Grand Funk Railroad - Heartbreaker (REACTION)
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- @AirplayBeats reacts to Grand Funk Railroad’s Heartbreaker
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While they were EXTREMELY popular in the day, they don’t get nearly enough love nowadays. Glad to see you guys doing so.
Just read that they're going to tour soon and the first stop will be in Greece. For my husband and I would not want to see them because Mark Farner was unceremoniously dumped years ago and as far as our opinion, as talented as the original two other guys, it's just a cover band. But that's only our opinion!
@@susanfigueroa872 I was fortunate to have seen them in 95-96, just before their breakup in Pittsburgh at an outdoor venue. It was amazing!
@@susanfigueroa872 I agree. I saw them with Mark in the 90’s. Great show.
Grand Funk we’re THE biggest band in the world for several years! They sold out Shea Stadium faster than the Beatles! Plus a WHOLE bunch of chart topping songs!
It’s criminal that they aren’t inducted into the RRHOF!
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And the loudest!
FktheRRhallof fame they ain't worth spit if they can't recognize rock and roll legends like GFR
Can you imagine multiple songs in one concert with that amount of energy?
Greatest three men american rock group of all😅😮😮
Grand Funk Railroad were originally a three(3) piece band then around 1972 they added keyboardist Craig Frost!
Fantastic way to start my Sunday with this great live performance of Heartbreaker by GFR. Craig Frost, the keyboard player came later on in 1972. Interestingly, Frost left GFR and then joined Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band. You are correct, these guys almost brought Shea Stadium crashing down and Zep did not want to follow these guys. Hard to imagine that any band would. This is a classic live performance by the band. Thank you. 🔥
Lol...I don't think Zeppelin was afraid to follow anyone.
@@onemotherpucker At that time...think again. GFR was Dominating the Beatles and Led Zepplin back in the day! 🤚Lived it!
Thanks for doing this one! Have loved GFR since the beginning. What happened to the group was sad. This is the story as I understand it. Don and Mel wanted the members to be equal partners, so a new contract was drawn up in which the 3 had an equal say in everything. Don and Mel (bassist and drummer) voted Mark Farner (lead singer) out of the band. They kept the rights to the band name also. These guys could have gone into the clouds together, such a disgraceful move. Mark did most of the writing and arranging and still performs to this day. Your next dip into the sauce should be "Mean Mistreater" or "Footstompin' Music". Thanks always for the joy!
It supposedly had partly to do with Mark still wanting to continue touring as a solo (Christian) artist outside of GF. Don Brewer didn't like that/felt threatened/whatever..and drew up the faux legal papers to trick Farner into signing them 'to secure all their rights'. What he signed was a document stating he had no rights to anything-- hence they 'fired him'. Insecure idiots! What they've been touring with since is a shell of what they were with Farner. Sad state of affairs... T
@@TerryKrysinski Thanks for the info!
Mark is still one third of the corporation. Mark's band is Mark Farner s American Band. Don Brewer ( drummer and went to law school) took Mark to court saying he couldn't use the band name. Don LOST. Have seen them many times , not the same without Mark Farner.
@@bella-xp7qd “Grand Faux Railroad” agreed
Mark Farner is one of the two best rock vocalists ever. The other is Steve Marriott. Then we can argue about all the rest.
2 of my favorite front men! Anybody that can inspire Robert Plant is automatically fantastic!
People don't understand how talented Mark was both vocally, writing and playing...he is exceptional.
Guys-- Grand Funk was thee biggest rock band in the country for a few years in the 70's. And that's without any support from rock radio. Only later on with hits like We're An American Band, and their covers of some Kinda Wonderful and The Locomotion,did they change into a more popular,radio friendly style. Before that,they were 'the people's band',and packed concert halls throughout the land. Sorta created an identity crises between fans back when. But they always rocked it live. THe band touring these days w/o Mark Farner is a joke,as Farner wrote,sang lead and played guitar/harmonica/keyboards. You can't replicate his stage energy/performance level...and they don't. Farner still tours as a solo act with his own band,tho. Check into the 2nd (Red) album. The entire thing is FIRE! T
It’s so great that you both recognize how talented Grand Funk truly is!!! 🎧🎹🎸 I still have them on my playlist after all these years! 🎸
Play I’m your captain if you want bass run!! Grand Funk deserves a lot more credit!!!!
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD was a three piece band for their first six albums. After the E PLURIBUS FUNK
album they added Craig Frost, their keyboard player from the Pack.
