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PHIL: We don't watch the show, but we're very excited that the fans like our music.

PHIL: Every chance we get.

RICH: Who is the coolest band to tour with? Kansas! hahaha!

PHIL: Love those Kansas guys, they're great to tour with...

RICH: MY favorite is touring with us. But touring with someone else, gosh...

PHIL: It's kind of a stale answer, but Queen?

RICH: Queen probably was the coolest.

PHIL: I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.

RICH: And I can't imagine any other conversation that was more exciting than "we're going on tour with blank"...

PHIL: We can't really share that one - na...

RICH: Nude from the waist down - haha!

PHIL: Our pre-show routine is probably like most bands, we all get in the same room together to warm up and practice. It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.

PHIL: Nudestock. Would've been... ?

RICH: 15, 18 years ago maybe?

PHIL: 1995, 1996?

RICH: Yeah, somewhere in there.

PHIL: We played for a nudist colony with about 2000 naked people watching us play. At the time, when we pulled up to the concert, we were not aware that the audience was going to be 100% butt naked. Foreigner was playing there, Alan Parsons project was playing, and also Kansas...and it was weird. Very weird. To see the front row sitting in lawn chairs, buck naked, wearing black socks and sandals.

RICH: Your anticipation of it was one thing.

But in reality, it was like walking into a Piggly Wiggly and suddenly -everybody was naked.