Grand Funk Railroad

It seems that we are all going to have to come to terms with Grand Funk. They may well be
the most popular band in the world, in spite of the fact that they've been almost universally
panned by the rock press and other supposed molders of taste. And the group is
apparently so sensitive about that that they now refuse to see writers. It would be too easy
to say that Grand Funk's stupefying ascendence is the direct result of their unac... More >

For about a year I've been saying that people aren't stupid, that there has to be something new about this music, and of course there is--it Americanizes Led Zeppelin with a fervent ingenuousness that does justice to the broad gestures of mass art. But now I read where various men of taste, having reached similar conclusions, claim in addition actually to like the stuff. That's going too far. (Grade: C)