Kerry and Dave Hope to play with Kansas here in Pittsburgh
Dave Crookham
the last date of the 50th Anniversary tour. Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope
will be playing with the band, and Phil Ehart is expected to play part
of the show. It's once again at the Benedum (which used to be the
Stanley Theatre back in the day). Tickets are $65, $85 and $125. I
really wish it was on a weekend instead of mid week.
Dave
Fran DeRosier
Anyone?
> On Oct 27, 2024, at 6:20 PM, Dave Crookham <croo...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
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> I just saw that Kansas is playing here in Pittsburgh December 11th for the last date of the 50th Anniversary tour. Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope will be playing with the band, and Phil Ehart is expected to play part of the show. It's once again at the Benedum (which used to be the Stanley Theatre back in the day). Tickets are $65, $85 and $125. I really wish it was on a weekend instead of mid week.
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first place they broke outside of their home area. Local station WDVE
still has them in heavy rotation. Kerry has played here often with
Kansas since he's been out of the band - this will be at least the 3rd
or 4th time in the last 20 years or so. Not sure if he has other
connections here.
Dave
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Fran,I don't think it's because it's the last show of the tour, I think it's because it's the last show of the *50th Anniversary* tour....
"Or I could be completely wrong...." 🙂gp
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ÂI’m kinda wondering what’s up with that show. Kerry typically won’t travel outside of Topeka or KC. Anyone know why he and Dave are going to Pittsburgh? It can’t be only because it’s the last show of the tour.
> I just saw that Kansas is playing here in Pittsburgh December 11th for the last date of the 50th Anniversary tour. Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope will be playing with the band, and Phil Ehart is expected to play part of the show. It's once again at the Benedum (which used to be the Stanley Theatre back in the day). Tickets are $65, $85 and $125. I really wish it was on a weekend instead of mid week.
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They did. I was at that one. It was filmed also I think. It was
for the 40th anniversary. Must have been in 2013.
Dave
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Dave Crookham
I wasn't able to make the show, but here's a review from the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2024/12/11/kansas-pittsburgh-benedum-concert-review/stories/202412110118
Anyone know why Kerry wasn't able to make it?
Dave
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peter drysdale
Hadn't heard anything about it. Can't read that article because it's behind a paywall. Was Phil there? I saw them last month outside Augusta and he wasn't there. I thought that he was still playing the second half of shows. I sat in the second row, which was very cool. Never have been anywhere nearly that close before. It was fun to see them close up, but very loud obviously. The new bass player was great singing Robby's parts.
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Let me copy it in. Usually they give you a few monthly reads
Back in the mid ‘70s, Pittsburgh fell hard for Kansas, a band that rose out of that state as one of America’s best answers to the British prog rock movement.
We loved the whole band, but much of the magic was in the three stars: high-flying frontman Steve Walsh, guitar and lyrical wizard Kerry Livgren and fiery violinist Robby Steinhardt.
None of them were on stage Wednesday when the band brought the 50th anniversary tour to a conclusion at the Benedum Center, the building (then the Stanley Theatre) where Kansas made its Pittsburgh debut in 1975.
The current keyboardist on the band’s 50th anniversary tour (Tom Brislin) was born the year the band formed — he’s not an original member. The violinist, Joe Deninzon, just joined last year. And the hard-hitting drummer, Eric Holmquist, is the real drummer’s tech guy.
Walsh has retired and Steinhardt left us in 2021. Livgren was billed as a special guest, but was unable to make it. He was represented by his daughter Kate, who, prior to the show, accepted BMI awards for the band.
There to tell their story were Eric Gold (whose father, Wally, discovered, signed and produced Kansas) and Rich Engler, the promoter who brought them to Pittsburgh the first time and just about every time after that.
With guitarist Rich Williams the only original member on stage for the full show, the current group is essentially a tribute band that carries the name.
But what a band it is.
They handled the intricate Kansas catalog almost to perfection, offering everything from “Belexes” from their debut album, to “Throwing Mountains,” a song from 2020’s fittingly titled “The Absence of Presence.”
The hardest job on stage belongs to 62-year-old Ronnie Platt, tasked with staying in that consistently high range that Walsh occupied. He nailed it, even for it being the last night of the tour.
The Kansas catalog is a little bizarre when taken as a whole given that they began as a you-know-what kicking Midwest prog band (“Icarus”), streamlined the sound during the wave of late ‘70s corporate rock (“Point of Know Return”) and then went total MTV in the ‘80s (“Play the Game Tonight”).
If you’ve hung with Kansas all these years, you probably weren’t there for “Fight Fire With Fire.” You wanted “Icarus” and “Song for America,” the stuff where the complexity is ratcheted up and the sparks fly back and forth.
Williams and Zak Rizvi applied the guitar heroics to just about every song. And Deninzon, Brislin, Holmquist and bassist Dan McGowan did their parts to make it Kansas, including the soaring vocal harmonies Kansas performed on the same stage in 1975.
Along with the hits and tried-and-true classics, the band dusted off a few rarely played deep cuts in “A Glimpse of Home” (from “Monolith”), “The Pinnacle,” the closing track on 1975’s “Masque” that doubles a 9-minute display of the band’s dizzying prog chops, crazy signature changes and orchestral flourishes.
Their biggest hit, “Dust in the Wind,” got its due as part of a three-song set where they flew over to the B stage. No, they didn’t actually do that. But if it were at the arena, they may have.
The night was made even more special by Livgren’s daughter Kate returning to join Deninzon on strings.
“Hold On,” one of the ballads from the MTV era, was played with the original rhythm section of drummer Phil Ehart and bassist Dave Hope.
“Song for America” was a dramatic exit from the acoustic/ballad section and another breathtaking showcase of the band’s absolute prog majesty.
In one of the better one-two punches of the night, it was paired with “Can I Tell You,” the driving rocker song that broke Kansas in Pittsburgh via free-form radio. The equally driving “Down the Road” was dedicated to Steinhardt, who took the original bluesy lead on the 1975 album opener.
Fans probably would have been delighted if half the set was tossed out for all of “Leftoverture.” Kansas finally got to that beloved 1976 album by closing the set with powerhouses “The Wall” and “Miracles Out of Nowhere” (absolutely killer!) and a grand finale of “Carry On Wayward Son” with Hope and Ehart.
It might not be for everyone, but Kansas’ music — better than Styx, Foreigner, Journey, Boston (one great album) and the like — is too good to fade away, and in damn good hands with this ongoing policy of next-man-up.
Next time they come, we’ll probably be there again.
Kansas set list
“Belexes”
“Point of Know Return”
“Play the Game Tonight”
“Fight Fire With Fire”
“Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel”
“Icarus II”
“Throwing Mountains”
“A Glimpse of Home”
“The Pinnacle”
“People of the South Wind” (semi-acoustic)
“Dust in the Wind” (semi-acoustic)
“Reason to Be” (semi-acoustic)
“Lonely Wind” (semi-acoustic)
“Hold On” (with Dave Hope and Phil Ehart)
“Song for America”
“Can I Tell You”
“Down the Road”
“The Wall”
“Miracles Out of Nowhere”
Encore:
“Carry On Wayward Son”
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Updated: December 12, 2024, 12:07 p.m.
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I wonder if he actually toured. I never heard anything about it if he did.
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