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- Mannnnn BARRY!!! This hot streak is legendary! You are reaching the coveted... "Ten in a row" award. This performance was intense and visceral... almost like an American Who. So good.
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Thats what happens when you put 3 extremely talented people on stage The rhythm changes are amazing One of the best live jams ever
Yeah that was an incredible performance. They knocked it out of the park!
Yeah, at this point this video has gotten A LOT of views and reactions. That says it right there.
The BEST LIVE BAND EVER GRAND FUNK. You need to check out HUMBLE PIE, ROCKIN THE FILMORE. A close second to GFR BEST TO YOU.
They were 20 years old, one 18. Hollywood didn't make them. They outsold the Beatles in New York
You were right. Our music was so much better than today's music. It still is.
Mr, Don and Mel didn't follow a stereotype, they CREATED the stereotype.
Three lads from Flint Michigan who out jammed the best in the world.
I still can't believe Grand Funk is not in the Rockin Roll Hall Of Fame. They should have been in a long time ago. One of my favorite bands from the 70's.
When you consider some that are, it's almost a badge of honor to not be.
I'll never consider the RRHOF legitimate until these guys are inducted. Nine straight gold albums (some platinum in there too) to start their career. Sold out Shea Stadium faster than the Beatles. Wrote rock and roll anthems. I'll never understand the politics of the RRHOF, but they show their ugly heads in this circumstance.
I bought this on vinyl in 1969. One of my all time favorites to this day!
On Time is another great GFR album.
Saw them twice in the early 70's, so much fun. Screw the critics. These guys kicked ass in concert
I bought their vinyl albums. I was 20. I m now 75. Was in the Army from 70 to 72. We listened to Mark and the guys alot back in the day. The 60 s had such creative bands and musicians back then. Was great growing up to and going through life with. Time flew and I see the sunset.
They invented the moves and perfected the music..raw talent😅😂❤😊❤❤I'm 60 and love these guys
My first real concert, Grand Funk Railroad at Shea Stadium!! I was 12🔥🤘✌
I had a few folks bring that up in the live chat. That is so cool!!
@@L33Reacts yeah, it was awesome! My brother was a photographer for an underground news rag in New York and I got to go everywhere with him! I'm not sure what my brother was on but it was a bitch trying to keep up with him lol!✌🤘
Notice Farner didn't hit a pedal to get the fuzz and distortion on the guitar. He plays a very rare Musicraft Messenger guitar. The fuzz is built into the guitar. He's 75 and still owns it.
The whole Red Grand Funk album kicks ass.
I found that album at a thrift store. The Trifty Hippie. I got it for my thirty year old son. ❤️✌️
@@kierstenridgway4634 The big songs on the Red album are inside looking out, In need and Paranoid.
Only three young Men made all of that wonderful noise. I have been Grandly Funked.
1969 Grand Funk opens for Led Zeppelin in Cleveland, Ohio. The first stop on the tour. I was there. Next night they go to Detroit. In the middle of their opening set Zeppelin's manger, Peter Grant, comes out and stops the set. Grand Funk was getting a better response from the crowd than Zep. Grant fires them that night. So, their whole tour opening gig for Zep ends on night 2. Grand Funk goes on to be one of the most popular rock acts in the early 70s. Thanks, Lee. Stay groovy. God bless everyone else in the "family" here.
Myth I'm afraid. It was a multi set bill with a curfew time end. Zeppelin wouldn't have got paid the full amount if they didnt play their full set. Grand Funk were going over their alloted time. Grant told Grand Funk to stop. They ignored him so he pulled the plug.
And how could Grand Funk have been getting a better reaction from the crowd when Zeppelin hadn't even played yet?
Mark Farner has been dining out on this silliness for over 50 years.
@@lyndoncmp5751 The first Zep tour date was Cleveland. I was there. If it's a myth, so be it. Either way GF was kicked off the tour. Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. Peace.
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Grand Funk definitely finished their set and went overtime.
