Flash In Public

One of the originators of the genre and one of the few progressive rock bands to make Billboards Top 40 with their high-powered first single, Small Beginnings. FLASH was born in the musically prolific London scene of the 70's, a Yes spin-off formed by original Yes guitarist, Peter Banks, Yes drummer Bill Bruford's former Breed Blues Band mate, Ray... Bennett, former Camel lead singer, Colin Carter, and drummer Mike Hough. The band recorded three notable studio albums on Capitol Records and toured the world before disbanding. Their music has been reissued numerous times over the years and included on many compilations from the golden era of progrock. After a 40-yr. hiatus, original members Bennettformer bassist/singer/songwriter, now on lead guitarand lead singer/songwriter, Carter, relaunched FLASH at the International Baja Prog Festival in Mexico and the International ProgDay Festival in North Carolina, culminating in the well-received 2013 studio release, Flash featuring Ray Bennett & Colin Carter on Cleopatra Records. Flash - Current Bio & Discography: In the early 2000's, spread out across the globe, all four original band members made contact and conversation eventually turned to talk of a reunion. In the summer of 2004 Leonardo Pavkovic of Moonjune Records asked Flash to perform at The Baja International ProgRock Festival in Mexico. Banks and Hough failed to commit to the offer and later withdrew completely from the reunion, but Flash songwriters Bennett (now on lead guitar) and Carter decided to carry on. They initially launched The Bennett/Carter Banda loose format jam band with a varying cast of playerswith both Bennett and Carter playing guitar, sharing lead vocals and exercising their trademark vocal harmony on Flash songs, new originals, and covers. In addition to a full schedule with the jam band, Bennett and Carter agreed to perform at the Baja Festival in the spring of '05, playing the classic Flash repertoire as a duo. 2010 With a new international line-up and headquartered in Las Vegas, Bennett ...Read More