Aimless Lady - Chris Eger’s One Take Weekly @ Plum Tree Recording Studio

Please support our series and get exclusive/behind the scenes content at Episode 92: Mark, Don and Mel’s third album, which was released just 10 months after their debut, cemented Grand Funk Railroad among the top acts in the world. Capitalizing on the success of their second release, Grand Funk, Closer To Home contained eight tunes penned by Mark Farner, and continued the formula of hard-edged, funky Rock. “Aimless Lady“ was the B-side of the “I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home)“ single, and featured what is almost a Jazz/Rock, “Moondance“ like A section, and a chugging, rockin’ B section. Veteran GFR listeners will notice the care we took in mixing the drums panned hard left, lead guitar hard right and a hot, growling bass. The re-imagined Eastwood Messenger sufficiently captures lead and rhythm tones, with the aid of a Big Muff fuzz pedal for the solo. The original Messenger model used by Farner included an onboa