This is the diffention of Rock and Roll! This is hands down my favorite rock song. It has everything, fast, slow, hard, soft, quite, loud. it's too bad Shooting Star never made it out of the midwest, damn good music, my friend from Colordo Springs had never heard of them, this was as of the "90s and didn't understand how he had never heard of them one state over, Shooting Star is from Kansas. Thank God for KSHE-95, those of us in St. Louis have listened to so much more good music because of them
Ah, Shooting Star. Great memories indeed with this one. Came on the radio late one night while out driving, man, life took on a new meaning doing like 85 to this tune and wondering how everything was gonna turn out in the future. You listen to it and all these things flash in your mind, but the message is clear it could be your last chance so take every minute as a gift and dont think so much! Another killer band from this era that also got screwed was Prophet, look up "Everything You Are."
Even a St.Louis radio station recognizes an awesome Kansas City Band.The 80's and Rock & Roll. Talk about 2 things that just went together. Never be another era like it.
The local radio station sponsored concerts of up & coming bands back in the day calling them 'shooting star shows'. The best Shooting Star show fitting enough was Shooting Star. Shooting Star & Triumph two of the most underrated bands of the era.
I just rediscovered Shooting Star again. FYI - their music is available in mp3 at amazon (higher bite rate than apple). I just bought Anthology and Hang On For Your Life. No need to wait for any air play.
Can't believe my comment made the top. The reason you don't hear this on the radio is because corporate bullshit would rather play you All Right Now 100 times a day and Spirit in the Sky 500 times a day.
Nah, Gary West and Steve Walsh have totally different styles, vocally. I can't see how anyone but a casual listener would mistake one for the other. And other than both bands having a violinist, they're really not that similar otherwise.
This was one of my all-time favorites but I could not find the artist until I went to youtube. I don't know why this band never really made. This one song is just amazing!
@cochranexyz I don't think it's the DJ's fault. They're just doing what they're told to do. Most of them want to keep a job that probably won't be around in 20 years. A lot of radio stations have already switched to formats with no DJ's. Pretty sad, huh?
@cochranexyz As far as this song goes, I was in high school when it came out and we all loved it. I always thought this would be played on the radio for years, kinda like Dream On and Free Bird.
@atomicpunk48 there are thousands of songs like these from the 70's and 80's that i just hope and hope that my local radio stations would play, and the chances of that happening are about 0 : 99999999999. It just sucks because really awesome songs with really awesome meanings don't get played anywhere.
@KVGKQuake FM radio is definitely not what it was when it first got started. I feel bad for the DJ's that have to play the same tired songs over and over again, day in and day out, and you know there's other stuff they'd rather be playing but can't because of corporate BS.
what in the world happened to no2hates video of this song. did some whinny baby start crying because he used apicture without permission. sounds like somebody was hating?
It was a sad day when the genre was changed at KY-102! I think I still have my membership card to General Max Floyd's Rock and Roll Army! LOL I saw these guys (Shooting Star) at a night club in Topeka one evening in 1980, right before leaving for a 20 year tour with the US Army. They rocked! I still remember the fire marshals having everyone step outside as they tried to decide if the club was filled past max capacity.
@WendiAlene I think you're lying son. I 've been on the scene since you were jerking off to the lingerie section of the Sears cataqlog and I do not remember that alleged occurence. Please go tell your fairy tale Topeka nights somewhere your lies won'te seen thru and don't make me repeat myself...
KY*102 --- We ROCK Kansas City....or as someone once vandalized their billboard "we f*ck Kansas City" lol. I always thought that for a midwest band to make it nationwide they had to be twice as good as a band from either coast -- Shooting Star being a prime case. Others: Missouri (a sort of Shooting Star spinoff), The Rainmakers, Kansas, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Ozark Mt. Daredevils, etc.
Eventough this song came out in 1980, I heard it for the first time in the Spring of 1982. It was actually a great waking up tune. A Norfolk radio station called WNOR played this quite a bit...
@PsychoPunk1965 WNOR-Rocks Tidewater! I was stationed there in the Marines in the mid 80's and they were the best station around. "Reeger and the Bull" were on in the morning, the first of many "Morning Zoo" shows that sprang up all over the country in the 80's. Now we listen to "Bob and Tom" on KSHE here in St. Louis.
@PsychoPunk1965 WNOR-Rocks Tidewater! I was stationed there in the Marines in the mid 80's and they were the best station around. "Reeger and the Bull" were on in the morning, the first of many "Morning Zoo" shows that sprang up all over the country in the 80's. Now we listen to "Bob and Tom" on KSHE here in St. Louis. They would play this goofy song called "Bucky's In Love", one of their characters on the show. Bull was named Henry "The Bull" Del Toro.
When I was about 16 or so I walked into record store & asked for some new & hard rocking. The clerk handed me a cassette copy of this album, I wore it out listening to it over & over. I went back again & bought the album. I still have it but would love to find the CD.They were one of the greatest hard rock bands of the time.
