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Originally Posted by Big_Daddy  Most of Mel Schracher's work with Grand Funk. In particular, Aimless Lady. |
Oh man! Hearing Mel Schacher's playing all over the
Closer To Home album when I was 12 years old was a real watershed moment for my musical career...although it probably took me several more years before I figured out what it was about that album that made my head spin and my bowels throb. But especially the trifecta punch of those first three opening tracks ("Sin's A Good Man's Brother", "Aimless Lady" and "Nothing Is The Same") with Mel's simultaneously fuzzed/farty/saturated and super-deep subsonic rumbly bass lines weaving in & out of the guitar parts (many years later I would identify his staunch refusal to ever double the guitar riff as being one of Mel's most attractive characteristics) while locked in to Don Brewer's ultra-dry, crisp drumming...
day-um, how could anyone resist?
