Aimless Lady - Chris Eger's One Take Weekly @ Plum Tree Recording Studio

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Episode 92:
Mark, Don and Mel's third album, which was released just 10 months after their debut, cemented Grand Funk Railroad among the top acts in the world. Capitalizing on the success of their second release, Grand Funk, Closer To Home contained eight tunes penned by Mark Farner, and continued the formula of hard-edged, funky Rock. "Aimless Lady" was the B-side of the "I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)" single, and featured what is almost a Jazz/Rock, "Moondance" like A section, and a chugging, rockin' B section.
Veteran GFR listeners will notice the care we took in mixing the drums panned hard left, lead guitar hard right and a hot, growling bass. The re-imagined Eastwood Messenger sufficiently captures lead and rhythm tones, with the aid of a Big Muff fuzz pedal for the solo. The original Messenger model used by Farner included an onboard fuzz switch called the "tone-messer," which proves to be quite difficult to replicate.
OTW is engineered and mixed by Richard Williams @ Plum Tree Recording Studio.
One Take Weekly aims to present a sneak peek inside a studio recording session, each track performed and filmed in one take - imperfections & all. No overdubs, NO AUTOTUNE, and no trick-photography! (Just good mixing...& my nearly inept video editing skills) What you see is what you hear - CE.
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[@robertsuggs2510]

Man i been huge grand funk fan since i was 12 ( 1970) nobody does them like you do,, THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO'S,,frm Arkansas USA 🎸

[@Mr25thfret]

Dude... same here! Just hearing someone carry the torch that Mark will one day hand down is great. Chris gives an A number 1 performance on this, especially the solo at break 1. Awesome! He should arrange to back Mark Farner on vocals the next time they're within 369 miles of each other.

[@dontjumpunit4318]

Nice to see the younger generation enjoying the true music of rock !

[@Mr25thfret]

That, young sir, was impressive! kudos! You remind me a lot of the lad that sang and played in Triumph. Tremendous talent, the two of you!

[@rxsyete]

Very gòod on all parts including the voice 😊

[@paolodrago3872]

I lack the words to offer my congratulations to Chris. I really enjoyed this; all parts sound perfecly.

[@lynnwinters634]

Fabulous!!!

[@furyiiiplate]

I love you guys uniforms! ;)

[@ericseidman8295]

Nicely done!

[@sinsagoodmansbrother]

Well "Brothers & Sisters" Let's listen to brother Chris do a knockout version of Aimless Lady on his Messenger guitar! Damn, that was awesome brother....

[@chrisegerband]

Almost sounded like Mark, himself! 😉 Thank you!

[@laurentwirz2806]

Talented. Talented. Talented. Talented! Even the snare sound of Don Brewer.😊 Very well done. Real musician!🎉

[@chuckie5671]

Nailed another one my friend!

[@alextabisaura1120]

Nailed it bro!!!

[@that_thing_I_do]

Vocals are chilling...goosebumps.

[@carlobell32]

Fantastic cover, like some I've heard on your beautiful channel Chris!!! Congratulations you are a talented and eclectic musician in various instruments, a gift of nature reserved for a few!!! I am very happy to subscribe to your channel to listen to your excellent works as a "oneman band" Greetings from Italy

[@chrisegerband]

Thanks, Carlo!

[@dnstap]

i'm a 50 year fan of GFR and I liked this...really captured Mel which nobody ever does

[@adrianminjoot9930]

Mark Don and Mel revival

[@Albert-xl4iw]

Aguevo Ñeros 🎸🍻 🥁 Rock and Roll 😀👍🤟✌️

[@dameonpoe7016]

So sweet love it

[@MIKEandAMYmiller]

Outstanding!!!

[@rockemstockum]

EXCELLENT JOB! One of my Favorite GFR songs and you did them Proud!!

[@tamarabradshaw4799]

Awesome performance 🎶🎤🎸🥁🎶❤️❤️❤️

[@davidpullig7007]

Excellent!!!

[@carloswong-soi]

Chris excellent job!!! your an amazing musician

[@dougdowdle7763]

Nailed that perfectly!

[@tedmckinney3944]

You guys NAILED IT!!! So good!

[@mikevajda945]

awesome job...very talented....thank you

[@scottpalmerton2233]

Yeah!

[@MrGoodtogo55]

Sounds Great

[@gregthacher2436]

Good!

[@oceana101]

well done

[@briancalvelage1579]

Out of the ballpark man!! Best copy ever! Very talented young man Chris! Maybe The Railroad??

[@chrisegerband]

That one is on my list! Thanks, Brian.

[@bobviavattine1715]

Yeah man....

[@leonardokinanahan5869]

Sic!!!

[@dontjumpunit4318]

How do you get that great MARK FARNER fuzz tone? I have tried dozens of fuzzes and cant get that close.

[@chrisegerband]

We used the Big Muff!

[@michaelmcculloch4246]

Thank you for this. Is that an Eastwood?

[@chrisegerband]

Yes, it is!

[@michaelmcculloch4246]

@@chrisegerband I was going to buy an Eastwood but they were out of stock. Very cool. Thank you for keeping the music alive.

[@TimCB900F]

Outstanding!