Grand Funk Railroad

   
Artist: Grand Funk Railroad

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   funk
   

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Discography:


   
 What's Funk?

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Grand Funk Lives

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 10


   
 Good Singin' Good Playin'

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 12


   
 Born To Die

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 12


   
 Caught In The Act

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 13


   
 Shinin' On

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 10


   
 All The Girls In The World Beware!!!

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 10


   
 We're An American Band

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 12


   
 Phoenix

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 10


   
 E Pluribus Funk

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 11


   
 Survival

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 7


   
 Grand Funk

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 8


   
 Closer to Home

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 8


   
 On Time

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 10

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One of the 1970s' nearly successful backbreaking rock and roll bands in spite of vital pans and slightly loath radio airplay (at number one), Grand Funk Railroad reinforced a devoted fan base with constant touring, a loud, wide-eyed take aim on the blues-rock might threesome good, and stiff wage-earning appeal. The band was formed by Flint, MI, guitarist/songwriter Mark Farner and drummer Don Brewer, both old members of a local band called Terry Knight & the Pack. They recruited one-time ? & the Mysterians bassist Mel Schacher in 1968, and Knight retired from playing to suit their manager, naming the mathematical group after Michigan's long-familiar Grand Trunk Railroad.


They performed for rid at the 1969 Atlanta Pop Festival, and their energetic, if non technically skillful, record lED Capitol Records to sign them at once. While radio shied aside from Grand Funk Railroad, the group's strong work ethical code and committedness to touring produced a series of big-selling albums o'er the succeeding few age; five-spot of their octad releases from 1969 to 1972 went platinum, and the others all went gold. Meanwhile, Knight promoted the band sharply, passing so far as to rent a Times Square billboard to advertize Finisher to Home, which off knocked out to be the band's number 1 multi-platinum album in venom of a backlash from the rock press. However, Grand Funk Railroad dismissed Knight in March of 1972, world Health Organization promptly sued; the dance orchestra exhausted nearly of the year in a court engagement that concluded when they bought Knight extinct.


Keyboardist Craig Frost coupled the group for the Phoenix LP at the end of 1972. Following that album, the band's name was officially sawn-off to Grand Funk, and the group ultimately scored a prominent arrive at exclusive (number one, in fact) with the title track of the Todd Rundgren-produced We're an American Band. The follow-up, Shinin' On, contained some other figure i pip in a remaking of Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion." However, following Grand Funk's following album, All the Girls in the World Beware!!, interest in the group began to wane. Reverting back to Grand Funk Railroad, they remained together in 1976 entirely to work with manufacturer Frank Zappa on Good Singin', Good Playin'. Farner left for a solo life history, and the residuum of the stripe released an album as Flint with guitarist Billy Elworthy.


Grand Funk Railroad re-formed in 1981 with Dennis Bellinger on bass and released two albums; alone Lofty Funk Lives even managed to scrape the bottom of the charts. The group disbanded once again, with Brewer and Frost joining Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band and Farner embarking on a fresh life history as a CCM artist; his "Isn't It Amazing" was a number two gospel truth arrive at in 1988. In 1997, Grand Funk Railroad reunited once once again to record a benefit record album titled Bosnia-Herzegovina; deuce age later, Capitol issued a three-disc box place retrospective, 30 Years of Funk: 1969-1999.