Van and Gary just got "it". Hard to do, as a 6-pc band, trolling around the plains. But, they survived and actually have had sucess. Van was the ulimate "man in the back", whereas, Gary was the front man.Together, they just rocked!t
Shooting Star is a KC band. Van McClain and Ron Verlin both went to Shawnee Mission South High School. If you're interested, the whole band history is on wikipedia. Several of the guys still live and play in the KC area.
Shame they didn't do more. There were only two songs that I really liked on this album. This one and "Tonight". Anyone know if they have any other albums out other than this one?
I just came up from my basement collection of record albums as I was looking for this song desperately, but I only have "Hang of for your Life", which is a really good album.
But this song is a kick ass rocker. Great vocals and solos, etc.
Found this song tonight....a tune I used to play when I DJ'd at college. It's a great melodic rocker that didn't get much airplay on the commercial FM radio stations...but I always thought it had the ingredients to be a hit song on AOR radio.
@harvbanger Great point. Here in Cincinnati,WEBN was considered AOL back then,would play this on a regular basis. This band was popular around here. So much,I always thought they were local. A very good song.
Shooting Star played at our Lambda Chi Alpha rush party at William Jewell College in fall of 1978, several years before they hit it big. Charlie Walz (electric violin) was a FIJI at Jewell.
Shooting Star played at our Lambda Chi Alpha rush party at William Jewell College in fall of 1978, a couple of years before they hit the big time. Charlie Walz (electric violin) was a FIJI at Jewell at that time.
I remember these guys and always have!! I ALWAYS had Shooting Star cranked up in my car back in those days!! Still do now and again!! I lived in St. Joseph, Mo.......seems they were from or near Olathe, Ks...not far away......saw them play live at Missouri Western State College also once.....they rocked then and still do now!!! GOOD STUFF SS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all the memories!!!
Music does sound like Kansas, but the voice reminds me of the lead singer of Aldo Nova. GREAT song here man. Wow, the memories and me banging the shit out of my drums!!!
They got quite a bit of airplay in the DETROIT area in the 80's....I remember hearing LAST CHANCE and BRING IT ON a lot with sprinkles of TONIGHT and a couple other tunes.
I always thought this was a classic song that never got it's due. Good to see that others feel the same way too. Truly one of the best songs of the last 30 years. You just don't see bands with this kind of creativity now. Only one word to describe it. Epic.
Shooting Star separated themselved from AOR glut by producing epics of this nature, songs that had a message worthy of the song structure. Love it still
these guys put on a real good show .being a kansas city boy myself i saw them at the memorial hall on central ave, i think. of course they were sold out when we got there so my friend and i saw some people gathering by the side of the bldg, then the doors suddenly opened. who ever did that. thanks. it was a great show.
i seen these guys in the early 80's at the WLS radio rock shows in chicago. always thought this song would be in a film.thanks so much for putting up and great sound also.
They definitely don't sound like Kansas, but Shooting Star is from the same area, and they sound good. They have the influence fom Kansas, incorporating violin in the band, but not real composition like Kerry Livgren's genius.
@thisux7x7 Thank you for recognizing Kerry Livgren, he was Kansas basically, although Steve Walsh wrote some of the material as well, but Kerry was the main genius, a monster guitatrist, and I think somewhat slighted as a top notch guitarist I am from KC and shooting star was our favorite local band here in the early 80's, a great band live, I saw them too many times here, the lead singer Gary would wear his pajamas when they played here as it was home, but they were never as good as Kansas
@earthcity1 You got that all right. I am from St. Joe and Steve was raised in the same part of town as me. He was a bit older than me but I remember in the 80's he use to come back on holidays and jam with his old buddies. One night he had me get up and sing Dust in the Wind with him, (that was fun). He was never overly famous to most people locally, he was just one of the locals when he was around. In his early days he was the best,and I believe he has influenced vocalists for years.
@thisux7x7 I always knew he was from St. Joe, but I think I read somewhere he was a preacher, or ministers son? Anyway yeah an outstanding piano player, and one of the great singers of the 70's era, the range he shows on the ending of carry on, he was way underated really to me, and the very closing of Dust in the Wind, those vocal fills that he is singing as the song closes really haunting it is just dead on perfect sounding for that song, he was fun to watch with his high energy on stage also
@zardozkid me too, seen these guys in chicago a wls radio show in the 80's.this is a REAL band. these guys really play.no NASA mixing board to make them sound good.
Gods, KY-102 and Max Floyd. Before 102, I listened to KWKI before the god nazis took that wonderful station off the air. I remember this song, being a shy 14 year old guy and meeting the guys in the band at a local concert that cost almost nothing. I still have the autographed ticket stub.
saw this band live free concert 1987 forest park kshe kite fly. five feet away from centerstage awesome rocking band,loved the lyrics instrumentation ,the fiddle rockes out great times
@LedHed65 I'm not even from St. Louis, but I remember the days when KSHE was Nationally known as the greatest AOR station in America. It was the only place in the 70's and 80's where you could hear bands like Missouri, Shooting Star, Tycoon, Moxy, Angel, Greg Kihn, Triumph, Michael Stanley etc. And even today, KSHE still plays all of the classics.
