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Dec 1, 2020 · One cannot overstate how much Grand Funk Railroad were vilified by the rock cognoscenti, and this hatred still resonates today. In truth, the band weren’t particularly offensive or controversial, they were just considered to be musically dumb – spelt D-U-M-B – and that’s why people disliked them so much.
Bands from the Midwest, like the Stooges and MC5, often faced neglect or misunderstanding from larger coastal media centers, which could have contributed to the lack of critical acclaim for Grand Funk Railroad.
- Try to Be A Success
- Let’s Praise Every Person
- Grand Funk Meets The Press
- The Terrifying Burden
- A Weighty Analysis
- What Suzie Thought
Who can dislike a success story? Grand Funk Railroad is the biggest American rock group in history. In less than two years they have made five albums, each of which has sold over a million copies — the last two on the day of their release. On their most recent American tour Grand Funk played six concerts a week for seven weeks and took home an aver...
“Grand Funk is a Terry Knight product,” said E. H. Beresford (Chip) Monck, as he directed construction of the stage at Shea on a sunny afternoon the day before the concert. Chip is a long-boned gentleman with a mid-Atlantic accent who has staged the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, the Airplane, Woodstock, and both Fillmores, and now this. “I think tha...
On May 3rd, 1971, Mark, Mel, and Don “consented to talk with the US press” for the first time. Terry hired a big hall in the Gotham Hotel in New York and said he had invited 150 reporters. Only six showed up. They were dutifully filmed by the Maysles brothers (who were making a Grand Funk film until Terry cut off the money), and they asked question...
At 9:36 PM at Shea the boys walked onstage with their fists clenched above their heads, plugged in, and kicked off with “Are You Ready” — just like always. The song ran along on a single chord for a while at top speed, then broke to allow Mark a guitar solo: It consisted of only a few notes repeated endlessly, but with 6,000 watts of fuzz tone it g...
There really isn’t much mystery to Grand Funk. The audience for rock has become huge, and as with other mass entertainment, a promoter willing to appeal to the lowest common denominator can make a lot of money, at least for a while. A lot of harsh things have been written about Funk, citing their popularity as evidence of the moral decay of America...
Outside Shea after the concert I talked to Suzie, who goes to high school in Queens and who stood in line overnight to get her ticket. I asked her if there were any other groups for which she would have gone to such trouble. “Oh sure,” she said. Who? “Oh, Sea-train, Johnny Winter. You know. Anybody.” *Copyright Storybook Music Co. 1971. Used by per...
Mar 21, 2017 · The legal battle of the bands eventually resolved in February 1974 with a settlement reached in the 30-plus lawsuits. The band got to keep its full name, Grand Funk Railroad, while Knight got...
- Michael Berick
Jul 16, 2016 · darlings of fans and hated by most critics, grand funk was a great great band. they made music that people liked and they were wonderful in the live performances. they will probably never get into the rock hall, as rolling stone magazine (aka jann wenner) didn;t like them at all, although chicago finally got in so maybe someday, somewhere ...
There seems to be a band of imposters that use to be his backing band calling themselves Grand Funk Railroad with no less than THREE people to replace Farner!!! Not only are they cheating Grand Funks paying fans, but they are desecrating the hits that the original band (Farner)created.
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Mark Farner —co-founding singer-songwriter-guitarist of Grand Funk Railroad, a band that’s sold more than 25 million albums—has both kinds of stories. One is a doozy. It’s about him and Jimi Hendrix. “I knew Jimi,” Farner says, on the phone in our 2017 interview from his home in Petoskey, Mich. “Every time we were on the same bill ...
