Someone mentioned "Play The Game Tonight". Didn't Freddie and Roger actually provide somew backing vocals on that song for Kansas? Shame what Walsh said, I think Kansas is a good band.[/QUOTE]
Just Roger as far as I know. Here is YouTube version, with Steve Walsh on lead vocals and Roger on backup:
what more do i need to know than to this guy is a cock and not worth listening to (his interviews OR his shit music)
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So you're judging his entire musical output based on a single quote about his personal experience with another musician?
Great song, btw... thanks GratefulFan for posting the clip. But I would have never have known Roger was on it if someone hadn't pointed it out.
GratefulFan · Member since
Actually I'm now wondering if that was Walsh on lead in that clip, or John Elefante. I forget how and when that all happened...
Gregsynth · Member since
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Actually I'm now wondering if that was Walsh on lead in that clip, or John Elefante. I forget how and when that all happened...[/QUOTE] It was Elefante, Walsh quit the band the previous year.
GratefulFan · Member since
Yeah, as you said, definitely Elefante. I found some live video from that tour, and it was not Walsh. Anyway, here is live Walsh version from 2002. Probably around the time of that interview. Steinhardt still has that mad red hair. Love it!
So you're judging his entire musical output based on a single quote about his personal experience with another musician?
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what!!!! no, i am judging his music on his music, which happens to me to be very middle road and boring ..... the fact that he's even lacks human decency and trash talks in the press is completely separate from that but since thats what this thread is about I could mention.
andreas_mercury · Member since
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GratefulFan · Member since
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[b]andreas_mercury wrote: [/b]
what!!!! no, i am judging his music on his music, which happens to me to be very middle road and boring ..... the fact that he's even lacks human decency and trash talks in the press is completely separate from that but since thats what this thread is about I could mention.
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Kansas' best stuff was far from middle of the road and far from boring. Walsh himself was/is a notable classic/prog rock voice and skilled keyboardist with a highly physical playing style. As a front man, I'll agree - middle of the pack. He doesn't have any real connection with an audience and there is little force of personality, unlike the late great Freddie Mercury. He's tried to make up for it with a lot of jumping around and I'm-too-sexy-for-my-shirt stage outfits, but it doesn't always work.
Gregsynth · Member since
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[b]andreas_mercury wrote: [/b]
what!!!! no, i am judging his music on his music, which happens to me to be very middle road and boring ..... the fact that he's even lacks human decency and trash talks in the press is completely separate from that but since thats what this thread is about I could mention.
[/QUOTE] Kansas' best stuff was far from middle of the road and far from boring. Walsh himself was/is a notable classic/prog rock voice and skilled keyboardist with a highly physical playing style. As a front man, I'll agree - middle of the pack. He doesn't have any real connection with an audience and there is little force of personality, unlike the late great Freddie Mercury. He's tried to make up for it with a lot of jumping around and I'm-too-sexy-for-my-shirt stage outfits, but it doesn't always work.
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100% on the money.
Gregsynth · Member since
Also, Steve whined and cried about the direction of the band (when Kenny Livgren, and Dave Hope became Christian) and he left the band. Compare that to Freddie ENCOURAGING members to write in any style! LOL
Winter Land Man · Member since
Kansas sucks. I'd rather have a Britney Spears album than a Kansas album. "Dust In The Wind" is a terrible song, and the only one I can even remember by Kansas. Totally pitiful.
The Real Wizard · Member since
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Kansas sucks. I'd rather have a Britney Spears album than a Kansas album. "Dust In The Wind" is a terrible song, and the only one I can even remember by Kansas. Totally pitiful.
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Why would you rather have an entire Britney Spears album over an entire Kansas album if you admit to never hearing an entire Kansas album?
lalaalalaa · Member since
Listen to Icarus (Borne On Wings of Steel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28AgoryWHE
ilikefreddyguy · Member since
Oh, Children- this one doesn't end does it?
First of all, to be fair, I don't care for Kansas. Yes, I may have a Queen bias on that one, but either way I listened to Kansas before I heard about this little tiff in the press. Even then I knew Kansas as one thing- a band with two hits, out of which I only cared for COMWS,
Again, Dust In The Wind just rang in my ear as kind of a rock song that was just really too folksy, and let me tell you somkething- I LOVE FOLK MUSIC. It's about as Rock and Roll as "Scarborough Fair" a tune which I still hold highly above Kansas's hits.
Yes, though, now that I've heard this from his mouth it does sort of ruin the Kansas experience for me. It's not like Freddie calling Bowie an asshole for taking his name off of "Cool Cat." Steve was being extremely low, holding a deep grudge for Fred for at about 30 years of something, even after he did die. Despite whether or not he was an asshole (Which I'm assuming, being Freddie, he was being an asshole) I mean they're rockers for God sake, they should get over the smalls bumps. It does make me lose interest in that band, greatly.
I think what bugs me the most isn't that he called Freddie an asshole. It was he said he had more of an ego than he had talent.
Gregsynth · Member since
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Oh, Children- this one doesn't end does it?
First of all, to be fair, I don't care for Kansas. Yes, I may have a Queen bias on that one, but either way I listened to Kansas before I heard about this little tiff in the press. Even then I knew Kansas as one thing- a band with two hits, out of which I only cared for COMWS,
Again, Dust In The Wind just rang in my ear as kind of a rock song that was just really too folksy, and let me tell you somkething- I LOVE FOLK MUSIC. It's about as Rock and Roll as "Scarborough Fair" a tune which I still hold highly above Kansas's hits.
Yes, though, now that I've heard this from his mouth it does sort of ruin the Kansas experience for me. It's not like Freddie calling Bowie an asshole for taking his name off of "Cool Cat." Steve was being extremely low, holding a deep grudge for Fred for at about 30 years of something, even after he did die. Despite whether or not he was an asshole (Which I'm assuming, being Freddie, he was being an asshole) I mean they're rockers for God sake, they should get over the smalls bumps. It does make me lose interest in that band, greatly.
I think what bugs me the most isn't that he called Freddie an asshole. It was he said he had more of an ego than he had talent. [/QUOTE]
Yeah, Steve's last couple sentences were kinda uncalled for.
