"Bad Time" is my favorite song by them

SoulAlive said:

"Bad Time" is my favorite song by them

I didn't hear the Grand Funk version until a few years after I heard this:

It's just a small snippet. Say what you want about Axl but he was probably the last great rock star.

Decent band, but they did produce one of the greatest rock songs EVER:

SoulAlive said:

"Bad Time" is my favorite song by them

Mick Jagger was asked his opinion about the importance of "professional" press or critics approval. Jagger said, "Fuck the press, the only critic is the audience; the people who choose to purchase your music or not." I think that sums it up how Grand Funk Railroad success. They were one of the best live bands I've ever seen. Don Brewer in an interview in the 90's said one of the reasons for the bad press was the fact their manager at the time limited their access to the press. Garageband who made good.

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TD3 said:

Mick Jagger was asked his opinion about the importance of "professional" press or critics approval. Jagger said, "Fuck the press, the only critic is the audience; the people who choose to purchase your music or not." I think that sums it up how Grand Funk Railroad success. They where one of the best live bands I've ever seen. Don Brewer in an interview in the 90's said one of the reasons for the bad press was the fact their manager at the time limited their access to the press. Garageband who made good.

True. They are laregly forgotten today but they were massive in the early seventies, probably the biggest American hard rock band of their era. The critics hated them and still do but they sold truckloads of albums.

I like this one. Pretty funky for three white guys:

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U know you're good when P-Funk givez you or your band a nickname like Grand Fraud Railroad. lol the late Mark Adams of Slave said that his woosh sound he got known for came from GFR's bass player Mel Schacher

RodeoSchro said:

Decent band, but they did produce one of the greatest rock songs EVER:

The album was produced by Todd Rundgren.

...Creepin

Their best sounding record.

Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

A couple from their second album.



...Mr. Limousine Driver & Winter and My Soul


Saw them at a 1970 festival in Canada. Loudest band i'd ever heard.
A good friend plays bass with Mark Farner when he tours.



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

again - that music has it's own neural memory that takes me right back. Hey, they're on the road....

May 19 - Michigan City, In

May 26 - Fesgtival des Guitares du Monde - Quebec

June 8 - West Wendover, Nv

July 21 - Moondance Jam, Walker MN

Red said:

again - that music has it's own neural memory that takes me right back. Hey, they're on the road....

May 19 - Michigan City, In

May 26 - Fesgtival des Guitares du Monde - Quebec

June 8 - West Wendover, Nv

July 21 - Moondance Jam, Walker MN

I'll be there!