![]() ![]() In this part the Acoustic sustains chords while the Electric plays a Strumming) twice, like after the lead in the beginning.Īfter that the Electric comes in playing the same thing, but with Wah-Wah,Īnd then back to the D Dsus2 D Cadd9 strumming pattern for about 24 times.ĭuring this the lyrics go "I can feel the hand, of a stranger.".ĭ Csus2 D F6/C e| -2 -| -3 -| REPEAT the chords e| -2 -| -10 -|ī| -3 -| -3 -| 5 times B| -3 -| -10 -|Ī| -0 -| -3 -| Then play this A| -0 -| -| ![]() Then the Acoustic plays D and Cadd9 (just sustaining the chords, not Am I in my cabin dreaming, or are you really scheming,Ģ. Verse and then an additional 8 times with no singing.Īnd the bass plays 2 measures e|-1-|-(3)-|-1-|-0-| I think that you play the chord progression above about 9 times for EACH Lost now." and the other with "If you return me to my home port.". There are two verses with the chords above. But, keepĮ| -| the Electric's volume down. Is played, the lyrics come in, "Ev'rybody listen to me.".ĭ Dsus2 D Cadd9 e| -2 -2 -0 -2 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -| This is played about 11 times.ī| -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -| When the lyrics get to "I've been The Electric drops out and the Acoustic plays. Then Electric JOINS the Acoustic by playing the same chords, D and Cadd9.īut, the Electric uses Wah-Wah. Now the acoustic immediately jumps in with this chord progression: There is also a part where the electric uses a WAH-WAHĮ| -| -|ī| -0 -1 -0 -| -1 -| Is a small lead riff for the electric guitar at the very beginning, and it There is a combination ofĪcoustic and electric guitars in this song. You play the same chords for about 5 minutes. The very best is here, though.This is one of those songs that is impossible to sing while you are playing.Īlthough, if you know a decent bass player, then this song is great to play. For most, this single-disc collection will be more than adequate, but listeners looking for the complete Grand Funk story should check out Capitol's three-disc Thirty Years of Funk from 1999, or the four-disc Trunk of Funk, also from Capitol, released in 2002. Greatest Hits has all the essential jukebox fare (lacking only their so-so cover of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter"), including the clichéd but emotionally right "Heartbreaker," everybody's favorite guilty pleasure, the mock epic "I'm Your Captain," and a pair of pop-soul gems, the group's cover of the Soul Brothers Six's "Some Kind of Wonderful," and Mark Farner's best-ever song, the marvelous "Bad Time," which came complete with cellos and fuzz guitar. ![]() Distilled into a 14-track greatest-hits set like this one, it's easy to see that Grand Funk (they dropped - then re-added - the "Railroad" part of their name as the juggernaut rolled on) was essentially a singles band (although their albums did phenomenally well back in the day) with not a whole lot to say but a knack for saying it really well, which, when you think about it, is usually a sure ticket into the Top 40. Grand Funk Railroad took their veiled Motown/Stax influences and grafted them onto a fuzz-drenched hard blues-rock template, and muffler dragging roared out of Flint, Michigan like the little engine that could, confounding the critics and building an impressive record sales portfolio in the 1970s by giving their ardent, blue-collar fans no more and no less than what was expected of them. ![]()
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