Added: 3 years ago
From: ArizonaBasement
Views: 77,402
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:

All Comments (142)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • I think this song is about the kansa indians people of the south wind. I am 1/8th kansa

  • I remember I used to see this on MTV all the time, and when Steve Walsh Left and John Elefante came in - MTV had TONS of footage including them in the recording studio, because I remember Phil Ehart was playing an all Rototom kit in a large tiled bathroom and it sounded absolutely HUGE. (that was during the recording of "Drastic Measures".) But I wish all of that material was available to us just because I would love to be able to see it as an adult.

  • love the song, but not the outfit of Steve Walsh, what was he thinkin...

  • @olhobbler short shorts were in...

  • @olhobbler He had a Soccer game right after this performance..

  • @delano62 Lol

  • @olhobbler Brings back the memories though, doesn't it?

  • kool song!!!!

  • Man I love the driving beat aand the positive message of mans inhumainity tio the world and himmself

  • This music wll live forever!

  • As somebody said earlier; "Nuthuggers, Kneepads, and killer vocals. Steve Walsh rocks!"

  • dont think its live....i believe that is Steve Walshs voice singing harmony in the chorus...

  • UNSUNG CLASSIC FROM A BRILLIANT PROG ROCK BAND!

  • It's not a bad song but the album over all just wasn't there...

  • I'm sorry but this has a Disco bassline... this was when Kansas started to lose it folks....

  • @ogrebattle22763 I loved this song as a kid in the 70's and still do. I was listening to it this morning and I was like HEY, this sounds like I could get my Saturday Night Fever on to this!

  • @ogrebattle22763

    Dude, it's just music. Disco? Well, I'd rather have the Bee Gees than anything that is playing these days. So much much for disco hatred. In the end its all music, and how it is that stuff now sucks compared to stuff back then.

  • @jkoruty Dude if you like it then good for you knock yourself out... I didn't like this album the song is just ok & yes it has a disco bassline.... I saw Kansas at their best "The Point Of No Return Tour" after that Tour it was all down hill from there with Kansas...

  • @jkoruty I do agree alot of music & bands suck these days... I am a huge Tool fan though & they do not suck...

  • monolith, great album great tour!!!

  • @F5FTiger It's a music video, they aren't playing live, even though it is suppose to look like they are.

  • @argonnj ..if thats not live, its faked pretty well, it really sounds too studio perfect to me

  • Should be the state's anthem!

  • Kansas is so tight...they make playing music look totally effortless...Kerry just switches to/from keyboards to/from guitar as if he's playing them both at the same time.

  • @TheEricinSF Umm, this is not really a performance video. 

  • I saw them in Bayamon (Loubriel stadium in 1981) right on the baseball field!!!

  • I was lucky to saw the in Puerto Rico on 1979 (Monolyth tour) then on 1989 also in PR In The Spirt of Things Tour, again 1998 at Hard Rock Cafe PR and again in 2005 in Arena Pier 10 in PR... Great Performances but the one I treasure the most is 1979 I was 12 years old and was my first concert...

  • LOVE!!

    

  • I saw them on this tour (Monolyth) in '79. They played the album in its entirety. Good show. It was a pretty good album compared to the rest of the crap that was released in '79 at that point (My Sharona comes to mind...). And now mostly forgotten,

  • Steve had one of the best voices in rock back in the day.

  • going to sleep with this and Rush in my ears, the life

  • Solid tune. Brings back some ol 70's nostalgia. Even those tacky gym shorts. lol

  • My brothers influenced me to start listening to Kansas. But Monlolith was never on their playlist. It's a forgotten album in my family.

  • Walsh's voice was at it's prime here, and sadly it's gone forever. Still great memories and thanks for the post.

  • cool tune

  • Brilliant song

  • @leonakita fail troll

  • @rosepetal108 AHAHAHAH..TRUTH HURTS, HUH?

  • @leonakita still trying to troll? Wow

    I thought trolls were smart enough to know when they get found out.

  • @rosepetal108 hahah ...u said 'troll'... what r u ...5 ?

  • @leonakita jesus man give it a rest. these nice peole just want to listen to some kansas

  • @leonakita These were the days when talent, not just good looks got you a recording contract. These guys were brilliant songwriters and musicians, so Im sorry they arent pretty enough for you. Get off here and go watch a Justin Bieber video.

  • @jstein787 huh?...i didnt say they didnt have talent.... just said they dressed like goons !

  • Thanks for posting!! Good ole days!!

  • When I saw them in concert at the coliseum in Cleveland, Stevie did handstands on the keyboards! This band had such an impession on me...I still remeber they were occassionally in my dreams. It impressed me that John Elefante's voice was so close to Steve's...not as good but a better fit than Hagar to Roth...Come on guys...do a reunion...even if you have to bring your walkers.

  • there nothing like the orignal kansas

  • Great tune.."Monolith"

  • Isn't it amazing what amazing musicianship and passion about the music can accomplish. Great song by a group peforming at the top of its form.

