Grand Funk Railroad remains active with Brewer and Schacher still in the band.Īt any rate, let’s review this classic band and songs! Grand Funk We’re An American Band / Creepin’ Single Review The Todd Rundgren produced album featured singer and guitarist Mark Farner, singer and drummer Don Brewer, Mel Schacher on bass and Craig Frost providing the organ, clavinet, electric piano and synthesizer. Of the band’s 13 studio albums, band name Grand Funk Railroad was used on just five. Known as Grand Funk or Grand Funk Railroad, this eight-song album used the Grand Funk band name. “We’re an American Band” and “Creepin’” appeared on the band’s seventh album We’re An American Band from 1973. The “Creepin'” side of the Grand Funk Railroad single Thus, someone could have tossed it there (for whatever reason) or maybe it fell out of backpack and it waited for me to retrieve on top of dry soil. However, the record shows no sign of having residual mud, the label on one side (“We’re An American Band”) looks near flawless as does the vinyl while the flip side label (“Creepin'”) has some rips and a pretty gnarly scratch on the vinyl. I have always wondered how the record was buried only for the hill slide to unearth it (however many years later), which leads me to believe I carefully remove it from the ground. My memory of retrieving the vinyl record has me pulling it from the mudslide though I don’t exactly remember if it was simply on top or partially encased in dirt. And what did I find? A Grand Funk (or Grand Funk Railroad) 45 record single for “We’re An American Band” and on the B side “Creepin’.”
Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s one of the hills down the street from my house slid into the street. So, what does all this have to do with Grand Funk Railroad? My dad put plastic on the hill at least once after the slide but he also created a drainage system for the backyard and began covering the backyard lawn with plastic which he believed contributed to over saturating the hill behind our house. You wouldn’t lose your home if the hill went but the cost to have the hill reconstructed wasn’t exactly cheap. This left many homeowners gambling with fate because no hard and fast rule existed to knowing the amount of rain necessary to dump your hill, and putting up the plastic was a day long job, not to mention, a bit treacherous. However, you could take proactive measures to prevent your hill from sliding by covering it with plastic. This no doubt caused my dad untold stress every year thereafter.
#Grand funk railroad wait for me free#
The rain might set free the hill behind one house but spare the next door neighbor. I lived on a hillside neighborhood and when the rains came, and hung around a bit, these super-soakers would saturate the ground resulting in a tornado like choosing of whose hill would slide. Such was the case during the occasional winter while growing up in Orange County. And sometimes when the rain rolls through a torrential downpour plays out. Despite the sunny confines of Southern California, sometimes rain rolls through.
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