>>Oh god no! Not Tom Petty! :o) Just kidding. He was a fav of mine back in the day. But then, so was Kansas (there was some great
>>music and talent - its weird how the sound changed as the band members changed)
>>Another great band: Dire Straits
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>Somehow I always missed Kansas when they were touring over here - the closest I was to hearing them live was when I was passing through Stuttgart as part of a job: I stopped when their music was louder than my car... sat about half an H and listened. Another great band from that time was Styx - saw them a couple of years back again and it was a great concert. Supertramp is coming - but I'll probably miss them, but U2 a couple of days back was great, Sting is coming and Simply Red is on their farewell tour...
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I had not heard that about Simply Red. Mick Hucknall has one of the great voices in rock.