Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band LIVE - 1974

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

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  • @JR-xj2vr
    @JR-xj2vr Год назад +180

    If this isn’t a perfect rock song, then I don’t know what is……..listening in 2023.

  • @AntillesFilms
    @AntillesFilms 2 года назад +70

    This performance is the purest distillation of rock n'roll. Four guys, no studio augmentation, fueled by alcohol and adrenaline.

  • @kimkoteles4063
    @kimkoteles4063 7 месяцев назад +18

    My Husband and I just saw them in Pittsburgh PA last Night! His Fave Rock Band! They were Awsome!!!!❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @MrJmaviles
    @MrJmaviles 8 лет назад +451

    This is the 70s real talent no drum machines, no computers, no voice enhancement, Raw talent.. 70s the best years of my life as a teenager In south Florida. G F R on the 8 track

    • @jamesvasquez3872
      @jamesvasquez3872 8 лет назад +14

      "RAW TALENT" FOR SURE!!!!!!!

    • @TucsonDude
      @TucsonDude 8 лет назад +13

      Exactly what I said above. Pure performance above electronic aids! Plus, they looked good.

    • @silverfox4756
      @silverfox4756 7 лет назад +1

      Plumbing Miami 305 519 2071 So true

    • @joseluisopazo9041
      @joseluisopazo9041 7 лет назад +1

      Plumbing Miami 305 519 2071 l

    • @alanowens3
      @alanowens3 7 лет назад +2

      Sportatorium ROCKED!

  • @azimuth361
    @azimuth361 10 лет назад +134

    No lip synch. No autotune. No dancers all over the stage. THIS is why I'm a rocker!!

    • @kylewinward8847
      @kylewinward8847 Год назад +4

      💯 I'll have to try this on my bass. Man, the 1970s rocked! IMO and many others it was the best decade for guitar ROCK!

    • @will4673
      @will4673 Год назад +4

      Younger generation gets mad as hell when us older folks say this, it’s hilarious…

    • @paulletchworth2036
      @paulletchworth2036 Год назад +2

      Guy with the guitar is trying to dance , best part of this band was the drummer

    • @user-un2wh2zg8r
      @user-un2wh2zg8r Год назад

      昔は皆同じだよ

    • @seldomseensavage3459
      @seldomseensavage3459 Год назад

      🤮🤮🤮

  • @deerdust
    @deerdust 13 лет назад +78

    I thank the Lord, that my childhood was in the 60's and 70's. It was such a great time. A freedom that is hard to put into a few words. It rocked and still rocks my life, and developed me into who I am today. A diff set of morals than the world today! Rocks On My Brothers and Sisters!! Love Ya All!!

    • @joyis9638
      @joyis9638 Год назад +3

      Well-stated Bro! Same strong feelings about that era of music! How lucky we were and are.

    • @sueraymo3239
      @sueraymo3239 Год назад +2

      Yes very well said! Totally with you!

    • @seldomseensavage3459
      @seldomseensavage3459 Год назад +1

      The years were righteous…too bad gfr WASN’T

    • @malemesjager41
      @malemesjager41 11 месяцев назад +3

      Born in 61'!!

    • @vincivinci6018
      @vincivinci6018 Месяц назад

      LA MĪA TAMBIÉN 🤜🤛

  • @sonnydean3187
    @sonnydean3187 8 месяцев назад +27

    Class of '79. I went through junior high and high school jamming to this one! Brings back some great memories of just being a kid!

    • @cindyinnew
      @cindyinnew 6 месяцев назад +1

      Same. Class of 79

    • @JohnJames-xo8om
      @JohnJames-xo8om 5 месяцев назад +1

      Same

    • @vlvlt7861
      @vlvlt7861 3 месяца назад

      Mighty fine in 79, go Vashon Pirates.

  • @zangolli1963
    @zangolli1963 4 года назад +117

    The only good thing about being old is that i was around for some really great music back in the day. My funeral is going to be a rock festival.

    • @JWH-01
      @JWH-01 4 года назад +6

      I have a feeling we are in the same generation. The late '60's through the '70's had the best music.

