Ahahahahahahah... "Novelties", how nice!
GFR/Death/Party
Double box set of noble rock 'n' roll mold
It should be shouted like they still do in those few genuine markets....
Up until about ten years ago, I wanted that for my noble death, a great party would be organized... a week, at least a three-day Rock Festival style from the sixties.
I had given a serious notice with appropriate writing to my most trusted friends.
I was convinced, and in my heart, I wanted to kick the bucket early, by 40 or thereabouts...
After my forties, I was in quite bad shape (visually excellent, internally terrible)... but then the Countess arrived. Everything changes, the noble Maiden duped me... no more dying, I will surely grow old, a true drama.
I can't become old, it's something that goes against myself... I don't know how to explain it, but it's like that. Not being able to say I WILL DO, both for age reasons and especially because I will no longer have the physical and mental strength, for me is the worst thing ever.
Like Rock 'n' Roll, as I mean it, this thing we are is a thing for the young.
When I hear people say “I can't wait to retire”... I feel bad and realize I see it completely opposite to most people. I can't wait not to get there.
Death is a grand thing, the true mystery, something to “live” intensely.
And to think that the very few flashes of my ugly childhood are really related, besides the family messes, to my childhood nightmares when I used to tell myself in my little room before falling asleep “I am nothing, we are nothing, we die without any hope and without leaving a trace” with my heart racing in my throat (and probably the first, unconscious, panic attacks); but then, back then, I thought they would invent the pill for immortality...
And yet the Party for Death had to be a beautiful thing because everyone knew that for me it was like that, zero dramas.
The tribute they had to pay me was to have fun, total noble madness. Absolute goliardry.
At the base, the Rock 'n' Roll in all its deviations, for all tastes.
The first band that my “head” - but especially the heart - has always associated with the Noble Event are my beloved Grand Funk Railroad.
There are many things that I don't know why I buy them... it might happen to you too, perhaps.
Double box set with the complete discography of the GFR, belisim!
That I already have them all is a mental “problem” that resolves in a couple of minutes.
Obviously, I take it.
I certainly won't be telling you about the entire discography of the Grand Funk Railroad, I don't even remember the titles in order. But the sound, I remember well because, like all the things you love, it sticks to your soul forever.
However, a few words for the future young debaserian rockers who might not know well the three guys from Flint, Michigan, and who, on the noble site, will find super reviews for every single album (sarced, p.p.farina, fedezan76, Rocknroll, etc.)
You absolutely need to own the entire discography of one of the most important bands of the genre. Every self-respecting rocker can't do without Them.
August '69 / November '70 - in just over a year, the first three studio albums and the first live album were recorded.
“On Time” - “Grand Funk” - “Closer to Home” - “Live Album”
An initial burst that no, and I say NO BAND, can boast in terms of quality/quantity ratio. Love, Doors, Zepp, Sabbath step aside, please.
Mark and Don were 21 years old and Mel was eighteen.
This alone should be enough to earn them a place in your heart.
They have a sound that to call mighty is not an understatement but a great bullshit.
The GFR grind and flatten everything like the “famous” and, this time never more perfectly indicated, steamroller.
They are savages in the noblest sense of the word.
The “fabulous” music criticism of the time could only judge them raw, coarse, and ear-splitting... as if these were defects then... oh no, for the “fabulous” criticism they are, true.
For me, they provide total enjoyment for the ears, for the soul, and for the hormones.
Now it's very simple, lucky you for this ease of action, but thirty years ago getting GFR records was a bloody struggle, and the news about them here was practically nonexistent.
In Europe, they would remain semi-unknown to the general public, while in America they were the only band capable of at least attempting to counter Led Zeppelin's supremacy on tours.
Then, in the next three years, another 4 studio albums. “Only” excellent ones, culminating with their greatest commercial success “We're an American Band” in which Craig joins the official lineup on keyboards.
“Survival” - “E Pluribus Funk” - “Phoenix” - “We're an American Band”
The group's sound becomes lighter, less brutal, the keyboards help to soften the sound; the atmosphere is no longer the same.
The "fabulous" music criticism of the time doesn't understand and doesn't support this change, too pop, they lost their
Feature... “but how?! Wasn’t it exactly what you hated?!”... Mysteries of the “fabulous” music criticism.
Another 3 years for the last 4 albums. Certainly not bad (apart from “Born to Die” decidedly bland), good albums, but the GFR we knew no longer exist.
“Shinin’ On” - “All The Girls In The World Beware!!!” - “Born To Die” - “Good Singin’, Good Playin’”
The gem of the last studio album “Good Singin’ Good Playin’” sees the production and collaboration of the genius of Uncle Frank Zappa who tries to relaunch the boys... but the magic is now over.
The gem instead of the last period of the discography is the second live “Caught In The Act”. Here we return to very high levels, I continue to prefer the first but it's really a matter of taste this time. Two live albums that enter the limited list of unforgettable albums by right, indeed by force.
It’s been a long time, actually never had I listened to the entire discography in a row...
After thirty years it remains a fascinating experience... that stays with you.
Ah, the Noble Party/Death, which will no longer happen because from 50 you're old doesn't count now....
I had given two unbreakable directives.
The piece that opened the dance had to be..... “My Generation” and the GFR had to be the absolute protagonists.
Fifty euros for the entire discography... what a noble gift!!!
Happy listening.
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