GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - TOKYO 1982
http://www.upload.ge/download.php?id=E0D9746F12Track 01. Footstompin’ Music (6.8MB)
Track 02. Paranoid 11.5MB
Track 03. No Reason Why (7.8MB)
Track 04. Queen Bee (5.7MB)
Track 05. Closer To Home (8.3MB)
Track 06. Heartbreaker 13.9MB
Track 07. Mean Mistreater (8.4MB)
Track 08. We’re An American Band (5.7MB)
Track 09. T.N.U.C. 12.9MB
Track 09. T.N.U.C. (megaupload link)
Track 10. Inside Looking Out 20.8MB
Track 11. Locomotion (4.8MB)
Track 12. Gimme Shelter (9.6MB)
Track 13. We Got To Get Out Of This Place (8.2MB)
Grand Funk Railroad (or just Grand Funk) had a good run of albums from the beginning (On Time, 1969) till the mid-’70s (All The Girls In The World Beware!, 1974). The band broke up in 1976 and the three original members - Mark Farner (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Don Brewer (drums, vocals) and Mel Schnacher (bass) - only reunited in 1996.
In 1980/81, Grand Funk Railroad reformed with Dennis Bellinger on bass. According to the wikipedia, originally Schacher had planned to rejoin the band; however, because of reservations regarding the current management, he bowed out at the last moment, citing that he had developed a phobia concerning flying. This lineup released two albums - Grand Funk Lives (1981) and What’s Funk? (1983) - and broke up (again) in 1983.
The group might have been touring Japan behind Grand Funk Lives but it’s almost a greatest hits package with Paranoid, Closer To Home, We’re An American Band and Locomotion in the setlist. Even the then new single, Queen Bee, pales in comparison but the group still managed to pack a wallop with the Stones’ Gimme Shelter and The Animals’ We Got To Get Out Of This Place.
Thanks to the person who shared this show in 2005 and who noted: “This concert is from the short lived ’80s reunion of Grand Funk. Original bass player, Mel Schacher, opted out of the tour and was replaced with old friend Dennis Bellinger. This and an FM broadcast from the Agora Ballroom from November 1982 are the only recordings from this tour that I know of.”
In the past, Grand Funk might have gotten short changed by music critics but fans, and many in Asia, do have a soft spot for them. They know how to rock the house and, even with an oldie like Locomotion (now as much theirs as Gerry Goffin and Carole King’s), can bring a smile to your face. Not bad for a group that Rolling Stone magazine once called the world’s worst rock band.
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