The hair is worth the price of admission alone… but seriously one of the most passionate energetic and talented power trios ever. Mark owns the stage. Zero let downs with this band.
My favorite band at 17 and now at 64...nothing has changed for me. Mark especially is one of the most talented musicians to ever walk on to a stage in any musical genre. Multi talented...and still is. He is and forever will be... Grand Funk Railroad!
fast thick dirty bass - slammin' funk groove drumming - organ out the kazoo - unbridled guitar - screaming vocals - greatest jammin' rock band ever - pure energy start to finish - love you GFR!
Saw them in 1971. Best band I've ever seen. Mark made you part of the performance. I couldn't hear for days...lol. Very talented yet sincere guys! Mark is GFR!!
Man what happened to music? Things are supposed to get better over time. These guys are the real deal . Young musicians should watch this and get to know what real rock n roll is.
Can you imagine the rush it would be playing to a sold out Madison Square Garden or Shea Stadium? Grand Funk had some great energy. The second album I ever bought was 'E Pluribus Funk', the silver coin album. Still have it. Unfortunately, I never saw them in concert.
regardless of the era, its hard to find a band more passionate than these guys. they were having the time of their lives while playing. the title of their last album sums it up well. good singin' good playin'
GFR played two sold out shows at MSG in '72. Prior to one of them, Terry Knight showed up with his attorneys and sheriffs to confiscate the groups equipment. Nice guy, huh... Anyway's, they had duplicate instruments and went on to rocked the garden. As they always did!
They sound great and look young and fabulous, if they ever got back together, it would be like the Rock n Roll Heavyweight championship of the world. Million dollar concern, millions of dollars flowing, world wide excited FANS!!
I saw them in ‘70@ Pirates World in Dania with two of my band mates at the time , one of whom later in life was my bro- in law,who are now gone.GFR exuded unbridled healthiness and enthusiasm.I will never forget it.
Ok, I admit it, when I was 18 I had the biggest crush on Mark Farner. (No, I did not know him personally, lol) I realized later that it was the music I was in love with. Man, those guys rocked.
Sound blues country rock adrenalina musicale 🎼 molta energia ricordando gli anni settanta e la voce impetuosa di farner assieme ai mitici grand funk quando il rock era più influente e più incisivo dei giorni nostri ❤😂
the baddest dude in there was the bass player, the drummer sang backup,the organist came in later .there were heavier bands at the time,to my white friends I was ashamed I listened to them.thank you for putting this up!
The Essene not Essence : this cut may be low quality video and sound but I love it because the mix really features the bass and brings out just how good Mel was.
OMG that rocks! And the drummer is having such a great time. To top it all off, Farner damn near breaks his neck at the very end but recovers like a pro.
@@botbot4366 apparently always doing stuff like that.He said went sailing over the edge of the stage at hyde park in london landed in the pit face to face with British greasers.Made believe it was part of the act daft sod! had no more coil left on the amp lead! gotta love mark!!!
What a band. These guys really delivered the goods live. Anybody know what guitar Mark is playing here? Also, check out the 6:00 mark- it looks like Mark hits his head pretty hard on that extended mic stand!
They really were the Greatest American Band ,and I believe they blew Zeppelin off the stage fuck they blew everyone off the stage and they could blow everyone off the stage today if they were still the original lineup,and sounded like this still..Because this is how its done...
Yup!! Peter Grant threatened their manager to get them off the stage because they were getting such a huge reaction from the audience. The crowd rioted when GFR left the stage early. Peter Grant thought the reaction was from GFR playing in their home state. Then GFR opened for them again in Cleveland and got another huge reaction which Peter Grant thought showed up Zep. After the Cleveland show, GFR was pulled off the tour and would never open for Zeppelin again. The mighty Zeppelin was deflated and soon after GFR was a headlining act. 🚂 🎸 🇺🇸
@@paulkazakoff9231 - Yes! I love Zeppelin too but I was more of a GfR fan because they were underdogs. One day they were just a local garage band and they next day they were one of the biggest bands in the world. Plus I loved their energy and their vocal harmonies.
@@bronxbomber3194 Yeah I am a big L.Z. fan and for a long time but i like quite a bit of the ol' Grand Funk for sure.First one I owned was the double live and it's a good one.Never saw G.F. live so can't really comment.Did see L.Z. once and were fantastic.That was in 1972 and probably the best concert I've seen as far as rock goes anyway.That was in Australia and i know G.F. never toured down here.Bit of a shame.I would have liked to have seen them in those early years.