    • @eire7837
      @eire7837 4 года назад +3

      smoothlyez
      I'm cracking up at your last sentence. (Funeral Rock Festival). See ya ☝there lol.

    • @charlesrast4235
      @charlesrast4235 4 года назад

      I love you ♥️

    • @shawnthompson5496
      @shawnthompson5496 4 года назад +2

      my 1st 45 was solid gold 45 grand funk railroad were an american band. those were the days.

  • @plumeria66
    @plumeria66 11 лет назад +163

    I just feel sorry for people who were born after the 1980s. Long live the 1970s.

    • @HardRockMaster7577
      @HardRockMaster7577 3 года назад +3

      Every teen loves the music that's live around them.... But the live music of my teen years 1969-1975.... I wouldn't trade that for anyone else's "teen" years... It was generationally special, meaning it's appreciated with enthusiasm by generations that followed. A true Golden Age.

    • @pinoywheelgunner
      @pinoywheelgunner 3 года назад

      I was born in 75 but Ididnt get to listen to great bands until I was in my late teens

    • @MagnumMike44
      @MagnumMike44 3 года назад

      @plumerian66 - You'd be surprised to hear about those who were born in or after the 1980s and their musical preferences, a lot of whom prefer 1970s and 1980s Rock n' Roll.

    • @musicalhistory4392
      @musicalhistory4392 9 месяцев назад +3

      As someone born in the late 90s, it's hard to believe there has been pratically no good music made in my lifetime.

    • @Jae-b1s
      @Jae-b1s 8 месяцев назад

      I was born in 1971 and never heard of this group before

  • @neckbeard8536
    @neckbeard8536 6 лет назад +169

    One of the few bands that sounded better live than in the studio.

  • @WendyMiller-w3w
    @WendyMiller-w3w Месяц назад +7

    Hey Everyone. I'm 58 years old and this has been a favorite of mine forever. Rock On!

  • @sweetfaith2011
    @sweetfaith2011 4 года назад +58

    I don't care what anyone says the 70's was the best generation when it came to rock and roll. The music these days sux doesn't come close.

    • @lynneaiken1647
      @lynneaiken1647 6 месяцев назад +2

      Facts!!!

    • @glennispeterson4898
      @glennispeterson4898 4 месяца назад +1

      I heartily agree!

    • @lisaheyob951
      @lisaheyob951 3 месяца назад +1

      Amen great music great car's oh yea 70's rocked

    • @yobwej666
      @yobwej666 2 месяца назад

      The Warning are the first band in 30 years to give me a genuine rock'n'roll boner.
      Without a doubt, the best thing to happen to rock in the 21st century so far

    • @ClydeHUC
      @ClydeHUC 26 дней назад

      Best rock and roll song of all time

  • @blackfender100
    @blackfender100 8 лет назад +205

    Awesome the 70's ruled . one of the greatest rock songs ever !

  • @Vato-Psyko-Loko
    @Vato-Psyko-Loko 7 месяцев назад +8

    they can come to my town and help me party down anytime.

  • @budsodalsky
    @budsodalsky 24 дня назад +4

    DAM THAT ROCKS!!! Never knew back in the 70's that drummer was singing and banging out the best part of that song! KILLER!

  • @mdemma60
    @mdemma60 3 года назад +28

    June 12, 1973...Grand Funk records this masterpiece. By Summer of '74 it would be their first #1 hit single in the U.S. Fell in love with Mark Farner when I was 14 in 74.

  • @steveallred1330
    @steveallred1330 5 лет назад +56

    This is one badass group that should have been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame years and years ago I grew up listening to them they were way ahead of their time pure blood and guts rock and roll you can't beat it

    • @christopherharmon2433
      @christopherharmon2433 3 года назад +11

      Young people today have no idea just how huge they were in the early 1970s.

    • @sidethehead
      @sidethehead 2 года назад +7

      That's why the Hall of Lame is a joke. Carole King isn't in either. Go figure.