  • Awesome! The US contribution to the Prog-Rock era just rocks!!!

  • Quite possibly one of Kansas's most underappreciated prog/pop/rock songs. Great song to jog to

  • Great Three - composer (Livgren), singer (Walsh) and violinist (Steinhardt)

  • The best kind of rock music. Just perfect.

  • this is buy favorite album! Its so unique and its too bad it didn't sell as good as it did.IF YOU DONT HAVE THIS ALBUM, BUY IT! GO ON EBAY AND BUY IT FROM BARGIN BIN CDS! THEY SELL THIS ALBUM FOR $5.45! BRAND NEW!

  • This was one of my favorite bands in high school and early years in college. They never did get all the credit they deserved.

  • of all the songs to have stuck in one's head..

  • Best my cd of Kansas M.A.J Czech Republic

  • ONE dumbass has viewed this prior to my comment.

  • Unfortunately, the days of bands like Kansas ruling the airwaves are long gone. I once read somewhere (maybe the booklet in the Kansas box set) that Kansas prided themselves on not being a pretty band. The irony is that some labeled bands like Kansas as corporate rock. The popular music today is corporate pop. It is all about looks, video, packaging, marketing, etc.. It is nice to see incarnations of bands like Kansas touring. But the chances of there ever being more bands like them is slim.

  • @Jefgg Very well put... The 70's are long gone... I'd be a liar if I said that there aren't any good bands out there as we speak for instance I am a huge Tool fan etc... but I agree in general the majority of good bands out there are few & far between... music was ruined by the likes of MTV etc... & it hasn't recovered since...

  • long johns and short shorts only walsh could pull it off!!!lol great voice but those shorts gotta go steve!!.hew wore those shorts alot in the 80's.

  • kansas, foreigner, boston, styx---we had it MADE back then!!

  • @bunkieb00 Queen,Ted Nugent,Aerosmith and Black Sabbath-we sure did!

  • great catchy tune 

  • Kansas never got their true credit as one of the best prog rock bands of the 70's because there were so many others that got more airplay. They were so talented and so 'tight', almost making it look effortless on songs like this one.

  • Got to love when Steve Walsh wore knee high white athletic socks that had two red stripes at the top.......!

  • Amazing song....great vocal, great guitar work!

  • Both Steve and Kerry's keyboard rigs include Yamaha CP70 acoustic/electric grand pianos, although on Kerry's side an ARP Quadra is seen. Could anyone here please spot the various synthesizers Steve and Kerry are playing?

  • Having lived in Kansas when this song came out was pretty cool. I grew up in Wichita and it was always pretty cool when they came back to have a concert even though they were from the Topeka area, we still loved the shows! Too bad that Kerry, Steve and Robby couldn't all get along. They are really what made Kansas. Sorry John E. But they produced a sound that was unlike anything in the music scene which was hard to do back then.

  • well.. was thinking while listening one more time to the song... the answer is: no, we won't get anything like this ever again.. too bad . This said.. I believe I'm gonna play that video again.. hehehe thanks for posting .. :)

  • first real rock band I listened to.. could have been worse , eh? :)

  • HOLY CRAP!!! ACTUAL MUSICIANS!!!

  • awesome !!!

  • The GREAT old daze.

  • good ol days....kool songs.....great kansas song....i miss these days!!!!

  • Steve Walse has the cleanish pipes ever, I love this song!!!

  • @ArizonaBasement Who is that guy at 03:03, is he part of the band? ;-)

  • @sweetredredwine Yep...part of the band...Robbie Steinhardt.. violin player...he was also the onstage spokesman.

  • what a great 8-track - cruising around in a convertible with this tape blasting :-)

  • Simply the best song they ever did. There, someone had to say it.

  • @HalRoach I have to agree. Their best among many great ones! It should have charted higher.

  • One of the most talented and interesting bands i ever heard, i wish those times come back again!

  • God bless the members of Kansas that aren't christian.

  • Hit #23 in Billboard. God bless Kerry and the other Christian members!

  • @DaveWollenberg I don't think you have that power. Get over your ego.

  • i dont like this stupid shorts of steve

  • uhull

  • This stands up to any other Kansas song which is saying alot. Excellent taste Arizona.  Thanks!

  • I'm so sad because i wasn't a teenager in the 70's! :(

  • nostalgic, Kansas is simply awesome the talent's overflowing

  • Killer guitar solo!!!!!!!!!

  • The great line up! Kerry and Robby.

    Steve's in top form here too!

  • In the early 90's, Kansas performed at Fall River Celebrates America. They played all their classic songs except for this one. How come?

  • Fall River Mass?

  • Yes.

  • Kansas is the name of a native tribe that lived in and around what is now the state of Kansas.

    The meaning of the word " Kansas" is explained in the song. Love it. Being born in Kansas makes the song very insiteful, and meaningful.

  • at the time monolith came out the critics hammered it. i thought it was good but not their best. if i remember right, it was the last album steve walsh played on to pursue solo stuff, then rejoined the group later, for the power cd. seen them live 6 times, all with walsh, wouldnt have it any other way,, the man can sing!