DEFINITELY A KSHE CLASSIC!!! The first time I heard it was under the Arch for VP 4th of July!! KICK ASS!! Definitely an underrated band as was the band "Missouri" (esp. "Movin' On") out of Kansas City, about the same time Shooting Star hit the scene!! With the help of Steve Thomas on drums, this band was the first American group to sign with Virgin records! Definitely a smokin hot band. Wish they still made albums like the first few. KILLER!!!
The whole Don't Say No album by Billy Squier is a classic and you still hear songs regularly played from it. In contrast, Shooting Star has been completely buried. This song - along with Hang On and Hollywood - were regularly played on Detroit radio, especially from '81-'83. Maybe not enough payola dollars were used to keep this fine band around.
All time greats! WAAF Worcester MA WHJY Providence RI--all the way through "Do You Feel All Right" on Wishes III, got the next 2, then they went away...really sad they never got what Journey, Night Ranger or even Foghat for acclaim...Gary was awesome, great live cuts at farewell show in '86! Keith not bad, Ronnie...not so much...still want to see them this year, the music lives on!!
Hello this is on cd, there have been multiple cd releases of this album, which does not have one bad song on it Midnight Man, Stranger bad ass songs for sure they were from Kansas City
Man oh man, what a killer song. I was digging the music back then. Heard/recorded this on a 'midnight album' show on WQWK in State College, Pa., after hearing the tape, had to buy it!!! Ahhh, the 70's, when a record was $5.00 lol
im born and raised in kc and they are comin back here later this month with foghat and bad company i think... this will be the 5th time ive seen shooting star live
Originally from KC area myself. Saw them at Memorial Hall and some other local arenas. Always put on a great show. Hard to believe it's been that long ago. Harder to believe they didn't make it MUCH bigger than they did.
They were always somewhat annoyed by the Kansas comparison. I can remember Gary saying, back in the day, that he understood people saying that because both bands had violinists, but other than that he didn't think they sounded that much alike. Except for this song, these guys were more of a straight ahead rock band than Kansas. And lyrically, they're not really similar at all.
They toured with Kansas briefly on the VINYL CONFESSIONS tour, but it didn't work out too well IIRC.
Awesome song.
swordkata 16 hours ago
We heard them in Boston area!!!
lunaradarque1 1 day ago
This is the diffention of Rock and Roll! This is hands down my favorite rock song. It has everything, fast, slow, hard, soft, quite, loud. it's too bad Shooting Star never made it out of the midwest, damn good music, my friend from Colordo Springs had never heard of them, this was as of the "90s and didn't understand how he had never heard of them one state over, Shooting Star is from Kansas. Thank God for KSHE-95, those of us in St. Louis have listened to so much more good music because of them
tmitchell378 1 week ago
they played my bar....yes the last chance!
kensnook 2 weeks ago
heard this on the radio and was like WHOA HOW COME I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE?!?! it rocks.
retrodude40 3 weeks ago 2
Ah, Shooting Star. Great memories indeed with this one. Came on the radio late one night while out driving, man, life took on a new meaning doing like 85 to this tune and wondering how everything was gonna turn out in the future. You listen to it and all these things flash in your mind, but the message is clear it could be your last chance so take every minute as a gift and dont think so much! Another killer band from this era that also got screwed was Prophet, look up "Everything You Are."
The1WhoKnowsTheTruth 1 month ago
K-SHE 95..where ya get the real funky knuckle jive!! StL Baby!!
larryswife74 1 month ago
Even a St.Louis radio station recognizes an awesome Kansas City Band.The 80's and Rock & Roll. Talk about 2 things that just went together. Never be another era like it.
eltoro367 1 month ago 3
underestimated song
1927Norma 1 month ago
played in detroit radio big time... back in the day.
edwardprzydzial 1 month ago
Great tune and message! Listen to the lyrics...
greatputter1 1 month ago
I lived in St Louis a few years ago, and KSHE 95 always played this, and other lost classics
000thedisciple 1 month ago
This song was released when I was in high school. KMET (Los Angeles) had in in heavy rotation. Brings back great memories. Great band, great song.
politicalidiot1 1 month ago
once you start the drum solo you dont stop it
gigitygooish 2 months ago
Awesome
rubicon1983 2 months ago
Todays music can't touch this.
Miss you Shooting Star.
lastdaysguitar 2 months ago
Awesome music, people think they are new cause they never heard of em. Its too bad. They shoukld of hity mainstream rock along time ago
lryanjr813 3 months ago
Awesome song! Memories of High School.
AZJimG 3 months ago
@AZJimG mee too
dozer4444 2 months ago
maybe the most underrated rock ballad of all time.
ReneesRolling 3 months ago
a fun song to play drums along with.....
restlessbreed10 3 months ago
INCREDIBLE TUNE! ;o)
genxxxersize 3 months ago
Incredibly underrated band! Check out their first few albums - no bad songs in the bunch.
