Live at the Whisky [Live]

Kansas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Intersound Records
• ASIN: B000000BQ7
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,525 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Introduction

2. 'Howlin' At The Moon' from Magnum Opus

3. Paradox

4. Point Of Know Return

5. Song For America

6. The Wall

7. Hold On

8. Dust In The Wind

9. Miracles Out Of Nowhere

10. Mysteries & Mayhem

11. Portrait

12. Carry On Wayward Son

13. Down The Road

14. Bonus Track: Lonely Street

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great sound, great songs...great singer ?., June 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live at the Whisky (Audio CD)

This live-album has a lot of energy, infact more than their first live-album "Two For The Show". But that first one is still the best. There's great playing on this one, but singer Steve Walsh is a bit of an enigma. -Here we have some of the finest rock music ever written, but a singer who destroys the picture. It's really a rather sad affair, having been one of the greatest voices, and now this. -Talk about falling from grace. I realize almost 30 years of singing is bound to do some damage, but why all these theatrics ?.(I've nicknamed him "Donald Duck".) "Kansas"-songs are majestic enough as they are. Should they ever need a new vocalist again, check out "Tyketto"'s Danny Vaughn(ex-"Waysted"). -He's the ultimate "Kansas"-frontman that never was. Believe me, for an avid fan it hurts me to say all this, but it's the gospel truth.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not their best live album but not horrible, December 12, 2005

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Darth Pariah (North America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Whisky (Audio CD)

This is the lineup I saw a couple of times in small theatres and hole-in-the-wall clubs in the '90s:

Steve Walsh - vocals and keyboards
Greg Robert - keyboards
Billy Greer - bass and vocals
Richard Williams - guitars
David Ragsdale - violin and guitar
Phil Ehart - drums

This is a very rough recording, and, as has been noted, Walsh's vocals are not his best, but it's still commendable. However, it is definitely not on the same level as "Two For The Show" or "Device Voice Drum".

Kerry Livgren makes a "guest" appearance on "Dust In The Wind". I wonder if this was done just to give the album a bit of a push sales-wise..."Hey, Kerry Livgren's on it!"

There is also an old recording of the hard blues "Lonely Street" done with the original lineup, which is actually better than most of the rest of the album.

It's not horrible. Listening to it brings back good memories of when I saw them live. But get one of their other live albums instead.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars KBFH kicks this disks butt, but still worthy of a listen, October 29, 1999

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"muunrakr" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Whisky (Audio CD)

Of, the three 'released' live albums by the band, this one suffers from comparison to the other two. Still a good disk in its own right, it doesn't have the energy of the King Bisquit offering, nor the perfection of the Two for the Show disks. It does have some good material . . .

For a bar act, Paradox, PoKR, and SfA are done pretty well. Walsh hokeys it up on the Wall but Hold On contains an awesome pick grind that I only WISH was in the studio version - WTG! Dust in the Wind features Kerry Livgren in a guest spot and David Ragsdale's violin which is technically far superior to Robby Steinhardts.

Miracles suffers without Steinhardt as does Mysteries. Down the Road is good but lacks the raw power of the song played in the mid 70s.

The bonus track 'Lonely Street' drops the hint that there is a soundboard recording from '75 out there that begs to be released. We can only hope.

So there's a little bit for everyone except the Elefante fan, who would miss Fight Fire With Fire or Play the Game Tonight.

Not a bad disk, but get other Kansas live shows first.

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