LIVE: DUST IN THE WIND

Well, the title of this Live album is Dust in the Wind, maybe because this is probably their most succesful song (not the best actually) and i think they gave it this name to the album, just in order to be "more attractive" to the people, just as a commercial strategy.

As Bob (Clem) pointed in his review, this is nothing but an alternitave and cut version of Live at the Whiskey, so dont think that this is something new, nor outstanding. I am not a Kansas fan, actually i am not so familiar with the band, but i like quite a bit some of their albums and particular songs. I found this Live album in a compillation that a friend had some years ago, it is called Progressive Rock Vol 2., which contains albums by Biglietto per L´Inferno, Gentle Giant among others, and this Kansas album was there, so i thought that it would be a representative album from the prog scene and about Kansas as a band.

I have listened to it a few times, and i actually think that it is not that bad, but surely there are better Live albums, but for a newbie to the Kansas sound, this could be a nice reference (not the best).

This album features 10 songs, some of them are probably their better hits and songs that the most of the people could know, "Point of Know Return" Dust in the Wind", "Lonely Street", "Song for America", "Carry on my Wayward Son", "Hold On", "Miracles out of Nowhere", "The Wall", "Paradox" and "Down the Road", so you know many of them no? Their performance is good, with the characteristic violin sound, good keyboards. My favorite songs here are "Song for America" and "Carry on Wayward Son".

As i said, this Live album could be nice for newbies, but i imagine that a loyal and hard fan would bash it, as i said that i am not a ture fan of the band, i will grade it with 3 stars, probably it deserves 2.8 or something, but i will round it to 3, good but non-essential for sure.

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