Sundevil61 4 months ago
holly shit, i saw them live, san juan, pr back in my college years. fucking awesome.
valdivieri 4 months ago
and i saw this shit live!
superseau 4 months ago
love this song and krokus's sreamin in the night
superseau 4 months ago
@superseau you and me think alike those are two awsome songs
sunniesamme 4 months ago
niiiiceee
superseau 4 months ago
Brings back memories of my youth, holy shit where have the years gone.
krankensteinrocks 4 months ago
Brings back memories of my youth, holy shit where have the years gone.
krankensteinrocks 4 months ago
The local radio station sponsored concerts of up & coming bands back in the day calling them 'shooting star shows'. The best Shooting Star show fitting enough was Shooting Star. Shooting Star & Triumph two of the most underrated bands of the era.
Mukphly 4 months ago
Man oh man was I young when this song came out! Fun times forgotten
americanfellow 4 months ago
One of the Top debut LP's in Rock 'N' Roll History!!!!
MrSicilian16 5 months ago
I just rediscovered Shooting Star again. FYI - their music is available in mp3 at amazon (higher bite rate than apple). I just bought Anthology and Hang On For Your Life. No need to wait for any air play.
717mienbao 5 months ago
wow awesome
97warlock 5 months ago
Can't believe my comment made the top. The reason you don't hear this on the radio is because corporate bullshit would rather play you All Right Now 100 times a day and Spirit in the Sky 500 times a day.
atomicpunk48 5 months ago
OK be honest 1st time you ever heard this...How many of us said......"SWEEET!!!!...' KANSAS' wrote a killer new tune....?
Maxharddrive64 6 months ago
@Maxharddrive64
Nah, Gary West and Steve Walsh have totally different styles, vocally. I can't see how anyone but a casual listener would mistake one for the other. And other than both bands having a violinist, they're really not that similar otherwise.
No offense ... you asked, so I commented. ;-)
Ken5244 6 months ago
This was a big gsong in Milwaukee. Awesome album this was on. All sorts of airplay up here.
bop517 6 months ago
I remember hearing this song on Houston radio 101 KLOL in the early eighties.
I always loved this song!
iloveshonenknife1 6 months ago
heard this song last night be a St. Louis local band, Whitenoise. They put a little heavier twist on it, and it ROCKED
nookie420 6 months ago
EPIC
AXISOFHENDRIX 7 months ago
the bridge in this song is absolutely amazing.........
27wingnut 8 months ago
i bet im not the only one who had such a hard time tracking this down for years while searching Kansas tracks ;-)
Dominicus3 8 months ago
This was one of my all-time favorites but I could not find the artist until I went to youtube. I don't know why this band never really made. This one song is just amazing!
RSSWorldwide 8 months ago
This song fell through the cracks over the years. When I listen to the radio, I always wonder why they don't slip this one in every once in a while.
atomicpunk48 9 months ago 16
@atomicpunk48 You are right. Once in a while I'll hear a song like this from a DJ with a real mind.
cochranexyz 5 months ago
@cochranexyz I don't think it's the DJ's fault. They're just doing what they're told to do. Most of them want to keep a job that probably won't be around in 20 years. A lot of radio stations have already switched to formats with no DJ's. Pretty sad, huh?
atomicpunk48 5 months ago
@atomicpunk48 I hear you. It's awful to listen to them at times. The turnover is really constant in that business/career.
cochranexyz 5 months ago
@cochranexyz As far as this song goes, I was in high school when it came out and we all loved it. I always thought this would be played on the radio for years, kinda like Dream On and Free Bird.
atomicpunk48 5 months ago
@atomicpunk48 I almost forgot about this song. It's not exactly my forte then nor today, but it brings me back memories from the early 1980s.
PsychoPunk1965 4 months ago
@atomicpunk48 there are thousands of songs like these from the 70's and 80's that i just hope and hope that my local radio stations would play, and the chances of that happening are about 0 : 99999999999. It just sucks because really awesome songs with really awesome meanings don't get played anywhere.
KVGKQuake 2 months ago
@KVGKQuake FM radio is definitely not what it was when it first got started. I feel bad for the DJ's that have to play the same tired songs over and over again, day in and day out, and you know there's other stuff they'd rather be playing but can't because of corporate BS.
atomicpunk48 2 months ago
@atomicpunk48 Because radio is controlled by big business now, just like anything else :(
fuwmg 1 month ago 6
@fuwmg You got that right...Shooting Star rocks!!!!!!! To bad they never got the props they deserved.Still one of my all time favs!!!
chicagofrank10 3 hours ago
@atomicpunk48 If it makes you feel any better, I hear this monster about once every week on my local rock station.
brightorangepants 2 weeks ago
@brightorangepants You must live in the Midwest.
atomicpunk48 2 weeks ago
these guys should have made it big
RaineyMarkieJamie 9 months ago
these guys should have made it big
RaineyMarkieJamie 9 months ago
what in the world happened to no2hates video of this song. did some whinny baby start crying because he used apicture without permission. sounds like somebody was hating?
magnumta1986 9 months ago
@magnumta1986 still around
Dominicus3 8 months ago
It was a sad day when the genre was changed at KY-102! I think I still have my membership card to General Max Floyd's Rock and Roll Army! LOL I saw these guys (Shooting Star) at a night club in Topeka one evening in 1980, right before leaving for a 20 year tour with the US Army. They rocked! I still remember the fire marshals having everyone step outside as they tried to decide if the club was filled past max capacity.
