Sealed LP: VARIOUS: Flash Fearless Vs. the Zorg Women

$

75

VARIOUS

Flash Fearless Vs. the Zorg Women, Pts. 5 & 6

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed Album

Country: U.S.A.

Record Company & Release Number: Chrysalis: CHR 1072

Original release date: 1975

Bar Code: NONE

Condition of the cover: Mint

Condition of this sealed album: Sealed - Assumed Mint

My inventory number: 208603

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 1 ounces

Notes:

This Sealed Album came from a record store in Allentown, Pennsylvania called "Phantasmagoria" which went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory several years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.

Since this Sealed Album was part of Phantasmagoria's inventory when they closed in 1978, it cannot be any newer than a 1978 pressing. Being a Sealed Album, I cannot tell specifically what pressing it is prior to 1978. In some cases, hype stickers might help to determine if it is a first pressing, but I cannot be any more specific.

Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of their inventory. They had a sign on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of what they were purchasing. Some of the Sealed Albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the Sealed Albums have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for this Sealed Album in 1978 if you had bought it at Phantasmagoria. If this Sealed Album has a price on it, please don't confuse the price with the current value for this Sealed Album.

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• Elkie Brooks: Trapped
• Alice Cooper: I'm Flash
• Jim Dandy: Country Cooking
• James Dewar: What's Happening
• Alice Cooper: Space Pirates
• Elkie Brooks: Sacrifice
• John Entwistle: To The Chop
• Frankie Miller: Supersnatch
• Jim Dandy: Blast Off
• Eddie Jobson: Trapped (Repeise)

• John Entwistle: Bass, Synthesized Bass
• Mick Grabham: Lead Guitar, Guitar
• Carmine Appice: Drums
• Nicky Hopkins: Calbinet, Piano
• Mike Deacon: Piano
• Graham Deakin: Percussion
• Thunderthighs: Back Up Vocals
• Robert A. Johnson: Lead Guitar, Guitar
• Johnny Weider: Guitar
• Bill Bruford: Drums
• Kenny Jones: Drums
• Justin Hayward: Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
• Jim Frank: Mouth Harp
• Eddie Jobson: Strings
• Howie Casey: Brass Arrangements, Saxophone
• John Alcock: Arranger
• Paul Sample: Cover Drawing
• Keith Moon: Long John Silver, Tympani
• Steve Pettican: Slide Guitar
• Chick Churchill: Organ
• Leslie Duncan: Background Vocals
• Doreen Chanter: Background Vocals
• Jill Mackintosh: Background Vocals
• Kay Garner: : Background Vocals
• Bob Exrin: Production
• John Gaydon: Executive Producer
• Alan Seifert: Executive Producer
• John Alcock: Producer
• Geoff Workman: Engineer

Album Review for "Flash Fearless Vs. the Zorg Women, Pts. 5 & 6"

A comic book hero idea put to music with Alice Cooper, Black Oak Arkansas' Jim Dandy, The Who's John Entwistle, Justin Hayward, Carmine Appice, Eddie Jobson, Keith Moon, Nicky Hopkins, Kenny Jones, the then-hip backing vocalist The Thunderthighs, Bill Bruford and others add performances here which remind one of the film project Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The problem with Flash Fearless is it is all names and no substance, the songwriting sub-par. Elkie Brooks has a great voice, but the song "Sacrifice" has little to offer, Terence Hillyer and Dave Pierce's music and lyrics pedestrian at best. John Entwistle's vocal on "To The Chop" sounds like it is straight from Rocky Horror Picture Show, Leslie Duncan, Doreen Chanter and Jill Mackintosh's background vocals way out in the mix, in a song that can't decide if it is 5's, 60's or perhaps out of place on this strange project.

Side one opens as if it is Part 5 of a serial (with side two, Part 6, of course), and you, dear listener, find Elkie Brooks "Trapped," a kind of neat idea which runs afoul because Steve Hammond and Dave Pierce don't deliver a song like you'd find on other "rock operas", Tommy or Jesus Christ Superstar. Certainly talent abounds, but the result is as cheesy as the comic book cover, and the camp is unrealized. Alice Cooper proclaims "I'm Flash," a rare team of Bill Bruford and John Entwistle backing Alice, which sounds great on paper, but the "production assistance" from producer Bob Ezrin at The Record Plant fails to embellish the lackluster material - which just can't manifest the promise of all these name talents. How Shep Gordon allowed an Alice Cooper so hot at this point in time to participate, is astounding. This does nothing to enhance Cooper the way he, Aerosmith and Earth, Wind & Fire ran away with the Sgt. Pepper film soundtrack, or even how the rare live version ofBlack Juju livened up the Medicine Ball Caravan soundtrack album. Jim Dandy's "Country Cooking" has a lesser artist like Jim "Dandy" Magnum going through the motions - with Justin Hayward on guitar and Entwistle on bass - a totally ludicrous misuse of major talent. And if you can figure out the story line here, you are a few steps ahead of this critic. A tough outing for all involved, trite lyrics, non-descript melodies, and little to invite other than the oddity of the match-ups. James Dewar gets six minutes plus to work with Roxy Music's Eddy Jobson, Nicky Hopkins piano, Entwistle's bass and Bill Bruford's drums. It's one of the better songs, and one wonders why Bryan Ferry isn't doing the honors? Perhaps he was busy participating on the Beatles tribute All This And World War II - an album which at least was an artistic success, even if its sales were probably on the same level as Flash Fearless Vs The Zorg Women, Part 5 & 6. Amateurish and not lending itself to repeated listenings. Another of those records one must own but not play. ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide

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