https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44hNwWCKgpI I want to reach out and touch the sky I want to touch the sun But I dont need to fly Im gonna climb up every mountain of the moon (And find a distant man a-waving his spoon)or (and find the dish that ran away with the spoon) Ive crossed the ocean, turned every bend I found the crossing near a golden rainbows end Ive been through magic and through lifes reality Ive lived a thousand years and it never bothered me Got no religion, dont need no friends Got all I want and I dont need to pretend Dont try to reach me, cause Id tear up your mind Ive seen the future and Ive left it behind
Zappa produced GFR's last album. from an interview by By Eve Brandstein http://afka.net/Articles/1976-12_Blast.htm ...I asked him how he felt about the '60s counterculture moving more and more into the mainstream. I pointed out that some examples of this move could be seen in the actions of a Bob Dylan doing a TV show, a Tom Hayden running for political office and a Frank Zappa producing Grand Funk Railroad. My premise was rejected immediately as misunderstanding the three events as being of the same nature. "Disconnect the idea that I am producing Grand Funk from the premise and I'd be glad to answer your question," he stated academically. I agreed and he told me. "Producing Grand Funk has nothing connected with moving into the mainstream. I heard their music and I liked them and I thought it would be fun to do. I hadn't paid any attention to them before. What I had heard about the group I'd read in newspapers and they're all full of shit. So there you are." It was a strong, matter of a fact reaction. I tried to defend myself a bit by pointing out that Grand Funk had a reputation. He cut me off quick and clean. "Well I've been given a reputation for being a certain kind of a person. Reputations are all manufactured by people in your end of the business who have little or no contact with facts." As a challenge I didn't take the remark personally. After a pause he continued. "It's been my experience with the press. I've been in this business for 11 years, done 100 interviews a year. That's talking to a lot of people. Out of those Interviews there's been maybe three good ones that came near what the conversation was. It never seems to come out right once it reaches print. I know for a fact that people who have reviewed Grand Funk albums sometimes don't listen to the albums. I know of one guy who did a review for Rolling Stone, where he took the cover of the All The Girls in The World Beware and set it up in front of the typewriter and wrote a review of the album but never played it. With that kind of shit going down and since I've had my fun and games with the press of the world, I was leery believing anything I heard about them. I went out there and listened to the to their material. They gave me some albums to take home to listen to and I thought about it. I went back to see how the material developed after they had rehearsed for two months. They were ready to record. I just took the stuff first hand and met the guys. I was surprised because everything I ever heard indicated that they were sub-morons and unmusical," he stated with the first laugh of the afternoon. Getting a little more friendly and warm he continued. "Shit, they play, they sing and they're great – nice guys. They had it together the first time I went to listen basic tracks right there at their studio. It was very much of a technical thing. I went and listened to how the band sounded and discussed with them what kind of a concept they had for the album. The one thing they wanted to stress more than anything else was to try and make the record sound like what the band sounds like. An unadorned effect. Most of the tracks were just the way they played them. They went for a feel on all of the tunes rather than produce everything into the ground. They did 11 tracks in four days and did all the vocals in a week."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMW1MOZbdLY Very..entering the city on a gloomy day to go to the bar you can never go to because its usually so crowded.
Jeez those guys and the industry worked hard to wipe 'ol Neil out of their history huh? i've even seen altered woodstock film, cutting him out, or making sure not to have him in the shot. His voice is distinct though, unmistakable in that upper harmony How about Crosby Stills Nash AND Young? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tpJy-5ccaI
Ty You Know i love those guys I seen them about Ten Times !! Met my most interesting Femme At a heep concert
You gotta turn this one up... Knock that dust off your speakers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIGKlicb8n0