    • @seldomseensavage3459
      @seldomseensavage3459 Год назад

      They’re gods in the rock & roll hall of shame

  • @musicmark4
    @musicmark4 12 лет назад +95

    Don Brewer is such a talented Percussionist. Anyone that can drum and sing and keep it rocking is just the ...man !!

    • @sandraoxom
      @sandraoxom Год назад +1

      Increíble!

    • @johnzane4610
      @johnzane4610 Год назад

      Too bad he's a Dick and has withheld a true GFR reunion all these years !!!!

    • @christhevancura9113
      @christhevancura9113 Год назад +6

      He has just the right amount of cowbell.

    • @juliebarrows8149
      @juliebarrows8149 Год назад +3

      Karen Carpenter drummed most of the Carpenters shows AND sang an impeccable lead. Was she “the man”?!!

    • @user-un2wh2zg8r
      @user-un2wh2zg8r Год назад

      これが😜

  • @BurciagaLuis-bn7qy
    @BurciagaLuis-bn7qy 6 месяцев назад +31

    One of d greatest rock songs of all time!!!

    • @hudsonstraight8628
      @hudsonstraight8628 5 месяцев назад

      Closer to Home is stamped on my brain. Great American Rock Band to British onslaught.

  • @sandybell2743
    @sandybell2743 2 года назад +13

    This is a classic masterpiece! The greatest song about America.... My favorite song of all time!!!!

  • @Rivermyst55
    @Rivermyst55 12 лет назад +48

    This is THE American rock anthem without a doubt. The riff by itself is one of the modt unique and unmistakeable riffs of all time just like "Smoke On The Water" & "Mississippi Queen." This was the Golden Age of Rock (1969-1974) and no period could match it for the number of power bands, music composition, or quality.

  • @TS-wh4ey
    @TS-wh4ey 6 месяцев назад +10

    Damnit....I never get tired of this. And I seen them in concert during the 70s and I'm still watching and listening to this classic rock spectacle. Long live GFR 🎸 April 2024

  • @davidbowman1024
    @davidbowman1024 Месяц назад +5

    2024 - Don Brewers A FRIGGN Beast!.
    The Track just Screams 70's BANGEEERRR!✌️

  • @observantowl5568
    @observantowl5568 4 года назад +43

    Three young dudes went into a garage and........when they came out the world was a better place.

    • @bevdog2435
      @bevdog2435 4 года назад +1

      Best comment i ever heard

    • @chrisubias7135
      @chrisubias7135 8 месяцев назад +3

      4 dudes, the keyboardist never gets recognition 😂

  • @blank557
    @blank557 Год назад +6

    Beating those drums like they owe him money! Love it!

  • @tednugent777
    @tednugent777 12 лет назад +35

    I saw Grand Funk in '70, they opened for Led Zeppelin. I ,nor anyone else had ever heard of them,but they blew my ass away ! I wasn't expecting anything like what I saw, they were awesome !

  • @mikegutierrez552
    @mikegutierrez552 10 лет назад +31

    That's what you call putting your soul in the music! Man that energy is insane! I'd personally give $1000 bucks if a group like this ever played live at my house for my birthday.

    • @47tooter
      @47tooter 10 лет назад +2

      A whole 1,000.00 ? maybe 100 x that.

    • @seldomseensavage3459
      @seldomseensavage3459 Год назад

      I’d pay a thousand to have never heard them!!

    • @brycecarrion1687
      @brycecarrion1687 Год назад

      Priceless man!

    • @47tooter
      @47tooter Год назад

      I don't get it ? Then why are you here ? Just one song and you totally judged them ?@@seldomseensavage3459

    • @EkenHein-d5g
      @EkenHein-d5g 7 месяцев назад

      1000 bucks is for a week to get my shit hhhhhhh a birthday Tu suces ? 😅

  • @SteveSmith-eb6ze
    @SteveSmith-eb6ze 7 месяцев назад +14

    It is the perfect rock song,nothing comes close! I remember when Grand Funk ruled the airwaves. They were something.

  • @rgracia633
    @rgracia633 9 лет назад +68

    It is truly mind boggling that the jerks (committee) has yet to induct Grand Funk, one of the greatest bands of the 70s into the rock and roll hall of fame. Or should I say rock and roll hall of SHAME!

