Grand Funk Railroad -- Texas Pop Festival -- 1969
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2016
- Grand Funk Railroad’s historic appearance at the Texas International Pop Festival, August 31 1969. The 3-day festival took place on Labor Day Weekend, at the Dallas International Motor Speedway in Lewisville, TX, some 12 miles north of Dallas. Grand Funk played all 3 days for free and made quite a sensation, just like they did at the Atlata International Pop Festival two months earlier. Standing ovations of an estimated 150.000 in Texas had Grand Funk multi-encoring to the point Farner couldn’t even walk off stage! (common situation in later shows…)
Documentation of the festival was used by Bill Rogers on his 1969 movie “Got No Shoes Got No Blues” that was once shown in Dallas in 1976. Nowadays, this movie, along with 10 more hours worth of footage, is stored at the Historic Films selves waiting in the obscurity for somebody to make a move... A movie! Just like a group of intelligent people did with Festival Express! Ironically, the Railroad was absent from that 1970 Express... More ironically, absent they were from Woodstock (even if they had been asked to play) because, in Knight’s words, Mark was still recovering from some very bad beating a couple of weeks after the Atlanta triumph... That’s still questionable because GFR, despite Mark’s beating, played many dates during that period: Detroit (Eastown Theatre, July 25&26), Cincinnati (Eden Park, July 27), Los Angeles (Thee Experience, August 7-10), Buffalo (Erie County Fair, August 15?), Nashville (Music Fest, August 22) and Holly (Music Fest, August 28) among other promotional appearances for the group.
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I was there that day. We'd never heard of Grand Funk but we would never forget how they energized us on that hot Texas day in Lewisville.
What luck!!!!!!!!
Long live the hippies🌻✌✊🍀🙏👖🕶
I'm french
God..I miss those great days/times. Wish we could just go back 2 it. Things hav changed so much..& feel bad that our young people 2day aren't able 2 experience these awesome times. Luv GFR...always & 4ever. They Rule !! 🙂🙂✌✌☮☮🤘🤘💕💕
*How the FUNK are these guy's not in the r.n.r h.o.f ,pure Rock and Roll with a whole lotta soul,GFR FOREVER!!*
Saw Mark Farner this weekend, he really rocks! He put on a great show, and I'm sure it helped that he played in front of his hometown too. He is so talented, love his music and style.
One of the most talented musicians I have ever seen. And still able to perform at a high level at 70 years old is really unbelievable. I owned every album in my teen years and got to see him years later at the Hampton Beach Club Casino in NH. He was awesome!
Was there. Saw them. Never had heard of them. But totally loved them!
And I do remember that they were SOOOOOOOO LOUD!
GREAT MEMORY!
I'm still trying to find my way home from this concert 🤣,
Lol!! Can't imagine seeing this festivals acts as they climbed to the top 💥
Grand Funk was a last minute addition to this festival to fill in for another band that dropped out. They literally had 72 hours to get to Texas from Detroit. They were the first act to open and people were blown away. By day three if the festival they were two or three bands behind the headliner the progressed so far.
Although I'm a Michigan native and have been past many places where GFR played, I drive past the site of the Texas International Pop Festival on a fairly regular basis, and it still brings a smile to my face to think "GFR played over there." There's a Texas Historical Marker near the site, commemorating the event, and as I live and breathe, not only is it cool to see "Grand Funk Railroad" referenced, it's another smile to see -- on a state marker! -- "and a relatively unknown United Kingdom band called Led Zeppelin."
Ya know these guys never got proper due from critics and it continues today, first time I saw them in Canton Ohio late 69 I crawled to our car in total exhaustion. I was 14 and it really made an impression on me. To this day GFR holds a special place in my heart. You take all the bands the critics liked and I guarantee that these guys live would make the girls T shirts come off faster than any other band. On stage these guys had more energy than anyone. Marky wrote all of it and every bit of it on the first three albums would still stand today if covered by another band. Rob Zombie came close but honestly there is so much more to this group. Talent was off the shelf.
And yet they are still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I live just south of Canton and don't waste my time giving them my time or money unless someone from out of town wants to go.One of the greatest bands of that time. I love the story Mark tells about Janis Joplin at the Texas Intl pop festival.
Agreed from Flint .
The best of the best Grand Funk Railroad !
I´LL LOVE THIS GREAT ROCK BAND FOREVER...I GREW UP IN HARD ROCK WITH THEM.
Coolest band ever!
Beautiful music. Beautiful girls. Don't need nuthin' else! Well, some beer too...
Mark Farner the living legend is playing in Mexico City , November 28. I’ll see you there Mark !
love these guys music
Bravo ⚘when people were cool
Wow the best of the best ! Grand Funk ! No doubt about it .
