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Flash In Public

The cover of the CD gives it away "Flash featuring Peter Banks". These recordings do showcase a super tight band which has benefited from months on the road. However, without Tony Kaye on the first album cuts, more than ever the level of the music rises and rises a bit more as a result of Peter's performance. He is absolutely wired and nails all the difficult passages and runs on Small Beginnings. But the live performance also has some thing of the mad abandon of Hendrix you can almost hear him thinking "ah that's what I will do next" and away he goes but there are also moments of calm where his playing and sound are exquisite. So we get high energy performances of the material from their first two albums benefitting from the sometimes naughty, some times humorous, close to the edge playing that we all loved in Peter when we saw him play live. The sound is very live and raw in the right way, a kind of punk progressive vibe. The music making is intell