    • @Elliot_jackson
      @Elliot_jackson 9 лет назад +2

      +Ralph Rivera amen brother

    • @MarvelDcImage
      @MarvelDcImage 9 лет назад +7

      +Ralph Rivera the rock and roll hall of fame is not a real institution - someone made it up to make money - it's not like it was founded to serve as some sort of true music museum or some such.

    • @markayoub2480
      @markayoub2480 8 лет назад +10

      +Ralph Rivera don brewer has already said that homer simpson calling them his favorite band is more important

    • @loveclassics1969
      @loveclassics1969 8 лет назад +7

      Took them 25 years to induct Chicago

    • @TCloud007
      @TCloud007 7 лет назад +3

      Yeah it's a true shame. But NWA and Tupac can be inducted before GFR and other great classic rock acts from that era

  • @phillipsamuels6719
    @phillipsamuels6719 4 года назад +17

    Just a brilliant song the singer is so damn awesome while playing the drums a real classic

  • @boeing757pilot
    @boeing757pilot 8 лет назад +131

    Afros and Cowbells! Fuck yes!!

    • @jamesvasquez3872
      @jamesvasquez3872 8 лет назад +5

      "Fuck yeah"!!!!

    • @1800cc-Dead-Meat
      @1800cc-Dead-Meat 8 лет назад +10

      FUCKIIN HELL YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @wroberts1707
      @wroberts1707 8 лет назад +22

      Hell yeah. Shame 236 ass wipes think differently. Pure sounds putting modern crap to shame, and better hair than Beyoncé lol

    • @Gwenlj
      @Gwenlj 7 лет назад +2

      LOL

  • @hawk3747
    @hawk3747 2 года назад +24

    4 Men
    2 Shirts
    1 Cowbell
    Bought this 45 with my paper route money when I was a boy and this groove will forever hold a magical spell over me that can’t be explained or underestimated. Thanks for posting.

    • @jbc31021
      @jbc31021 2 года назад

      🤣🤣

    • @jbc31021
      @jbc31021 2 года назад +1

      And one lime colored jump suit!!!

    • @alanwaters5957
      @alanwaters5957 6 месяцев назад +1

      We need more cowbells!

  • @customawnings
    @customawnings 9 лет назад +89

    One of the greatest song of rock'n'roll ever, it's hard to believe that a very close friend of mine and myself almost got expelled from school in communist Cuba for just listening to it, weird but true.

    • @loveclassics1969
      @loveclassics1969 8 лет назад +8

      Wow

    • @johnfreel6004
      @johnfreel6004 3 года назад

      That is greatness!!! Your love for rock!!!! Great story!! Thank you for your love for rock n roll!!!!

    • @sweetpurplegurl
      @sweetpurplegurl 3 года назад +1

      Instead of slipping Castro L. S. D. , they should have slipped him G. F. R.

    • @seldomseensavage3459
      @seldomseensavage3459 Год назад

      Almost?….meh

  • @ChuckLaka
    @ChuckLaka 11 месяцев назад +14

    Old school rock never dies

  • @sosunchorroK
    @sosunchorroK 7 лет назад +4

    WOOOWWW !!!! I m from Switzerland but i hear this incredible band an d i feel my self one american citizen TOO !!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA ...and GRAND FUNK RAILROAD TOO !!!!!!

  • @tizianotononi9370
    @tizianotononi9370 11 лет назад +19

    I used to listen to these guys at fourteen...this means I was VERY lucky!!! They still sound terrific today! Long live their music, and Rock'n Roll

  • @njhoepner
    @njhoepner 2 года назад +27

    One of my Dad's favorite bands, and one can see why. These guys are REALLY good.

    • @LAMPO2852
      @LAMPO2852 Год назад

      1971 RomaSuggerimento

    • @seldomseensavage3459
      @seldomseensavage3459 Год назад

      No, they’re REALLY not

    • @njhoepner
      @njhoepner Год назад

      @@seldomseensavage3459 Maybe not your taste...but yeah, the are really good.

