Flood

 

Flood

Flood at Arbury Hall - circa 1972 Nuneaton rock band.

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In the words of Dennis Burns

"Flood was my first band which I formed with Mick Warren (vocals) an old school mate of mine, Ozzie Warren (Mick's older brother - now Principle of  Nuneaton Technical College or whatever they call it these days...), Mick Adler on bass, and later Leigh Dolphin (from Fresh Maggots) on rhythm guitar."

(Photo Harts Hill Hayes, Nuneaton, 1971)

Played the Village (Colin Campbell in 1970 among the usual venues in Coventry.

Dennis Burns Typepad Blog - more music on this from his bands. https://dennisburns.typepad.com/blog/

Tracks by Flood via Dennis Burns.

Superstar

The 1st track is Superstar by Flood. This was recorded at a rehearsal for a reunion/ party at Stockingford Conservative Club in October 1978 (with Stiletto and Fresh Maggots on the same bill). This was the 1st time the band had been back together for 5 years as Mike Warren was living in Canterbury and Mick Adler was living in Birmingham. So here it, is

 Superstar. Click this link to hear the audio on Typepad. It's a belter.

https://a6.typepad.com/6a0134878ea33d970c0134878eb186970c-pi

Classical Gas

Another Flood track recorded during rehearsals in 1978. This one is a Flood arrangement of the 1968 Grammy winner - Classical Gas by Mason Williams and features the deft acoustic guitar work of Leigh Dolphin. From Dennis Burns site -

Listen to the audio here on Typepad

https://a0.typepad.com/6a0134878ea33d970c0134878eb170970c-pi

COMMENTS FOR THE OLD HOBO TYPEPAD SITE 2007

A and R (Broadgate Gnome)
That warm box/envelope sound, so 70s has come through the digitization, wonderfully, What was the original equipment Dennis?
Posted by: A and R | 12/11/2007 at 12:19 PM

Isotope (Kevin Harrison)
Good live sound recording Dennis, I'll resist the temptation to ask if you have any 'baked' fresh maggots? Oops!
Posted by: Isotope | 12/11/2007 at 05:31 PM

Dennis Burns
For backline - although we used to use mainly Marshall back line in '73 (I had a Marshall 100 driving 2 Marshall 4 x 12's and later added a Marshall 50 driving another Marshall 4 x 12; and Mick had a Hiwatt 100 driving 2 x Marshall 1 x 18"'s). For this rehearsal recording however we borrowed Stiletto's backline (I used Grahams Fender Bandmaster 50 driving a Marshall 4 x 12, Mick used Arun's Fender Bassman 100 driving 2 Fender 2 x 15"'s (I think) and Leigh used my Fender Pro Reverb 50.

The rehearsal was recorded on my old Sony TC630 reel-to-reel recorder which I sold years ago - I think I used Shure SM58's for mikes..
Posted by: Dennis Burns | 12/11/2007 at 11:52 PM


Dennis Burns
Thanks Kev, It is surprising considering it was recorded just using a stereo pair in an empty club room... Re Baked Maggots - LMAO...
Posted by: Dennis Burns | 12/11/2007 at 11:54 PM


HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine
Fresh Maggots / The Flys - we have more insect bands than Liverpool!
Posted by: HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine | 12/12/2007 at 12:38 PM


Dennis Burns
FYI, Aorta Majors "rent-a-crew" live fan base were nicknamed "The Insects"......
Posted by: Dennis Burns | 12/12/2007 at 12:45 PM

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Dennis Burns has had a long association with FRESH MAGGOTS
Leigh Dolphin of Fresh Maggots played Rhythm guitar for Flood at one stage. Their music

was progressive. acoustic / electric and their RCA album from 1971 -Hatched  is now a cult album sort after by those into progressive rock. Check their Vox site out. Dennis was their sound engineer and roadie. Dennis also form a duo with Leigh Dolphin called DBXLD - 

Dennis and Leigh have played in a number or bands over the years. Their first was in 1971 with a band from Nuneaton, UK called Flood (named after the 1954 flood disaster in Lynmouth, Devon, UK - a favourite holiday location of theirs).

Dennis has played with a number of Coventry or Nuneaton bands including Hunter, Flood, Dodo, Stiletto, Aorta Major The Mix, Urge. His son Nick plays now in JUB and his other son Matt plays in Simple Notion.

Dennis Burns in Flood