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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <Rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Grand Funk Railroad |
| Date | Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:41:46 -0500 |
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I was on the front lines back in the early 70's and hated them then, perhaps
not so much now. The drummer, Don Brewer had a leaden foot and always was
behind the beat (not always bad I suppose), the bassist Mel Shacher was
actually pretty good and guitarist and main lead singer Mark Farner played
very fast and loud in a totally devoid of taste manner and pretty much
always sang flat in that wretched whine. No, I didn't dig them at all.
Still, Bad Time is a great song and that's about all you can ask out of a
band - one great song.
Favorite semi related event - my high school garage band Bastille made our
television debut in 1973 on one of those March of Dimes telethons. We played
our inept version of We're An American Band which started with just a
cowbell. As we started playing the tune the drummer was hitting that cowbell
with all his might. It slowly started sliding down it's stand and eventually
wound up pretty close to the floor. We had a hard time recovering from
watching the drummer stretch farther and farther trying to reach it.
We followed that with our version of Trouble, Trouble by Foghat which marked
my lead vocal debut. It was perhaps even worse. Thank God no one had VCRs in
those primeval days.
Bobby Sutliff
NP - a whole lot of XTC
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