![]() ![]() We conduct the transaction through my verified Paypal account for the safety of both parties. Send it to: The offer should be 20 $ (US Dollars) to be considered. The original music paper this article came from (pictured at the top) is for sale!ġ. Maybe they are the very young boppers’ answer to the groups they can’t usually understand any other way. But, apparently, there is only one Grand Funk. There are many more “original” groups around. The crowd was satisfied, but I really wonder, even after seeing them, what all the fuss is about. They did “Lookin’ Into The Sun,” and left the stage. They got a thunderous encore, and they did “Inside Lookin’ Out.” Grand Funk got a solid reception, despite the sound, sameness, and whatever else that hurts rather than helps in a large area. (Distortion in reverse, a bouncing “delay” that did not help The Grand Funk sound). A group like Grand Funk comes on pretty strong, and the echo in the hall tends to break the sound up. The Garden has another problem, in it’s own “natural” echo, due to its canyon size area. They do basically the same movements at every show, so if you are seeing them for a second or third time, especially in the impersonal Garden, it could be less than you expected. ![]() The Garden is too big for that, and some of their “power” was lost in trying to reach the people in the rafters. Grand Funk had made a name for themselves with close personal contact in the shows they did in and around the New York area. Grand Funk came on to a big welcome and soon had won the people over with such favourites as “Are You Ready,” “Heartbreaker,” and their only popular single “Closer To Home.” The applause that “Closer To Home” got, showed that there was a young audience, because even though it is one of their best songs, it has a large “above ground” following. (Getting an encore from a Grand Funk crowd unless you happen to be Grand Funk, is not that easy.) They performed mostly tracks from their newest LP, and a very good “Lucky In The Morning,” and they got an encore. Bloodrock is produced by Terry Knight, formerly of The Pack, and most notably Grand Funk’s producer. A good rock group, that too few people know very much about. The crowd for this show was mainly the 14-year-old set, and they didn’t seem to recognise the FM Radio personality who introduced the acts, so the “bubblegum” was there and accounted for.īloodrock opened the show. Yet, there are some people, “heavy-music” people, who swear by them. Grand Funk is constantly put down as being a tenny-bopper “bubblegum” group over here. There was a very large crowd, not a sell-out, but an impressive gathering to say the least. A friend of mine, who didn’t have a ticket, simply waited until eight o’clock, allowing time for the scalpers to get worried, and got a $6.50 ticket for $4.00! Panic had set in and the runners were taking it on the pocketbook. ![]() So outside The Garden, there were scalpers running like crazy, trying to sell their wares. Ticket scalpers, obviously excited to over-action by the original sale, had gulped up a huge portion of tickets for this special show. The “bonus” performance was set for one week before the first one!!! GRAND FUNK RAILROAD sold out tickets for Madison Square Garden so fast that they immediately arranged another show at The Garden. Many believe that the band remains a glaring omission and deserving candidate for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Grand Funk had a very young audience at the time, but didn`t go over too well sonically in a large hall like the Garden. Frost had gone on to a 20 year career with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. The band broke up in 1976 but in 1996, Grand Funk Railroad's three original members once again reunited and played to 250,000 people in 14 shows during a three-month period. He also contributed significantly to Grand Funk as a songwriter, in partnership with drummer Don Brewer. Grand Funk scored its biggest hits after Frost joined the band in 1972, and his work is instantly recognizable on Grand Funk's #1 songs “The Loco Motion”, and “We’re an American Band". Frost expanded Grand Funk's "power trio" musical style, by adding another dimension to their music. In 1972 the band added Flint native Craig Frost. The band scored big in 1971 when they sold Shea Stadium in New York in 72 hours, far faster than The Beatles had only a few years prior. This iconic band from Flint shook the rock world with their brand of power riffs, hard driving beats, and classic lyrics. Sometimes called "America's first stadium band", Rolling Stone said “You can’t talk about 70’s music without talking about Grand Funk". ![]()
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