Show really turned me on to how great they were live.
i remember seeing you at all the shows.
Saw them several times in the late 70’s; Jimmie Spheeris opened one of them, fell in love with his music also. Sad he died so young in a CA motorcycle accident. Kansas is a great band!
I’m totally in love with Steve Walsh, whew! 😅 saw them several times in the late 70’s, but forgot about his “shirtless” outfits, no wonder I crushed on him as a young teen. What a great band they are! Jimmie Spheeris opened for them once, I was blown away by him too, sadly he was killed in a motorcycle accident in CA in his early 30’s. His album “Isle of View” is fantastic!
I saw them in about 91 on an “all original members tour” and it was so great. Steve Walsh sweated all over me, so that was gross, but still a cool memory! 😂
I love your enthusiasm and getting all giddy over Steve Walsh and his performance and his vocals. I used to get that way from his vocals kind of.... he's just that good
Go see Kansas now that's a recommendation.
HOLY TOPEKA!! Wasn't sure what the physical Ed "dress down" was about until Parallel Key's routine 😂 A Absolute Beast of a singer. Part of the intro was missing. For a mind blowing in-depth story behind the making of the entire album I recommend visiting The Professor Of Rock channel. Being a Bass player (& guitar) my favorite song is A SONG FOR AMERICA. It's a masterpiece and you can hear the gorgeous tone of the Rickenbacker Bass as well as all the other instruments. Even tripping on words you are The Best Splainner on the Tube!! Great Channel!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
You picked the absolute best live version available! I saw this tour and it was AMAZING for a 15 yr old kid to see, been a fan every since. Great reaction, love your channel.
Thank you for your kind reaction to the band Kansas. As an older native Kansan. I have been a fan of this band since the 1970's when I was in High School. Please consider reacting to Kansas performing the song Dust in the Wind. It is a remarkable song.
He's always just pushed himself hard live. Here in St Louis they were played early and we exclusively broke the song from Steve Walsh solo "Every step of the way" which is one of the best tracks he ever put vocals to. It inspired me to start singing professionally... and look it up. Its an earwig!
The documentary about Kansas: “Miracles Out of Nowhere” is a must watch Bethany.
A staple of Progressive Rock bands - many members absolutely gushing with talent.
I recently found this video also. Freaking awesome video and song done right! Totally changed my perspective for Kansas. Thanks for reviewing this!
Kerry Livgren is such a criminally underappreciated songwriter. He wrote this, Dust in the Wind, and many of Kansas's other great songs.
Steve Walsh also does handstands on his keyboard.
Saw them live . Incredible musicianship stamin and energy. A then unknown Cheap Trick opened for them, and it was quite the night!
Gotta love the Robby tambourine throw!!
This song…when I was a little girl, like elementary school age, I heard this song and fell in love instantly. I remember recording it on my tape recorder (it was the 70’s) and listening to a line, pausing it, then writing the lyric down! I still love it and then today. Great video!!
Awesome! Never seen this performance of this perfect song before! Thanks Beth!
This girl is just so freakin' ridiculously cute.
Saw them on this particular tour when they played at my school. Who'd think they'd have come to the Naval Academy? Always liked them prior to that show, but they really were incredible live, and that concert got me a lot more into their music. One of my top five shows ever.
This is about the most 70’s thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Another great 70s rock vocalist to add to the list 😀
Ian Gillan and Paul Rogers should be near the top of the list for review Bethany, the 70s would not be complete without them 😃😃
id add pre 72/73 Robert Plant as well. It kills me to see people watch the 73 or 75 live concerts and judge his voice on those years when it was at its most damaged. most of his actual peak voice is really captured on bootlegs only. he sounds better today at 80 than in the footage most people think of haha
Love this reaction! Steve Walsh was my musical hero when I started playing and singing in middle school. If you want to see another dynamic rock performer with that level of charisma and stamina, highly recommend Jonny Hawkins and Nothing More. I kept thinking of Steve when randomly saw them open for On This Moment. Non stop energy and incredible singer!
Find the song Can't Cry Anymore by Kansas. Perhaps the most emotive male rock vocal I've ever heard from anyone. Steve Walsh's finest moment behind a microphone.
