Live: The 1971 Tour [Explicit Lyrics] [Live]

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Grand Funk Live: On Tour 1971 is a trip in the way-back machine to the very beginnings of arena rock, and it functions best if you keep that in mind. On Tour 1971 captures these prosaic rockers at the height of their powers, when they matched the record set by the Beatles by becoming the second rock band to sell out New York's Shea Stadium. Their artless, hard-charging playing and unfaltering energy--especially essential during those extended drum solos on "Inside Looking Out" and "T.N.U.C. "--capture the spirit of a generation in transition by shrugging off the baroque, meandering psychedelia and socially conscious trappings of '60s music and stripping it down to its bare, unvarnished, and unpretentious surfaces. Grand Funk Railroad were considered by fans to be a breath of fresh air--much like the Ramones would be later in the decade. But not everyone was a fan. After manager Terry Knight paid $100,000 for a huge billboard in Times Square in 1970 to promote their album Closer to Home, the backlash from critics and DJs caught fire, even before the band got off the ground. But GFR's popularity rose on the backs of fans. This mighty power trio toured the country relentlessly, bringing their artless brand of hard, blues-based rock to the masses time and time again. These 11 songs represent the band's swing through Chicago, Detroit, and finally Shea Stadium during a week in 1971, and they showcase the band in all their sweaty glory. Mark Farner tears into a song with the ferocity of a starved beast, his voice like Jack Bruce on steroids. Don Brewer, who began life as a jazz drummer, abandons all his high-brow leanings and thrashes out erratic, heart-topping beats, while former Question Mark and the Mysterians bassist Mel Schacher lays down a mighty foundation with his throbbing bass. This is head-banging at its finest, 15 years before the term was coined. While rather lacking in imagination, Grand Funk Railroad make up for it in sheer power. A raucous trip back in time, with the exception of their rather lackluster cover of the Stones’ "Gimme Shelter." --Jaan Uhelszki

Album Description
All previously unreleased live tracks recorded in 1971 from Chicago, Detroit & their sold-out appearance at Shea Stadium. 24-Bit digitally remastered. 11 tracks. 2002.

Tracks:

Intro
Are You Ready
Footstompin' Music
Paranoid
I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home
Hooked On Love
Get It Together
T.N.U.C.
Inside Looking Out
Gimme Shelter
Into The Sun

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Grand Funk Live: On Tour 1971 is a trip in the way-back machine to the very beginnings of arena rock, and it functions best if you keep that in mind. On Tour 1971 captures these prosaic rockers at the height of their powers, when they matched the record set by the Beatles by becoming the second rock band to sell out New York's Shea Stadium. Their artless, hard-charging playing and unfaltering energy--especially essential during those extended drum solos on "Inside Looking Out" and "T.N.U.C. "--capture the spirit of a generation in transition by shrugging off the baroque, meandering psychedelia and socially conscious trappings of '60s music and stripping it down to its bare, unvarnished, and unpretentious surfaces. Grand Funk Railroad were considered by fans to be a breath of fresh air--much like the Ramones would be later in the decade. But not everyone was a fan. After manager Terry Knight paid $100,000 for a huge billboard in Times Square in 1970 to promote their album Closer to Home, the backlash from critics and DJs caught fire, even before the band got off the ground. But GFR's popularity rose on the backs of fans. This mighty power trio toured the country relentlessly, bringing their artless brand of hard, blues-based rock to the masses time and time again. These 11 songs represent the band's swing through Chicago, Detroit, and finally Shea Stadium during a week in 1971, and they showcase the band in all their sweaty glory. Mark Farner tears into a song with the ferocity of a starved beast, his voice like Jack Bruce on steroids. Don Brewer, who began life as a jazz drummer, abandons all his high-brow leanings and thrashes out erratic, heart-topping beats, while former Question Mark and the Mysterians bassist Mel Schacher lays down a mighty foundation with his throbbing bass. This is head-banging at its finest, 15 years before the term was coined. While rather lacking in imagination, Grand Funk Railroad make up for it in sheer power. A raucous trip back in time, with the exception of their rather lackluster cover of the Stones' "Gimme Shelter." --Jaan Uhelszki

Album Description

All previously unreleased live tracks recorded in 1971 from Chicago, Detroit & their sold-out appearance at Shea Stadium. 24-Bit digitally remastered. 11 tracks. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Brought me closer to home.......2007-03-20

I forgot how great Grand Funk are until I bought this CD on an impulse. GF was my first live concert (and that means I have a soft spot for this Trio). This live recording sure showcases the bands talents well. I'll wager the music will bring back a flood of memories and emotions if its been awhile since you listened to them. Extremely period sounding record. Its hard to explain. Coupled with the "old fashionend" stage remarks made by Mark Farner (I imagine) sure bring me back. "..Working all day to make a nickel bag." When was the last time you heard that phrase--man? A very out-a-sight recording. A time capsule.

