![]() ![]() The most undiluted (and undeluded) studio Grand Funk LP of them all, “On Time” is a remarkable showcase of insane quantities of torque applied to thunderously solid soul updates via West amplification, whipping out a stripped-down and tight set of electric showstoppers with no keyboards, no horns and no jive. ON TIME.” (Rejected 1969 CREEM magazine print ad for Grand Funk Railroad’s “On Time” album by Brother Terrance Knapp, Chairman, Flint University Corporation of Kool-aid) WALKER, BLUE CHEER, MITCH RYDER, ARCHIE BELL, MAE WEST, PETER WHEAT & THE BREADMEN, THE BOB SEGER SYSTEM, THE NEW COLONY SIX.Their work shall not be in vain. IN THE STREETS (in the streets!) that verily, this majestic trio of MARK, DON, & MEL would be known forevermore as GRAND FUNK RAILROAD (but mostly, just plain ol’ GRAND FUNK what with brevity being the essence of wit as well as the PEOPLE IN THE STREETS don’t go for that unnecessary baggage of three extra syllables) and would stride manfully upon a multitude of Aquarian festival stages and sports arenas to stomp their simple message of brotherhood out over and over again in live performance and through monochromatic workaday sleeves of black, red (and sometimes a touch of moodest indigo, Jones) so that we can all see, feel, hear, touch that we ARE ALL brothers and sisters.And aim to raise a righteous shield against the machinations of the man every day, aided by the perfect soul discharges of these three Michiganian superdudes that will carry on the work of those worthies who came before and strode the rock’n’roll landscape like giants: THE CREAM, THE EXPERIENCE, J.C. “Reborn like a phoenix from the ashes of The Pack came forth MARK: wielding Messenger guitar, mighty pipes and bare biceps DON: 6 foot 4 of the rock solid big beat, tree trunk sticks topped off by a perfect Afro with attached sideburns flanked by the killer precision Fender bass/West amplified fingered prowess of glowering, wraparound beard’n’Manchu-mustachioed MEL and coordinated by TERRY “Good” KNIGHT, they ventured forth from the corn and car infested heartland of Flint, Michigan with a message.A message FOR THE PEOPLE. ![]()
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