Zep were only booked with them a couple of dates. It wasn't a roaming tour where they were travelling together and booked for many dates. This was discussed in depth on the Led Zeppelin forum. Sadly some myths have grown and grown.
Its true that Zeppelin never played with GFR again but it's also true that Zeppelin gave up having support/opening acts in general. They wanted to play longer sets (3 hours sometimes, even more) and that wasn't conducive to having opening acts as well, especially if the opening act didn't stick to its time slot 😝.
Peace back. Cheers. ✌
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I'll add I don't really blame GFR for going over their time. They were going down a storm and were caught in the moment Im sure. They only had a short set and wanted to give the crowd more. Obviously they weren't thinking about the curfew and cutting into Zeppelins time.
@@lyndoncmp5751 No Myth. Sorry it's real. After the 3rd oncore that's when Zeps fat manager unplugged them. The only thing that I like about Terry Night ( Grand Funks manager) is that he stuck up for the band. That was the day that the mighty Zep was humbled. Grand Funk went on to sell out Soldier Field in 72 hours beating the Beatles record by days.
This is how bass guitar is supposed to sound! This is great Rock & Roll!
Pure respect for a 3 piece with that much full throttle in your face electricity. Jam of Jams. Later hits We're an American Band. From that to AM hit radio. Amazing.
More funk. Mark is still touring in his 70 now.
My hometown boys!!!! Best thing that ever came out of Flint Michigan!
That bass player was an 18 year old kid and he was not lost, just a great talent...
Was at their concert in 1971 in my city Berlin as a 17 year teenager, it was inside and after this great event my ears were almost deaf, unforgotten this great band 🎸one of my favourite until today, badly rated by music critics but loved by us fans, still have all their original albums and later CD boxsets, even with almost 70 years I like to listen to them, it keeps me young, thanks for your reaction, great as always 😊
Wow you took the GFR like I did Pink Floyd.
I have two LPS and one 8-track of theirs, still but....
How cool they were in Berlin so early on in their career. Especially during the Iron Curtain days.
Seen GFR perform I think in 1970 or 71.
Although they likely would have played at the Coliseum they were playing at a Travelodge because they banned rock bands from the Coliseum after extreme drug use during a Jethro Tull concert with resulted in several dozen overdoses.
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@@Ozarkprepper643 ......also great bands you mentioned ! Floyd and Tull, also have their albums in my collection, we had a great time spec. in the 70's didn't we? 🎸🎹🥁
@@jogischulz2576 That we did.
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"We're An American Band" was one of their big hits!!! '69 was a killer year for music!! 🎶🎼🎵🎸🎹🎤🥁🎧🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥
I COULD NOT WAIT to see your reaction to this!!!! NO ONE is like Grand Funk!!!!!!
Such an overlooked band. So many great songs. Mel Shacker is a criminally underrated bassist. I usually prefer studio versions, but this is a complete banger. Another great live song of theirs is Black Licorice.
They say Keith Moon was the inspiration for Animal, the drummer on the Muppets, I think it was this guy, Don Brewer. Wow!!
Those really were the good old days..
One of the most enerrgetic performances of a rock song ever. Amazing stuff. This song was originally done by The Animals back in 1966, but these guys took it to a whole new level.
One of the great American bands and one of the best heavy sounds in the hard rock genre. They often went crazy live in the late 60s/early 70s, incredible energy and they have the chops for sure. For more, do their song Heartbreaker, different from other songs of that title, it rocks out, big-time! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶
Back then there was a single spring on the bass pedal. We would cut a coil or two out of it, and stretch the help out of it to make the reflex, and rebound quicker. I remember how we all freaked out when they came out with a double spring. We all saved our money, and mowed more yards to buy one.
Peace
I saw this band in Miami around 1969. They gave a great concert.
This song, and Mark Farner's guitar playing was what got me started on my life-long journey as a guitarist.
