Peter Banks interview @ Gibson.com

interview,News,Peter Banks | Thursday February 25 2010

When you formed Flash, did you have in mind doing something stylistically that was radically different from Yes?

Looking back it would be very easy to say I had a grand plan, but I really didn’t. What I really had was a list of things I wanted to avoid. Even though I was just 22 or 23 when Flash got together, I had been a professional musician since the age of 17. I wanted to put together a true band. I had never had a band of my own before, but I didn’t want Flash to be my band. I wanted it to be a cooperative thing. And that’s basically how it was.

Read the complete interview @ Gibson: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/peter-banks-0122/