Flying Hat Band

The Flying Hat Band
Genres	Hard rock
Years active	1971–1974
Labels	Vertigo
Past members	Glenn Tipton Trevor Foster Andy Wheeler Pete Hughes Frank Walker Peter "Mars" Cowling Steve Palmer

The Flying Hat Band were an early 1970s Birmingham, England hard rock act that, alongside Judas Priest, ranked as the Midlands' favourites to succeed. Despite not having released an album, the band proved a successful club act and eventually went on to support Deep Purple on one of their European tours.

The band folded in April 1974 following Glenn Tipton's departure to become the second guitarist in Judas Priest, who at the time had just signed their first record deal with Gull Records. Peter "Mars" Cowling joined Canadian rocker Pat Travers in 1975, and was part of Travers' band for several years. Trevor Foster joined folk rock group The Albion Band and Little Johnny England.

Signed to Vertigo, in 1973 the trio recorded a studio album which was never released as the label deemed the music had too much in common with Black Sabbath. Glenn Tipton is said to be in possession of the master tape, but it is unclear whether any material from it will eventually surface.

The album was recorded in one day. I have the original acetate of the recordings and having obtained the cd and vinyl of Buried Together, I can confirm that these are the original recordings, with the original personnel, with the exception of vocals, which are now Glenn's. ******

In 1992, small German label SPM International mysteriously released a split CD entitled "Buried Together", featuring progressive rock band Iron Claw (erroneously labelled as Antrobus) alongside four Flying Hat Band demo tracks, dated back to 1973.

Those tracks are:

Drummer Steve Palmer is the brother of Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).

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