Not to mention the betrayal. I can only think greed was the motivation. I always thought these guys loved each other. They brought each other to great fame and fortune. What a shame.
Grand funk Railroad one of my favorite ROCKNROLL BAnds as a teenager growing up! I learned how to play bass guitar to all their music by the time I was twenty😉✌️🤟🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙😎
Way ahead of their time!!! This is real '60s Rock and Roll, Kiddies.......LEARN!!!! This is RAW TALENT......not that RapCrap and Hippity Hop y'all listen to......OMG!!!! smh
Peter Grant (Manager of Led Zeppelin) to Terry Knight: You will get your band (GFR) off this stage IMMEDIATELY!! I can't have GFR (opening act) upstage Led Zeppelin. Thanks for the compliment Peter Grant - good to know you think GFR is better than Led Zepppelin!! So do I!!
Sounded good at 9 and still sounds good at 55!
Farner, Brewer and Shacher had unbelievable stage presence and talent.
The hair is worth the price of admission alone… but seriously one of the most passionate energetic and talented power trios ever. Mark owns the stage. Zero let downs with this band.
No pyro techs, no gimmicks, no costumes....just pure talent, energy and love for music. Sadly, so missing today.
I love the energy of the band, specially with this song. One of my favorites song of GFR….forever!!
Mark Farner...quadruple threat
Killer vocals
Killer Hammond B3
Killer guitar
Harp
And drums on Black Brass as well...incredibly talented.
And hair…
And energy and enthusiasm!!!!
Mark Farner is a genius!!!
My favorite band at 17 and now at 64...nothing has changed for me. Mark especially is one of the most talented musicians to ever walk on to a stage in any musical genre. Multi talented...and still is. He is and forever will be... Grand Funk Railroad!
They were the must electrified band of the 70s
Agree!!! I met this band in vinyl in a cousin’s house when I was 10 years old. Now I’m 62 and still listening GFR
Like I tell people Alvin Lee was Ten Tears After......
fast thick dirty bass - slammin' funk groove drumming - organ out the kazoo - unbridled guitar - screaming vocals - greatest jammin' rock band ever - pure energy start to finish - love you GFR!
The groove on this band in unbelievable.
Nah it is funk
Real musicians and real music ... you hear the bass , drums , guitar etc etc these guys are worth worshipping 😘
Saw them in 1971. Best band I've ever seen. Mark made you part of the performance. I couldn't hear for days...lol. Very talented yet sincere guys! Mark is GFR!!
Man what happened to music? Things are supposed to get better over time. These guys are the real deal . Young musicians should watch this and get to know what real rock n roll is.
This is what got me into Rock at 12 years old😎🇨🇱✊
I would love to play in a band with this drummer! His enthusiasm is contagious.
Yup, Don Brewer could play them skins like two jack rabbits screwing.
Don brewer! Don brewer! He plays his ass off!!!!
Great drummer,sorry as hell human being !!!
Just. So. Good!
Can you imagine the rush it would be playing to a sold out Madison Square Garden or Shea Stadium? Grand Funk had some great energy. The second album I ever bought was 'E Pluribus Funk', the silver coin album. Still have it. Unfortunately, I never saw them in concert.
Mark Don & Mel!
I never put this stuff away.
regardless of the era, its hard to find a band more passionate than these guys. they were having the time of their lives while playing. the title of their last album sums it up well. good singin' good playin'
GFR played two sold out shows at MSG in '72. Prior to one of them, Terry Knight showed up with his attorneys and sheriffs to confiscate the groups equipment. Nice guy, huh... Anyway's, they had duplicate instruments and went on to rocked the garden. As they always did!
Look at them they are having the time of their life living their dream.
Favorite band. I'm 65 and can't get enough...
This was the 1972 tour the first year Craig Frost joined Grand Funk. I saw them at the Miami Hollywood Sportatorium in November.
Fantastic! Their live sound and groove was just awesome.
Exellent, fabulous musicians!
One of the best bands ever !!!
Mark, Don and Mel. GREAT FUNKING JAM!
They sound great and look young and fabulous, if they ever got back together, it would be like the Rock n Roll Heavyweight championship of the world. Million dollar concern, millions of dollars flowing, world wide excited FANS!!
the absolutely hammer, mark farner is unbelievable !
