I've been a big Kansas fan since late high school when my brother introduced me to the band. It was the soundtrack of my freshman year of college. So when I saw they were coming to the Astro, I decided to go. I bought my tickets fairly late because I wasn't sure we would be home from the Wife's Camino in time to go. I ended up buying my ticket in a restaurant at the Chicago airport. The concert was four days after our return from the Camino.
I'd seen Kansas before during one of Omaha's free
Memorial Park concerts with Styx and Foreigner back in 2010.
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| 38 Special opened for Kansas. |
The warm-up was
38 Special. I'm only familiar with a handful of their songs, and I like maybe one or two of those. Their performance was fine, but I wasn't that impressed. They then went on to have two encores, which seemed a little silly to me.
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| Kansas performing. Not enough in my opinion. |
Kansas came out and did a pretty good set. I prefer early, '70s Kansas. The set had a mix of old and newer ('80s) songs. I think I enjoyed their set in 2010 better than this one. The set also felt short. They had one encore with one song. 38 Special felt too long; Kansas felt too short.
I enjoyed the concert but I have to give it a B-. It's their fiftieth anniversary, and there is only one original member left in the band, so it was too much to expect that they would be as good as before. Heck, how few original members do you need before a band becomes a tribute band? I don't have the answer to that question.
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