Una de las mejores bandas
I was only three but lived right down the road from where this took place
i was in that sea of people that day! ;)
Me, too.
All I can say is the only influence I heard in their music was Motown. As far as the rock scene,especially at their time, they could stand toe to toe with any 3 man band. And my God was it funky. Just love em always have always will
Absolutely right! People get them confused with a heavy metal band or a blues band--they were neither. Their goal was to be a Soul-based rock power trio the same way Cream was a Blues-based rock power trio--and I think they achieved that goal successfully. FUNK was their middle name!
Awesome rhythm! Love playin' this fab tune and TNUC on the drums.
Mark Don and Mel = grand funk railroad
I was at this festival. We had a blast. Hog farmers fed us. We had the lake to swim in. I couldn't make it to Woodstock cause I was too stoned, but this was local and, in my opinion, much better. Weather was perfect. The vibes were great. Had a ton of fun till daddy took the T-bird awayyyyyyy.
They said it was 110° in the shade and there was no shade to be found. On a high note Mel noticed when Mark took off his shirt a bunch of girls in the audience did to and that was ok too.
Always nice to see the early years of Grand Funk. It was interesting how they edited this. This stage was in an open field in the middle of the day. They dropped in shots that was obviously shot at night from a different show but it worked as long as you are not really paying attention. Thanks for posting
If you think that's bad, the whole film is out of whack with the soundtrack! Led Zeppelin's performance was a mess, and Chicago's was even worse! Personally, I think the filmmakers were victims of the LSD circulating among the crowd that day. If they had serious plans to produce this film for commercial release, they needed to do some MAJOR re-editing with the help of professionals if they wanted to get anywhere near the Woodstock film, but it would have been nice as an alternative to either Woodstock or Gimme Shelter, as neither festival had Grand Funk or Led Zeppelin. The more the merrier, in my opinion, when it comes to festival films of this era
Cream. Led Zepplin. ZZ Top and GRAND FUNK RAILROAD. The beginning of the power trio. Can't touch 'em today. I'm a drummer for 53 years and I cut my teeth on Bonham, Brewer and Beard with a little of crazy Ginger thrown in.
Zeppelin not a trio,Hendrix Experience,James Gang,Robin Trower yes!Got it?
@@mixaliskokkinos1496 Technically, Zeppelin was a trio as far as guitar, bass, drums. They just had a 4th member for vocals, where as the other trios mentioned had 1 or 2 of the three members as vocalists.
@@kimmontgomery6671 From that point of view,you are right.Greetings from Greece
Right?! 🕶
@@kimmontgomery6671 In that point of view Black Sabbath also a trio.
Peace & Love~then & now. ♥
Timeless classic
I was there came back from Big Sur with with Owlsley product for free
"I can see CLEARLY now..."
Often back in the day, you'd see concert video footage where the audio came from a different live performance (not necessarily saying that is the case here). Considering what they had to work with at the time, this may have been the best option.
Excelente banda
Mark,Don & Mel❤❤❤❤!!!!Super Funk para siempre!!!Un saludo de España!!!
Muita saudade desta magnífica geração que deixa até hoje muita lembrança. Paz e amor pelo universo.
I was at this party.. Zoo Freaks ♡
The most unsung power trio of ALL TIME!!!!
same shit.....no melody
@@markchoot6047 Damn, but you sure got your head up yer arse. Besides being totally wrong.
Actually, that would be the group ELEVEN, fronted by Natasha Schneider. RIP, you fantastic lady.
The original jam band
I probably wired those amps, worked for Dave West right after he moved from Davison road to downtown Flint. Dave and I used to take stuff over to the union hall for rehearsals. Poor old Tamborino was losing his mind from the sounds!! Ha! Melvin was always cool, one of the most underrated players in rock and roll history, in my opinion.
Mark Farner sounded pretty awesome through those amps!
@@coreymihailiuk5189 In Downtown Flint Michigan West Amps had the factory. Several other rock and rollers including me, built the amps you see here. Rob Grange worked for Dave too, ended up buying Dave's white Gibson bass, the went on to help make Nugent's most popular albums.
@@robnamowicz8073 Thanks for sharing some 60's rock history! Mark Farner's choice of guitar and amp was a very unusual and rare combination for that era. Was Leslie West also playing your amps?
Those things are really rare these days, great amps with lots of power!
That's awesome! Man! Would i like to get my hands on one of those West amps or heads!!!
Please make the movie
Love it!!
I'll bet it was hotter than fish grease during that festival. September in Texas is blazing hot
Before Marks hair got real long ! cool !
