Old Enough to Forget

Hot on the heels of We're an American Band, Grand Fund teamed up again with producer Todd Rundgren and released Shinin' On in March of 1974.  The album is probably best remembered for the band's cover of "The Loco-motion" that took the Eva King classic written by Gerald Goffin and Carole King and turned it to eleven and delivered one of the greatest distorted guitar solos of all time. The album is short, just a little over half an hour and contained eight songs. Depending on how you look at it the album is pretty uneven and somewhat generic. However, then they were good, they were next level. The album opens with the title track, and that one is pretty great. The previously mentioned "Loco-motion" was the reason I picked up the album - well, that's not entirely true, it was in the dollar bin and in pretty decent shape - I would have picked it up regardless, but I was stoked to get the choo choo song. What I wasn't expecting was how unbelievably...

Grand Funk, without the Railroad. In 1973 The band released We're An American Band , and this was the song I remember from the radio as a kid. But it would take almost 50 years for me to get to the deep cuts on the album. I didn't really pick anything up by the band other than a greatest hits CD but I always like them, and my parents oddly enough had an 8 track copy of their live album I never knew they had, because apparently they didn't know they had it either, until I found it one day in a box in the closet. I remember it being awesome, with a drum solo that blew my mind. People tend to think of them as a trio, but on this Todd Rundgren produced effort they were officially four: Mark Farner, Mel Schacher, Don Brewer and Craig Frost, who had laid down keys previously on Phoenix , was now listed as a full fledged member of the band. Oddly enough after Grand Fund folded he would join the Silver Bullet Band with Bob Seger and stay there for a couple of decades. The album wa...