Thirty Years of Funk: 1969-1999 [Box]

Performer: Grand Funk Railroad
Producer: David K. Tedds (Compilation)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Besides including the entire Grand Funk Railroad hit catalog and the key album tracks you'd expect, this 1999 3-disc box set also contains a wealth of unreleased material. Classic rock staples as "We're An American Band," "I'm Your Captain," and "The Loco-Motion," are the obvious attraction here, but longtime fans will be fascinated by such oddities as pre-GFR tracks, studio outtakes, and a few cuts from the band's successful 1998 reunion. With a total of 45 tracks, 30 YEARS OF FUNK shows why Grand Funk was one of the most popular and enduring U.S. rock bands of the early '70s.

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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