  • The next one after Monolith, Audio Visions was the last album with Steve on vocals.

  • That's a really good album.

  • I've seen this video a few times on VH1 Classic but I don't think i have seen it on MTV but then again who has seen a music video pre-2008 on MTV lately? If so, THAT was a mistake on their part!! LOL

  • I love the band, I love the song, I've been listening to them since before this song even came out, but those shorts dude is wearing look totally gay! lol

  • what a great song from a great band!!!

  • Was this video ever shown on MTV. I know it was a top 30 hit. It always seems like the average only seems to recall Carry on wayward Son,Dust in the Wind.

  • This post is fantastic....such a great song!

  • I think Monolith was my favorite overall Kansas Album. Still sounds great hearing it this many years later.

  • Too Kool in 1979

  • Thanks for posting all the Kansas videos. I was in high school in Topeka (KS) when this was out. Nothing better than hearing POTSW in Kansas. I know, corny. I miss the days when musical talent was respected and enjoyed. My cuz went to HS with a couple of the guys at Topeka West around '71.

  • Great talent , great tunes , will we ever see this again? What a sad musical world

  • @gravano2 will we ever see this again? Maybe, if we can still remember all the things that we used to do - and all the things we didn't do because we knew better than to do them! Well, it's a hard thing to face the music. So far, it's not the proper solution 'cause it's all about the same to me. Oh I wish that I could be ...

  • @gravano2 ..we won't see this again I'm afraid .. good they did it , eh? :)

  • @loranalary Yes , but it would be nice to hear something new and exiting.I used to live for music

  • @gravano2 there's still good stuff around .. but well, you don't see them on tv, good thing we have the internet... :)

  • @loranalary I know , but i'm used to radio play , how do you know now

  • @gravano2 well.. I don't listen to radio.. too much advertising in any ways,, :)

  • @gravano2 You Would Be Correct. Try some new RUSH maybe

  • @slmdrums Rush music doesn't excite me , I liked them more Tom Sawyer and back , songs are not catchy

  • @gravano2 I couldn't agree more. We need this group, as well as Pink Floyd and Genesis to cleanse our society, our world, and our universe.

  • @timepoet77 Yes , but music is going in the wrong direction

  • @gravano2 Yeah, you're right on that, too, my friend. Start cleansing our music and the rest will follow.

  • @timepoet77 Tell that to the music industry , it is like McDonald's Restaurant , get them in - get them out

  • What an incredibly tight band with all the elements they have. I've been a fan since 1976. The first time I stepped on a dance floor was when Carry on My Wayward Son was played. Great song, impossible to dance to, but one of my all-time favorites. I just saw Kansas at Four Bears Casino in ND last year, they sounded great.

  • walsh rules but his short shorts are too much for me whats with the weird clothes?

  • What you wore or how you looked really didn't matter at that time. It was all about the music back then. Now days, it's all about image and less about the music - mostly because of the invent of MTV.

  • While living in Manhattan, Kansas, I was in a band we were looking to upgrade our system. The bass player and myself went to a store in Topeka called Steam music, we were waited on by none other then Kerry Livgren. We had seen him in a band called "Cottonwood". Later the bands name was changed to "Kansas", this was sometime back in the early 70's. By the way, the Manhattan I refered to is Manhattan, Kansas

  • This song has a double meaning, the name Kansas means "People of the south wind".

  • Awesome, beautiful, song!!!!! I forgive the soccer shorts.

  • the end of the 70's marked the end of the greatests era of rock, the drive to total commercialization was already underway, and in a few short years we were being assaulted by tiffany and madonna... although kansas may have been moving away from their more progressive roots it was still great music.. especially in light of where we find the music industry today

  • I assume you meant this as satire.

  • I must agree, this must be in jest. The hilarity of the statement could not be achieved without effort...

  • If you don't like this song and all the great Kansas music after it, you don't know anything about good music.

  • That was an answer on prfa's comment ;-)

  • Brilliant, one of the best rock songs ever made.

  • my favorite kansas tune. haven't heard it since i played it on my radio show years ago. the drums are cool. but those outfits are more scary than spandex

  • Great underrated hit from KS -- "Top 40" stuff summer buddy and I were earning college $ painting around CT back in 79. Liked it then, maybe even more now. Have to marvel at Steve Walsh's outfit -- definitely late 70's!Looks like he's hitting a pick up soccer game after the concert. Kerry Livgren: amazing -- handling guitar and keyboard at the same time. No wonder, after coming to Jesus, he went on to find AD, the greatest (and most criminally underappreciated) Christian rock group ever.

  • Jeff DJ Arizona Basement ROCKS !

    Drop a video JW. I like "144" Better : )

    Robby news at Southwind - w POTSW o--r--g

  • fantastic song. in this video Steve's voice is even better than i ever heard it.

  • This is my favorite lineup of musicians in Kansas.

Loading...
Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more