Anyone remember Grand Funk?

[Swede]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fova7MTYNpw&search=grand%20funk


On the road for forty days,
Last night in little rock put me in a haze.
Sweet, sweet connie -- doin her act,
She had the whole show and thats a natural fact.
Up all night with freddy king,
I got to tell you pokers his thing.
A-booze n ladies keep me right,
As long as we can make it to the show tonight.

Chorus
Were an american band.
Were an american band.
Were coming to your town, well help you party it down.
Were an american band.

Four young chaquitas in omaha,
Was waitin for the band to return from the show.
Feelin good, feelin right, its saturday night,
The hotel detective -- he was out-a-sight.
Now, these fine ladies, they had a plan,
They was out to meet the boys in the band.
They said, come on, dudes, lets get it on,
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down.

[pitohui]

1. yeah i'm that old

i even think they had a mini come back on the casino circuit in the 90s

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Yup

I'm on medication for it, though.

[6000eliot]

3. Their singer became a right-wing nut job, unfortunately.

But they were fun in the '70s.

[Swede]

4. No way.

That's fucked up.

[6000eliot]

6. Take a look.

Really creepy. http://www.markfarner.com/

[mikeytherat]

15. "The Rock Patriot?"

:rofl:

mikey_the_rat

[Robeson]

5. Yes, I remember them....

...they were not one of my favorites, but they had some catchy tunes.

[KatyMan]

7. This is a riot

From the front page:

The lyrics have been specially designed so you can download these to your computer in PDF format.

This post is specially designed so it can be read on the DU

[madeline_con]

10. You're the riot, Kentish Man

I was amused by the cutting-edge PDF format, too. :rofl:

[5thGenDemocrat]

8. GF is from Flint, I'm from Saginaw (35 miles away)

I've seen them more times than any other band except for the Grateful Dead, the last concert being about six years ago at the Palace. They still rock real good, even though they play live EXACTLY like the albums. I mean note for note. But I enjoyed myself anyhow.
Mark and Don and the guys have always been fond of guns and raising hell generally -- last I knew someone associated with the band (don't remember which one exactly) owned land near Lapeer they used for their gamboling. I don't know how "right-wing" any of them are, but they'd measure as yahoos, for sure, by DU standards. But then, Ted Nugent is a local guy, too.
John
Thankfully, so are Stevie Wonder and Michael Moore.

[madeline_con]

9. Isn't it Grand Funk Railroad? n/t

[5thGenDemocrat]

12. Yes it is

It's a play on words -- the Grand Trunk Railroad runs/ran through Flint (Saginaw, too).
John
Question Mark and the Mysterians ("96 Tears") are from here, too. They still play the bars occasionally and draw a good crowd.

[last_texas_dem]

11. I'm too young to actually remember them

but I've found a few of their albums, and I like 'em pretty well. Especially the self-titled album and Closer to Home. And "Bad Time" is one of my favorite seventies pop songs, and that's saying a lot because I like a lot of seventies pop! (Or maybe that would mean it's not saying as much as if I didn't like a lot of seventies pop... either way!) I'm not sure why they got/get so relentlessly attacked by critics. Sure, they weren't particularly groundbreaking but they aren't nearly as awful as their critical reputation would make you think.

[Bassic]

13. Hell yeah!

Though not from when they started, cuz I wasn't born yet :D

[mikeytherat]

14. "The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner?

The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer?"

-- Homer Simpson

mikey_the_rat

[RebelOne]

16. I remember them well.

[gademocrat7]

17. Yes I saw them in concert .

Once a long time ago.. Not my favorite group, but being at a lakeside concert was groovy.

[RebelOne]

18. Sweet, sweet Connie was a real person.

Some magazine did an interview with her and she definitely had the whole show or to put it another way, the whole band.

[DelawareValleyDem]

19. Of course

Songs like the one you picked prove what I always felt, that Don Brewer was a far better singer than Mark Farner, whom I really started disliking when I found out he became a freeper nutcase

[querelle]

20. Yes!

I shop lifted that record (remember 45's?) from Sam the Record Man on Younge Street in Toronto. I think it was the summer of 1973.

Q

[bmbmd]

21. How 'bout this one?

Hey all you people, for goodness sake.
Let's get together, what does it take
to make you understand the value of a man?
I'am talkin' about your sons and brothers,
yes I am.

Yeah, yeah, yeah-People let's stop the war.

[mzteris]

22. oh yeah.

:hippie:

We had a guy at our highschool whose last name was "Funkhouser" - so naturally his nickname was Grand Funk...

[livetohike]

23. I've seen them in concert several times and love them

I saw them back in 1995 or 1996 last and everyone in the crowd was dancing the whole time, people were waving original album covers in the air, it was just a great big party.

[wildhorses]

24. yep

nuff said 'bout that...