Proto Kaw
The early Kansas rock band, featuring Kerry Livgren, that preceded the recording band the world would come to know as Kansas.
http://www.protokaw.com/ |
Zongoo Daily News: The Best of Kerry Livgren
Album review by MuzikMan.
http://www.zongoo.com/article4268.html |
ProgressoR: Album information and reviews
Listing of Kerry Livgren albums with reviews.
http://www.progressor.net/review/kerry_livgren_overall.html |
Dean Guitars: Kerry Livgren
Artist profile of Dean Guitar endorser Kerry Livgren.
http://www.deanguitars.com/kerry.php |
Kerry Livgren's Prodigy Chat
Transcript of Prodigy chat with Kerry Livgren.
http://pages.prodigy.net/dianamorris/kerry.htm |
Progressive Ears: Proto Kaw
Interview with Livgren.
http://www.progressiveears.com/library/proto.asp?bhcp=1 |
Kerry Livgren Page
Fan site with lyrics, album reviews, discography and song samples.
http://users.aol.com/guitarron/kerry/kerry.htm |
UMC: Kerry Livgren, Kansas and The King
Steve Morley's article of Livgren's spiritual journey.
http://www.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=5303 |
Amazon offers
Reconstructions Reconstructed (Audio CD),30 November, 1998
List price $12.99
AD's Reconstructions album "reconstructed" / 4
Being an owner of the original "Reconstructions" LP from 1986, I found this re-release to be a much more enjoyable listening experience, as much of the music is more "fleshed out" in this reconstructed released. This album was done on the heals of the highly recommended "Art of the State" by AD (the best album you've never heard), but unfortunately, this album turned out to be for the most part a two-man project between Kerry Livgren and Michael Gleason, as lead-vocalist and woodwind artist Warren Ham had left the band after the "Art of the State" world tour. Gleason handles all of the vocal duties on this release, including the three additional songs: All in Time (originally recorded during the Reconstructions studio sessions in 1986 but never released until now), Free Fire Zone, and Bright Star (both originally released on the now out-of-print Livgren release "Decade"). Dennis Holt, the drummer for AD, appears on a handful of songs, with the remaining percussion performed, re-done and remixed by Kerry, and Dave Hope plays bass on about half of the songs, with the remainder falling to Kerry. The contrast between the original 1986 released and this reconstructed version is noticeable, with better percussion, drums, and in the case of two songs, new introductions. While the vocals remain untouched, Kerry has re-mastered the album for an overall "tighter" band sound. If you are an AD fan or Kerry Livgren fan, you will want to own this CD. On a sidenote, all of the album art was also "reconstructed" for this release.
Song "The Fury"
Midst waves of mute dejection...crawl upon malicious spines of dull fury...rage
burning in silence sought by my own wretched heart...born from the ruinous passage
of time...the truth of loss hurls its clenched fists at the fragile strands of
abandoned faith...You are the night...come forth in endless rapture...you are the
night...to sheild thy fallen crest...entangled in the scented tresses of their
desireable women...soft graceful eidolons of light -- if only they were more than
fleeting ghosts...apparitions faded by time and dust...stirring in dark fields of
rememberance where tristful scenes of long departed loves are endlessly
portrayed...one must seize each memory with careful hands kept hidden...and like
rare, exotic flowers beheld by none...clutch them tightly to thy disconsolate heart
and remember each one...for this pain shall soon pass...the soulblight's slow
destruction of what is most precious...of what we hold closest to our impassioned
souls...like the vacant sigh of a thousand dying dreams...you are the night...a
tapestry of light...a nihility of shifting emotions...coalesce into patterned,
empty tears...you depart (from me) and I feel nothing.
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Kerry Livgren - a Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
Back in action are AD vocalists Warren Ham and Michael Gleason as well as Jacob
Livgren, Kerry's nephew, who can rock with the best of them. ...
http://www.tollbooth.org/2002/reviews/kerryl.html
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KERRY LIVGREN Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye (DVD) reviews and MP3
KERRY LIVGREN Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye (DVD) reviews and MP3.
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=10243
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Christian Rock / Metal Forum - Firestream.net - Livgren, Kerry ...
Livgren, Kerry "Decade box set" in the Firestream Music Vault ... that are not
in this review site. two of the songs from his first album are sung by Ronnie ...
http://www.firestream.net/fs_rate.php?go=showitem&item_id=3169&cat_id=1377
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