This was an awesome band for their time, too bad they didn't really hit the big time. I saw them in Denver,CO. and they rocked the house. Last Chance, Hang on for your life, and Tonight was always my favorites. I miss those days.
Good stuff here. "Last Chance" and "Tonight" (both from the first album) are the best choices, the songs that hit the radio. Only thing missing is "Are You On My Side" from the second album, which is available from download here as well.
Track #1, "Last Chance" is my fav. Epic. Has that Rock Opera type of thing going on. "Hollywood" is also fantastic. Treat yourself. Life is short. Download some tunes.
On the back of Kansas's self-titled first album, which came roaring out of Topeka in 1974, the band looks like six long-haired farmboys, out standing in their field: Blue jeans, Daniel Boone fringe jackets - one big guy even has overalls on. The front cover is a famous portrait of insurrectionary 19th-century Bleeding Kansas abolitionist John Brown; the last track a eulogy for Mother Nature. Though released on a label run by Don Kirshner, the… more »
