Graham Central Station

Larry Graham had left Sly & the Family Stone in 1972 and built something harder and more focused around his own bass playing, a sound that would go on to influence every funk bassist who came after. Eight months after their debut and weeks after Release Yourself shipped, Graham Central Station played the Record Plant on October 3, 1974, both records made at the same studio. The set opens with an introduction and the band's signature funk arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner. The year was corrected during census from an earlier transcription error; the recording source explicitly dates it October 3, 1974.