Tonight’s mystery artists during their heyday were kicked off tour opened for the band Led Zeppelin, word has it they upstaged them completely. Can you guess who the new comers were??

It was back in the 70’s that Grand Funk Railroad was hire and then released as the opening act for Led Zeppelin’s 70's tour. Taking a power-trio cue from bands like Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, GFR were one of the loudest and heaviest groups on the planet. As Ultimate Classic Rock defines the band: “ Over the past 40-plus years, the music of guitarist-singer Mark Farner, drummer Don Brewer and bassist Mel Schacher (and later keyboardist Craig Frost) has become marginalized, trivialized and written off as thud rock. But this Flint, Mich., band helped rule the rock world in the first part of the ’70s, selling out stadiums, collecting platinum records and scoring hit pop singles along the way.”

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