TCCDM Pulls One Out..."Grand Funk" - Grand Funk Railroad (1969)

"Grand Funk" - Grand Funk Railroad (1969)

     When I crank the volume on any Grand Funk album, I can get shit done!  Luv the vibe.  Luv the snapshot of the times.  I can't explain it.  The band gives me exactly what I need.  Turn this puppy up and I'm all in.  This Grand Funk trio can jam and sing just fine.  Better than haters would have you believe.  So just leave that hoity-toity, rock-n-roll snobbery in a blue barrel of a Waste Connections dropoff facility.  Drop the needle on this square...set it and forget it.   

I own every Grand Funk album from "On Time" to "Shinin' On".  They're in my blood.  You know what you're gonna get.  Schacher plays bass like a lead guitar.  Brewer hits drums like he's killing rats.  And Farner riffs and sings like he's waving down an emergency vehicle.  The band was a bulldozer and a wrecking ball and played like their lives depended on it.  Hard rock, blues rock, biker rock.  A mesh of force.  And Grand Funk's second album known as..."The Red Album"...is one of their best.  Either step in time or just don't hang around.  

"Grand Funk" - Grand Funk Railroad (back)

"Grand Funk" - Grand Funk Railroad
(inside gatefold)

Favorites include:
"Inside Looking Out"
"Paranoid"
"Got This Thing On The Move"

This copy is an original Jacksonville pressing indicated by the "0" stamped in the deadwax.  The lime green label has one variation:  a small "TM" right after the word Capitol. (Other versions have "(R)" underneath Capitol)  Grand Funk albums are almost always cheap pick-ups, but for me, "The Red Album" was the most difficult to find.  There has to be something in that Detroit water that makes bands wanna bump it up a notch.  Whatever it is, fill my glass.  Fantastic Mark Farner interview.

Capitol Records label

Cat #
SKAO-406
SIDE 1  DEADWAX
SKAO--1-406  X5  #2  0
SIDE 2  DEADWAX
SKAO-2-406  W4  #1  0

"Got This Thing On The Move" - Grand Funk Railroad / "Grand Funk" (1969)

TRACKS:
A1  "Got This Thing On The Move" 4:35
A2  "Please Don't Worry" 4:16
A3  "High Falootin' Woman" 2:58
A4  "Mr. Limousine Driver" 4:25
A5  "In Need" 7:53
B1  "Winter And My Soul" 6:35
B2  "Paranoid" 7:35
B3  "Inside Looking Out" 9:29

PERSONNEL:
Mark Farner - guitars, keyboards, harmonica, lead vocals
Mel Schacher - bass
Don Brewer - drums, lead vocals

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