Oh! Just saw that the violinist member of group, 'Kansas,' Robby Steinhardt died last Saturday

[hlthe2b]

Acute Septic Pancreatitis. Damn! (if someone posted about this, I missed it)

I remember bumping into him at a Hummel gift shop in Munich many many years ago. It was a pretty amusing story because I don't think at the time he'd ever traveled much outside the US and was pretty clueless in a very endearing way--even to my sister and me, mere kids at the time.

RIP,

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1018319039/kansas-member-robby-steinhardt-dies

[brewens]

1. Sad to hear. I only saw Kansas a few years after he retired. When they were huge, they came

around, but I wasn't old enough to go just yet.

[paleotn]

2. Damn.

[ms liberty]

3. Yes, he lived in Tampa, so I saw it on my TnC fb page. When he moved there he lived in

The area known as Town n Country, which is where I grew up. I don't know if he moved to a different neighborhood later, but I heard he had stayed in Tampa.
I love prog rock, so this is sad. Kansas made some great music.

[Earth-shine]

4. Certainly one of my favorite bands of all time ...

that is, any of their music that's not overtly Christian rock.

They recently played in my area (South Florida) as a very remade seven-member band, with only two of the original members. I didn't go. It's too much like a cover band playing that old music I love.

Rest in peace, Robby Steinhardt, original Kansas violinist.

[abqtommy]

5. I saw Kansas in concert in San Diego in 1977. It was Loud. It was Good. I had several of their

albums. RIP Robby.