THE GREATEST AMERICAN BAND!!!! SEEN THEM TWICE!!!! WITHOUT FROST AND WITH!!!!
me also and Mark 5 times..
@@anthonydestefano1354 Met Mark about 3 Times Autographsand Pictures
My first ever concert was GFR on this tour, 12/10/72.
Freddie King opened for them!!
me also- took the bus from Catonsville- my ears rang for 3 days
@@COLT-xe7kg
We piled about 8 of us in a friend's 66 Chevy, lol
I remember drinking some Boones Farm on the way ...
Do you remember seeing John Nitzinger or hearing his name, I meant to say Guitar.... He's a badass on guitar!
Видеть бы это в те года!!!!
Absolutely the GREATEST rock jam of ALL TIME !!
One of my favorites as an old keyboard player.
If I said it once.I said it a thousand times rock and roll in its purest form
Awesome!! Performance, what a great band bags of energy!!!
Saw them 3 times as a teenager
Had the pleasure of seeing this fine line up at the tender age of 9
Dayton Ohio
Hara Arena
great jam.
Hope the real Grand Funk Railroad can get they're sh1t together and do before its to late. Got To Get It Together Remember?
Excellent! 🎸🎸🎸🎖️🏆✌️👍☮️
Excelencia perfección, Sonido,fantástico.29/01/23.Disfrutandolos.
Gotta love the dual Hammond days
Unbelievable jam!
imagine being able to play organ AND guitar that well.
Yes!! And Mark plays percussion too and played bass in a previous band. 👍🏼
I saw them in ‘70@ Pirates World in Dania with two of my band mates at the time , one of whom later in life was my bro- in law,who are now gone.GFR exuded unbridled healthiness and enthusiasm.I will never forget it.
One of my favorite song of GFR!!! I love the energy of the band and Mark Farner… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The best!!!
Amazing.
Ok, I admit it, when I was 18 I had the biggest crush on Mark Farner. (No, I did not know him personally, lol) I realized later that it was the music I was in love with. Man, those guys rocked.
BOYS LETS GET BACK TOGETHER!!! AND SHOW WHY YOU BELONG IN THE ROCK ND ROLL HALL OF FAME!!!!!!
WOW brings back memories!!
I loved this band so much. I had every album. My favorite song.
Now thats what i call Rock n roll!!!
Sound blues country rock adrenalina musicale 🎼 molta energia ricordando gli anni settanta e la voce impetuosa di farner assieme ai mitici grand funk quando il rock era più influente e più incisivo dei giorni nostri ❤😂
สุดยอดครับ ชอบรายการช่องนี้มาก คราวหน้าถ้ามีโอกาศเอามานำเสนอใหม่นะครับ
Two great songs where we see Mark playing with the keyboard and a drummers giving himself full to leatbers 🎹🥁🎸🎸
SMOKIN !!!!
I WAS AT THIS SHOW ...AMAZING ......
They shouldn't be in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame... it should be named after them ! ! ! ❤ WOW 👌
the baddest dude in there was the bass player, the drummer sang backup,the organist came in later .there were heavier bands at the time,to my white friends I was ashamed I listened to them.thank you for putting this up!
The Essene not Essence : this cut may be low quality video and sound but I love it because the mix really features the bass and brings out just how good Mel was.
A lot of those heavy bands learned a thing or two from Grand Funk Railroad, especially if they did a show with them.
Still rocks..
GFR were the Greatest rock n roll band in the World!!! C'mon get back together, one more time for us wee fans
Wow!
Tempos gloriosos
Como é bom recordar
Gratidão
Raw talent!
Lo mejor secos 2020 desde chile Concepción en plena cuarentena
Nailed it .......
Back in the day...
Before computers and the
Digital age.
I can't stop watching this
A whole lot of Soul !
Mark Farner has more soul in his little pinky than most white boy rockers have in their whole body!
OMG that rocks! And the drummer is having such a great time. To top it all off, Farner damn near breaks his neck at the very end but recovers like a pro.
GFR THE BEST!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU ROCK AND ROLL OF FAME?????????????????
@Matthew Thomas Yup, R and R hall of fame is kind of a joke. Must be a political thing or something.
Totally awesome.
❤ Grand Funk ❤ BEST ROCK BAND EVERRRRRR !!!!!!
best rock band
Best Hammond B3 intro ever. A killer when you hear it on a record played through a good PA system.
When they said they blew Zeppelin off the stage I believe it...lol...Love GFR...