At 13 I heard this at a friend's house and that was the big bang theory for me. It was accessible for a young guitarist to learn and people loved it at house parties when my first band would play it. I've been playing for 54 years now, and although arthritis in my hands has slowed my fingers down I can still play rhythm. Still play weekly Sunday afternoon open house jams at a local bar, still having fun. The only thing that will ever stop me playing guitar will be when I take my last breath. And it all started with Grand Funk, Mark Farner and this song. Thanks Mr. Farner. Keep on rockin'!
Same with me brother but I'm a bass player and Mel was my first GUY! Came home from school every day and learned every bass line up until American Band! After that LP to me they lost the early rockin energy. WAY overlooked band!
I saw Grand Funk Railroad do this in concert in 1970. I was 22 years old. Great show.
Rock on Ole timer
One of my top live performances for sure. This is the energy all bands should bring to the stage. Glad you experienced it!
We used to turn this up so loud the neighbors would call the cops on us, the 70's was big fun. You should react to some "King Crimson", that was our music.
Great jam, great band! Next, check out Footstompin’ Music, released in 1971! ✌️
One of the best rock-metal band🤘
These guys were out of Flint Michigan which was close by so we got to see them before they hit the bigtime. At the time, in 69 I was 19, we were also enjoying the likes of Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper & a host of less prominent rock bands that also got down pretty good. Also the Motown scene was huge as well so we had a real variety of music choices right in our backyard.
They are from flint Michigan. I grew up listening to them. My brother got there first album when I was 9-10. He said they kicked ass in concert. Listen to all of the music. Were an American Band, the locomotion, closer to home.
Also, give another 3 man group called Triumph. Lay it on the line.
Really like your comments at the end and that's a game I play a lot - I think about the difference between two earlier eras of music that are fun to contrast and compare, and then take that difference and subtract it from 2024 and it gives you a feel for the length of time that went by, although as you point out, the evolution of it seemed to be happening a lot faster back then.
Check out their cover of The Locomotion, it's so fun, it's really really fun, and that bass guitar when it comes in is so heavy.
Top reaction to a top tune by a top band, thank you.
Pure rock talent. One of my performances ever
Was lucky to have seen them in the early 70s be 69 they kicked ass and still do my favorite band ever have all their albums some you can't get ❤
Don Brewer got a lot of criticism back in the day for being 'too simple." But man, he had some chops and he laid down some killer grooves.
From the Flint area, they used to play around Michigan back in the day..Mark played a Messinger gtr. your tone comment is from him switching on the built in fuzz tone on it. I had one as loner while i was getting one re fretted back in the Detroit area around 1970..always wondered if it was his at one time, not many of those floating around. A great band along with other Mich local favs back then like Seger, MC5, Alice, Nugent, The Stooges..
I'll have to check those other bands out. This was awesome. Another commenter mentioned how this was a regional style or something of the sort. So interesting! I love that guitar it's gorgeous lol
Lots of great bands in the late 60's/ 70's from Michigan.
The famous phrase & tune "Kick Out The Jams" = MC5
The first punk band = The Stooges (Iggy Pop)
Bob Seger = classic Detroit artist
Alice Cooper, born in & a Michigan favorite band in the early days.
Ted Nugent = The Motor City mad man@@L33Reacts
Definitely kicked ass....great fckning American band...love these guys.
They used to tour with Bloodrock....another great band many people never geard of out if Fort Worth, Texas.
The passion of the Baby boomers becoming pubescent in a wave through the 60s made music passionate and we will never see the like , but we have the music that came of it. The warriors coming home from winning a world war spawned a wave of children who came of age through the late 50s into the 60s. Their creativity and youthfull passion gave us the hippy generation. Music exploded with the advent of electric guitars and better instrumentation and recording and bands like the Beatles and Led Zeplin, Credence Clearwater Revival, Doobie Brothers....
Great band, some awesome tunes. Wild story about Zappa producing what would end up being their final album. Thanks for the reaction as always.
