'79, a frisbee, some weed
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back in the mid to late seventies me and my older brother kurt used to throw a lot of frisbee in the street in front of the house. one hot summer day he stuck the speakers in the open front windows facing out and cranked this abum... a little herb may have been smoked as was the way back then.... it was such a way more tolerant era overall. back in the late 70's public herb consumption was fairly normal.
cranking music out on the street like that today would likley get you arrested.
anyway, fire up something tasty, grab a reel to reel deck or an 8 track, climb into a 78 camero, and crank this one up . . . i still love this whole album. probably because of the memories but also because it has some really good songs, loose but good playing, funk influenced but rock, and there's nothing slick about it. just rock, just tasty 70s rock.
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How long is that song? I like, but I am never certain how it makes me feel especially as it winds down/out. It definitely gives me a little twinge of sadness, which is okay. The peaks ain't so grand when I don't have any valleys to trvel through.
oh trane, this brings back many happy memories, yes universal herb, communal music, many happy days (daze). are you reelin' in the years....oh yes. thanks for a lovely moment!
The red button ain't workin' for me, but that's OK. This song is as fresh in my memory as if I'd heard it five minutes ago. At the time, Grand Funk struck me, simultaneously, as the great democratizer of rock and the great dumber-down. As some other songwriter (whose name, for some strange reason, escapes me at the moment) put it. "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now...."
for those of you who remmber STEREO i should have started you out with the first track of the album pasting in the audio link here
Unfortuneately you need to go into html and insert the mp3 link minus the punctuation and surrounded by <,>
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Music freezes time..nice sculpture you made with it..
Ah thanks for getting me closer to my home captain. I was clearly born in the wrong time. Excellent song. I've never heard it before but I don't think I'll forget it. Stereo had a better quality to it back then. You can totally tell if you play older tracks in a nice immersive sound environment. It's like taking a bath in sound.
One of those records that has definitely benefited from digital and CD. This never sounded that good in the day and it's a revelation. This brings to mind one of the better Simpsons jokes, when Homer is describing teh virtues of Grand Funk to Bart: "The bong rattling bass of Mel Schacher"....
I must disagree, in that music is still being pumped into the streets. Unfortunately, it's of inferior quality and comes out of cars, not apartment windows.