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Kansas

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2020 - The Absence of Presence
2008 - Playlist: The Very Best of Kansas
2002 - Device-Voice-Drum
2002 - The Ultimate Kansas
2000 - Somewhere to Elsewhere
1998 - Always Never the Same
1998 - King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents
1995 - Freaks of Nature
1988 - In the Spirit of Things
1986 - Power
1984 - The Best of Kansas
1983 - Drastic Measures
1982 - Vinyl Confessions
1980 - Audio-Visions
1979 - Monolith
1977 - Point of Know Return
1976 - Leftoverture
1975 - Masque
1975 - Song for America
1974 - Kansas
0 - There's Know Place Like Home

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5 Male

Origin
Topeka, USA

Genre
Progressive Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

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1973

Active
1973 to Present...

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4 users Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
4 users Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son
4 users Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
4 users Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
4 users Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son


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Stand Beside Me	Play the Game Tonight	Can't Cry Anymore
All I Wanted

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Dave Hope (bass), Phil Ehart (drums, percussion), and Kerry Livgren (guitars, keyboards, synthesizers) formed a progressive rock group in 1970 in their hometown of Topeka, Kansas, along with vocalists Lynn Meredith and Joel Warne, and keyboardist Don Montre, keyboardist Dan Wright, and saxophonist Larry Baker.

A year earlier, Meredith, Montre, Wright and Livgren were performing in a band called The Reasons Why. After changing the band's name to Saratoga, they started playing Livgren's original material with Scott Kessler playing bass and Zeke Lowe on drums. In 1970, they changed the band's name again to Kansas and merged with members of rival Topeka progressive rock outfit White Clover. This early Kansas group, which lasted until 1971 when Ehart, Hope, and some of the others left to reform White Clover, is sometimes referred to as Kansas I.

Ehart was replaced by Zeke Lowe and later Brad Schulz, Hope was replaced by Rod Mikinski on bass, and Baker was replaced by John Bolton on saxophone and flute. (This lineup is sometimes referred to as Kansas II, and 30 years later would re-form under the name Proto-Kaw.) In 1972, after Ehart returned from England (where he had gone to look for other musicians), he and Hope once again reformed White Clover with Robby Steinhardt (vocals, violin, viola, cello), Steve Walsh (vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion) and Rich Williams (guitars). In 1973 they recruited Livgren from the second Kansas group, which then folded. Eventually they received a recording contract with Don Kirshner's eponymous label and decided to adopt the Kansas name.


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