WendiAlene 9 months ago 2
@WendiAlene I saw them in Topeka too! Luna's Landing or Disconnection, or whatever that place at 37th & California was called.
roojunk 8 months ago
@WendiAlene I think you're lying son. I 've been on the scene since you were jerking off to the lingerie section of the Sears cataqlog and I do not remember that alleged occurence. Please go tell your fairy tale Topeka nights somewhere your lies won'te seen thru and don't make me repeat myself...
toekneeeyeoweme 7 months ago
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this song!!!!!!!
SavvyPsychicMedium 9 months ago
and you cant forget KWK in St Louis
panzerboy1944 10 months ago
@panzerboy1944 I listened to KWK when KSHE was in a commercial and would go back and forth all night long!
Marine4everandever 9 months ago
KY*102 --- We ROCK Kansas City....or as someone once vandalized their billboard "we f*ck Kansas City" lol. I always thought that for a midwest band to make it nationwide they had to be twice as good as a band from either coast -- Shooting Star being a prime case. Others: Missouri (a sort of Shooting Star spinoff), The Rainmakers, Kansas, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Ozark Mt. Daredevils, etc.
JimHadar1 10 months ago
Also a KY-102 classic
habenero2002 10 months ago
Eventough this song came out in 1980, I heard it for the first time in the Spring of 1982. It was actually a great waking up tune. A Norfolk radio station called WNOR played this quite a bit...
PsychoPunk1965 10 months ago
@PsychoPunk1965 WNOR-Rocks Tidewater! I was stationed there in the Marines in the mid 80's and they were the best station around. "Reeger and the Bull" were on in the morning, the first of many "Morning Zoo" shows that sprang up all over the country in the 80's. Now we listen to "Bob and Tom" on KSHE here in St. Louis.
Marine4everandever 9 months ago
@PsychoPunk1965 WNOR-Rocks Tidewater! I was stationed there in the Marines in the mid 80's and they were the best station around. "Reeger and the Bull" were on in the morning, the first of many "Morning Zoo" shows that sprang up all over the country in the 80's. Now we listen to "Bob and Tom" on KSHE here in St. Louis. They would play this goofy song called "Bucky's In Love", one of their characters on the show. Bull was named Henry "The Bull" Del Toro.
Marine4everandever 9 months ago
I really miss great AOR Rock like this Aldo Nova, Touch, 702, and The Kings!!!!!
RikkiX69 10 months ago
aaaahhhhhhh..the epidomy of eighties rock...honest and straightforth 8]
carysatch 10 months ago
When I was about 16 or so I walked into record store & asked for some new & hard rocking. The clerk handed me a cassette copy of this album, I wore it out listening to it over & over. I went back again & bought the album. I still have it but would love to find the CD.They were one of the greatest hard rock bands of the time.
HoleKutter 10 months ago
Awesome song!!!!
also check out Tarney Spencer Band no time to lose!!!
privateerdude 10 months ago
Van and Gary just got "it". Hard to do, as a 6-pc band, trolling around the plains. But, they survived and actually have had sucess. Van was the ulimate "man in the back", whereas, Gary was the front man.Together, they just rocked!t
4everColReb 11 months ago
Shooting Star is a KC band. Van McClain and Ron Verlin both went to Shawnee Mission South High School. If you're interested, the whole band history is on wikipedia. Several of the guys still live and play in the KC area.
tpowell1966 11 months ago
Kick ass live. One of the best shows I have seen.
tweelmeister 11 months ago
I almost forgot about these guys
Zomboforu 11 months ago
K-she 95 REAL ROCK RADIO a St. Louis classic
mundster1 11 months ago 17
@mundster1 Love Sweet Meat, the ORIGINAL one with the doobie in his mouth, still have the shirt!
Marine4everandever 9 months ago
@Marine4everandever me too....and my hat as well, unforturnately I sold the car with the original bumper sticker....LOL
UnclePiggy 5 months ago
@mundster1 A St. Louis classic, maybe, but the band is from Kansas City.
KoenHead 7 months ago
@mundster1 yep. sux about the Emmis Comm buyout...10-11 yrs ago, stl had best selection of music, all over the dial...now its all jus the same.
shymama8 2 months ago
@mundster1
honor of Rick Midyett
Supertramp concert for 95 cents
KSHE birthday party concerts in Forest Park
ryanshaunkelly 2 months ago
Man, iI remember this song back in the 80's Love it.
davedunnit 11 months ago
EPIC
HAVEyouLOSTyourMIND 1 year ago
You know,i may be mistaken,i was born and raised in cincinnati,ohio,and i do believe they are,i may be wrong.
theguycansing 1 year ago
@theguycansing
You're WAYwrong. They're from KC. Gary West is the brother of Ron West of the band "Missouri", also from the KC area.
