About Me
Please notice: the songs on this space are all recordings from the rehearsalroom, back in the 80s of the last century.
Indeed, that's the excuse for the crap quality ;)
Attemps to create a band
The Flash was started, under the name Flash Limited, in 1984 by the schoolfriends André, Mike and Nick and some sesssions lead to the song 'Dr Gausus', but Mike was forced to leave the band by his parents. Mike should be at university some years later and his mom and dad thought a band and bandmember Nick in particular, was just bad influence. Meanwhile André and Nick were looking for bandmembers to join them; André played drums, Nick sang and came up with ideas for songs by playing guitar and keyboards, but never was a great talent on any instrument though. Before Mike left he suggested his father to become thge band's guitarplayer, but the others refused and so Mike had to leave.
Some others came and go, playing keyboards, bass and guitar, but finally the band split and André started another band, Disorder, in which Nick would also sing, along with Freek (bass), Peter (keyboards) and Ruud (guitar). After a few months rehearsing André, Peter and Freek moved on as Disc Order, but just a few weeks later also this band split.
In 1987 André and Nick joined forces again, together with Pierre ..boards and Ruud on guitar, looking for a bass player, but again, the attempt was over in a few months and Nick started all over again with René on drums, Raymond on bass and Mieke on guitar, while Frank (keyboards) was soon replaced by Arend. Six month after the restart Mieke was replaced by Alice and finally Carel joined as the new guitarplayer. Only one gig was given, in 1989 and then it was over. No more attemps to create a band.
René and Nick worked together again in 1992, when Nick was performing 'The observer'at a festival, a collaboration with dancer Sheila Meis and the group of dancers called Dance Unlimited.
At the end of 1992 Nick joined Diklas and Marzz in the band DRP, which released three albums (1992, 1993 and 2000) and is working on new material. Nick also released two solo albums, 'Lake shore driving' (1992) and 'The dream'(2008) and spends most of his time writing.
André only drums for fun at home and Mike has become the yup his parents wanted him to be, having his own company which is busy trying to commercialise the medical sector.
What's left are just some demos and recordings from the rehearsal room: 'Down by dawn', 'When the heart rules the mind', 'Tell me', 'You and I', 'Oh Sabine', 'Tears', 'All because of you'. The Flash also played some covers: 'High wire' (Men at Work), 'Hey you' (Pink Floyd) and 'Primary' (The Cure).
