Track Listing

1. Trapped - Elkie Brooks
2. I'm Flash - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper
3. Country Cooking - Jim Dandy
4. What's Happening - James Dewar
5. Space Pirates - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper
6. Sacrifice - Elkie Brooks
7. Let's Go to the Chop - John Entwistle
8. Supersnatch - Frank Miller, Frank Miller
9. Georgia Sycopator - Maddy Prior
10. Blast Off - Jim Dandy
11. Trapped [Repeise] - Eddie Jobson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231727 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Va-Flash Fearless
The first broadcast of FF was on the King Biscuit Flower Hour in the early seventies. This soundtrack came out later. Too many musicians to list. One song contains Alice Cooper, Robert A. Johnson, Bill Bruford and John Entwistle (actually, all songs have JE playing bass.)One more with Alice, two with Jim Dandy, one with James Dewar, Frankie Miller, Elkie Brooks, and an extra track on the CD with Maddy Prior. I was apprehensive to get this CD due to the absence of a track listing and the abundance of "Flash" titles over the years. I finally bit the bullet and bought it. It was a good move. This a great reproduction of the original LP, and it even comes with a comic book. A MUST for any seventies music fan.

Quirky Supergroup concept album
I recently bought this CD. I owned the Vinal LP the week it came out. And although the whole Sci Fi musical deal doesn't seem quite as cool as it did to my teenage self in 1975, I have been singing some of the songs in my car or while doing outdoor activities for all these years. Alice Cooper in his prime doing "I'm Flash", Jim Dandy of Black Oak Arkansas doing "Country Cooking" Elkie Brooks doing "Trapped", John Entwistle playing bass throughout the album. If these folks would have got together for a serious outing it would be thought of as a classic rather than "Quirky".
Avery pleasant surprise to me was "What's Happening" by James Dewer (of Robin Trower), one of the best ballads about unrequited love I can think of, with the great line "If I try for all time you will never be mine, but I will always be yours"
Although this album has slipped into obscurity over the years, if you feel like something fun and different, this is one to get and keep.

Off the beaten path - but a true gem of mid 70's rock
Back in the day...Flash Fearless was intended to be a touring musical (according to the cd booklet it actually was performed a time or two after the record had come out, but without the performers on the record) and the producers came up with this all-star cast to do the record.

Reasons to buy this cd:

1. James Dewar (vocalist for Robin Trower) delivers his strongest recorded performance ever on "What's Happening". If you like Dewar, then this is an absolutely critical cut for you to have - STELLAR!

2. Jim Dandy of Black Oak Arkansas brings it. He's completely in character and handles both the alienation of the country boy in deep space of "Country Cookin" and the naive optimism of man's future in the stars of "Blast Off". The vocal effect at the end of "Blast Off" predates it's use on "Too Hot To Stop" on BOA's "X-Rated" lp.

3. Alice Cooper. Humor, menace, solid Coop.

4. John Entwistle takes the vocal on "Let's Go To The Chop". The Ox sounds great and his bass work is his typically outstanding self.

5. The cd has a bonus cut that was not on the original vinly release. Unfortunately, "The Georgia Syncopator" is a relatively weak addition.

6. The cd does have a much better than average booklet with information that was not included in the vinyl release...it's informative and honest about the circumstances surrounding the whole Flash Fearless concept and the resulting album and tour.

The Elkie Brooks, Maddie Prior, and Frankie Miller cuts don't do anything for me. But, if you're a fan of Alice Cooper, Jim Dandy, or James Dewar you could buy this and be thrilled with these performances that you won't find elsewhere (outside of Cooper's on his box set). Overall, an intersting addition to the collection and worth the price.