“We needed to make a transition from FM underground radio to the new FM hit radio format in 1972. “It really just sounds like a hit record, doesn’t it?” Brewer said. The title track of their next album, “We’re An American Band” (1973), was their first No. They were signed by Capitol Records for the album “On Time” (1969), followed by a string of platinum sellers, “Grand Funk” (1969), “Closer to Home” (1970), “Survival” (1971) and “E Pluribus Funk” (1971), as well as a sixth album, “Phoenix” (1972), that went gold. As music changed in the late ’60s from being a pop AM format, it became heavy rock with Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Blue Cheer, those three-piece power trios were happening, so we decided to make that change as well. “We experimented with some different things. “We had been several bands before Grand Funk,” Brewer said. We’ve been touring with this band for 22 years.”įormed in Flint, Michigan in 1969, Grand Funk Railroad was formed as a trio of Brewer (drums, vocals), Schacher (bass) and Mark Farner (guitar, keys, harmonica, vocals). 38 Special is playing guitar and singing lead, Bruce Kulick from Kiss is playing guitar, Tim Cashion from Bob Seger’s band is playing keyboards and singing backup.
“We’re joined by some great people: Max Carl from. “Me and Mel Schacher are the original founding members of Grand Funk,” Brewer said.
Here we go!”īrewer and bass player Mel Schacher are the two remaining original members. We were very fortunate to kick off this new ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’ tour, which was postponed in 2019. “It was a long year and a half sitting at home waiting and wondering whether we’d be able to get back to some kind of normal touring again. “We got going again around the beginning of July,” Founding Drummer Don Brewer told WTOP. The classic rock band rolls into Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races on Friday. Grand Funk Railroad is still chugging, coming to your town to help you party it down.
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