![]() ![]() The band makes a TV appearance on ABC's "In Concert" on. Their 8th LP 'Phoenix' is released in Sep 1972 with the single "Rock N Roll Soul b/w Flight Of The Phoenix" which makes #29 on the charts in Nov 1972. Due to this entangled legal battle with Knight the band adds a 4th member and resumes as 'Grand Funk Railroad' the add Keyboardist Craig Frost ( Flint) before this Farner played the keyboards, later both Brewer & Frost would end up in Bob Seger's band from 1977-96. In late '71 the band became dissatisfied with the control their manager Terry Knight had over the band, for example Knight releases the 1st "Best Of" with the double LP 'Mark, Don & Mel' in early 1972, seemingly without their permission, so the band fired Knight. As mentioned earlier a few bands back then released 2 albums a year, Grand Funk was able to pull this off as they occasionally recorded cover songs as well as every album seemed to have a song that was 7 to 10min long! 'E Pluribus Funk' (mine is signed by Farner) is released in Nov 1971 with 3 singles released from this LP "People Let's Stop The War b/w Save The Land" the 2nd one "Footstompin Music b/w I Come Tumblin" which makes it to #29 in Feb 1972,įollowed by "Upsetter b/w No Lies" that charts at #. The singles for this LP are: "Feelin Alright b/w I Want Freedom" that charts at #54 in May 1971, followed by "Gimme Shelter b/w I Can Feel Him In The Morning" the "B-Side" sung by Brewer, that makes to #61 in Sep 1971. ![]() The band's 5th LP is probably one of my favorites 'Survival' is released in Apr 1971 and came with 3 photos one of each member, dressed as a "Caveman" in the album. > 1971 - 1972: I Can Feel Him In The Morning < The single was a "Live Version" of "Mean Mistreater b/w Mark Says Alright" which reaches #47 in Jan 1971. the band being known so well for their "Live Concerts" release a double album 'Live Album' in Sep 1970, though released in Sep, the material for this record was recorded in June, before the 'Closer To Home' LP was released. 'Closer To Home' was released in June 1970 with the singles "Sin's A Good Man's Brother b/w Nothing Is The Same" and one of their most famous songs "Closer To Home/ I'm Your Captain b/w Aimless Lady" which rose to #22 on the charts in Oct 1970, worth noting the single version 5:31min, about half the length of the album version. Their 3rd album is the one that really hooked me. While I am a huge fan of the band I not sold on Farner's choice of a guitars a Musicraft Messenger, as far as I can tell this is a cheap hollow-body heavily doctored and a Micro Frets Guitars Custom, which may be a great guitar, to me it has a 'cheap' sound to it, but this is what gave Farner a distinction in his guitar tone, I have seen photos of Farner playing a white Gibson SG, also Farner played Keyboards live in concert. One thing worth noting is Brewer would run around his drumset during his drum solo. This is the setlist, as far as I can tell for this show Signed to Capitol Records in 1968 they had 19 Billboard Charting songs, and released 17 albums and 25 Singles And so let us begin, a brief history of 'Grand Funk Railroad' My Uncle John used to babysit us on Saturday nights, he would let me stay up and watch "(Don Kirshner's) In Concert" and one night 'Grand Funk Railroad' was one of the artists on the show early 1973, (the other artist I remember from roughly the same time period was 'Black Oak Arkansas) and Farner walks out with his long straight hair and shirtless at the time HE was the epitome of "Rock Star" Farner & Jim Dandy (BOA) we the coolest looking guys on the planet Earth! Then it was Summer '73 my Aunt Cathy used to babysit my sisters while my Mom worked, one weekend Cathy brought over the 45 Single (w/ picture sleeve & pressed on yellow vinyl) "We're An American Band" this song moved me! I was now a fan of Grand Funk. This band is no exception to that situation. So when I was a kid growing up in Sioux City, most of the music I listened to was introduced to me by my Aunts Debby, Cathy or Uncles Jeff & John. ![]()
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