Technically, GFR was a 3Man Band- Mark Farner guitar/keyboards/vocals, Don Brewer drums/vocals, Mel Schacher bass, but having another keyboard player on stage was pretty much a necessity.
Always off the charts Energy.
I hope you will listen to and search under ;
Grand Funk Railroad - Mean Mistreater [Live] .
This live is from their greatest hits album.
This is THE live version.
That's classic rock
I saw Grand Funk Railroad back in 1982, Cleveland Agora. These guys back in the 70's sold out stadiums. PLEAS, play "INSIDE LOOKING OUT" studio version by Grand Funk. This will blow you away.
They did a reaction to the live version from The Show, which blows the studio version away, imo.
Great start to Father's day. Happy Father's day to all of the fathers out there. They were widely popular back in the day. As always fellas great reaction. Much appreciated 🙏
Mark's vocals are so exceptional that had he not been able to write all the songs, play bass, guitar, keyboards, drums or harmonica...he could still have been a major rock star just due to his vocals.
One of the best front men for a rock band ever...!
I see everybody, this is the best live band ever in a history of music. Led by the best frontman in the history of music. Mark Drummer was excellent So was The bass player Mel. Check out the 1971 Shay stadium show July 9th. Unbelievable great. 3 piece at that time.
The critics hated this band. They disrespected them constantly. WHY are they not yet in the rock and roll hall of fame??? There are so many non rock musicians in the hall of fame and Grand Funk is not yet there. It really makes me question the validity of the hall of fame!!!
Gotta give some props to the soundman too, love how this sounds
They were a 3 man band for the first several years. It's not that they didn't include him on the early videos...he wasn't there. Mark played keyboards as well as guitar and harmonica and played both exceptionally well. Craig Frost who is on keyboards joined later on.
You called it when you said you do not want to follow these guys onstage. Led Zeppelin actually asked them to open for them when they came to Detroit, and were supposedly considering them for other tour dates. But when they saw their performance, they were not happy that they had to follow them, and Grand Funk was not invited to join them again. LOL!!!
I knew this was going to be epic. They were always good live.
Just saw Mark in concert about 3months ago I think he's 76 now but you would never know it he still is awesome
They were always a 3 piece band until this big tour where their manager thought a good keyboard player would give them a little more fill. They were the ultimate band of the early 70's. Thanks to my big bro for turning me onto these guys while he blasted them every day on my way to school on his 8 track! Mark Farner, the vocalist/guitarist is still out there, doing what he does best.
GFR released 6 platinum and 7 gold albums (10 million sold in 1970 alone) plus had numerous hit singles and some number ones while selling out stadiums and arenas (one of the all-time great live acts) before calling it a day in the mid 70s. Not even Frank Zappa could talk Brewer out of leaving. They have since accumulated 13 gold and 10 platinum albums worldwide.
We're gonna play this Footstomping Music, everybody get in the groove, yeah!
This was EPIC !!! GFR was indeed super huge from the later 60's 'til mid-70's, and I really don't know why their contribution and influence didn't endure to the degree that it should have. They did have a somewhat tumultuous break-up in the later 70's and that may have had something to do with it. BTW, yes, they were originally a 3 piece until the early 70's when keyboardist Craig Frost joined the band. While he was an excellent keyboard player, the addition of a fourth member kind of changed their style a bit and gave the band more of a "POP" sound. Thanks for this reaction! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Rolling Stone “magazine regularly trashed every thing they did. Unfortunately RS influenced lots of other critics back in those days. GFR Live was the second album I bought when I was about twelve years young.
@@markwithrow2474 Rolling Stone trashed Sabbath and Zeppelin too only to retrospectively praise all three. Anyone taking their reviews as gospel was missing out.
You have to be joking because influence arena rock and stadium rock buy how fast sold those things out. And by the way Prince Van Halen, and Bruce and others knew how good GFR was doing live concerts and learned from them.
Been waiting patiently for you two to react to this song/video. My wife came home and started talking to me while I was watching you react to this song. It was like - not know honey I’m watching my brothers react to Grand Funk Heartbreaker live. Really enjoyed your reaction to this - you seemed to have a lot of fun with this one. Mark Farner, the lead vocalist and lead guitarist is a bad man. He is my favorite front man of all time. I know you also like when the drummer Don Brewer sings. So I’m recommending Walk Like a Man by them (studio version). Another really good live song by them is Footstompin Music live 1974.
Per an interview Mark gave. When we opened for Led Zeppelin, we were on the tour for two days. We started in Cleveland, Ohio, and man, we really put it to them. The audience loved us, they just absolutely loved us, and then we went to Detroit, our stomping ground, Olympia.”
