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Vinyl Confessions is the eighth studio album, and ninth album overall, by American rock band Kansas, released in 1982. Vinyl Confessions was a major turning point for the band. After the conversion of both guitarist/keyboard player Kerry Livgren and bass player Dave Hope to born again Christianity, and the greater focus that Livgren placed on Christianity in his lyrics, lead singer Steve Walsh became disenchanted with the direction that Kansas was taking and left to form his own band, Streets. Walsh also contributed much as a songwriter, so the band was forced to find a new lead singer who could not only blend well with the band's style of music, but provide new material for the upcoming album. After a long audition process, the choice came down to three strong candidates: Warren Ham, Michael Gleason and John Elefante. The band eventually settled on Elefante, and during the phone conversation in which he was offered the job, Livgren discovered that Elefante, too, was a Christian. (In fact, so were Ham and Gleason, who would also join Kansas on their next two tours, but in supportive roles.) The Christian connections didn't end there--one of the co-writers of the band's lead single, "Play the Game Tonight," Rob Frazier, was just starting his long career as a Contemporary Christian music, or CCM, performer. All these Christians together had a significant impact on the lyrical direction of the album. "Fair Exchange" described the world under the rule of the Anti-Christ, while