Not only were they Grand Funk Railway--but they were THE Grand Funk Railway, according to that great deadpan hippie announcer, Chip Monck, who later in the evening announced Led Zeppelin, as THE Led Zeppelin. 'Cos in the 60s, you couldn't be a band without your name starting with the article THE--just like starting out, there was THE Pink Floyd, THE Jefferson Airplane, THE Cream, THE Blue Cheer--you get the idea!
He also introduced The Band Of Gypsies as "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" at Woodstock. Granted, he must have been a little fried by that time/
@@NilezII I'm reminded that he also announced that the "brown acid currently circulating, is not...particularly...too...good" --I think he must have known :)
Is that Terry Knight at 3:04? Their manager who they later had problems with.
Yep!
Sure is, man! Good call !!
Lol! That is one disconnected crowd
0:37...guy with the hat "wait, they're not the New Christy Minstrels! Hey, where's my bong!"
1:33.. best shot of the whole video... nice one, camera guy!
cool!
The FAKE NEWS ROCK JOURNALIST of the day totally disregarded this legendary kick ass band!! To this day Donny Brewer is one of the top 10 best rock drummers of all time, he does on a 5 piece kit what others cant do on any set.
The sad thing is, they kind of went from "heroes" at the Atlanta Pop Festival at the beginning of the summer, to "zeros" again at the Texas Pop Festival by the end of the summer. Just two short months earlier, they blew everyone away with their performance they became instant headliners in Atlanta--and here in Dallas, they were given such a "meh" reception by this cowboy crowd that they just remained the "warm up" group playing for free for the people coming into the fairgrounds through the entire three days. They really must have thought their 15 minutes of fame were over--until the record sales started taking off and then they really took off for good!
SINCE HOUR ZERO THE MOST MOMIFIED CROWD ON THE FUCKING PLANET!!!
3:04 Their manager Terry Knight (RIP)
Fuck TK He ruined them then Don Brewer killed the band by firing Mark.
it's been over 50 years, wtf are you waiting on? release the damn footage.
Great Show! Great Band! To bad the editing on Film not in sink with the Song? Lead break, Crash Cymbal Not Featured? Probably why it was never released until now?
At 3:04---a wild, shirtless Terry Knight gettin down with his bad self nodding his approval to his band's music. Now tell me--how many rock managers boogie to their band's own shit like that?
yep, counting the money and scheming to rip them off.
You wanna hear some real bullshit for the birds mark don and Mel grand funk railroad is not repeat not in the rock and roll Hall of fame. Now tell me ain't this some shit for the birds
Chill already! Everyone knows the RRHOF is totally managed shitty and don't mean diddley squat.
Want to know the reason. I will give you one that came from someone connected. No Mark Farner, no RRHF. “They will never get in unless Mark is with them.” Period. End of story. That’s a quote.
GFR should definitely appear in rock and roll Hall of fame. In the 70th me and all around loved them more than LZ, DP, BS etc. GFR was a superband. Something is wrong with a r-n-r Hall of fame.
Grande banda dos anos 70. A exemplo do Uriah Heep foi subvalorizada pela crítica. Um Power trio de 1a.
Saw Uriaheep in Flint Michigan. They kick ass .
Both are favorites of mine. Saw GF twice, Heep 5 times.
This looks like the Atlanta Pop Festival
I thought so too
0:40 was my math everyone called him captain save a ho
So where was Mark Farner in this performance? I saw the guy they inserted in his place, but that guy had his shirt on the whole song. Definitely not Farner...
That's Mark Just a very young Mark.
No, that is definitely Mark...
Didn't you hear? Wavy Gravy was trying to spread the word at this festival to anyone who listened that the old Baptist ladies in town were looking for anyone who didn't have clothes on that they were going to personally dress them! Apparently, Magic Markie listened--even though it was the last week of August in Texas--he was dressed like October in Michgan!
Funny enough--the only one without a shirt is Terry Knight, the band's manager! You see him with his scrawny, pasty white body at 3:04!
That was him🤣🤣🤣
This is obviously not live footage of the music that is on this and them doing it. If it is it is not syc'd at all.
What Terry did to these boys was criminal, his murder was karma.
Por ahí andaba Homero simpson 😁
It IS live footage of them at texas Pop. But music is not in sync..edited poorly...Wicker
I want someone to sync...
1:05 russian guy's granfather?
Yes,he is 🎸🎸🎸🎸
What happened to the bare chested dude who use to play guitar?
Still playin guitar, he be about 74yo now.
That's him. He only wore a shirt sometimes for the first song. "Are You Ready?" was always their first song.