This growing dissatisfaction led Grand Funk Railroad to fire Knight in early 1972. E Pluribus Funk celebrated the Shea Stadium show with an embossed depiction of the stadium on the album cover's reverse.īy late 1971, the band was concerned with Knight's managerial style and fiscal responsibility. Survival and E Pluribus Funk were both released in 1971. Following Closer to Home, The double disc Live Album was also released later in 1970, and was another gold disc recipient. īy 1971, Grand Funk equalled the Beatles' Shea Stadium attendance record, but sold out the venue in just 72 hours whereas the Beatles concert took a few weeks to sell out. The band spent $100,000 on a New York City Times Square billboard to advertise Closer to Home. That album was certified multiplatinum despite a lack of critical approval. In the spring of 1970, Knight launched an intensive advertising campaign to promote the album Closer to Home. The hit single " I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)", from the album Closer to Home, released in June 1970, was considered stylistically representative of Terry Knight and the Pack's recordings. Despite critical pans and little airplay, the group's first six albums (five studio releases and one live album) were quite successful. In February 1970 a second album, Grand Funk (or The Red Album), was awarded gold status. In August 1969 the band released its first album titled On Time, which sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold record in 1970. Patterned after hard-rock power trios such as Cream, the band, with Terry Knight's marketing savvy, developed its own popular style. After a raucous, well-received set on the first day of the festival, Grand Funk was asked back to play at the 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival II the following year. First achieving recognition at the 1969 Atlanta International Pop Festival, the band was signed by Capitol Records. Knight soon became the band's manager and also named the band as a play on words for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a well-known rail line in Michigan. Grand Funk Railroad was formed as a trio in 1969 by Mark Farner (guitar, keyboards, harmonica, vocals) and Don Brewer (drums, vocals) from Terry Knight and the Pack, and Mel Schacher (bass) from Question Mark & the Mysterians. More than 50 years later, he commands the stage with the same intensity, performing epic hits that defined a generation.A Grand Trunk Western Railroad bridge (located at 42★9'56.2"N 83☄1'35.6"W) in Grand Funk's hometown of Flint, Michigan, that was re-painted to instead show the band's name, as well as the first names of founding members Mark Farner and Don Brewer, and early 1980s bassist Dennis Bellinger Formation (1969) "We're An American Band", "Some Kind Of Wonderful" and "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" helped define 1970s rock and roll.įarner wrote more than 90 percent of the GRAND FUNK music catalog and was always known as an energetic driving force on stage, the engine that pulled the original GRAND FUNK RAILROAD to the top of the charts.
Rock Hall rules state that artists become eligible a quarter century after their first records were released, but the Hall also claims that other "criteria include the influence and significance of the artists' contributions to the development and perpetuation of rock 'n' roll," which is, of course, open to interpretation.Įligible for induction since 1999, KISS didn't get its first nomination until 2009, and was finally inducted in 2014.ĭEEP PURPLE was eligible for the Rock Hall since 1993 but didn't get inducted until 2016.Įligible since 1994, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD released 11 albums between 19, all of which went gold or platinum. It's politicized, and, brother, it just ain't real."
'Cause without the people's opinion, it's fake. "You know something? I feel great about receiving the Cherokee Medal Of Honor," he said, referring to the award he received from the Cherokee Honor Society during a 1999 concert he performed in Hankinson, North Dakota. I read some stuff that I just feel for him. And Steve Miller didn't have a good time there. That's what it is, and it is super political. They need to be reminded, though, that the Rock Hall is not a representation of the will of the people it is a representation of the will of the owners of the Rock Hall.
And the people are definitely smart enough to know this. He responded (see video below): "Well, it just shows the illegitimacy of that Rock Hall.
In a brand new interview with Sofa King Cool, former GRAND FUNK RAILROAD singer Mark Farner was asked how it feels to see various rap and hip-hop artists inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame before the band he co-founded more than five decades ago.
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