Caught In The Act [Remaster]

Performer: Grand Funk Railroad
Engineer: Carmine Rubino
Producer: Jimmy Ienner
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Grand Funk Railroad: Mark Farner (vocals, guitar, harp, organ); Don Brewer (vocals, drums, percussion); Craig Frost (keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Mel Schacher (bass, background vocals). Recorded live in Terre Haute, Indiana, Toledo, Ohio and Baltimore, Maryland in February 1975. Originally released on Capitol (11445). Includes liner notes by Steve Roeser. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Sonically, Grand Funk's second live album, 1975's CAUGHT IN THE ACT, is a major improvement over the one-dimensional sound of its predecessor, 1970's LIVE ALBUM. The performances throughout CAUGHT IN THE ACT are consistent and energetic, resulting in great versions of such GFR classics as "Footstompin' Music," "Closer to Home," "Shinin' On," and "The Railroad," as well as an album-closing cover of the Rolling Stones' classic, "Gimme Shelter." Unfortunately, Grand Funk Railroad would run out of steam not long after the release of CAUGHT IN THE ACT, breaking up one year later in 1976.

Homer Simpson may have captured the essence of Grand Funk Railroad in the SIMPSONS episode where he rhapsodizes about "Mark Farner's wild, shirtless lyrics, the bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher," and yes, "the competent drum work of Don Brewer." Emerging from the industrial town of Flint, MI, Grand Funk were a workman-like "people's band." They turned the Cream power-trio format into a stadium filling, larger-than-life experience that made them one of the most popular live acts of the early '70s. Their early albums were filled with amped-up blues-rock, but towards the end of their initial tether, they scored hits with covers of soul tunes such as "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "The Locomotion." IRS troubles contributed to their breakup in the late-'70s, but Grand Funk reunited with a vengeance in the '90s.

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