I fell in love with KANSAS as a child listening to an 8-track tape of "Leftoverture" that came with a used car that my father had purchased. I had never heard such opulent, mysterious and magical music before. It was LOVE at first listen! I have NOT had the opportunity to attend many Rock concerts in my life so I feel particularly blessed that this happened to me:
I was at the Independence Day celebration on the 4th of July some years back, when I spotted a large Winnebago RV parked amongst the trees next to the fairground. It just looked out of place amongst the trailers for carnival rides and food trucks. I sat down beneath a tree and watched it.
Soon the door opened and the largest man that I had ever seen stepped down onto the ground. He wore a black eye patch. I recognized him immediately as, Richard Williams, guitarist for the American Rock Band KANSAS!
I got a hold of a program for the day's events, and it confirmed that KANSAS was playing HERE TONIGHT! I made my way to the stage and patiently waited for the sun to set and the show to begin.
When Steve Walsh appeared onstage and began to play his keyboard and to sing, I could not believe that KANSAS was really right here in my mother's own neighborhood.
Steve was in excellent physical shape, sang like a bird and even did handstands on his keyboard several times throughout the show!
GOD Bless KANSAS! 😊
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Less of a vocal coach reacting and more of a woman swept away by Steve's incredible energy and showmanship.
Bingo!!
Quite a song from a group of Incredible musicians. And I like the way you've noticed his exposure to the performance and how it might affect his execution, but unless you've experienced it, you'll never understand how PLAYING LIVE in front of 25-30,000 screaming fans really JUMP STARTS your PERFORMANCE!
really cool to see a man do a Triathlon while singing Carry On Wayward Son
Your excitement for great talent is infectious! I was smiling with you! ❤
Got to see Kanas live in 2017 and it was like listening to them on the radio. They gave an awesome performance, granted they weren't doing the wild piano playing still a great time.
Absolutely classic, best rock music ever. Defines pure rock of the 70s Steve Walsh phenomenal. All the musicians of Kansas masters at their craft.
Kansas! One of the great musical bands from the 70's. From symphonic rock to very catchy singles.
The song is a legendary tour de force
Saw them 7 times. 5 times before Steve Walsh left. Best band of my youth!
Wow, what a performance! At the beginning, I'm like wow, basketball shorts and long tube sox, this is total '70s! After I saw him jumping, kicking and dancing at the keyboards I understood, it was a real workout so dress the part, right? Such a great band, and such a great song, what a talented singer. Also one of the two best bands named after geographical locations (along with Boston, Asia is way, way down the list....). Hold On is one of my all time faves.
This is the most 1970s thing I've ever seen, outside of Disco and Blaxploitation.
For sure. I saw two different Kansas tours around this time frame, and Steve was essentially an athlete on stage.
Shorts like this, and tube socks were worn by everyone doing anything athletic - or just on a hot day in the mid 70's, so there was nothing weird about it.
Matter of fact it made complete sense.
Thankful this was my hometown band as a young man. They played just as well as they recorded in studio. I prefer live recordings of any band to this day because of this band.
Steve was also very into working out in the gym and some weight lifting. He also found time during the concerts to do head/hand stands ON his piano. This is a bit later in their career and they are using some artistic license with the original song whereas early on they pretty much kept to duplicating the studio version.
The 70s gym shorts and tube socks (with colored stripes) are straight BOSS!
This song always takes me back to when my friend and I went to a high school football game in his VW bug. He played Leftoverture on his 8 track player. The first song on album is Carry On. This album was just released. Later I bought the vinyl and I still have that album. I rarely play it as I copied it to cassettes and burned out tapes then repeat. I love this album.
Jeez!...I'm sweaty and exhumed just WATCHING these guy play this song. Another fantastic reaction video!
I saw them live in 1980 and was right up front and loved the band!
Man’s stage presence is crazy
Saw them live in 1979 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, In. Such an amazing energetic performance....
Ya , I saved 5 packs of tube socks from back in the day . I dout my Levi cut ✂️ off shorts still fit but I'm pretty sure they did not fit in 1978 either 😆. I could probably dig up some of my cut off T shirts too.
It's funny how in the 70s we cut up all our clothing except for the tube socks, and of course we didn't cut our hair either.
Growing up in 70s I don't recall ever being bored .
The music was the best. We didn't have much money to spend but would spend hours in the record shop anyway looking through the albums.
No computers or cell phones , how did we ever get by ? 😆
gracious that man was eye and ear candy
Thank you for the lovely review.
