Today we’re back suggesting something out
of the relative Top100 List. Ok let me getting started quoting that Flint
Michigan is not only famous from the industrialization and the destruction
plain Americans had to endure in the years to come, or for Michael Moore for
that matter..Flint Michigan is the birthplace of one of the most powerful rock
trios ever!!
You’ve guessed it right!! We’re
talking about the Grand Funk!!One of the most renowned (but today seems
forgotten) American Hard Rock Bands that currently holding the record of crowd
attendance in a concert and quite convincingly managed to place themselves
alongside groups like Led Zeppelin as far as American audiences are concerned. Personally
I was amazed from their first releases (1969 – 1970) that clearly stated that
the band from Michigan had something unique and powerful despite the fact that
their most famous release “happened” several releases later (We’re An American
Band)
The
source (wiki) reveals: «Grand Funk
Railroad, sometimes shortened as Grand
Funk, is an American
rock band that was highly popular during the 1970s, touring extensively and
playing to packed arenas worldwide. David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine
once said, "You cannot talk about rock in the 1970s without talking about
Grand Funk Railroad!"[1][2]
Known for their crowd-pleasing arena rock
style, the band was well-regarded by audiences despite a relative lack of
critical acclaim.[3]
The band's name is a play on words
of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a railroad line that ran
through the band's home town of Flint, Michigan.Originally
a trio, the band was formed in 1969 by Mark Farner (guitar, vocals) and Don Brewer (drums,
vocals) from Terry Knight and the Pack, and Mel Schacher
(bass) from Question Mark & the Mysterians;
Knight soon became the band's manager, as well as naming the band as a play on
words for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a well-known rail line
in Michigan.
First achieving recognition at the 1969 Atlanta Pop Festival,
the band was signed by Capitol Records.
After a raucous, well-received set on the first day of the festival, the group
was asked back to play at the Second Atlanta Pop Festival
the following year. Patterned after hard rock power trios such as Cream,
the band, with Terry Knight's marketing savvy, developed its own popular style.
In August 1969 the band released its first album titled On Time,
which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold record in 1970.[4]
In February 1970 a second
album, Grand Funk (aka "The Red
Album"), was awarded gold status.[4] Despite critical pans and a lack of airplay, the group's first six albums (five studio
releases and one live album) were quite successful.
The hit single "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)", from the album Closer to Home, released in 1970, was
considered stylistically representative of Terry Knight and the Pack's recordings. In 1970 Knight launched an intensive advertising campaign to
promote the album Closer to Home.
That album was certified multi-platinum despite a lack of critical approval.[4] The band spent $100,000 on a New York Times Square billboard to advertise Closer to Home.[5] By 1971, Grand Funk equalled the Beatles' Shea Stadium attendance record but sold
out the venue in just 72 hours whereas the Beatles concert took a couple of
weeks to sell out. [6]»
So ladies and gentlemen, ranking #21 at My TOP100 List, we present to
u the lads from Flint a.k.a.
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| Grand Funk Railroad |
Their first 3 releases
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