Flash (Flash album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Flash

| type = studio

| artist = Flash

| cover = File:Flash_Flash1972.jpg

| alt =

| released = February 1972

| recorded = 8–21 November 1971

| venue =

| studio = De Lane Lea Studios, London

| genre = Progressive rock

| length = 41:35

| label = Sovereign

| producer = Derek Lawrence{{Cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/flash-mw0000623691 |title=Flash - Flash (1972) album review by Bruce Eder, credits & releases at AllMusic |access-date=20 July 2017 |archive-date=26 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726191401/http://www.allmusic.com/album/flash-mw0000623691 |url-status=live }}

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = In the Can

| next_year = 1972

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = C−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: F|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=F&bk=70|accessdate=February 26, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|archive-date=25 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525103231/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=F&bk=70|url-status=live}}

}}

Flash is the self-titled debut studio album by British band Flash, released in February 1972 by Sovereign Records.

Background

Guitarist Peter Banks played with several bands before forming Flash, including The Nighthawks in 1963, The Devil's Disciples in 1964, The Syndicats in 1965 and then The Syn with Chris Squire on bass in 1965. He then joined Mabel Greer's Toyshop which would be the basis of Yes in 1966, again with Chris Squire, but briefly left to join a band called Neat Change and recorded a single, "I Lied to Aunty May"/"Sandman", with Peter Frampton playing guitar on side A while Banks played on side B. He then rejoined Mabel Greer's Toyshop, who became Yes. He left them after their second album, Time and a Word in 1970 to form Flash. Their bassist Ray Bennett played with another band prior to Flash called The Breed which included Bill Bruford on drums.

Reissue

A remastered version was issued in the US in 2003. Curiously, it was coupled with their third album "Out Of Our Hands". There appears to be no CD release to date of the band's second album, In the Can.

Track listing

{{Tracklist

|headline=Side one

|title1=Small Beginnings

|writer1=Peter Banks, Colin Carter

|length1=9:23

|title2=Morning Haze

|writer2=Ray Bennett

|length2=4:32

|title3=Children of the Universe

|writer3=Bennett

|length3=8:55

}}

{{Tracklist

|headline=Side two

|title4=Dreams of Heaven

|writer4=Banks, Carter

|length4=12:57

|title5=The Time It Takes

|writer5=Banks, Carter

|length5=5:48

}}

Personnel

Flash{{Cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Flash-Flash/release/2035218 |title=Flash - Flash (1972) album releases & credits at Discogs.com |access-date=4 July 2017 |archive-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809175241/https://www.discogs.com/Flash-Flash/release/2035218 |url-status=live }}

Additional personnel

Production

References

{{Reflist}}

  • Peter Banks - Bands Archives : http://www.peterbanks.net/archive/bands/