Wait a Minute Guys.......2007-02-02

It may have to do with memory , sequence , songs , details in the recording , etc ... but this has nothing to do with Their Live Album of the same time and space , which is just Fantastic ... The sound is just okey , the ... it`s not the same ... Just gave it away and ordered the Real Thing ... Not worth It ...

Take Me Back..........2006-10-19

I was in the Navy in 1969 and was training in the D.C. area. Late in the year "Time Machine" was getting alot of air play. I loved it! I was dating this pretty young girl working as one of many government administration assistants in Washington. This was pre-computer so there were lots of admin workers. She was very nice, proper, old fashioned and I liked her alot. I liked her so much that I bought her "On Time", GFR's first album. She really liked the gift and we listened to it while we made out on her couch. I eventually got mixed up with some another girl, not quite so prim and proper, if you know what I mean. (winky-dink) I never saw Miss Admin again. All I can say is that I really missed listening to that album. Everything GFR is 5-stars!

BRUTAL.......2006-08-28

By 1971, Grand Funk Railroad already had five LP's under their belts. In retrospect, it turns out to be the ideal point in time for compiling a live GFR album. 'Footstompin Music', which would emerge as a #29 hit several months after the music from this disc was recorded, was being previewed on the tour. While the liner notes quote lead vocalist and guitarist Mark Farner claiming, in 2002, "The song stays the same", none of these songs will ever again be played with the verve, sincerity, and energy they possessed as newborns in 1971. And to give you some idea of where the band was at in that epochal year, four of them are from an appearance at Shea Stadium (with Peter Frampton, Steve Marriot, and their Humble Pie co-horts doing the opening honors), and five from the Funk's backyard of Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. As such, we're spared some of the band's more commercial numbers ('Some Kind of Wonderful', 'Walk Like a Man' and 'Loco Motion', which charted well in 1973 and 1974), and indulged in their primitive hard-rock beginnings. The only loss would seem to be a rendition of the band's only #1 national hit, 'We're An American Band', which premiered in 1973.

'Live - The 1971 Tour' presents a wicked cross-section of sonic obliteration that was Grand Funk Railroad's forte. Even songs such as 'I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home' (a #22 hit in 1970) and their cover of The Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter', which feature some more subtle moments in their studio incarnations, are given heavy-handed treatments here. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, and indeed in a place like Shea Stadium it may be a necessity, but by the time 'T.N.U.C.' (with it's laborious Don Brewer drum solo) and the cover of The Animals 'Inside Looking Out' roll around, you may find yourself signaling Shea's umpire for a time out. Even the catchy chorus of the encore, 'Into the Sun' can't temper the mega-decibel onslaught.

Nearly every number on the disc features some appealing aspect, defeating the notion that GFR lacked diversity. 'Paranoid' opens with a dark, forboding texture, and plies us with a wicked wah-pedal lead from Farner. 'Hooked On Love' is actually a suite containing three distinct segments, a mid-tempo jaunt serving as the intro, a barreling up-tempo bridge, and the nearly falsetto "hooked on love!" vocal coda. 'T.N.U.C.' (a mysterious acronym to this day) is a take-no-prisoners rockfest, featuring testosterone-laden lyrics such as, "I know what you're tryin' to do... ain't gonna happen...". 'Get It Together' is mostly instrumental excepting the engaging "got to get it together" mantra as the coda. The opener, 'Are You Ready?', is predictably every bit as fast and furious, and BRUTAL as the remainder of the disc.

The album opens with the familiar Richard Strauss composition that serves as the opening theme for the Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, '2001: A Space Odyssey'. The music conjures up images that are both primitive and futuristic... a perfect analogy to the blend of music served up by GFR. Like other three-man-band's of the era, such as Cream and West, Bruce and Laing, the emphasis was on the power of rock, and the recording technology of the era is just barely capable of containing the wattage being generated here. However, with the entire tour being recorded, you can bet an abundance of quality recordings served as the pool these gems were gleened from. The recording (glorious in full 24-bit digital remastering) comes nicely packaged with a twelve page booklet detailing GFR's career and these particular tracks, and numerous period photographs and other artifacts. Best of all, since the disc has been picked up by BMG Direct Marketing, the price has been driven down to the $6 bare minimum. You can't ask for much more from a musical typhoon, whose echos are still surely reverberating somewhere.

