The band ended the night with a smiling, happy crowd. Looking around the crowd, all I saw were happy and smiling faces. This is a Grand Funk Railroad that is still great, just a little different. All in all, it was a very good night with a mix of old and new. By purchasing or otherwise accepting a ticket to this Event, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of. This brought back the memories everyone has of blasting down the road, head banging the summer nights away, air guitaring the well-known notes of our youth. 21+ only, No Audio, No Video, No Refunds. The encore of “We’re An American Band” had most of the crowd on their feet and enjoying the moment. Find upcoming concert tour dates, ticket prices and view. These past two decades have seen a steady lineup up of original drummer/vocalist Don Brewer, original bassist Mel Schacher, vocalist/guitarist Max Carl, guitarist Bruce Kulick, and keyboard player Tim Cashion, but notably missing is founding guitarist/vocalist Mark Farner. Recorded at Cleveland Recording Company, the album was produced by Terry Knight and engineered by Ken Hamann. Buy Grand Funk Railroad tickets for upcoming performances at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI. Controversy has surrounded Grand Funk Railroad for the last twenty years. The album was released on Decemby Capitol Records, just four months after their debut album On Time. The amazing thing is they are also the soundtacks to our kids’ lives. Grand Funk (commonly known as The Red Album) is the second studio album by American rock band Grand Funk Railroad. We all knew these songs because they are the soundtracks of our lives. When Carl started with “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home),” it quickly turned into a sing-along. The Mohegan Sun Wolf Den is an intimate venue with only a couple hundred seats, therefore artists and audience interactions are easy.
“Some Kind of Wonderful” and “The Loco-Motion” went over great and had fans up and dancing. Mel Schacher and Tim Cashion with “Inside Looking Out,” then Bruce Kulick coaxed his guitar through the electric version of the Star Spangled Banner. Don Brewer threw down about a 10 minute drum solo that he pulled off flawlessly and was a crowd pleaser. The night started out with “Bottle Rocket,” “Rock & Roll Soul” and “Footstompin’ Music.” Mid-concert was “Second Chance,” a tribute to Carl’s earlier days with. With 45 years of history, how do you pick a mix that can please everyone? The band has fine-tuned the collection to give each member a small tribute to their roots, keep the mainstream “bread and butter” hits in the mix, and still come in at a little under an hour and a half.
Singer Max Carl comes as close as I think anyone can.Ĭurrent Grand Funk members have long pedigrees and fan followings of their own so they sounded right and engaged freely with the audience. I admit it’s not and never will be the same band selling out stadiums in the 1970s and that Mark Farner’s energy and sound is no longer part of the band. Despite a uniformly bad reception from the press and initial cold shouldering from radio DJs, Grand Funk Railroad became the ultimate word-of-mouth legend, emerging from a nonpaid opening gig at the Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4, 1969, to rack up 10 platinum albums and a host of Top-40 singles. Those expectations were met and frankly exceeded. As someone who saw them for the first time in 1970, I came into tonight’s show with high expectations. Yes, we all know it’s not the original band, but there will always be the Grand Funk of then and the Grand Funk of now. The driving tempo of Mel Schacher's viscous lead basslines on "Aimless Lady" and "Nothing Is the Same" adds a depth when contrasted to the soul-stirring and somewhat anthem-like "Get It Together." The laid-back and slinky "I Don't Have to Sing the Blues" also continues the trend of over-the-top decibel-shredding however, instead of the excess force of other bands, such as MC5, Grand Funk Railroad are able to retain the often-elusive melodic element to their heavy compositions.Grand Funk Railroad rocked the Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun. The majority of Closer to Home is filled with the same straight-ahead rock & roll that had composed their previous efforts. Most evident is the inclusion of strings, the acoustic opening on the disc's leadoff cut, "Sins a Good Man's Brother," as well as the comparatively mellow "Mean Mistreater." But the boys had far from gone soft. Rather than rushing headlong into their typical hard, heavy, and overamplified approach, Grand Funk Railroad began expanding their production values. Closer to Home, the trio's third album, was the record that really broke them through to the commercially successful level of metal masters such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
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