TROOPER – Flying Colours ’79 [Canadian CD Reissue] HQ
As requested by many, here’s the not easy to find only CD version of cult Canadian rockers TROOPER album “Flying Colours“. Trooper is one of Canada’s best Seventies melodic rockers. From 1975 to 1980, the Vancouver quintet produced five albums and a dozen top 20 hits. And they’re still around, despite founding members Ra McGuire and Brian Smith announced their retirement last year – giving their encouragement and blessing to remaining members to continue.
In their early era Trooper was huge in Canada selling platinum, but due to MCA inept operations the band never made it big in America. There’s still a legal dispute and Trooper early albums only have been reissued on CD in Japan and Canada, now out of print. This ”Flying Colours” CD is being sold for $140, go figure.
Trooper’s fifth studio album ”Flying Colors” was released in 1979, and contained the hits “3 Dressed Up as a 9” and the band’s highest-charting single to date, “Janine”, which pushed the LP to attain Double-Platinum status. Steve Porcaro & Steve Lukather play here, so you know the sound to expect…