    • @mr.brenman2132
      @mr.brenman2132 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@seldomseensavage3459Yes, they really are.

  • @talileali
    @talileali 8 лет назад +16

    One of the Best Live Bands of All Time! Mark, Don and Mel! GFR!

  • @petewilsonfl
    @petewilsonfl 10 лет назад +15

    Got to be in my top 10 of all time. Wow hard to say, this was an awesome performance of this song.

  • @cherri400
    @cherri400 24 дня назад +1

    The 70's were kick ass Rock & Roll , todays generation will never understand.

  • @TheOutlaw256
    @TheOutlaw256 8 лет назад +42

    when rock was still rock!!!

  • @Joebar6611
    @Joebar6611 9 месяцев назад +8

    This is the most '70s thing ever.

  • @eduardthomas6072
    @eduardthomas6072 4 месяца назад +3

    2024 year 🎸🎹🎶🎤🥁and I'm thinking about my old school boys Band😢 with All my buddies who've already cross the mighty 🤞 Rivers of Life to the other side... sweet 🙌 Rest 🙏 Fellas 😇 Precious memories 👌👍

  • @daleclontz5421
    @daleclontz5421 25 дней назад

    I remember cruising around Thomasville North Carolina in the mid '70's, in my cousin Donnie's 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner, listening to this, and a lot of other Grand Funk Railroad tunes!!
    😎😎😎

  • @avbikerdad
    @avbikerdad 6 лет назад +17

    Lyrics
    Out 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 that's a natural fact
    Up all night with Freddie King
    I got to tell you, poker's his thing
    Booze and ladies, keep me right
    As long as we can make it to the show tonight
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're comin' to your town
    We'll help you party it down
    We're an American band
    Four young chiquitas in Omaha
    Waitin' for the band to return from the show
    Feelin' good, feelin' right, it's Saturday night
    The hotel detective, he was outta sight
    Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
    They was out to meet the boys in the band
    They said, come on dudes, let's get it on
    And we proceeded to tear that hotel down
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're comin' to your town
    We'll help you party it down
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're comin' to your town
    We'll help you party it down
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're comin' to your town
    We'll help you party it down
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're an American band
    We're comin' to your town
    We'll help you party it down
    We're an American band
    We're an American band, wooo
    We're an American band, wooo
    We're an American band, wooo

  • @suebanks973
    @suebanks973 9 лет назад +3

    heard this song come on TV for 115th U.S Open commercial, i was rocking out!! at 3:30 am while making my husband brkfast/lunch for work,so i had to come to
    you tube !! this is what i grew up too,good way to start the day...to good old fashion
    rock and roll

  • @gildad2000
    @gildad2000 8 лет назад +83

    Now that is rock and roll!!🤘

    • @suebanks7851
      @suebanks7851 8 лет назад +2

      +sun johnson amen brother!!

    • @jonbreau3439
      @jonbreau3439 8 лет назад +17

      You just got ran the fuck over by the Grand Funk Railroad!!

  • @AnastasiaKay1993
    @AnastasiaKay1993 9 лет назад +35

    The boys from Flint, Michigan!

  • @johnnyrussell8703
    @johnnyrussell8703 6 лет назад +2

    My first concert was Mark Don & Mel at Pirates World amusement park Dainia Florida 1973. When they played Footstompin Music i knew life for me would never be the same again. I was badly hooked on this band at only 10 years old! Farner slid across the stage on his knees, hair swirling around and whaling on his guitar and it was officially the coolest thing i ever saw. Today im still a #1 fan.
    Love you guys!!

  • @jlschult45
    @jlschult45 7 лет назад +7

    A lot of great bands came out of the 70's. This is just one of them. BTO, being another, The Doobie Brothers, and Nazareth just to name a few. The 70's was a great time to grow up in.

