This is a Mike Solof guest post. Kansas are best known for their songs from earlier in the 1970s, like "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry On Wayward Son." But Mike believes the band's 1979 album "Monolith" is very underrated. It turns out there's really only one bootleg recording of the tour promoting Monolith with soundboard quality. But while the sound quality was fundamentally good, there were issues. For instance, it was in stereo, but there was very little separation. Mike went to great lengths to improve the sound quality still further, running each song through the MVSEP program nine times or more, to separate out each of the instruments and then put them together with better stereo separation. He also stripped out all of the crowd noise, so one can better hear the band's instrumentation without crowd noise getting in the way.
As usual, there are more details in the PDF file Mike wrote that's included in the download zip. But if you like Kansas, this could be their ultimate live album from the end of their prime era.
This album is hour and 23 minutes long.
01 Intro (Kansas)
02 On the Other Side (Kansas)
03 People of the Southwind (Kansas)
04 Away from You (Kansas)
05 talk (Kansas)
06 Point of Know Return (Kansas)
07 Closet Chronicles (Kansas)
08 The Wall (Kansas)
09 Reason to Be (Kansas)
10 Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
11 Angels Have Fallen (Kansas)
12 Opus Insert (Kansas)
13 Stay Out of Trouble (Kansas)
14 The Spider [Instrumental] (Kansas)
15 Portrait [He Knew] (Kansas)
16 A Glimpse of Home (Kansas)
17 How My Soul Cries Out for You (Kansas)
18 talk (Kansas)
19 Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/HDWyJ3Hd
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/XteNaMyxGhpOgNR/file
The cover photo is the front design from a T-shirt sold during the band's 1979 tour. I added some text at the bottom.

I agree with Mike, Monolith is a great album. It was also the last studio album that I enjoy from the band. I have a couple of boots from this tour and their both of poor sound quality. Thanks to Mike for his hard work and thanks for posting this rare gem!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, what is Mike's blog?
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