Just when I’d come to believe I was safe from ever seeing or hearing anything about Grand Funk Railroad again [this video comes along]. They represented the first true crack in the Baby Boomer Counterculture Divide. If you were 17 when they appeared (which I was), you hated them. If you were younger, you loved them. Actually, though, that’s not quite true — more than an age division, GFR represented a Class Division among the Baby Boomers, which still exists ’til today. GFR was the Tea Party of the ’60s — blue collar guys in Flint, Michigan, who were being screwed by General Motors and voting Republican, anyway.
Just when I’d come to believe I was safe from ever seeing or hearing anything about Grand Funk Railroad again [this video comes along]. They represented the first true crack in the Baby Boomer Counterculture Divide. If you were 17 when they appeared (which I was), you hated them. If you were younger, you loved them. Actually, though, that’s not quite true — more than an age division, GFR represented a Class Division among the Baby Boomers, which still exists ’til today. GFR was the Tea Party of the ’60s — blue collar guys in Flint, Michigan, who were being screwed by General Motors and voting Republican, anyway.
