( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Jun 22 2008
Kansas is a band where you could literally take their first 6 albums and every song was top notch. The only reason the average listener didn't hear those songs like Magnum Opus, or Lamplight Symphony, etc was because rock radio focused on their most popular tracks "Carry On Wayward Son", "Dust in the Wind" and "Point of Know Return". Every concert I've been to, I hear people who may not have heard Kansas play before just open their mouths in amazement that 5 or 6 (it varied) musicians can have that huge wave of sound and a rare level of execution that is not easy to achieve. Yes they're progressive art-rock, but they're not pompous, they're down to earth, and have a wicked sense of humor. I paraphrase "We figured you're getting a deal tonight, twice as many notes for the same price!"-Bass Player/Vocalist Billy Greer (long time kansas member taking over for Dave Hope and assuming Steinhardt's vocal duties) This greatest hits is worth it if not just for the DVD that chronicles Kansas along with interviews in between that are interesting especially guitarist Rich "meatwall" Williams and his frustration "there's that darned hat again!". And how about Steve Walsh? As a keyboardist I look at him in amazement, he's like Schroeder in "Peanuts" seemingly banging away randomly on the keyboard but producing amazing music, only a gift from God is his vocal abilities which to this day is solid and powerful. I digress but if you're a casual fan, get this collection, if you're a "wheathead" get this collection, just get it.
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Posted: Mar 28 2008
KANSAS - Sail On 30th Anniversary Box
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Posted: Jul 10 2007
This is a decent collection. I own almost every CD this guys ever put out. Not including all the other hits and live collections that over the last few years have gotten ridiculous. Anyway, I was uncertain about buying this box. I had every song on the CD's already, so it became about whether I wanted to shell out the money for a DVD of rare performances and rarely seen videos. I decided, two years after this came out to buy this thing. I never listened to the CD's but I have watched the DVD several times. It's was nice to have what i thought was a complete collection of their videos. OOPS, i was wrong. I found out later than Play the Game Tonight and Windows were also videos not available here. "well damn it" I thought. But these are easily found online anyway so it doesn't really matter. So this looked more like a corporate decision to me. They could just as easily have sold this DVD separately, but they made more money releasing it with two CD's of material any hard core fan out there has already. Oh well. Such is the way with commercialism. So basically i spent about 35 bucks on two CD's i didn't need and a DVD that wasn't even a complete collection of their videos. So who wins here? It wasn't me.
