Description
Offered for sale is a yellow/brown swirl vinyl pressing of We’re an American Band by Grand Funk, including the custom inner sleeve and sheet of four stickers.
Most original copies of this album were pressed on yellow vinyl, but a few red, brown, or swirl vinyl copies have appeared over the years.
About this copy: This copy of We’re an American Band is a 1973 U.S. pressing on the Capitol label.
The cover is VG, with general wear and some edge and corner wear. This album is prone to cover wear; we’ve never seen a mint cover.
The original black inner sleeve is included; it’s VG with splits on three sides. The sticker sheet is M-.
The yellow/brown swirl vinyl disc is VG++ with a couple of light hairlines, but no significant marks. There are a number of spindle marks on the labels. It’s a clean disc that has been played often but has been treated with care.
A nice copy of a rare variation of a classic album.
Background: We’re an American Band was the seventh studio album by Grand Funk, and the album reached #2 on the American album charts, helped by the title track, which reached #1 on the charts as a single.
Allmusic.com gave We’re an American Band a 4 1/2 star review:
We’re an American Band sounded nothing like its muddy, plodding predecessors. Sonically, the record was sharp and detailed and the band’s playing was far tighter and more accomplished. Most important, someone, whether the band or Rundgren, decided that gruff-voiced drummer Don Brewer should be employed as a lead singer as often as guitarist Mark Farner. Brewer also contributed more as a songwriter, and the results were immediate. The album’s title song, an autobiographical account of life on the road written and sung by Brewer, was released in advance of the album and became a gold-selling number one hit, Grand Funk’s first really successful single.
The original U.S. pressings of both the single and the album were pressed on yellow (or gold, if you prefer) vinyl, making it somewhat of a rarity in the 1970s record market.
A few copies, however, were pressed on reddish-brown vinyl, either due to a mistake at the pressing plant while switching from yellow to black vinyl, or as the result of a pressing plant employee simply choosing to make a few odd ones.
Yellow vinyl copies are relatively common in the marketplace, but these odd-colored ones are quite rare.
| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Capitol |
| Catalog Number: |
SMAS-11207 |
| Year of Release: | 1973 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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