Grand Funk Railroad

The thing you need to know about GFR is that if a song's over six minutes long, it's good, if not totally awesome. 1969's On Time, the band's first record, has three long tunes, one of which is the great "Heartbreaker." On top of that, even the five-minute songs here rock hard. But in the end, it's all about "T.N.U.C." What does it stand for? Spell it backwards.

You cannot talk about rock in the 1970s without talking about Grand Funk Railroad. And
you cannot talk about Grand Funk without talking about the hate: how critics pissed on
them from an arrogant height. I saw Grand Funk very early on, playing for flies in
Philadelphia in December 1969, and I heard in their panzer-trio brio what the snobs did not.
Born in Flint, Michigan, of the same local, white-R&B lineage as Bob Seger and Mitc... More >