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Band: Kansas
Tour: Masque Tour
Place: Chicago, IL
Venue: Aragon Ballroom
Date: 1976-01-16
==> Excellent FM broadcast <==
Manufacturer: Wonder Boy Records
Catalog: W.B. - 1066
Conversion: silver CD > EAC > WAV > Sound Forge 6.0 > WAV > Flac Frontend (level 8) > Flac
Flacs by: kerrylives
Artwork: no
Set list:
01 Song For America (10:16)
02 Icarus (Borne On Wings Of Steel) (6:48)
03 Down The Road (3:35)
04 Lonely Wind (5:46)
05 Belexes (4:16)
06 Drum Solo (2:32)
07 Guitar Solo (2:34)
08 Child Of Innocence (4:36)
09 All The World (5:05)
10 Mysteries & Mayhem (4:50)
11 The Pinnacle (9:58)
Total time: 60:16 mins.
Notes:
Another excellent FM broadcast of Kansas during their Masque tour. This one's not as uncommon as the Villanova show but I'm sure it will be new to many people. For those already having it this will be a nice upgrade, since this version is crystal clear, sounding much better than the copies floating around that have some songs cut. There is some FM static during Lonely Wind, but it's no big deal. Apart from that the recording is flawless. This show comes from a silver CD I obtained some years ago called "Kansas - A Tour Digest 1976". Besides this show it has the 1976-02-22 Villanova Field House show on a seperate disc. I'm almost certain both shows are incomplete since they clock in just over 1 hour.
Like I mentioned the quality of this one is excellent, also much better than the versions of that other broadcast from the same era; the well known 1975-12-02 Pittsburgh show. Compared to the Villanova show this one sounds a little more distant and has a more ambient feel to it. I really couldn't tell which on is better. I've used Sound Forge only to reindex the tracks because the original CD had just 6 tracks.
This show is highly recommended and should be picked up by any Kansas fan just to hear Mysteries & Mayhem and The Pinnacle played the way it originally was intended to be on the album; as one epic 15 minute long track.
-kerrylives
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