Post Office Box 9188 • Colorado Springs, Colorado 80932
719-635-7776 • Fax 719-635-9789
DATELINE: March 7, 1969...The University of Colorado in Boulder...
FLASH CADILLAC performs for the first time...
Over forty years later, reflecting on the events that led the Flash Cadillac band to their current success, a charmed history is told.Not every band that quits school and piles into a van headed for Los Angeles can claim:
- Instant popularity within the music industry.
- Releasing four albums within three years (Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, Epic Records, 1972; No Face Like Chrome, Epic Records, 1974; Rock ‘n Roll Forever, Epic Records, 1975; Sons of the Beaches, Private Stock Records, 1975).
- Being the first band to perform on American Bandstandwithout having a record (1971).
- Appearing in two of the biggest impact motion pictures ever filmed (American Graffiti, 1973; Apocalypse Now, 1978).
- Receiving a platinum album for their work on the sound track of American Graffiti, for which they wrote the only original music in one of the classic rock 'n roll collections of all time (MCA Records, 1973).
- Appearing in the highest-rated TV program of that particular week with a script written especially for them (Happy Days episode “Fish and The Fins”, 1974).
- Appearing on nearly every TV program featuring music: The Tonight Show, In Concert, Midnight Special, American
- Bandstand(four times), and more.
- Moving from Los Angeles, building a 24-track recording studio on their 120-acre ranch in the Colorado Rockies, and recording two more albums on their Promised Land Record label (Flash Cadillac’s Four-Song Collector’s Edition, 1982; Rip It Up!, 1984) and one for Great American Music Hall/Fantasy Records, (Later Than Midnight, 1988).
- Releasing A Night At The Symphony (Flash Cadillac Records, 1992), recorded live with the Colorado Springs Symphony conducted by Christopher Wilkins.
- Featured as the House Band on the nationally broadcast Super Goldradio program.
- In their 25th year of performing, releasing two more albums, Drivetime and Souvenirs (Flash Cadillac Records, 1994), and continuing to give one of the hottest stage shows any rock 'n roll band could dream of.
- A release - 25 Years (Flash Cadillac, 1995) - a collection from their two and one-half decade career.
- Their long-awaited Christmas release - Ghost Of Christmas Past (Flash Cadillac, 1996) recorded live with the Colorado
- Springs Symphony and the Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, conducted by Christopher Wilkins. Flash Cadillac’s 1997
- recording - Rock And Roll Rules - presents the Band’s original material and traditional rock ‘n roll at its finest.
- 2004 – Flash On The Prairie is released. A live recording from one of their many appearances at the Conner Prairie Farm in Fishers, IN, sponsored by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. This recording features several of their most requested and recognizable titles from the early years of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
- 2009 – Flash Cadillac, “legends in their own minds”, Flash Cadillac turns 40 with a reunion, celebration concert, back to where the band began in Boulder, CO.
- 2011 – Flash Cadillac returns to the legendary Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, IA with an over the top headline performance to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the last performance and tragic plane crash of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens.
What the critics say:
“...when Flash Cadillac combined it’s ‘50s and ‘60s rock ‘n’ roll repertoire with the music of the Colorado
Springs Symphony, the world’s first 80-piece rock ‘n’ roll band was born.”
-(Colorado Springs) Gazette Telegraph“FLASH CADILLAC...the best rock and roll stage act I've ever seen...including The Rolling Stones.”
-Rolling Stone Magazine“And while Jerry Lee Lewis may be ‘The Killer’, Flash Cadillac stole the show with their no holds barred act...”
-Modesto Bee
“...their live performances prove they can cut all competition to ribbons.”
-Rolling Stone Magazine“FLASH CADILLAC has been ahead of their time in more ways than will ever be recognized.”
-Phonograph Record Magazine“Flash Cadillac rolled into the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Saturday night and promptly remade
the Tulsa Philharmonic in its own image.”
-Tulsa World Staff“These men put on an electrifying performance and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves while doing so.”
-The Calgary Herald“The group is a virtual encyclopedia of rock's last early years...supremely entertaining.”
-The Denver Post“But Flash Cadillac, you can’t beat them”
-(Clear Lake, IA) Globe Gazette“Anyone who laments the passing of rock 'n roll...should shake, rattle and bop (not stroll) down to
where the fantastic FLASH CADILLAC will be ripping it up.”
-The Los Angeles Times“Band is a team sport”
- FLASH CADILLAC
FLASH CADILLAC
WARREN KNIGHT: Bass Guitar and Vocals
DAVE “THUMPER” HENRY: Drums, Percussion and Vocals
TIMOTHY P. IRVIN: Vocals
ROCKY MITCHELL: Guitar and Vocals
PETE SANTILLI: Keyboard and Vocals
DWIGHT BEMENT: Saxophone
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