EggsZachtly 1 year ago
Do you's know where they are from??Trivia question.
theguycansing 1 year ago
@theguycansing arent they from canada??
mikebloomfirld66 1 year ago
Shame they didn't do more. There were only two songs that I really liked on this album. This one and "Tonight". Anyone know if they have any other albums out other than this one?
Bassistdan1 1 year ago
@Bassistdan1 There are at least 4 albums out there, maybe more; check the allmusic website.
hoghed 1 year ago
I just came up from my basement collection of record albums as I was looking for this song desperately, but I only have "Hang of for your Life", which is a really good album.
But this song is a kick ass rocker. Great vocals and solos, etc.
Thanks for posting it here!!
peace!
bobcobb666 1 year ago
Man I saw these guys live with Todd Rundgren & Utopia and they were AWESOME - Sometimes I really miss the 80's.
Great song, thanks for posting!
lastdaysguitar 1 year ago
Best thing that ever came out of Olathe Ks was this kick ass band! LOVE Shooting Star!!! (I miss the 80's!)
JohnForce01 1 year ago
I used to have this album on vinyl. Great song and great band.
BobCubTAC 1 year ago
Found this song tonight....a tune I used to play when I DJ'd at college. It's a great melodic rocker that didn't get much airplay on the commercial FM radio stations...but I always thought it had the ingredients to be a hit song on AOR radio.
harvbanger 1 year ago
@harvbanger Great point. Here in Cincinnati,WEBN was considered AOL back then,would play this on a regular basis. This band was popular around here. So much,I always thought they were local. A very good song.
stucat06 1 year ago
@stucat06 Heck Stucat06 not just WEBN remember another station out of Cincy called 96 rock.
It's slogan was called"96 ROCK KICKS ASS"it also played"Last Chance on a regular basis
businessfreedom 1 year ago
very good song love it
marvoid1 1 year ago
love this song.
dreamwarrior22 1 year ago
Shooting Star played at our Lambda Chi Alpha rush party at William Jewell College in fall of 1978, several years before they hit it big. Charlie Walz (electric violin) was a FIJI at Jewell.
Popejoy 1 year ago
Shooting Star played at our Lambda Chi Alpha rush party at William Jewell College in fall of 1978, a couple of years before they hit the big time. Charlie Walz (electric violin) was a FIJI at Jewell at that time.
Popejoy 1 year ago
Excellent song. And a raelly positive message. Outstanding musical ability. The epitome of talent - REAL TALENT.
lyonsd1875 1 year ago
I remember these guys and always have!! I ALWAYS had Shooting Star cranked up in my car back in those days!! Still do now and again!! I lived in St. Joseph, Mo.......seems they were from or near Olathe, Ks...not far away......saw them play live at Missouri Western State College also once.....they rocked then and still do now!!! GOOD STUFF SS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all the memories!!!
provoira 1 year ago
Aldo Nova is a man, not a band.
ESchlehlein2 1 year ago
Music does sound like Kansas, but the voice reminds me of the lead singer of Aldo Nova. GREAT song here man. Wow, the memories and me banging the shit out of my drums!!!
47TheSteve 1 year ago
@47TheSteve Lead singer of Aldo Nova WAS......... Aldo Nova
455Transam 1 year ago
They got quite a bit of airplay in the DETROIT area in the 80's....I remember hearing LAST CHANCE and BRING IT ON a lot with sprinkles of TONIGHT and a couple other tunes.
455Transam 1 year ago
I always thought this was a classic song that never got it's due. Good to see that others feel the same way too. Truly one of the best songs of the last 30 years. You just don't see bands with this kind of creativity now. Only one word to describe it. Epic.
dsfddsgh 1 year ago
As a Brothers bar tender in AggieVill the 80's... now living in the Florida Keys I will never forget the boys from Smith Lake K.C. ROCK AWN!
Bahiaranger 1 year ago
Used to watch them in their early years play at One Block West., near KU Medical Center Great memories.
McKinneyMike 1 year ago
TODAY MAY B YOUR LAST CHANCE TO DRINK FROM LIFES WELL...BONNE
BONNEVILLAIN2012 1 year ago
Shooting Star separated themselved from AOR glut by producing epics of this nature, songs that had a message worthy of the song structure. Love it still
MetallicBill 1 year ago
these guys put on a real good show .being a kansas city boy myself i saw them at the memorial hall on central ave, i think. of course they were sold out when we got there so my friend and i saw some people gathering by the side of the bldg, then the doors suddenly opened. who ever did that. thanks. it was a great show.
hvacman01 1 year ago
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Used to watch them in their early years play at One Block West., near KU Medical Center Great memories.
