Kansas Interview: Ronnie Platt on Winning the Lottery Three Times in a Row

Before Ronnie Platt ever sang a note for Kansas, his first bar band was named Lazy, after the Deep Purple song. Now he's fronting Kansas on a bill with Deep Purple at Place Bell on August 17th. You can't write this stuff. In this interview, Ronnie shares: Growing up in a musical family outside Chicago, and how a confiscated guitar started everything The radio era when Deep Purple and the Jackson 5 played back to back Winning the lottery three times: joining Kansas, singing on a studio album, and writing lyrics on The Prelude Implicit and The Absence of Presence The moment his doctor said "you're a six," and the one-in-a-million coincidence that got him to the right surgeon Being back on stage one month to the day after cancer surgery The current lineup he calls the all-star team of rock and roll Why he never gets tired of singing Carry On Wayward Son