{"id":1129,"date":"2026-11-01T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterbanks.net\/archive\/?page_id=1129"},"modified":"2026-11-01T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:12:26","slug":"record-mirror-peter-banks-and-flash-album-reviews-october-1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.peterbanks.net\/archive\/reading-room\/record-mirror-peter-banks-and-flash-album-reviews-october-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"RECORD MIRROR: Peter Banks and Flash album reviews, October 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"

RECORD MIRROR – October 6 and October 20, 1973<\/p>\n

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Peter Banks and Flash: two album reviews<\/h1>\n

From the Record Mirror review section \u201cDiscorama\u201d, under \u201cAlbums \u2013 UK\u201d<\/h3>\n

Peter Banks<\/h2>\n

Record & Radio Mirror, October 6, 1973, page 21<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Record<\/a><\/p>\n

PETER BANKS<\/strong>
(Sovereign SVNA 7256). Flashman\u2019s come up with something delicately special here. Side one is full of resonant, harmonic sound with Banks and Jan Akkerman criss crossing each other\u2019s guitar lines to perfection<\/span>. Unfortunately, the image is shattered when you flip the album to discover side two is made up largely of two long instrumental jams that get nowhere several times. Still, that first side remains a classic.<\/p>\n

No reviewer\u2019s name, rating or album title is printed. The record is Peter Banks\u2019s solo album Two Sides of Peter Banks<\/a>, Sovereign SVNA 7256.<\/em><\/p>\n

Flash<\/h2>\n

Record & Radio Mirror, October 20, 1973, page 27<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Record<\/a><\/p>\n

FLASH<\/strong>
Out Of Our Hands<\/a><\/em> (Sovereign SVNA 7260). After Pete Banks\u2019 solo album, comes the new one from his band Flash formed when he left Yes. More subtle maybe than Yes, but Flash are running parallel and it shows. Impossible to fault except for it\u2019s [sic] total lack of originality. Buy Banks\u2019 solo instead. Much better value.
R. G.<\/p>\n

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Record Mirror (published as Record & Radio Mirror), 6 and 20 October 1973. Transcribed as printed; original spellings are retained and marked [sic]. The page scans are from the Record Mirror archive on World Radio History.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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