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(More customer reviews)This CD is a wonderful testament to the power of early GFR. I will give a track by track review.
1. The introduction first has the fans chanting We Want Grand Funk then the recorded Sprach Zarathustra (2001) come on and stops and an announcer says. Welcome, Closer To Home, Grand Funk Railroad.
2. Are You Ready-Rocking version equal to Live album but faster paced.
3. Footstompin Music, this must be the survival version it is different than the regular version and really its like Footstompin Music on steroids. This one has a loner intro before the singing, it starts off with Don on Drums by himself and then Mel comes in and then Finally Mark on Keys. Its really cool. It is heavier then the normal Footstompin music. When Mark gets on the guitar he starts off like the normal guitar lick but then changes it up to sounds like a bit of inneed, it rocks. Mark's guitar is feeding back real easy so it must have been on eleven.
4. Paranoid-This version is real similar to Live album except Marks guitar playing is better, more crisp. Mark is on Fire on this one. I give this version a slight lead over the live album version.
5-6-7.-Medley I'm Your Captian/Hooked On Love/ Get it together. each song has a CD break (Unheard of course) so there song 5, 6 and 7 but its a medley. I mush prefer this medley to having mean mistreater on the CD. IYC starts off like the Caught in the act version at first but then Mark comes in with some cool chicken scratch guitaring and then they come to an end and start up IYC like the album version. Mark seems to sing in a lower key then normal (ever so slightly) which sounds cool, Mark and Dons harmonies are great as usual. About half way through the normal version then changes in a short rendition of Hooked on Love and then changes into Get It together. Really cool stuff.
8. T.N.U.C. -WOW 16 plus minutes the best version of the Drum solo I ever heard. Don is on Fire on this one. Totally Rockin version, at the 10 minute mark, Mark shouts everybody help us out, Mark and Mel hop on the drums as well. Drum thing 71 style.
9. Inside Looking Out-15:30 version Mark dedicates the song to all the people in Washington for you and me, and for everyone out that that smokes..... Similar version to one on Anthology, but better, its faster. Mel is just on fire on this one, he is throughout every song on the disk. This CD is so bass heavy its like all the music revolves around Mel's bass playing. It should be called Mel Funk Railroad Live in 1971. Marks guitar work rules on this one, it is much like the anthology version but better, Mark is very bluesy, then he is on fire, in a glorious feedback frenzy. This was what GFR was all about baby. There is even extra juice on the harmonica part. Then it ends in a distorted feedback frenzy. And the fans chant Grand Funk, Grand Funk. This is probably the best power trio version ever. But I will have to give it some time to be sure.
10. Gimme Shelter- (First encore) Kick but POWER TRIO version. Mark cooks, Mel Cooks, Don Cooks then all cook. Don sings it in a powerful way (and Mark does as well), Don and Mark's harmonies rule. 7 plus minute version. Don is just pounding his drums as he sings, incredible. Mark starts at the half way point to go nuts on the guitar and rips off some fast playing. Then Mark holds a long distorted note and GFR keeps it going as they bring the song back up. And then Mark comes back in again with some home cooking fast frenzy guitar playing, then into all kinds of stuff-wait until you hear it. Easily the best GFR version ever.
11. Into The Sun- (final encore) the cool long version. Much the same type of version like Live album; but not all the lopped audience noise tracked over Marks guitar, this version beats live album hands down. Much clearer thren live album, and Mark is ON FIRE! Mel is ON FIRE. Don is on FIRE. But this is Mark's song to shine and he is shinin on baby. The most obnoxious guitar work you will ever hear, it rules. And no audience noise to block it out. I absolutely LOVE it! Boy this is the most fun I have had listening to old GFR in three years. 71 had to be the peak live year for GFR. I hope capitol Get's video out of the 1971 tour!
The CD sounds Great David Tedds rules he and his team did a wonderful job. The 24 bit remastering allows one to hear all the distortion in its meant for hearing glory. Its 79 minutes that will fry your brian. Get ready. 79 minuets of wild Guitar Playing; 79 minutes of pounding drums; 79 minutes of throbbing bass playing. This CD is a GFR fan's dream come ture. Get ready to ROCK.
RickDC FNUK Cappetto
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All previously unreleased live tracks recorded in 1971 from Chicago, Detroit & their sold-out appearance at SheaStadium. 24-Bit digitally remastered. 11 tracks. 2002.--This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
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