From Mark Farner's debut album after the breakup of Grand Funk ( 1977 ).
This dude was ahead of his time, I do believe.
Update a short while later:
One of my posts made the Best of list and it was of Mark Farner here. The song was Social Disaster, which I described as prophetic. It describes this country's future to the tee and this was nearly 40 years ago.
Mark Farner made compromises in order to gain popularity. The Grand Funk cover of the Eric Burdon tune Inside Looking Out, was one of those compromises. Farner was (and is) against drug abuse, but he recorded a song that glorified drug abuse. That song help popularize Grand Funk, but Grand Funk was always hated by the critics. Why? Lots of people had their theories about this, but one of them could be that Mark Farner just wasn't one of them. He's traditional American to the core, despite the long hair, the rock and roll, and that Eric Burdon song. The critics knew this and hated him for it.
Not only that, he was way ahead of his time.
Update: Another pretty little song from that LP. What could have made that album sell better? Maybe nothing because I think it was being deliberately buried. No way they would accept a guy like this.
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