{"id":23718,"date":"2019-09-10T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=23718"},"modified":"2019-09-10T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:24:25","slug":"grand-funk-rail-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/grand-funk-rail-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Funk Rail Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3bnBL1OD0F8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>50 YEARS OF FUNK<br \/>\n\u201cYou cannot talk about rock in the 1970s without talking about Grand Funk Railroad!\u201d David Fricke, Rolling Stone Magazine<\/p>\n<p>Originating from Flint, Michigan in 1969, this top selling American rock group of the 70\u2019s is \u201cCOMIN\u2019 TO YOUR TOWN TO HELP YOU PARTY IT DOWN\u201d. Grand Funk Railroad is extremely excited to be touring in 2019 marking a 50 year milestone. After playing to millions of fans on the band\u2019s tours from 1996 to 2018, Grand Funk\u2019s 2019 American Band Tour will continue to reach both new and long-time fans.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201cThe American Band\u201d, the high-energy five-piece group will play forty shows all over the USA this year. Grand Funk Railroad includes original founding members Don Brewer (vocals and drums, writer and singer of the multi-million selling hit, We\u2019re an American Band) and bassist Mel Schacher, \u201cThe God of Thunder.\u201d Joining Don and Mel are true \u201cAll Stars.\u201d Singer Max Carl is a rock veteran from 38 Special. Max penned and sang 38\u2019s biggest hit \u201cSecond Chance\u201d and was co-founder of California\u2019s legendary Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. Don refers to Max as \u201cthe best blue-eyed soul singer on the planet. Lead guitarist Bruce Kulick is best known for his 12 years with KISS and has credits with Michael Bolton, Meatloaf and Billy Squier. (KISS members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley were influenced early on by Grand Funk.) Keyboardist Tim Cashion has a master\u2019s degree in music from the University of Miami. Affectionately called \u201cDr. Tim\u201d, his credits include stints with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band and English soul man Robert Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Funk laid the groundwork for such bands as Foreigner, Journey, Van Halen and Bon Jovi with its signature hard driving sound, soulful vocals, muscular instrumentation and forceful pop melodies. The fact that Grand Funk\u2019s legacy still reigns over the Classic Rock landscape fifty years after its 1969 birth in Flint, Michigan is a testament to the group\u2019s influence and staying power. Mega-hits We\u2019re an American Band, I\u2019m Your Captain\/Closer to Home, Locomotion, and Some Kind of Wonderful still receive continuous airplay on Classic Rock radio. We\u2019re an American Band has received notoriety in recent years being used in movie sound tracks and in television\/radio advertising. The huge hit was featured in a General Motors national TV ad campaign and in Disney\u2019s animated feature film The Country Bears. We\u2019re an American Band was featured in the Cuba Gooding Jr. film RADIO, and in the swash buckler SAHARA starring Matthew McConaughey.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally acclaimed Grand Funk has toured the world, selling out in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and South America. A 1971 performance at New York\u2019s Shea Stadium sold out faster than the Beatles. The group\u2019s widespread appeal is also evident in its prestigious recording achievements. Over their career, Grand Funk has had 19 charted singles, 8 Top 40 hits and two Number One singles (We\u2019re an American Band and Locomotion, both selling more than one million each). The group has now accumulated 13 gold and 10 platinum records with record sales exceeding 25 million copies sold worldwide. The most recent gold CD award was presented to the band for their greatest hits package Grand Funk Railroad the Collectors Series.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-talented band carries on the tradition of Grand Funk hits and creates a new chapter in the legacy of Grand Funk Railroad. GFR drew 25,000 people to their Molson Canal Series Concert outside Buffalo, 20,000 in Albany, New York, and 20,000 fans to downtown Orlando, Florida. EMI\/Capitol (Universal Music) released a new Grand Funk Greatest Hits package that includes a bonus DVD of rare concert footage. Grand Funk\u2019s 2018 tour was a huge success and now, with the group\u2019s 2019 American Band Tour, seasoned Grand Funk lovers and contemporary rock fans discovering the group for the first time will be able to celebrate 50 Years of Funk with GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 YEARS OF FUNK \u201cYou cannot talk about rock in the 1970s without talking about Grand Funk Railroad!\u201d David Fricke, Rolling Stone Magazine Originating from Flint, Michigan in 1969, this top selling American rock group of the 70\u2019s is \u201cCOMIN\u2019 TO YOUR TOWN TO HELP YOU PARTY IT DOWN\u201d. Grand Funk Railroad is extremely excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rock"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23720,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions\/23720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}