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    Posted: December 08 2011 at 07:45
Band from Florida active in 70's and early 80's. Three albums, "Flight" 1975, "Incredible Journey" 1976 and "Excursion Beyond" 1980. These are members,  exact album line-ups can be found on discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Flight+%283%29

Pat Vidas (brass, lead vocals), Ted Karczewski (electric guitar, acoustic guitar), John Ray (acoustic guitar, bass), Russell A Dawber Jr (drums, percussion), Jim Michael "Fizzwah" Yaeger (keyboards), John DeNicola (bass), Steve Shebar (drums).

I couldn't find samples from the first album even though I find reviews telling it is the best one. Only on the third album does the band go in a different style.











Third album is more in this tone.





Track listings:

"Flight" 1975
1.In Flight (4:48)
2.Make A Miracle (3:45)
3.Let's Fly Away (3:53)
4.Latin Dippy Doo (9:20)
5.Rhapsody to You (7:50)
6.Falling in Love (3:38)
7.Ease of Confusion (3:08)
8.Theme to the Stratosphere (9:01)

"Incredible Journey" 1976
1. Music is (6:49)
2. 1929 (5:38)
3. First impression (3:39)
4. Mystery man (3:21)
5. 2003 (5:42)
6. Visions of a dream (3:41)
7. The sands of time (4:20)
8. Rock'n'roll star (3:51)

"Excursion Beyond" 1980
1.Excursions Beyond (4:28)
2.
Music Razzmatazz (2:55)
3.
A Thing For Julie (3:25)
4.
Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (3:11)
5.
The Rumble (4:48)
6.
Face To Face (3:55)
7.
Jett Lagg (3:15)
8.
Inca Innuendo (4:05)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2011 at 09:38
Fantastic stuff, I'll notify the JR/F team. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2011 at 12:15
Another interesting obscurity, we added them to the jazz site.
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2012 at 09:43
One year anniversary bump!

I did find some samples from that obscure first album.






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2012 at 11:05
Flight  perfectly fits in PA!
They are wonderful mix the ELP, Chase and perhaps a little RTF.
This band maybe JR/F or Eclectic.
I don't understand, why don't  put in PA???
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2012 at 16:46
Will check on progress and let you know.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2012 at 15:23
They've been rejected, I'm afraid. Unhappy
I'll give them another go in Crossover. They definitely belong here.

By crossover I mean eclectic. My bad.


Edited by Andy Webb - December 11 2012 at 15:25
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2013 at 02:22
I have been searching the internet for some time...trying to find someone who knew of this band.  I was introduced to them by a friend of mine who lived on Long Island, NY.  This was back in 1975.  My friend, Vinny had a cousin who was in the band.  I went to see them perform at a club in Los Angeles...and wrote a review for the UC Irvine (Irvine, CA) student newspaper.  Thank you for re-uniting me with their music.  Where can I get copies of their music?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2013 at 04:24
I think this band is probably cleared in Eclectic, but it needs checking with them to be sure. The most recent chart (June 12, 2013) has two 'yes' votes plus a 'move' to JR/F (where the band was already rejected once), but three of the members shown in the chart don't appear to be active anymore, and a fourth much newer member (thellama73, who isn't include in the chart) has also voted 'yes'. Seems as though the general consensus is 'yes' (3 out of 4 active members), unless a unanimous decision is required following a rejection in another sub (I thought this rule only applied to a re-evaluation by a team that originally rejected the artist concerned though).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2013 at 17:02
I believe that Logan is thellama73 (might be wrong, but I don't think so) therefore 2 yes and 1 move votes. Moris would either need to change his vote to a yes or another active member of the team (it is my understanding that ProgressiveAttic is on sabbatical but will return). Might have to wait a bit longer, but I'll check to see if Moris would reconsider given that they have already been rejected by JR/F.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2013 at 19:15
Originally posted by seventhsojourn seventhsojourn wrote:

I believe that Logan is thellama73 (might be wrong, but I don't think so).
 
Yeah - he has to be, doesn't he. I was getting confused with the team member with the username Logan..but he quit the Eclectic team way back in September 2010, and his real name (as used in the charts) was Greg. Embarrassed
 
Moris has agreed to change his vote, so it looks like the green light for Flight.  Thumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2014 at 10:12
I grew up with Pat Vidas in Centerville, Iowa. I have all three Lps remastered on CD-R! I love his first two for sure. I've been lobbying to get them on here. They do jazz , prog, fusion and Latin tinged music excellently! Their second lp was engineered by Bob Clearmountain. I would love to swap with anybody. If I can figure out how to upload an 80 minute CD-R of their first two Lps minus I love song on youtube, I would do it. Maybe somebody could give me some help.
"I brake for Proggers"
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