This Is The Stuff.......2005-10-22

It was late 1969. I was a freshman in high school, and a certifiable rock'n'roll nut. A friend who lived across the street dragged a "portable" eight-track tape machine (it looked like suitcase and weighed 3-tons) to my house, jammed in a new cartridge (On Time) by a band I'd never heard of called Grand Funk Railroad, and said, "You gotta hear this..."

I admired the great rock icons of the 1960's, but to most of the people my age, the Olympians of rock's second movement were not our peers. The Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, et.al. made great music, music we younger boomers understood and enjoyed, but those people had long since dedicated themselves to playing primarily for our older brothers and sisters-not to us.

The Olympian Rockers were too serious. They had mythologies to live up to, or down to. Often they were not that much fun. They rarely-to-never toured, so we never saw them. Worse, they'd mostly gotten to the place where you couldn't dance to their music, you were supposed to just sit and listen to it. That was very bad, because when you're fourteen, dancing matters.

The older boomers (born between 1945 and 1954) despised the younger half of the generation (born 1955 through 1964) in that special way older siblings always hate their juniors. When the so-called "youth press" was not actively hostile to the second wave of the boom they were at least patronizing toward it. They dubbed us "teeny-boppers" and "microboomers," and published articles praising the music of boring aged drug burnouts-often guys who were actually 29 or even older. If those magazines wrote about microboomer bands at all, they always slagged them mercilessly. We used to speculate that the "youth press" was born old.

So, when my friend popped that eight-track of On Time into that refrigerator-sized "micro" stereo, I heard three young guys playing music that made sense to me. It was great! It was simple three-chord rock'n'roll, very heavy on the bass and drums that featured a pounding, hammering, sweaty rhythm that a dead warthog could dance to. It was like an epiphany.

I've often heard older boomers talk about the first time they heard the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper." The tale is told with the eye moist and the sound of senile rapture in the voice. It generally involves the term "revelatory" to describe the Beatles' greatest album. In 1969, I'd heard Pepper and I liked it a lot, but it was so very civilized and so self-consciously "artsy." The powerful, savage music made by Grand Funk Railroad was apparently the work of Neanderthals from the barely-civilized jungles of Flint, Michigan, located somewhere in an exotic place called "the rust belt" and it was way closer to "revelatory" for me and most of my peers.

But Grand Funk really were my peers. They were horney, angry, hungry for success, and played rock and roll like it mattered. News flash: it does.

Grand Funk made songs you could sing to your girlfriend, they made songs you could actually learn if you played guitar. Most importantly, they made music you could dance to. They were great.

This album catches the boys at what had to be the high point of their touring career: the original three musicians performing the core songs that made them great. Dig this album. Embrace this record. It's the stuff. You gotta hear this...

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[3 CD PACK] the Beatles in their own words A ROCKUMENTARY "Paul McCartney - Beyond The Myth / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [DELUXE EDITION] / Yellow Submarine (Songtrack) [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered] {{{see details below}}}
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An american band and work class heroes

Live: The 1971 Tour
Grand Funk Railroad
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Tracks:

Intro (Also Sprach Zarathustra)
Are You Ready
Footstompin' Music
Paranoid
I'm Your Captain
Hooked on Love
Get It Together
T.N.U.C.
Inside Looking Out
Gimme Shelter
Into the Sun

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An american band and work class heroes.......2003-08-05

Este CD es antologico, pues captura la esencia del sonido de ese muro tridimensional de musica que era GFR con sus tres originales integrantes. Notese los solos del batero Brewer que para esa epoca - y aun ahora - son vitales y muy originales. Los riffs de guitarra son contundentes propios del "dedos de piedra" Farner y reposan sobre un bajo de Schacher envolvente que aniquila cualquier vacio en ritmos y sonido. Este show del 71 es un buen complemento al "Caught in the Act" para felicidad de los fans.
Warning: En Hispanoamerica estamos esperando un DVD de este SUPERGRUPO....ON TIME!

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Limited Edition Collector's Package [CD & SILK 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 foot ZOSO BANNER] Physical Graffiti [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] {see product details below}
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ASIN: B000JI9BBM

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"SILK BANNER" is 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 foot, High durable, imported from Italy. "TRACK LISTINGS" Disc: 1 1. Custard Pie 2. The Rover 3. In My Time Of Dying 4. Houses Of The Holy 5. Trampled Underfoot 6. Kashmir Disc: 2 1. In The Light 2. Bron-Yr-Aur 3. Down By The Seaside 4. Ten Years Gone 5. Night Flight 6. Wanton Song 7. Boogie With Stu 8. Black Country Woman 9. Sick Again

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