Andy Summers on a SUPERGROUP project

[Jose]

That's what I just read on stingus forum by member Julian:

I remember I read something online that Jack Bruce of the Cream was to form a supergroup called "HotFlash" with Andy Summers and Dennis Chambers in 2000. However, it didn't happen. Does anyone know why this project didn't work out?

Here's what I read on Rogier's The Polie Page Web site:

30-11-2000
Jack Bruce recently announced the formation of a new trio "HotFlash", with Andy Summers on guitar and Dennis Chambers on drums! An album and tour are to follow early next year.

Jack Bruce: "Andy and myself have already written more than twenty new songs and the band recorded seven in one day! As you can tell I am very excited about this. The band sounds great - very much the Cream Police! and can't wait to get back to work. We plan our first release early next year and then we want to hit the road bigtime. Around the world - at least around the world!"

Jul 15, 08 | 2:27 am

...and this is what member Glarbage replied:

what i do know is that Chambers was the first participant to pull out of the project. Jack Bruce and Summers then recorded some of the songs with drummer Bruce Gary in an effort to keep HotFlash going. Then in 2001, Summers performed a 4 night stint at Birdland in New York City with Chambers and bassist Darryl Jones. later on, Jack Bruce went out on the road with Bruce Gary on drums. There could have been a disagreement on something or perhaps an agreement that the project was not worth pursuing ---- perhaps the 'flash' was not so 'hot' afterall. :)

Jul 16, 08 | 9:18 am

So, hope someday those recordings will being available :roll:

[bab]

Jon Messier's book says that 4 tracks were released via emusic.com. They are long gone from there, anyway.

On Rogier's Police Web Site, Rogier claims to have 4 soundboard tracks - I wonder if these are the same ones.

http://thepolicelive.com/~gugten/audio-andy.html

Anyone else have them?

Brian

[razorboy]

you can find them on dimeadozen, i believe... maybe zomb torrent tracker or the traders den, i can't remember. they were available a couple months back, so they should still be around.

they were very so-so... can't really escape hype with those two collaborating, but it didn't seem to have the requisite spark, hence the banishment to the vaults.

[TheEqualizer]

[quote="razorboy"]you can find them on dimeadozen, i believe... maybe zomb torrent tracker or the traders den, i can't remember. they were available a couple months back, so they should still be around.

they were very so-so... can't really escape hype with those two collaborating, but it didn't seem to have the requisite spark, hence the banishment to the vaults.[/quote]

Just did a quick search on Dime and TTD. Not there.

[giovanni]

Uh...I forgot about that... I remember while touring with Andy Summers in Italy (I was working at his promotion around here and we were always together and talked about too many things that I forgot) we talked about those recordings; I do confirm they did about 20 songs or even more, and that the sound was really Cream-Police, but they didn't find a real concept around the project, and gave it up.

It would be cool if they would get back together and just hit the road; I'm sure Andy is absolutely more 'on shape' for this project now, after playing again rock to big audiences.

[Jose]

[quote="giovanni"]Uh...I forgot about that... I remember while touring with Andy Summers in Italy we talked about those recordings...
It would be cool if they would get back together and just hit the road; I'm sure Andy is absolutely more 'on shape' for this project now, after playing again rock to big audiences.[/quote]

Yeah It would be amazing if they get back together...and perhaps with Stewart on drums...Why not? :roll: