Quarterflash is an American rock group formed in Portland, Oregon, originally called Seafood Mama. A year later they were signed by Geffen Records and changed the group name to Quarterflash. The name comes from an Australian colloquialism, "a quarter flash and three parts foolish."
Their guitarist is Jack Charles, who performed so magnificently in the band Sand, one of my favorite 'discoveries' of this blog. The keyboardist of Sand is Attilio, whose solo work I'll post later too.
So I was curious to hear this band in the hopes some of that uncompromisingly beautiful guitar sound from Sand persisted into the 1980s with these releases, but, predictably, it was not meant to be.
From the first album which is basically commercial pop, the gem called Love should be so kind:
The lovely singer, for those like me who are curious to know, is Rindy Ross, who was in the predecessor band called Seafood Mama.
From the second album, Take Another Picture, the closer called It All Becomes Clear is both played and sung by Jack Charles (the guy from Sand), as you can tell from the (jangling open string) guitar style and voice-- what a difference a few years made back then:
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