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November 29th, 2010 | The Centre PAC
Vancouver, BC
November 27th, 2010 | WaMu Theater
Seattle, WA
November 26th, 2010 | Schnitzer Concert Hall
Portland, OR
November 24th, 2010 | Regency Ballroom
San Francisco, CA
November 23rd, 2010 | Pantages Theater
Los Angeles, CA
November 21st, 2010 | Fox PAC
Riverside, CA
November 20th, 2010 | The Joint
Las Vegas, NV
November 18th, 2010 | Fairpark Music Hall
Dallas, TX
November 17th, 2010 | Spirit Bank Centre
Tulsa, OK
November 16th, 2010 | Verizon Theatre
Houston, TX
November 14th, 2010 | King Center
Melbourne, FL
November 13th, 2010 | Florida Theater
Jacksonville, FL
November 10th, 2010 | Buckethead
Atlanta, GA
November 8th, 2010 | Nokia Theater
New York, NY
November 6th, 2010 | Merriam Theatre
Philadelphia, PA
November 4th, 2010 | Bergen PAC
Englewood, NJ
November 3rd, 2010 | Count Basie Theater
Red Bank, NJ
November 2nd, 2010 | The Orpheum
Boston, MA
October 30th, 2010 | Auditorium Theater
Rochester, NY
October 29th, 2010 | Sony Centre
Toronto, ON
October 28th, 2010 | Centre in the Square
Kitchener, ON
October 27th, 2010 | Hamilton Place - Great Hall
Hamilton, ON
October 25th, 2010 | Grand Theatre
Quebec City, QUE
October 23rd, 2010 | Metropolis
Montreal, QUE
October 21st, 2010 | Star Plaza
Merrilville, IN
October 20th, 2010 | Riverside Theatre
Milwaukee, WI
October 19th, 2010 | State Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
October 17th, 2010 | MTS Centre
Winnipeg, MB
October 16th, 2010 | Brandt Centre
Regina, SK
October 14th, 2010 | Southern Alberta Jubilee
Calgary, AB
October 13th, 2010 | Enmax Centre
Red Deer, AB
October 12th, 2010 | Northern Alberta Jubilee
Edmonton, AB
October 9th, 2010 | CN Centre
Prince George, BC
October 8th, 2010 | Encana Events Center
Dawson Creek, BC
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I saw them at a free concert at a local park 2 years ago, and thought they put on a very good show - with none of the sound problems that every other show of this type always seems to have. I think they had 3 original members - the guitarist is definitely under-rated. The bassist was new, but also quite good. They did great versions of "Portrait" and " Miracles out of Nowhere".
Bassist Billy Greer is hardly new; he's been with Kansas for nearly 25 years, and his vocal contributions to the group's live shows are immense.
Kansas is one of my favorite bands of all time, and without doubt one of the best bands to come out of the American prog rock scene.
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Why would I like a band that totally rips off Zeppelin yet claims they never listened to them (well at least that's what they claimed on MTV back in their day)?
Yeah...more often than not, I saw this group referred to as Kingdom Clone. And there was a reason for that, lol...
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"I know I'm threadshitting at this point, but another board had this...totally cosmic timing:
straight dope bbs
QUOTE (WordMan)
The scene: a top recording studio in London in the early 80's. My buddy is getting one of his first big engineering assignments - Asia's second album. His job? Setting up and doing the engineering prep for the legendary Carl Palmer, drummer for ELP, Asia, etc.
My friend showed up for work hours early and used all of that time tuning Carl's kit, placing mic's, checking all the effects associated with each mic - you name it. And since Carl has a kit the size of, well, a huge freakin' drum kit, my friend had to crawl underneath a few rack toms to get in and out, so this was a physical, hectic, stressful situation for our first-time engineer. But it was worth it because he was doing it for the legendary Carl Palmer.
After all this, the Producer (my buddy's boss on the project) comes in, sees all the excruciating work my friend has done on this, his first job, and kind of snickers to himself, but at the time my buddy doesn't put 2 + 2 together. They both remain up in the control booth, finalizing settings for that day's recording. Later, the legendary Carl Palmer comes in, blithely gets behind the kit (not sure how he did it blithely, but my friend assures me he looked smooth), picks up the sticks and....proceeds to rip off a drum fill that sounds like a cat falling into a stack of cookware. My friend looks up at his Producer, who says something along the lines of "well, that pretty much shatters your fantasies, don'it?"
Apparently it was common knowledge that Carl couldn't keep proper time and was all about the fills -- which couldn't sound great if you can't keep time!- nice time to tell my friend! Weeks later in the session, my buddy was playing the kit to check a mic set-up he had changed and Geoff Downes and Steve Howe both came in and tried offer my buddy the job playing drums since they found Palmer's timekeeping so bad. I doubt they were serious, but it was a way to get under the legendary Carl Palmer's skin - and there was so much infighting that they couldn't pass up the chance..."
Sorry...having seen Palmer numerous times over the years, I'm calling absolute bullsh!t on this fairy tale, lol.
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A question about John Paul Jones...
in Led Zep Trivia
Posted · Edited by johnroxx
Hello and thanks in advance for any help here, my fellow Zep fans. I'm curious if anyone knows where John Paul Jones currently lives. I've been told somewhere in California, but can't verify this. Does anyone know?
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