50 years in the making.Legendary rockers Kansas announced Monday their plans to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a massive tour of the United States.
Legendary rockers Kansas announced Monday their plans to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a massive tour of the United States.
I’m incredibly excited about the 50th Anniversary Tour,” Platt said. “I tell people I’m not allowed to create a setlist, because it would be five hours long. There are so many songs I want to perform live. I think fans will be excited not only to hear our hits and fan favorites spanning 50 years of Kansas, but also some songs that haven’t been performed live in decades.
Back in the old days, our goal was to release an album and play the big halls and ballrooms that were around in the Midwest," he said. "We weren't setting out to make a platinum album or playing Madison Square Garden. We didn't even think like that back then. We never imagined anything beyond that. We weren't dreaming about playing on the American stage or the world stage. That was a dream too far to even have.
His Don Kirshner's "Rock Concert" was a fixture on American television from the early 1970s until 1981 where he showcased popular bands of the day, include The Eagles, KISS, Rush, Foghat, The Ramones and Kansas, who made their television debut on the show. We didn't want to follow a trend. We wanted to be uniquely ourselves," he said. "Bands that we grew up on like Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and all the progressive rock bands coming out of England showed us to throw out the box. There are no rules so we just did what came naturally to us. That culminated in the making of our sound.In today's musical landscape, bands are expected to come out selling millions of copies with their first album.
But the song, "Carry On Wayward Son," was a last-minute addition to a batch of songs that the band felt were enough for their new album. That is until they heard Kerry's latest composition. That dream about selling millions of albums and playing arenas like Madison Square Garden that Williams said was "a dream too far to even have" was now a reality. Almost as soon as "Carry On Wayward Son" was all over radio, Kansas was no longer the opening act, but was a headliner and selling out the big arenas.
That song and the title track propelled the band's fifth album "Point of No Return" to a four million seller and "Dust in the Wind" peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard charts and sell over 500,000 copies in its initial release back in 1977.
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