  • @serjackson2586
    @serjackson2586 8 лет назад +14

    I was at Shea in 71 and it was one of the best concert attended

    • @tomb4575
      @tomb4575 4 года назад

      Think the only groups to fill Shea in the 70's where this group and Jethro Tull in later 70's

  • @craigster0861
    @craigster0861 4 года назад +6

    The Rock and Roll of the '70's we're good times. Great time to be a teenager. Maybe every decade is a good time to be a teenager, unless there is a draft. Honor our veterans. Without them, we have nothing in this U.S.A.

  • @robertwright2852
    @robertwright2852 8 лет назад +45

    the biggest drawing live performance band of the early 70s, 2nd to none

    • @lecil2
      @lecil2 8 лет назад +3

      u said that RIGHT!!

    • @jonathanstrauss2083
      @jonathanstrauss2083 7 лет назад +1

      Robert Wright bigger than Zeppelin??

    • @seanmcaleavy2369
      @seanmcaleavy2369 7 лет назад

      Actually, he didn't say it right. It was neither spoken nor anywhere close to being grammatically correct.

    • @theoppiesghost
      @theoppiesghost 7 лет назад +6

      Yes bigger than Zeppelin

    • @austinbryant9970
      @austinbryant9970 6 лет назад

      The Allman Brothers Band would have something to say about that.....

  • @francescacouch8796
    @francescacouch8796 7 лет назад +2

    The 70's exploded when This band came out. our American Brand...!!! WE all flocked to hear their music that made us proud to be American!!!

  • @sandybell2743
    @sandybell2743 Год назад +12

    The best. American song ever ❤️

  • @melfaulkner8262
    @melfaulkner8262 8 лет назад +14

    What happened to all our garage bands like these? I wish we had more like these guys.

  • @Smiley1973-r2c
    @Smiley1973-r2c 4 месяца назад +9

    Love my 70’s rock n roll

  • @1950Grendel
    @1950Grendel 7 лет назад +3

    Pure, naked, rock'n'roll - I hope it isn't gone forever.

  • @mikestewart5724
    @mikestewart5724 6 лет назад +1

    I was at this concert in June of 1974 at the Los Angeles Forum! Grand Funk was the best live band I have ever seen!!

  • @rdc327
    @rdc327 2 года назад +1

    Out on the road for 40 years. 😉 And I am still going to see them June 2022 in Charlotte.

  • @celestephoenix6336
    @celestephoenix6336 12 лет назад +31

    I am not from this planet and I love their sound! America is a huge continent. These guys made Central and South America scream with bravado and delight. Music has no boundaries. Closer to home is a masterpiece!

  • @metalhed2892
    @metalhed2892 8 лет назад +25

    You kids know Grand Funk, right? The shirtless antics of Mark Farner? The bong rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? For more information on Grand Funk, consult your school library!

    • @Hellwyck
      @Hellwyck 6 лет назад +2

      Homerpalooza

    • @alm4014
      @alm4014 6 лет назад +2

      Did you know that before GFR, Mel Schacher played bass for a Bay City, Michigan Latino garage band: " ? and the Mysterians "... (their big hit in 1966 was "96 Tears") -- although Mel played with them after that song was released, and then only for a little while until their regular bass player got back from Viet Nam. BTW, the lead singer ?'s real name is Rudy Martinez, and he was brought into that band for his dancing ability! Go figure. And while I'm on the subject of Michigan rock stars, how about James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born in Muskegon in '47) -- known now as Iggy Pop. Apologies for my digressing, GF was huge in the '70s and one of the best!

  • @sihartobing9570
    @sihartobing9570 6 лет назад +5

    Tribute to Grand Fank Rairoad : Song : We're An American Band - 1970 : This have many Favorite song that times in all the world for young Generation, so famouse, .... Bravo.

  • @CBeard849
    @CBeard849 2 года назад +1

    "The Band" that started my trip down the road to hearing impairment!! Please turn it up......

  • @adamholtz733
    @adamholtz733 3 года назад +5

    Fantastic song and great concert on film !!! Grand Funk Railroad still Rules !!!

  • @davidkastin4240
    @davidkastin4240 4 года назад +8

    Ass kickin rock n roll. All musicians here in peak performance! Love ya playing Mark 🎸

  • @bikermyk4966
    @bikermyk4966 4 года назад +6

    64 now and still listening in Central Florida 2019.

