Initially coming to prominence following the bands performance at the Atlanta. We recorded in Miami, one thing was leading to another and it was all snowballing and happening for us. Grand Funk Railroad were one of the biggest US rock n roll acts of the 70s. We enlisted Todd Rundgren to work on the album - we wanted that commercial appeal Todd could give us with FM radio - he really understood what the sound of the time was. Grand Funk Railroad (also known as Grand Funk) is an American blues rock band that was highly popular during the 1970s, touring extensively and playing to packed arenas worldwide. "There were a lot of things going on where as long as we came up with something that was very commercially viable, it was going to hit, and this came and really took it over the top. We'd really come off of about a year of publicity in Rolling Stone and other music mags with publicity flying over our lawsuits with Terry Knight," Brewer explained. "The time was right, it was the summer heading for the 4th of July. The album that kept Grand Funk Railroad from #1? The Allman Brothers Band, Brothers and Sisters. They released 10 great rock and roll albums in a period of less than 10 years. The album, We're an American Band, released on July 15, 1973, peaked at #2 for two weeks in a row in September 1973. Grand Funk Railroad was one of the most popular rock bands in the world in 1974. Released on July 2, 1973, the tune had the good mind to rock up the charts, going all the way to #1 on the Hot 100 for the week of September 29, 1973. I worked out the chord structure and I brought it in to rehearsal one day and there you go - we just let it go from there. I went home and worked on the concept for a while and picked up a guitar I'm not really a great guitar player, I can play tow-finger chords and that kind of stuff. It was a true description and it kind of rolled off my mind. Legendary all-American frontman and guitarist Mark Farner was the engine that pulled the original Grand Funk Railroad to the top of the charts, and today he’s a platinum recording artist 30 times over. That's where the line came from, and the next thought I had was, 'We're an American band.' It wasn't to wave the flag or anything, it was just simply what we were. "So the thought came into my mind, 'We're coming to your town, we'll help you party it down.' That's really what we were doing - we were coming into town and we were the party. That's when the drummer/singer took the band's new manager's words to heart. "As we moved into 1972, FM underground radio was beginning to be very commercial, so they were looking for songs that were 3 minutes 30 seconds long. Having come up in the late 1960s free-form hard rock scene, Grand Funk Railroad was used to rocking out: "We were kind of riding along with the FM underground situation, so we were able to make 7-minute, 9-minute songs and we'd get the airplay because that was the in thing to do - we could get whole albums played," Brewer recalled.
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