McKinneyMike 1 year ago
i seen these guys in the early 80's at the WLS radio rock shows in chicago. always thought this song would be in a film.thanks so much for putting up and great sound also.
SandraBee007 1 year ago
They definitely don't sound like Kansas, but Shooting Star is from the same area, and they sound good. They have the influence fom Kansas, incorporating violin in the band, but not real composition like Kerry Livgren's genius.
thisux7x7 1 year ago
@thisux7x7 Thank you for recognizing Kerry Livgren, he was Kansas basically, although Steve Walsh wrote some of the material as well, but Kerry was the main genius, a monster guitatrist, and I think somewhat slighted as a top notch guitarist I am from KC and shooting star was our favorite local band here in the early 80's, a great band live, I saw them too many times here, the lead singer Gary would wear his pajamas when they played here as it was home, but they were never as good as Kansas
earthcity1 1 year ago
@earthcity1 You got that all right. I am from St. Joe and Steve was raised in the same part of town as me. He was a bit older than me but I remember in the 80's he use to come back on holidays and jam with his old buddies. One night he had me get up and sing Dust in the Wind with him, (that was fun). He was never overly famous to most people locally, he was just one of the locals when he was around. In his early days he was the best,and I believe he has influenced vocalists for years.
thisux7x7 1 year ago
@thisux7x7 I always knew he was from St. Joe, but I think I read somewhere he was a preacher, or ministers son? Anyway yeah an outstanding piano player, and one of the great singers of the 70's era, the range he shows on the ending of carry on, he was way underated really to me, and the very closing of Dust in the Wind, those vocal fills that he is singing as the song closes really haunting it is just dead on perfect sounding for that song, he was fun to watch with his high energy on stage also
earthcity1 1 year ago
If it gets any better than this, I must be in heaven. Or Sauget.
guardfrog78 1 year ago
I have waited and watched who would deliver this song.
Thanks...
We remember an America.
Free from money and the wars of the crown!
zardozkid 1 year ago
@zardozkid me too, seen these guys in chicago a wls radio show in the 80's.this is a REAL band. these guys really play.no NASA mixing board to make them sound good.
SandraBee007 1 year ago
Good song!
hansnaughty1 1 year ago
One of the all time greats ! Awsome drums & guitar work ! You guys are missed ! .
MrkintheDrk 1 year ago
@MrkintheDrk . Somebody posted Don't walk away .. Awesome song !!!!
markinddark 1 year ago
One of the best rock songs ever. I was lucky enough to see them way back when (1980 or there abouts)
iroman715 1 year ago
@iroman715 You lucky bastard!!! My second favorite song of all-times.... Gary West ruled!!!!
bds1167 1 year ago
Great song.
dsfddsgh 1 year ago
absolutely kicks
DatingGameKiller 1 year ago
not many people remember this band i jammed this song on radio when it came out early 80s
nascarsteve8 1 year ago
oh the memories...
mrdreamwhip 1 year ago
Call it a kshe klassic all you want, these boys are from K.C. baby!!!!!!! KY102 rocked them forever in the '70s & '80s. SO THERE!
77eagleboy 1 year ago
@77eagleboy Amen brother, Max Floyd, and the rock and roll army, the good old days!
shoecat65 1 year ago
@shoecat65 the rock& roll army and raley's nightrocker cards. also Dick and Jay in the mornings.
77eagleboy 1 year ago
i remember ky102, they went off the air in 1996or 97
slickdaddy2010 1 year ago
@77eagleboy
Gods, KY-102 and Max Floyd. Before 102, I listened to KWKI before the god nazis took that wonderful station off the air. I remember this song, being a shy 14 year old guy and meeting the guys in the band at a local concert that cost almost nothing. I still have the autographed ticket stub.
Peace,
ADT
amourdutigre 1 year ago
@amourdutigre forgot about KWKI ,thanks for the reminder
77eagleboy 1 year ago
they were from shawnee mission ks i used to here em practice in there garage cool guys
kennyh501 1 year ago
awesome....
greyhound3ful 1 year ago
saw this band live free concert 1987 forest park kshe kite fly. five feet away from centerstage awesome rocking band,loved the lyrics instrumentation ,the fiddle rockes out great times
erty876 2 years ago
k-she plays this all the time in st. louis missouri!
AngusYoungGtrGod 2 years ago
Definately a Kshe Klassic....I still have this album!!
LedHed65 2 years ago 20
@LedHed65 I'm not even from St. Louis, but I remember the days when KSHE was Nationally known as the greatest AOR station in America. It was the only place in the 70's and 80's where you could hear bands like Missouri, Shooting Star, Tycoon, Moxy, Angel, Greg Kihn, Triumph, Michael Stanley etc. And even today, KSHE still plays all of the classics.
ufofan1980 1 year ago
@LedHed65
DEFINITELY A KSHE CLASSIC!!! The first time I heard it was under the Arch for VP 4th of July!! KICK ASS!! Definitely an underrated band as was the band "Missouri" (esp. "Movin' On") out of Kansas City, about the same time Shooting Star hit the scene!! With the help of Steve Thomas on drums, this band was the first American group to sign with Virgin records! Definitely a smokin hot band. Wish they still made albums like the first few. KILLER!!!