This is a Great video to really see the energy Steve Walsh had on stage the entire concert first time I got to see Kansas Live 1980 and He was this ball of energy the whole time The Song Carry On My Wayward Son Kansas had been signed by Don Kirshner and they were this Incredible Rock Band with the Violinist and it was not until the 4th Album that they went up every chart and this Song was actually recorded the last day Guitarist Kerry who wrote a lot of songs on the Album Leftoverure told the drummer on the last day of recording he had one more Song which is their Signature Song and they have so many Great Songs Kansas Monolith Album The Other Side the lyrics are so Good getting to grow up in HS listening to all these Classic Rock Bands and the Song lyrics were Great got to see Kansas many times I Love watching your channel just seeing reactions to the very Music Love Fun
Kansas is great, and Steve Walsh seems like a madman on stage. Such a powerful and frenetic performance. You seem to like an eclectic mix of musical and vocal performances. May I suggest "Time" from the Alan Parsons Project. It's almost the polar opposite of this track; a slow, soothing, ethereal song with a VERY different vocal style and a masterful mix. I always find your content enjoyable. Keep up the good work.
It's always fun enjoying one of my favorite songs with you. I know all the reasons why I love it so much, but you always find a way to give me more reasons. This particular song, composed by the genius of Kerry Livgren (blonde guitarist/keyboardist) came at the absolute pinnacle of his creativity, but Steve steals the stage, I've watched several performances from this era, and his energy level is ridiculous. I'm sure he collapsed into a bed at the end of the show. This particular reaction demonstrates how you can add great value on a reflective viewing, it doesn't have to be first time for "shock" value. Thank you, Bethany, for always bringing enthusiasm and passion. May I suggest "Icarus: Borne on Wings of Steel" and "Icarus II" (maybe in the same review) because they are pure genius, even though they were composed twenty-five years apart. There is a video of them performing them back to back with Steve in Atlanta 2002. You are easily one of my top three music reactors, usually sitting at the top after watching a new one. Long live my favorite line ... "We're going back!"
So many wonderful albums that Kansas made! I was born in '67, so wasn't introduced to Kansas until the mid to late 80's, when a classmate did the honors. Thank you, Tom!
But why, oh WHY, do people infected with distance from reality and closeness to religion, have to throw everything artistically-proven-good-so-far overboard to gather new converts for any religion???
Kansas is one of my favorite bands ever, but they eventually just squandered their potential as a group of individuals-combining-to-make-true-art, so much that I feel like crying for what is now forever lost to the music-lovers out here!
Hi Bethany, I'm kind of late to the party, but better late than never!! 🤔
Love Steve Walsh's voice! Every time I listen to Kansas I just marvel at how brilliant and versatile his voice is. Great band (and unique) of whom I only discovered about 20 years ago, unfortunately, I wish I'd discovered them much earlier.
Most people are only going to know them from the singles "Carry On my Wayward Son" or "Dust in the Wind" and although they are great tunes, there are a lot of other great ones that people don't know, if they don't have the back catalogue. Kansas were hardly a singles band!!
You probably get thousands of requests for songs to analyse, but if you want to do a more in depth look into Steve's vocal "prowess", then may I suggest you look at a few of these tunes;
"Lonely Wind" (a great Walsh written ballad off the first Kansas album)
"Icarus" (Bourne On Wings of Steel) (From the "Masque" album)
"What's On My Mind", and "Miracles Out of Nowhere" (both "hidden" gems from the "Leftoverture" album)
"On the Other Side" from "Monolith" (apparently one of Steve's favourite songs to sing live, and one of my favourites too)
"Angles Have Fallen" ( another hidden gem from the "Monolith" album. The climax to that tune always gives me spine tingles!! As good a vocal performance as ANYONE has ever given!!)
"Reason To Be" (also from Monolith, and another stunning Kansas ballad where Steve uses his incredible "head voice" on the outtro to the song. There aren't many male singers who sound this good in that high a register!!)
I don't want to overload you here, so there are just 2 more recommendations, both from the Audio Visions album. The opener "Relentless", and the mighty "Hold On", yet another Kerry Livgren "tour de force" (incredible songwriter!!)."
So many, not just GOOD tunes, but GREAT ones!!! 🤔😁
I like your style of analyzing music. Especially how you just let the song play
That was just off the carts amazing ❤ I grew up with all these amazing rock bands. Wow 😳 what a performance ❤ so so good ❤
Do more Kansas wonderful band. Closet chronicles really shows his voice