  • @mikehand9698
    @mikehand9698 9 лет назад +1

    Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band LIVE - 1974
    Excellent classic song .

  • @suebanks7851
    @suebanks7851 8 лет назад +2

    i appreciate that i grew up in the 60's/70's regardless of the craziness that was going on back,when it comes to music,etc....
    there's no other decade like the 70's

  • @maplebacon__
    @maplebacon__ 13 лет назад +7

    Saw them live last night! Even though the drummer is 63 now he still sings and plays the drums like he was 20! They still got it!!

  • @ManDuderGuy
    @ManDuderGuy 8 лет назад +43

    Goddamn that sounds good for a live show, real talent here!

  • @chrisroche9222
    @chrisroche9222 8 лет назад +4

    one of my all time favorites. We used to boogie when this song came on our transistor radios.

  • @mrmateph729
    @mrmateph729 7 лет назад +2

    in the mid 70's whenever i see this on the list of songs on the juke box, i would play it and some people will going to look at me as if im a freak. I'm a Filipino by the way and i love this kind of music.

  • @cinnaplid
    @cinnaplid 10 лет назад +1

    My mum LOVED this group. She brought the yellow album back from the U.S. and would dance to this music. She was so cool!

  • @wyliecoyote7822
    @wyliecoyote7822 2 года назад +6

    I'm always amazed this song is played with a guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, because it sounds DOUBLY LOUDER.

  • @terriner
    @terriner 13 лет назад +20

    Beautiful! Graduated high school in 1974, this brings back great memories.

  • @shanebrent2227
    @shanebrent2227 Год назад +10

    I was born in 1967 I grew up on Robin Trower Bad Company Grand Funk Jethro Tull the list goes on my first concert 3rd grade John Denver Olympia and he was in the round my next concert after that Van Halen 15 years old Cobo Hall Zeppelin put the ball down Van Halen picked it up and still has it and no will come close today's music just isn't the same people don't care about instruments seems just computers not knocking new technology it should help you not make you hone your craft learn your instrument

    • @johncantwell8216
      @johncantwell8216 4 месяца назад

      Sadly, today the rule is crank out the product, roll in the profits.

  • @senakaperera6644
    @senakaperera6644 9 лет назад +1

    what great music..probably the best times for music.. we grew listening to stuff like this..great bands .

  • @kennethrassie9253
    @kennethrassie9253 4 года назад +1

    My buddies and I loved GFR .
    When us muso's got together American band was the song we will start with .
    We did most of GFR'S song's , it was great fun .
    🔜✝👍 KZN South Africa 🇿🇦☝😁👀👏🙋💪😁🇿🇦

  • @blackdogxx
    @blackdogxx 10 лет назад +19

    They were not fake or overdubbed. This is what they did all the while they were coming up as teenage boys. They lived out the dream of being true rock stars, wote and played and sang the songs. And they were one of the very few fastest rising rock acts of all time. They really WERE rok stars.

    • @user-un2wh2zg8r
      @user-un2wh2zg8r Год назад

      正にアメリカの音がデカいだけのバンド‼️アメリカンバンドだね

    • @seldomseensavage3459
      @seldomseensavage3459 Год назад

      F for grammar; F for spelling; F-for subject

  • @googo151
    @googo151 10 лет назад +6

    The vocals and the drums and the whole performance, was just outrageous! Love the rough mic-ing!

  • @bogthing1
    @bogthing1 4 года назад +4

    High school days. They were insanely popular. Shows were nuts.

  • @vernhoke7730
    @vernhoke7730 5 лет назад +1

    I wore out the 8-track of this in my car back in high school. Glad to have been a teen in the '70s, the music then was soooo much better than what they call music today. I offer a challenge to any "artist" of today to see if their music is still kickin' ass 4 decades later!

  • @teresakaiser1366
    @teresakaiser1366 Месяц назад +1

    Anything GF performed was excellent rock! Live they were awesome!

