After 40 years KANSAS is anything but dust in the wind

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After 40 years BY HOLLY THORPE World staff writer Some of you remember listening to them when your hair was down to your butt and all the coolest bands were named after places in the U.S. Some of you only know them from your parents’ record collections. It’s no secret that they’ve been around a while — 40 years to be exact. Kansas, a classic rock band that gained national recognition in the ’70s and ’80s, is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year with a nation-wide tour, including a show in Wenatchee. Kansas and four other bands, will play Friday at the Town Toyota Center’s Summer Ale Fest. This is a band with eight gold albums, three sextuple-platinum albums, one platinum live album and a

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million-selling gold single. So what brought them here? “We were invited,” said Richard Williams, long-time guitarist for the band. “We manage ourselves, we have for the last 27 years. We pick and choose what we do.” Williams and drummer Phil Ehart have been with the band all 40 years; the two even played in a band together in high school. Now, with songs like “Dust in the

Wind” and “Carry On Wayward Son” to their names and their music in video games, movies, and on television, their following is as loyal as ever. “The reason we get to do this is because we have a great fan base who still wants to see us play… we have three generations of families coming to shows,” Williams said. “Staying out in the public eye, performing, is probably the best thing we do in keeping

the name out there. We’re good live, we’re powerful, that’s what matters.” In our interview with Williams, he shared his insight on today’s music industry and his experience in a big-name band during the time when being “The Man” wasn’t a good thing. And because we couldn’t help ourselves, we had to ask: do you ever get sick of playing the same songs? You know which ones we’re talking about. “Not performing them, no. We don’t perform them in rehearsal. Those songs are bigger than we are,” he said, recounting the many times the people he’d run into had known the names of the tracks even if they didn’t know the band. “To play those with any given crowd at any given time, there’s a connection. To play the first note, everyone in the building has a story, how do you ever get tired of that?” But after 40 years it would seem that anything would get boring, even if that Please see KANSAS, Page C2

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This year’s cast includes Parker Smith as Nick Bottom, the weaver; Noah Monson as Francis Flute; Cassie Noyd as Peter Quince; Cheyenne McKee as Robin Starveling; Olivia Noyd as Tom Snout; Samuel Talbot as Snug the joiner; Peyton Smith as Biddy Bantam; Henry Talbot as Theseus; Lara Hefner as Hippolyta; Zach Noyd as Philostrate; Martin Talbot as Egeus; Zoe White as Hermia; Emma Savage as Helena; Mason Atwood as Lysander; Christopher Danko as Demetrius; Oscar Valencia as Oberon; Alyssa Woods as Puck; Kade Devereaux as Little Puck; Jazmine White as Tatania; Abby

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