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Grand Funk Railroad: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles

Bill Holdship, MOJO, August 1997

IT'S TOUGH to be hip all the time, or as Brian Wilson once said, "sometimes it hurts your head". So it wasn't at all unpleasant spending time with this Bic-flicking, decidedly un-LA audience — misplaced American heartlanders who probably still identify Beck as someone who used to play kickass guitar.

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