Flash Tuesday
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Flash Tuesday
1969-1970
Original Members
Lonnie Knight Guitar / Vocals
Denny Johnson Bass Guitar / Vocals
Bill Gent Drums / Vocals
August, 1969: Jokers Wild is in their final lineup with three members: Lonnie Knight on lead guitar and vocals; Denny Johnson on bass guitar and vocals and Pete Huber on drums and vocals. Pete begins to have health issues that affect his playing and decides to leave the band. Pete, a showman on the drums, was not an easy person to find a replacement for.
Lonnie and Denny audition numerous drummers at Dial Recording Studio (323 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis) and eventually pick up Bill Gent, who clicks with the band. After four Days of rehearals with Bill, Jokers Wild is back playing, as they had numerous bookings to fulfill. Knowing that Pete Huber was a big part of Jokers Wild, Lonnie and Denny decide it is time for a new name for the band, with Bill Gent in as drummer. Lonnie comes up the name Tuesday. Denny comes with the name Flash. The two names are combined as Flash Tuesday but doesn’t start until the end of the year.
September 5, 1969: Jokers Wild /Flash Tuesday plays their first job in Fergus Falls, Minnesota and go on to play numerous jobs across the midwest including Kansas City, Kansas.
January 25, 1970: Flash Tuesday opens up a show for Grand Funk Railroad at the Labor Temple. The manager of Grand Funk Railroad, Terry Knight, is at the show and offers Flash Tuesday a recording contract, however, David Anthony, the band’s manager, advises the band to turn down the offer due to tensions within the band at the time.
April, 1970: The band stays together up through the middle of April and then decide to go their separate ways. A different version of Flash Tuesday is put together by David Anthony and this new version of the band plays for another year, in order to fulfill the many bookings the band still had on the calendar.
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Lonnie Knight
Denny Johnson
Bill Gent
Newspaper ad’s
CDs / Recordings
Voices – Time = 4:41
Captain Me And The Air Coach – Time = 3:43
Festival Blues – Time = 3:50
Dissatisfied ( with the Famous LK Intro ) – Time = 9:51
Borrowed – Time = 4:06
Wind ( Part 1 & 2 with Drum Solo ) – Time = 9:18
Colors – Time = 7:43
In The Morning – Time = 6:13
Going Home – Time = 7:21
Flash Tuesday
BAND TREE
FLASH TUESDAY 1969 to 1970
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Lonnie Knight Lead Guitar / Vocals 1969 to 1970
The Castaways
The Rave – ons
Jokers Wild
The Litter
FLASH TUESDAY
Mojo Buford Band
Lexy Johnson Band
Lonnie Knight Solo
City Mouse
Chad Mitchell and Friends
The Knight Henley Band
Cowboy Angels
Crow featuring Dave Wagner
Arizona
Wild Horses
The Neilsen – White Band
Gorgeous
Cocktail Stevie & the Table Rockers
Michael Johnson and Friends
The Lonnie Knight Band
The Hoopsnakes
Blues West House Band
Inn Kahoots House Band
Lonnie Knight & Big Shoes
R nt Solo
Lonnie Knight & Reid Papke
Knight – Papke – Sansby – Haberman
Smoking Section
Mosquito Schoals
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Denny Johnson Bass Guitar / Vocals 1969 to 1970
Jokers Wild
FLASH TUESDAY
Mojo Buford Band
Lexy Johnson Band
Bazooka
Carrion
Bullet
Christopher
Cookiefoot
Denny Johnson Group
Winterwood
Gold Dust
Pecos
Sunrise
Grand Avenue
Crow featuring Dave Wagner
JT Silverstar
Jynx
The Bowery Boys
The Dick Tracy Band
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Bill Gent Drums / Vocals 1969 to 1970
Jokers Wild
FLASH TUESDAY
Danny’s Reasons
Bacchanalia
Peace & Quiet
Chocolate Floon
Canary
Lois Lane
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Where are they now?
Flash Tuesday Where Are They Now ?
Flash Tuesday 1969 to 1970
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Denny Johnson Bass Guitar / Vocals
Active in Music Yes
Doing What ?…… …. Studio Session Work – Re-Mastering and Band History
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Bill Gent Drums / Vocals
Active in Music No
Doing What ?……… Passed Away in 2002
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Lonnie Knight Lead Guitar / Vocals
Active in Music No
Doing What ?…. ….. Lonnie passed away at age 68 on May 7, 2017.
He was living in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the time of his passing.
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Interview
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