“And [Led Zeppelin manager] Peter Grant comes out and stops the show, he told Jerry, he picks him up by the collar - ‘Stop the show, I’m gonna pull the power.’ They did, they pulled the power. All of a sudden, you couldn’t hear anything but drums. I turn around, [drummer Don] Brewer’s back there playing the drums, and then he just stops.”
“And here comes [promoter] Terry Knight, walking on a stage and he says, ‘Due to contractual agreements, Grand Funk has to leave the stage now.’ He’s motioning to us to shoo, ‘Get the hell out of here!’
He continued, saying:

“We started making exit, all these boos, and then the bottles of whiskey, bottles of wine, bottles of beer… [Laughs] Oh my god, the show stopped right there for an hour and a half before Zeppelin took the stage.
“But that gave time enough for at least half the audience to empty out, and so Mel [Schacher, bass] and I went out and sat in the theater, in the seats about halfway and watch Led Zeppelin for a few songs.”
They started out as 3 members, but 1972 added a keyboardist Craig Frost. Now the present GFR has horns added.
I saw GFR in Frankfurt Germany December 1971. They were most definitely a three piece band at that time. No keyboards. Opening act, Mott the Hoople, was as good as they were, which was pretty damn awesome.
@@dragonage2112They we’re on that night for sure. Took a lot of confidence for GFR to use a band as good as Mott to open the show.
@@gillespiehazlewood696 Every one knew if you did a show with GFR you had to bring out your best! Just look up all The hall Of Fame Bands and people GFR did shows with!
Can you imagine how much rehearsal it took to get this tight.
I gave them my share of love and money. Saw them 7 times between 69-75.
My dads favorite band. First album he ever bought was ‘closer to home’. I’ve loved GFR literally my whole life.
This was one of the first rock albums I ever heard. My cousin who was a few years older than me played it for me. Before then my only exposure to music was at church and a small AM country music radio in my hometown. Just blew me away!
Yes everyone has followed GFR THEY JUST DON'T GIVE THEM ENOUGH CREDIT POLITICS UNBELIEVABLE
You nailed it again! Why weren't they as big as....that question has been debated by fans for years. Love you guys.
Such a great band! Always one of my favorites and over the years they have almost seemingly been forgotten or at least forgotten about how good and how big they were.
I saw them on this tour in either fort Worth or Dallas I can't remember which cuz I was living in fort Worth and I would go to concerts in both cities. They were amazing and I think I left a good portion of my hearing at that concert. Lol but it was worth it. Great reaction
They were a 3 man band and those albums were under the name Grand Funk. Grand Funk Railroad was born when they added the fourth member. I was born in 1960, and went to all the school dances. They always played Locomotion, usually several times during the evening. It was a staple. And yeah, it is weird that they are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, considering some that ARE.
Love them, grew up with the band. Great 70's.
They play hard and don’t stop tell you like them inside looking in beat tell comes out great music
They were big to us back in the day!
The only band to EVER blow led zeppelin off the stage
What a great review! Bass players were never given the love they deserved back in the day...
Ooh yeah!!! Love this seventies funky sound. Only those seventy rock bands had this kind of of funky soulful sound.
Two for Two this morning and l'm loving it!! 👍🥰 This was my very first concert l went to, they started me off on my rock journey and now l'm the biggest "Led Head " around ✌️😝THANKS💖🤟
That was the first song Mark Farner ever wrote. They were a three piece band until around 1973, when they added keyboardist Craig Frost. He had played with them prior to GFR being formed.
MAN ! YALL ARE HAVING A GREAT MORNING !
Best reaction channel on the tubes by FARRRRRR !
MISSISSIPPI IN THE HOUSE !
So glad I saw this today!! I love all Grand Funk Railroad but would love to hear I'm Your Captain live.
Their Siver Dollar album is Fing Killer. Tune "Save the Land" one of their best.
AWESOME thanks
I REALLY REALLY THANK YALL FOR YOUR AWESOME REACTIONS YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME
Mark Farner is the man, shame on Don and Mel😅
How often is the last 10 seconds of a song THE best part! These dudes were Tight!! I've met the lead singer (Mark Farner), he ain't that small haha, He's like 6ft tall! Grass fed Michigan Boys! Good one guys...
Dam. The drummer must be 6’6” 😂
I think Mel looks taller because he's standing most of the time while he plays.
Could be those high heeled boots worn back then...
@@AirplayBeats Haa, dude for Sure!..Super lanky, he can really hit those skins! Incredible singer too...sang "Walk like a MAN" and "We're an American Band" too...