St. Louis Boy & lifetime Sweetmeat fan!
1USASOCOMRET 1 year ago
@LedHed65 me to
GwenStefaniHollaBack 1 year ago
Kshe 95 in st. louis plays this great song regularly.
ulsstock 2 years ago 2
i saw the live last night with dennis deyoung
BonJovi987 1 year ago
The whole Don't Say No album by Billy Squier is a classic and you still hear songs regularly played from it. In contrast, Shooting Star has been completely buried. This song - along with Hang On and Hollywood - were regularly played on Detroit radio, especially from '81-'83. Maybe not enough payola dollars were used to keep this fine band around.
MrEvolution513 2 years ago
i just saw them in st louis last night,soo they are still around
BonJovi987 1 year ago
All time greats! WAAF Worcester MA WHJY Providence RI--all the way through "Do You Feel All Right" on Wishes III, got the next 2, then they went away...really sad they never got what Journey, Night Ranger or even Foghat for acclaim...Gary was awesome, great live cuts at farewell show in '86! Keith not bad, Ronnie...not so much...still want to see them this year, the music lives on!!
fjmelt1 2 years ago
Hello this is on cd, there have been multiple cd releases of this album, which does not have one bad song on it Midnight Man, Stranger bad ass songs for sure they were from Kansas City
earthcity1 2 years ago
This Entire Album rocked. Thank God I was able to get it burned to disc?
erikcartmenez 2 years ago
Man oh man, what a killer song. I was digging the music back then. Heard/recorded this on a 'midnight album' show on WQWK in State College, Pa., after hearing the tape, had to buy it!!! Ahhh, the 70's, when a record was $5.00 lol
Thank you
dougeroonie 2 years ago
I remember this one! great song! it got airplay in St Paul-Minneapolis area quite a bit..
Sounds like a song Triumph would have done.
Jam in the middle does sound like Kansas
miss those early rock days.
when these guys, April Wine, Thin Lizzy and more were on the radio , Peace 2 everybody!
CoupDeSoylentRotary 2 years ago
I lived in the Cities then too. Funny, I thought radio in MSP sucked at the time. Who knew how much worse it would get?
mesmursur 2 years ago
HA, too weird, Yet another Detroiter here... who loves this song.
fizzazzle 2 years ago
One of the most underated classic rock songs of all time! Thanks for posting :-D
musclemercury71 2 years ago 2
GREAT POST!
ssweeps1 2 years ago 2
ELO ON STEROIDS!
ssweeps1 2 years ago
Holy shit I forgot about this gem of great tune. I rocked this shit in highschool circa 1982 on my drum set daily!!
Love it man! Miss good songs like this though :(
volontewilliams 2 years ago 3
(Still) Detroiter here, remember this on WRIF and WLLZ...
oingofan 2 years ago
Detroit radio played it alot, finally found the tunes, been looking forever, thanks for posting
robthedrmr 2 years ago
Yes Detroit radio and thier listeners LOVED Shooting Star!
zimbalatti 2 years ago
the 80's version of kansas... but the singer reminds me of something of a canadian band. this song brings it all back to me... last chance.
edwardprzydzial 2 years ago
saw these guys live in Mt. Clemens Mi. a few years back for a reunion tour freaking rocked good time !!
1968buickgs 2 years ago
I absolutely love the drums in this song.
Actually love the whole song but the drums jack me up!
cdickenson64 2 years ago
WOW forgot about this tune. Great one!
EllipticalSound 2 years ago
fuk me I luv this song...
mesmursur 2 years ago
im born and raised in kc and they are comin back here later this month with foghat and bad company i think... this will be the 5th time ive seen shooting star live
udontknowjeff 2 years ago
Originally from KC area myself. Saw them at Memorial Hall and some other local arenas. Always put on a great show. Hard to believe it's been that long ago. Harder to believe they didn't make it MUCH bigger than they did.
stevemize1126 2 years ago
The best song ive heard
TheSoccer109 2 years ago 2
Awesome ... tremendous memories. Thanks Gary
greatpower20 2 years ago 2
Havn't heard this song since I lived in Kansas; X'cellent transitions- brings back the old memories (Way back in the day's of KY-102)
coloradorockscars 2 years ago
Speaking of Kansas, I always thought that these guys sounded a lot like Kansas. Great band, truly a Shooting Star.
glaridis 2 years ago 9
@glaridis
They were always somewhat annoyed by the Kansas comparison. I can remember Gary saying, back in the day, that he understood people saying that because both bands had violinists, but other than that he didn't think they sounded that much alike. Except for this song, these guys were more of a straight ahead rock band than Kansas. And lyrically, they're not really similar at all.
They toured with Kansas briefly on the VINYL CONFESSIONS tour, but it didn't work out too well IIRC.
Ken5244 1 year ago