Thanks to Clay Pigeon for showing me that Grand Funk Railroad actually aren't terrible.
Hell, I could have told you this in 1971 as a clueless 13-year-old, but I bet you wouldn't have listened. T.N.U.C. could be a topic of discussion on the Mike show, and it's an instrumental.
I'll listen. What else was clueless 13-year-old Dave from Knoxville listening to?
My initial problem with GFR was that my parents only ever listened E Pluribus Funk and I grew to loathe that album.
Ahhh, it was all the nearly standard stuff, really. I loved Led Zeppelin, The Who, I sorta liked the Stones but I was a little afraid of them, although, strangely, I had no problem with Alice Cooper (to this day I can still play 7 or 8 of the songs on "Love it to Death" on guitar from memory.) I had not found Bowie yet, or T Rex, but I did like Rod Stewart at the time (Every Picture Tells a Story,) and Jethro Tull and Black Sabbath and Yes and Faces, ELP, Santana. I was absolutely obsessed with Blue Oyster Cult (I wore out 2 copies of the debut album, and can't begin to guess how many times I listened to the later Agents of Fortune straight through.) Badfinger. Deep Purple. Zappa. Always lots and lots of Zappa, though I really liked the instrumental bits much more than the vocal silliness, at least until Apostrophe, which is nearly a perfect album. Oh, and Creedence and the Beatles practically everyday.