Music photographer/journalist, and production staff member of NewsChannel 9.
Whereas many classic-rock trios like Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and ZZ Top put bellbottoms on the blues, Grand Funk Railroad goosed R&B to create their own sound. The result was a rep as one of the ‘70s’ best live acts, a nine-albums-straight run of gold- and platinum-selling LPs, and big hits like “We’re An American Band,” “Closer to Home/I’m Your Captain” and “Some Kind of Wonderful.
I started going well, obviously I gotta come up with ideas, we’ve got to beat this guy [Knight]. He took all our money, he’s suing us, we were broke, and we had to make a transition to hit records. And then I came up with the tag “we’re an American band” simply because one day I was practicing the song and came out of my mouth, and it sounded great. [Laughs] You know, [sings] “We’re an American band,” that sounds great.
I learned a lot by playing with Seger because when I was playing with Grand Funk, I came up with all of the [drumming] stuff that I did by myself. Those are all parts of me. And when I started playing with Seger, he’s got probably five or six different drummers on all of his albums. There’s this guy and that guy, and this guy plays like this, and that guy plays like that.
Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick has been a member of Grand Funk Railroad for more than 20 years now. What’s something different about Bruce’s guitar playing that comes through with Grand Funk than his playing with Kiss back in the day? When we were coming up, we used to listen to the Black radio station Flint, Michigan that there was playing all of this great music. One of the things that they played all the time was the Soul Brothers Six [track] “Some Kind of Wonderful,” and so later on as we were progressing in our Grand Funk career, we started singing that song in the car from the hotel to the venue as a warmup song, a cappella. You know, [sings] “I don’t need a whole-lots-a money.
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