Kansas / "Portrait (He Knew)" collaboration

Kansas / Portrait (He Knew) - a virtual collaboration of the song taken from the 1977 Point of Know Return album. Kerry Livgren of Kansas was so fascinated with Albert Einstein that he wrote this song about him. "You know, that was one of my personal goals in songwriting - was to make people use their brain cells." - Kerry Livgren

Al Herda- vocals/audio edit http://www.youtube.com/wishpoolvocal (USA)
Matt Teepe - drums/video edit http://www.youtube.com/weazeravalon (USA)
Jorge - violin http://www.youtube.com/jogviolin (Spain)
Pat Ryan- guitars, backup vocals http://www.youtube.com/versevisa (USA)
Richie - keyboards http://www.youtube.com/rushyeskansas (Brazil)
Ron Hall- bass http://www.youtube.com/tinman3012 (USA)

Video images contributed by Jon (MetalGuruMessiah)

He was in search of an answer
The nature of what we are
He was trying to do it a new way
He was bright as a star
But nobody understood him
His numbers are not the way (lyrics from Portrait)

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Music

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• Kansas
• Portrait
• collaboration
• tinman3012
• versevisa
• jogviolin
• wishpoolvocal
• rushyeskansas
• weazeravalon
• Kerry
• Livgren
• Albert
• Einstein

[ohwhynotsing]

Nicely done! Covered this vocally... it's a killer. You make it sound easy. Kudos to all. Excellent musicianship.

[tinman3012]

@ohwhynotsing Thanks for your nice comments. We all appreciate it!

[sistermoonshine13]

This is EXCELLENT!!! Nice line up. YOU are all FANTASTIC!!! Straight to Favs:)))

[tinman3012]

@sistermoonshine13 Thanks for your comment Sis. All the guys appreciate it!

[jogviolin]

Hey Ron, as always, it was an honor to play with you & the rest of this wonderful crew, looking forward for the next one buddy!!

[tinman3012]

@jogviolin My sentiments exactly Jorge.  It's fun to see how these things ultimately turn out. Take care buddy!

[tinman3012]

@SteveBDrums Thank you Steve. A great bunch of guys to work with, and Al and Matt made this one look and sound good. Happy New Year to you too!

[SteveBDrums]

WOW! Flawless vocals and instrumental work. Loved the video. Can't say enough about this excellent mix!!! - my Sony cans came alive. You fellas are outstanding. Cheers and Happy New to all! :)

[Donn713]

@tinman3012 Sorry for the slow response to your comment on my last vid. I REALLY appreciate it too. That was so much fun to do and I'm just happy to have a video with Zoltar and company on my YT resume...I managed to play Point Of Know Return with Richie but I would be hard pressed to play this song.

With all the recent holiday madness and such I've been kinda lame about writing proper thank you notes. Rock on my friend!!!

Happy 2012 my friend,

Donn

[tinman3012]

@Donn713 Thanks man. I really appreciate you taking the time to listen. Your last vid was over the top crazy good.