LIVE: DUST IN THE WIND

I bought this cheap, discount bargain bin CD because I wanted desperately and couldn't find the album that was effectively responsible for getting me into progressive rock: Live at the Whiskey, which I had borrowed from a friend and unfortunately had to return. The fact that the magnificent "Miracles Out of Nowhere" was on this disc was good enough for me at the time. That said, this is not an album one needs to try to obtain if one can acquire the actual album this compilation was taken from, a product many consider inferior for many reasons. Unfortunately, the tracks are out of order, and a few of them are missing, not the least of which is the powerful, heavy metal version of "Mysteries and Mayhem." Due to the performance and the set list itself, which I find full of fire and spunk even if Steve Walsh was loaded off his ass, I can't give this the lowest rating- there's a lot of fantastic music here, even if some greedy corporation got a hold of it, made it worse than it was, and offered no liner notes or anything additional. Get it if it is cheap, Live at the Whiskey is unavailable, and Kansas is of interest- otherwise, pass it by.