  • @justinquan2905
    @justinquan2905 8 лет назад +4

    what a great song and great instuments always appreciated this band amazing gig!

  • @Lajazz947
    @Lajazz947 8 лет назад +5

    brings back my senior high school days.

  • @timpolizzi3351
    @timpolizzi3351 8 лет назад +86

    And they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.....what a Travesty !!!

    • @monaroulette6114
      @monaroulette6114 8 лет назад +3

      Tim Polizzi why in the hell aren't they right

    • @michaelnorman2967
      @michaelnorman2967 5 лет назад

      Agreed

    • @jeffbasom6467
      @jeffbasom6467 5 лет назад

      and yet twisted sisters is go figure

    • @20sainthockey
      @20sainthockey 5 лет назад +5

      The Music H.O.F. is a joke.

    • @MobilDJ50
      @MobilDJ50 5 лет назад

      @@20sainthockey at this point if I'm a hall of fame caliber band and now they want to induct me I tell them to fuck off

  • @GRDray
    @GRDray 6 лет назад +1

    Seen them in Dane County Coliseum. Madison Wisconsin 1973.. Had a damn good time.

  • @GTO4speed66
    @GTO4speed66 10 лет назад

    I've met Mark Farner a couple of times since 2011 here in Delaware. Great guy and he hasn't lost the 'touch'. His voice is still as great as it was back then. This summer I told him he's going to drive my 66 GTO around town.

  • @sihartobing9570
    @sihartobing9570 6 лет назад +10

    Fabulous : We Are An American Band: by Grand Funk Raillroad- Bravo.

  • @brianwilling134
    @brianwilling134 9 лет назад +59

    All I can say is Frickin' Awesome-turn it up!

    • @pamelamichaels221
      @pamelamichaels221 9 лет назад +1

      +Brian Willing yeah, they were incredible live, one of my favorites !!!!

    • @brianwilling134
      @brianwilling134 9 лет назад +2

      You have excellent taste in music, thank you!

    • @pamelamichaels221
      @pamelamichaels221 9 лет назад +3

      +Brian Willing the best times i had were back in the 70's, when I saw the greatest bands in concert, for such a cheap ticket price, I was young, but it was the most thrilling times of my life........loved it !!!!

    • @RocknRollDinosaur
      @RocknRollDinosaur 9 лет назад +5

      +Pamela Michaels I think I paid 9 dollars to see them play in 73.

    • @pamelamichaels221
      @pamelamichaels221 9 лет назад +7

      +RocknRollDinosaur right..it so expensive now....and the crowds aren't as cool.....with their iphones.....like it is attached to their heads...

  • @hmackie6823
    @hmackie6823 4 года назад +4

    in the late 60's early 70's in our part of Michigan,there was at least one garage band on every block

    • @hmackie6823
      @hmackie6823 4 года назад +1

      remember this was baby boomer era,there were alotta us...still are

  • @rpotter6147
    @rpotter6147 10 лет назад +1

    i was 13 when this was new and on the radio every day . 40 years later and it still kicks ass

  • @2804Freedom
    @2804Freedom 4 месяца назад +2

    My brother Henning's favorite band. He died in 2012. RIP.

  • @sandraoxom
    @sandraoxom Год назад +3

    Y pensar que alguna vez fuimos jóvenes...ellos a handsome and talent guys ... what a voice!

  • @ten5487
    @ten5487 4 года назад +5

    My first concert ever. It was just the three of them.

  • @Eddie-jz6ss
    @Eddie-jz6ss Год назад +3

    Great band rock on!!!

  • @scottdixon469
    @scottdixon469 7 лет назад

    My first concert ever in 1973 in Mobile, AL. I was a huge fan and only 15 at the time.

  • @ClydeHUC
    @ClydeHUC 26 дней назад +1

    That is the absolute perfect rock and roll song of all time mark farner

  • @jkoff76
    @jkoff76 10 лет назад +43

    Homer's band. They never get the credit they deserve! This three piece played the same
    festivals as Led Zeppelin and Bad Company. And you talk to people who were there
    and they were just as loud! And that's natural fact!