GFR & Bloodrock…Cobo Hall. Detroit…70-71?? Been a while😉 one of the loudest shows still! GFR was outstanding
Yeah GFR we're legit. Deep rabbit hole of really good music
And to think Mark Farner was just 19 years old when they recorded this. GFR was America's answer to the British Invasion and they stated it loud with the song we're an American band.
They were an absolute pleasure watching perform back in the day.
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With regards about the base, when this song first came out I blew out my very large 8-in woofers at the time.lol
...yes, GFR rocked my city 1971, I was 17, what a great band, read my comment if you want, keep on rockin🎸from Berlin
Dude what an answer to another British invasion (there has been a couple in our countries history 🙄) and I definitely would have seen these guys live. What a performance
One of the best live bands besides Rush, Soul plus Rock plus a lot of energy.
One of my faforite song from Grand Funk ! 😎
Lee-- Grand Funk was MY band back in the early 70's. They sold out Shea Stadium faster than The Beatles! This is from their second,self titled lp. The entire album is KILLER! Try 'In Need' or Paranoid (not the Sabbath tune). Grand Funk was thee top live act for a few years here in the US and some other countries. Rock it! T
My first concert and first weed. Good times.
Don't smoke that stuff they said, you'll go sterile, kill your brain cells, make you a Zombie, it's Addicting, It's bad for you, it's a gateway drug.... what else. I don't remember.
Smoke em if ya got em. Ass, Gas, Or Grass, Nobody Rides for Free.
This was my very first concert,my cousin took me for my 15 birthday, a day l'll never forget, oh and did l mention that BB KING opened up for them 🤟🥰🎶
More Grand Funk Please
They have another song , We're An American Band , the drummer is on lead vocals .
Saw them at Loyolla Field House in New Orleans in 71 with Bloodrock opening. Both bands were outstanding.
Missed that tour (young). Saw the next one,but I heard Bloodrock almost stole the show! Quite the feat when you're talking GFRR! T
REO Speed wagon golden country
Any REO will do
Best Reaction Ever!!! Luv EVERYthing ya were saying!
GFRR was one of those bands that you never missed when they came to town. We always danced all the way through their concerts and left feeling euphoric and wanting more! So glad you loved this song and hoping you will listen to the rest of them. Mean Mistreater would be a great next choice, enjoy! ☮️ ❤️ 🎶 🎸 🎶
This band is a derivative of a band called Terry Knight and the Pack. He had some hits in the 60s. I Who Have Nothing, titled as simply I, was his biggest hit. They were all energy but internal conflicts broke them.
Love these guys. Had a couple albums back in the day. They got cosmic, but with straight up rock! This video sounded like there were maybe 6 lucky people in the audience. They must have been blown the fuck away.
The reason the response seems so sparse is because this was a trial performance for a group of record producers. Pretty amazing stuff! ☮️ ❤️ 🎶 🎸 🎶
Hell, yeah! Grand Funk Railroad!
Please react to "I'm Your Captain" live at Shea stadium. They out drew the Beatles when they played there. Also react to "We're An American Band" and "Footstompin' Music". Thanks Lee! May God bless you and your family!
BTW, Mark Farner also plays keyboards too.
Yes Please More Grand Funk! So many awesome songs from them👍🏻🎸🎼❤
I’ve heard from others on youtube that they got kicked out from playing as a support band for Led Zeppelin back in the days. If it’s true I would’t be suprised😍!! Loved your reaction ❤️👍🏻.!!
Kinda popular? In 1972, these guys sold out New York's Shea stadium in just three hours. It took The Beatles three months to accomplish that. An amazing trio of superbly talented musicians.
Mark plays one helluva Hammond organ too.
Thanks for another great reaction! 🎸
Saw them twice in '69 and that kids is why we call it rock and roll. These guys blew the roof off the place, totally awesome.BTW: great opinions about the present and the past...well done.
Preach brother!
