Sunday, August 3, 2025
Time: 8:35 A.M.
Song: The Pinnacle
Artist: Kansas
Mode of Consumption: Playing on the radio on the way to church.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6uA4KaAuM9sCYDL7Jr8J?si=b971d76d2bcc44f4
“I’m trying to decide
who this is.” I tell Jodi. The song had been playing for a few minutes already,
and I recognized the vocals, but couldn’t quite place them. It had to be 70s
progressive rock.
“I know, and you can’t
check it on this channel,” Jodi said. There is a feature on her truck radio
with certain stations where you can check what song is playing. Jodi also
quipped that the host must have needed go to the bathroom because of the length
of the song.
“Sounds a little
like Styx maybe,” I said.
“Maybe, I don’t
know.”
“It’s that sort of era.
Maybe Emerson, Lake & Palmer, or Yes.”
“Yeah, maybe
Emerson, Lake & Palmer.”
“Well, Marty at the
Mike will tell us.”
Marty at the Mike is
the host on WLLT on Sunday mornings. We listen to him quite often, and he
usually plays classic rock a little off the beaten path. When the song finally
ended, he came on.
His first message was
that if you were trying to reach him on the house phone, he couldn’t answer
that while in the studio. You had to call him on his direct line, and he’d give
that out soon.
Then he starts talking
about the song, giving the album and the song title, but not the band. Jodi and
I look at each other but think he’s going to pull the old trick of not actually
naming the band.
Then he gives it:
Kansas.
That makes sense.
“Is Kansas from
Kansas?”
I think about it. I
should know but can’t remember.
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