I hung with these brothers in the late 60s and 70s when they were working with Terry Knight. Mark, Mel and Don were the original. Heartbreaker is a 1970 tune. They added the organ some time later in the early 70s. The Brother is right. They were a 3 man in the beginning. And HONESTLY I LOVED them when they were 3. How full of a sound for 3 boys from Michigan
All time great song/performance. For some reason it doesn't get many reactions from youtubers.
Great jam keep the great music coming guys.
I saw them in concert in 1970. Great show.
Love your GFR playlist. Just a correction. They did start out as a 3 piece band. Mark Farner, the lead guitarist and one of the primary singers switched off on organ on some songs. But toward the end of their career they added Craig Frost on keyboards and backup vocals. Keep rocking gents!!
Hi Guys! Love your reactions. Grand Funk Railroad was a 3 man band (Mark Farner, Guitar Vocals Keys and Harmonica / Mel Schracher, Bass / Don Brewer, Drums Vocals. They added the keyboard player Craig Frost on the 6th studio album "Pheonix"
Sometimes shortened as Grand Funk, Grand Funk Railroad was popular during the 1970s as it toured extensively and played to packed arenas worldwide. The band was especially known for their crowd-pleasing arena rock style, which has been also proved in a way by Led Zeppelin throwing the band off the tour because Grand Funk outshined them during the opening act. Mark Farner looks back at that day and tells all about it during their conversation.
Grand Funk Railroad survived on the tour for only 2 days
“When we opened for Led Zeppelin, we were on the tour for two days. We started in Cleveland, Ohio, and man, we really put it to them,” starts telling Farner.
“The audience loved us, they just absolutely loved us, and then we went to Detroit, our stomping ground, Olympia. And Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant comes out and stops the show, he told Jerry, he picks him up by the collar - ‘Stop the show, I’m gonna pull the power.'”
So tells Grand Funk Railroad‘s frontman Mark Farner how they really pulled the power all of a sudden. Right after, the promoter Terry Knight comes and literally shoos them out the stage saying ‘due to contractual agreements, Grand Funk has to leave the stage now. Get the hell out of here!’
“We started making exit, all these boos, and then the bottles of whiskey, bottles of wine, bottles of beer. Oh my god, the show stopped right there for an hour and a half before Zeppelin took the stage,” continues Farner telling.
“But that gave time enough for at least half the audience to empty out, and so Mel and I went out and sat in the theater, in the seats about halfway and watch Led Zeppelin for a few songs.”
Saw them twice as Headliners with Bloodrock opening for them . Rumors are pretty outrageous for partying attitudes with typical motel destruction
My boys from. FLINT MICHIGAN ARE UNDERATED. THEY ARE AWESOME 👌 👏 👍
"Footstompin Music" is fantastic!
So guys, tell me - WHY isn’t Grand Funk in the Rock’n Roll Hall of Fame?!
Curious, eh?
Damn curious 🤨
Cause the Rock&Roll HOF is a joke
why isnt ..jethro tull.. a much more deserving band!!
Oh ya - Detroit Rock City! Killer blues scene, back in the day, too - and of course, Motown!
I grew up 90 minutes from Detroit, when it was a super desirable place to live! So happy I experienced it!
Peace - from BC, Canada!
Good morning guys!1 Happy Fathers day!! Thanks for goin back to my boys from Flint MI..Nothin like some good old Michigan rock and roll!! Great reaction..Congrats to you both for hitting 20,000 subs..Shout out from the old metal head from Detroit..Peace and love!!
Thank you so much. Peace and Love from California!!
From 1968 until 1971 they were a three piece band. They added Craig Frost for keyboards despite the fact lead man Mark Farner played keyboards up until then. Frost had been with Bob Seger prior to joining GFR.
Because of these dudes we put dual headphones in our car to cruise!
I believe they sold out a huge stadium faster than the Beatles, too. At their peak they were THE band and as you can see, their live shows were as good or better than any other band. Their song American Band is great, it's them saying to all the huge British bands of the time, hey, we're here and we're kicking your ass, lol.
Shea Stadium The NY Mets stadium.
Magic!!!!!!
They added Craig in 1972. They attempted to get Peter Frampton, but he had a record deal with A&M Records.
Totally caught off guard in a pleasant way! Great vocals!!! Musically killer also; first time hearing this one and loved it
Yea this was a good one.
Bros this is why don't mind being born in 1956 look at all the great music i listen to.wouldnt change it for anything. Keep rockin and listen to as much as you can.
