I am unironically a big fan of Grand Funk Railroad.
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Critics were never going to be enamored with them, but they played the best songs they knew how to write and did it with excitement and energy. The way my dad explained it made it seem like they were the Nickelback of the time nothing extraordinary, nothing groundbreaking (perhaps during a time with many incredible bands) and appealing to the blue collared working man. Always in sync and always playing off of each other. You also mentioned the powerful rhythm section of Don Brewer and Mel Schacher, which is a highlight as well. Farner's lyricism can be a little hokey ("some folks need an education/don't give up or we'll lose the nation"), but his guitar playing and songwriting is incredibly catchy and hard hitting. Grand Funk definitely gets a weird reputation, but some of their songs are killer, specifically the epic "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home." Their red album is, in my opinion, filled to the brim with all killer, no filler. They actually performed at a local county fair a couple years ago and I made it a point to see them in his memory. One of my dad's, and then one of my own, favorite bands. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it and can definitely see myself cruising down to highway blasting the album out my windows, but it got me thinking how did these guys seemingly disappear? Am I alone in never really hearing about this band? Do any more serious fans or people who were around back in the 70s have any insights into why this band doesn't seem to be remembered as much as a lot of their contemporaries? There were some pretty kickass guitar riffs, I generally liked all the tunes, and the closing track featured this massive symphony playing with the band that sounded a little over dramatic at points but certainly powerful. The bass and the drums were absolutely thunderous, a lot of the drum fills in particular really caught me off guard. A couple weeks ago, I picked up a copy of E Pluribus Funk on vinyl for 50 cents and I was kinda blown away. They just weren't a band that got talked about by anybody I knew. My dad's a huge classic rock guy and I don't think I ever heard him talk about Grand Funk. When I was growing up, I only ever heard Grand Funk Railroad mentioned by Homer Simpson.
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