At the height of their popularity, Kansas released their first live album, the double album "Two For The Show", which followed their masterpiece "Point Of Know Return" from the previous year. Therefore, everything included here comes from the tour following that album. The tracks selected here were recorded at The Palladium in New York, the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Michigan, and the Merriweather Pavilion in Maryland between mid-1977 and early 1978, and the album was released near the end of that same year.
In this superb live recording, Kansas showcases their full instrumental brilliance, with a progressive rock sound, somewhat grandiose, inherited from British symphonic rock groups, fused with elements of American rock such as blues, country, and even bluegrass. With a powerful rhythm section consisting of drummer Phil Ehart and bassist Dave Hope, two tremendous guitarists, Rich Williams and Kerry Livgren, violinist and singer Robby Steinhardt and vocalist and keyboardist Steve Walsh, the group unfolds the best of its repertoire, reviewing not only the aforementioned album "Point Of Know Return" but also its four previous albums "Kansas", "Song For America", "Masque" and "Leftoverture". From the enormous and magnificent suite “Magnus Opus”, where each band member has their moment to shine instrumentally, to their biggest commercial hits like “Carry On Wayward Son”, “Dust In The Wind”, “Point Of Know Return”, and “Song For America”, and including the epic and progressive “Excerpt From Lamplight Symphony”, “Incomudro-Hymn To The Atman”, and “Mysteries And Mayhem”, or the superb rock tracks “The Wall”, “Icarus-Bone On Wings Of Steel”, and “Closet Chronicles”, Kansas demonstrates why they were considered the greatest American progressive rock band of all time. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, this double album achieved immediate success, going platinum and selling well over two million copies worldwide.