You’ll like it!! So good Rockin Grand funk…
In the 70’s we had only Vinyl… but it was enormous! So beautifully recorded! Perfect 👍
🎸💯 GFR‼🔥 ☮ ❤ 🎶
Because of their talent..!
Lee , what does it feel like hearing this for the first time …it’s been so long I don’t remember 😋
Mel had just turned 18 at this recording
The best American live band ever. Grand Funk was the shit man. They had a later album called Survival that was pretty cool, with a great song called I Can Feel Him in the Morning. Worth checking out Lee.
Man, I love your enthusiasm. They were part of the Detroit sound along with the MC5. For an updated take on this sound, and British, check out the Gang of Four. Rock on bro!
Saw them live in 1970 in Montreal
1970's Stadium Rock Gods....
When your mic stand is head bangin ~ you know you have something good...
Cheers! 🍄🌲🍄🌈😍
A group called 10 years after has a song called good morning little schoolgirl live watch that one. It’s basically a good rock ‘n’ roll jam just like the one we just heard from Grand Funk the bass player goes off to check it out.
Mark y Alvin los mejores músicos , genios . Jimmy , Richi B. Carlitos S etc.
As a drummer you might be interested in the drum solo on T.N.U.C. (Live album and studio versions are both great)
GOING WAS GONNA MENTION THAT
I heard that Grand Funk use to be the front bands in concerts to some of the major bands and they didn't like having to follow GFR because they put on such a good show.
In addition to guitar and harmonica, Mark Farner also played keyboards until the addition of Craig Frost. Farner and drummer Don Brewer were previously in Terry Knight and the Pack. Bassist Mel Schacher had been in ? and the Mysterions. I recommend you check out Footstompin' Music and People, Let's Stop the War, both from the E Pluribus Funk album... what the hell, check out the entire album. Also check out their first live album Grand Funk Live... completely unedited recording...3 people live on stage with nothing added or taken away.
That was a common size kit back then. Probably a Ludwig. My first kit was a five piece in 1969, and with the exception of adding some cymbals, it stayed that size until I heard Neil Peart in the mid-70's. Then obviously more toms were added.
Glad you liked it! I loved them since their first album and saw them twice in the 70s. I always thought that each one of their songs had 3 songs worth of content. I was a drummer too back then and used to play along with their albums. Great reaction!
They were from Flint. Michigan.
Hello Lee, GFR was one of the greatest Bands of all Time. I love this Band since i've heard them as i was thirteen Years old. Now i am almost 70. The Guys are so phantastic, i have no words for them. And Mark Farner was one of the greatest Composers and Lyricist ever. And his Companions, Mel Schacher and Don Brewer, simply superb. I will Love this Guys till the last day of my life. Without Doubt. ☺ Kind Regards Heinz from Munich. 🌳🥀🌱🌷✨
Hello heinz! Good to see you my friend. Hope you are doing well. Yeah these guys were awesome! So glad they were requested
@@L33Reacts thanks Lee. I am ok. Hope you too? ❤
My first concert at MSG
Speaking of 3-piece bands and afros, if you haven't done so, you need to check out MOUNTAIN - Mississippi Queen (Live on "The Show" 02-24-1970).
Song written by Chas Chandler of the Animals. He brought Hendrix to Britain from the US
Yes, and The Animals original version is fantastic also. Strong ‘60s vibe Vox organ driven classic rather than GF excellent guitar driven funk-hard rock. Both excel!
GFR was huge in late '60s-70s! Alice Cooper-probabaly the 1st Shock Rock (w/ goth) . My bf in gr 8 had the album-UnderMyWheels. plus-Black Sabbath!
Saw these guys several times in the late '60's (yeah, I'm old). Google the Fillmore East in Greenwich Village. Amazing concerts for around $4.00.
Flint Michigan finest, we know,
The Who were the closest great live band , next to Grand Funk.
Need to hear more
Yes ,you can rock a stadium down with GFR ,it almost happened!..More GFR please!..😎
Great reaction!..💯🤘👍