Still as of this day Grand Funk RailRoad is not in the rock &Roll Hall of Fame. How can that be ?????
Mark later found Religion, Don and Mel found Bob Seger
Flint Michigan Rock N Roll
Two Hammond B-3 organs on stage please..
Holy s...What energy!
YEAHHHH!!!!
almost broke his ass at the end. nice save. mop boy!
On a stage that slippery, I think he performed amazingly.
@@botbot4366 apparently always doing stuff like that.He said went sailing over the edge of the stage at hyde park in london landed in the pit face to face with British greasers.Made believe it was part of the act daft sod! had no more coil left on the amp lead! gotta love mark!!!
What a band. These guys really delivered the goods live. Anybody know what guitar Mark is playing here? Also, check out the 6:00 mark- it looks like Mark hits his head pretty hard on that extended mic stand!
Great hair! 😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂
They really were the Greatest American Band ,and I believe they blew Zeppelin off the stage fuck they blew everyone off the stage and they could blow everyone off the stage today if they were still the original lineup,and sounded like this still..Because this is how its done...
What fairytale are you reading about blowing the mighty Z off the stage. Na can't see it !
Yup!! Peter Grant threatened their manager to get them off the stage because they were getting such a huge reaction from the audience. The crowd rioted when GFR left the stage early. Peter Grant thought the reaction was from GFR playing in their home state. Then GFR opened for them again in Cleveland and got another huge reaction which Peter Grant thought showed up Zep. After the Cleveland show, GFR was pulled off the tour and would never open for Zeppelin again. The mighty Zeppelin was deflated and soon after GFR was a headlining act.
🚂 🎸 🇺🇸
@@bronxbomber3194 Amazing stuff and to think L.Z, became the biggest rock band in the world.Dominated for most of the 70's.
@@paulkazakoff9231 - Yes! I love Zeppelin too but I was more of a GfR fan because they were underdogs. One day they were just a local garage band and they next day they were one of the biggest bands in the world. Plus I loved their energy and their vocal harmonies.
@@bronxbomber3194 Yeah I am a big L.Z. fan and for a long time but i like quite a bit of the ol' Grand Funk for sure.First one I owned was the double live and it's a good one.Never saw G.F. live so can't really comment.Did see L.Z. once and were fantastic.That was in 1972 and probably the best concert I've seen as far as rock goes anyway.That was in Australia and i know G.F. never toured down here.Bit of a shame.I would have liked to have seen them in those early years.
Scuse my lingo but this is fucking sweet right here!....TY Peace
Can you believe Grand Funk are not in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame?...WTF ! THESE GUYS are to Rock what Babe Ruth is to baseball
👏👏👏👏🎸
I MEANT TO SAY WHERE ARE YOU ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME????
Holy shit.
Someone misses the cue at 1:13 and dude yells "IDIOT!" lol
LOL ! Did he shout out "Idiots" at 1;18?
GENIUS BAND,ABSOLUTELY GENIUS,THEN THE BREAKUP,NUTS
Not to mention the betrayal. I can only think greed was the motivation. I always thought these guys loved each other. They brought each other to great fame and fortune. What a shame.
@@philgaetano6926 money separates everyone,sooner or later,sads
NOW YOU KNOW WHERE the band BOSTON got their sound and influence. Sounds like the opening to Smokin on BOSTON 'S first album.
Bringing in Craig Frost on keyboards added a lot.
Heck yes
They out performed Deep Purple on the Hammond organ skills right here
I would like to find the girl who just gets into it at about the 3:20 to 3:28 mark. She is totally into it.
Grand funk Railroad one of my favorite ROCKNROLL BAnds as a teenager growing up! I learned how to play bass guitar to all their music by the time I was twenty😉✌️🤟🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙😎
Killer❤
Seen em'. They cooked it!
Way ahead of their time!!! This is real '60s Rock and Roll, Kiddies.......LEARN!!!!
This is RAW TALENT......not that RapCrap and Hippity Hop y'all listen to......OMG!!!! smh
Damn shame to get rid of Mark....no good music after that and never will be....that was the magic....Mark Don and Mel!!!
Peter Grant (Manager of Led Zeppelin) to Terry Knight: You will get your band (GFR) off this stage IMMEDIATELY!! I can't have GFR (opening act) upstage Led Zeppelin. Thanks for the compliment Peter Grant - good to know you think GFR is better than Led Zepppelin!! So do I!!
You forgot to mention the hair….