Great reaction !! a true "Power TRIO" !! In their day, they ROCKED !! GFR Always gave it 110%
and Left their hearts on the stage.They closed each show with "Inside Looking Out" and brought
the "House Down" !! They had a RABID Fan base. When they opened a show for someone, they always
"Up-Staged" the main act, even Led Zep (Half the crowd left when Led Zep came on.)!! Led Zep
never let them open for them ever again !!
When they opened for Rod Stewart and the Faces, the crowd Boo'ed Rod Stewart off the stage !!
When promoters finally realized
just how popular they were, GFR became the "Main Act". GFR became known as the
originators of "Stadium Rock". They
filled stadiums across the USA and Europe and sold out Shea, in 72-hours !! The Beatles took
3-weeks to sell-out Shea !!
I saw them twice in 1971 and they were AWESOME !! That year, at Pirates World in Dania, Fl.
the Promoters sold 15,000 tickets for a outdoor venue, that only held 10,000 and the people
who couldn't get in rioted and over-turned 3 Miami police cars !!
If their manager (a friend) hadn't taken every penny and all their rights, and left them
NOTHING, they would have been the biggest Band EVER !!
Their leader and front man Mark Farner is still rock'in today, after decades of legal battles
to finally, get the "rights" back enough to play GFR songs again !! GFR is the best thing to
ever come out of Flint, Michigan (except maybe the GM Buick). There is NO GFR without
Mark Farner !! WAKE UP R&R HOF !!
Grand Funk Rairlroad--the "masters of the false finish"
In my opinion, the three albums that are their best are Phoenix, We're an American Band, and Good Singin' Good Playin. When Craig Frost joined the band, he added a fullness and richness to the band's sound. Listen to these albums. You not only get beautiful rock n roll, but great hooks and harmonies.
Mean Mistreater next please!!!
This is a good show, like all GFR Shows back in the 70's. The top show was The Shea Stadium show. The Fans ROCKED The Building, as GFR Kicked some serious ASSZ. Structural Engineers were called in following the show to see if the Damage(s), would prevent re-opening the Stadium safely. The Album titled Mark, Don, & Mel will Lockdown any New Fan. The other album, Caught In The Act on Vinyl will give your Goosebumps, Duckbumps.
They're all bad boys. I don't remember y'all reacting to this band but apparently you have. I'm gonna have to backtrack and see what I missed.
My band plays this song sometimes for a finale at a gig. A lot of people have never heard it, or have but forgot about it. It always gets a great response.
Mark Farner the guitarist vocalist still talks about the reason they broke up. What a great band
Mark wrote this song when he was 16 years old when he was on his schools football team.
Thanks!
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You're over the TOP today! 👍🏻
.... saw them do this live in Miami, Greynolds Park, early 1970.
You guys DO IT RIGHT!! You have your column up where we like it. Good job, you need to do Gimme Shelter by them and Don't walk away by ELO!!
They were originally three piece band...they belong in the rockin roll hall of fame!!!!
Love y'alls reactions. The studio version had more/louder bass. To me I notice it missing. No musican, admittedly. I remember this song so well then.
They have NEVER got the recognition that they truly deserved. Never got inducted into the R&RHOF or even mentioned to decieve an award (I don't think?) I have met the lead guitar player on several occasions and he is one of the nicest people I had the privilege of meeting. The band did Mark wrong and double crossed him. Now the New Grand Funk is more like a cover band.
Well they are in The State Of Michigan Hall Of Fame and Mark have a award for being a member of The Great Sioux Nation.
If ya like to be wowed by stage presence then ya gotta see “Black Oak Arkansas” at the California Jam in 1974 I think. You will be impressed.
Halls of KARMA! Listening with headphones on, you can hear the back+forth between the good & the bad talking in his/your ears. Not many people know the song. Got my album with ONE SQUARE INCH of property in it. We're talking Way, way back!
Affectionately dubbed as a "three man wrecking crew."
freakin killing it
Love it
They were almost always a 3 MAN BAND!! Occasionally they would add a keyboard player. Although Mark Farner also played excellent keyboards!!!
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They toured with led zeppelin i saw them in virginia as they opened for zepp grand funk was so good when zeppelin come in stage the crowd kept chanting grand funk grand funk and they come back out for one more so zeppelins manager got so pissed he ended grand funk opening for them! That was in 1973 or 74
They were a 3 man band when they started out. Insides Looking Out 1969!
Started as a 3 man band. Added Keyboardist Craig Frost from Michigan
GOAT