Grand Funk Railroad - Mark Says Alright

[@AntonioTorres-mo8bp]

Grand Funk in their original trio era with all their young powers and charisma were a unstoppable force full of courage and guts on stage, a platoon of three men

[@louisellemarquis2582]

That beat is all I want right now and thanks to Grand Funk for their talent and the freedom we all had back then and they give to us without any thought, just taking it and making that vibration come to life…as simple and beautiful as we want to ❤

[@runeshadow]

I played the heck out of this double album back in the day. Still have it somewhere

[@KiotiHamada]

My best friend and I were 17 years old when this album came out, and we listened to it constantly as we cruised the streets of our hometown. We were young, free, and wild as the wind, and to quote Sir Elton John, "I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will." RIP Zip.

[@huhryezen]

Three guys...a drum set...an electric bass...spontaneously created...just an average electric guitar....all raw, honest power through some amplifiers...no light show....no gimmicks....this is hard rock at simply it's finest....no frigging poets or staging artists....no shirts either! ;) Grand Funk Railroad LIVE! 40+ years ago......

[@benjaminvoncannon2389]

huhryezen I listen to this a lot never let me down once!!!!!¡!!¡!!!!!!!!!

[@gc4238]

HaHaHa Are you HIGH.. All Mark did was preach.. Don and Mel getting F***K*D UP

[@DM1956x]

huhryezen I was a Soviet teenager who paid monthly salary for this album at black market in Leningrad. Since that time I was identified in Leningrad s a "guy who had Live Album". 45 years have passed, but I still listen to it at least every month...

[@MrJaarst]

I think this must be one of the best live album ever made.

[@gallardoabel]

Sure!

[@PaulGruendlerBeau]

@@gallardoabel Took it to Vietnam and the Numero-Uno Power Trio got us through a very bad year: 1970-1971 as played through some VERY big equipment!

[@sergioamayajr.5868]

I think so and so do my neighbors.

[@dangabor8585]

Right next to Humble Pie's Performance - Rockin' the Fillmore.

[@autogram7428]

There will never be a power trio like GFR ever again! Heavy, raw, funky and loud!! What a great band!! They definitely deserve to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

[@gregthacher2436]

Visceral!

[@75RAIDUH]

Rock n Roll HOF is a joke!

[@henrywhitt5603]

Definitely my favorite live album ever!!!!!! Still gives me chills...

[@leonardlloyd1089]

Mark was my idol in the early 70s. So much so I jammed loud grand funk everywhere, and grew my long straight hair down to my tush!!! Mark is Grand funk!!!!

[@perrykalamaras7102]

OH YEAH!!!!

[@gregthacher2436]

When I heard them in Oct 71 at the Seattle Coliseum, I knew I had to be as good as Don Brewer, or just stop playing all together. Not sure I ever came close, but that dude challenged me!

[@papunAlicea]

THE BEST TRIO EVER...Thanks for share...Great memories...Great song, jamm and performance...All the Live Album....great... Hall of Fame

[@robertperrella4194]

this is REAL JAMMIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jurgenburberg1514]

One of the greatest bands ever! That's rock of it's finest! Maybe, the best live album ever!

[@Ironsepp]

GFR ora ho 70 anni ma volevo ringraziarvi per avermi regalato negli anni passati tra le più belle emozioni che abbia mai vissuto . Grazie Mark, Grazie Don, Grazie Mel !!! - Questo pezzo è straordinario e vi consiglio di ascoltarlo ad alto volume, con un buon impianto ma soprattutto ascoltatelo quando avrete mandato giù un pò d'alcool e/o quando siete fumati (senza esagerare) vi sembrerà di librarvi tra le nuvole. W GFR.

[@michelecavallaro7880]

Con questo pezzo a 14 anni ho distrutto lo stereo e mi sono fatto odiare dal vicinato

[@clockmaster77]

Amazing how dynamic they sounded for just a power trio! just wall to wall phat funkin rock! ;-)

[@nuniegomez2970]

When I was 18 and working a nothing job, I played this sound in my mind. It made it bearable. Grand Funk Raidroad brought me through it all.

[@jacintocastaneda6496]

The recording and sound of this album is so intense that you feel that you are there in front of the speakers they played with so much energy and the recording captured that, an album criticized by the purists of their time also grand funk criticized for their music,. But this album proofs that is passing the test of time,. So much energy from beginning to end,. Some other live albums by other Rock groups are very uneven in energy this one is 💯 all the time ,. Grand funk between 1968-1973 just just amazing.

[@gregthacher2436]

Ultimate jam song …

[@jamescognetta5115]

The rock HOF is missing one of the best rock bands ever! GFR. Time to get them in!

[@scottfunk2951]

u got that right

[@58allendavis]

One of the best LIVE JAMS of all time!!!

[@deasiaramos4253]

Saw GFR at Atlanta International Pop Fest. First concert at 11 years old! Can't ever get it out of my head

[@benjaminvoncannon2389]

Deasia Ramos seeing that could never be forgotten especially at eleven.i for one envy u.

[@scottfunk2951]

wow u seen the AIPF just great man

[@perrykalamaras7102]

ITI DOESINT GET MUCH HEAVIER THAN THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@petervdveenmuis]

Best live album ever! Let's have everybody get into this groove.

[@GrandFunker]

petervdveenmuis I wanted to disagree, but was too busy grooving...

[@PeterRodkey]

The American Cream. Unreal jam, blows em away

[@tomitstube]

insane tempo, all three of them were amazing.

[@williamjones9395]

IT DON'T GET BETTER THAN THIS!!!

[@rjfah]

Hot licks, Mark. I got this album when it first came out and it is my favorite live album, bar none.

[@muckruckus56]

think of a kid coming back from camp in 69' going to a record store & picking up this album as his first ever. I still have it. I was that kid . And GFR Live intro'd me to Rock Music. Thanks GFR :)

[@stephenconnors5638]

I think this is the best cut on the album.

[@apagoogoo]

thank you. this has been stuck in my head for 20 years.

[@michaelgoodman1314]

40 for me

[@용환김-e1l]

아옛날이여.그립다그리워

[@David-qy5np]

this is one of the great tunes of my youth that made me the hippie I am today. rock on kids

[@gregthacher2436]

Mean Mistreater - still brings a STRONG reaction

[@johnpage2488]

Saw them at one of the concerts they were recording. Great live band.

[@badhagger]

Saw GFR in late '72 at Denver Colosseum. Cost me 4 bucks to get in. Before greed hit rock & roll. Freakin awesome. Saw them again after the fall. They had become, "An American Band". 1973. I witnessed the downfall of great Rock & Roll & I must say, it was very disheartening. I have always blamed the democrat party & MTV. R.I.P. - Rock & Roll... Very glad to have known you.

[@mixaliskokkinos1496]

Stick it to the man.Greetings from Greece

[@MrSadsack56]

exactly!! in a boys home for 5 years.. came out mum gave me five bucks bought this! not a wasted penny on the whole album

[@StooGP]

Play this and then play the bloated live Zep Song Remains the Same record and see who blew who away. No contest. GFR is the most misunderstood and criminally underrated band of all time, certainly the 1968 - 1972 edition.

[@TheMrXScorpio]

I understood them perfectly. My first rock band concert at Shea stadium Queens NY. They tore up Gimme shelter!!!

[@PeterRodkey]

Damn straight! Zep is great, no doubt but THIS is off the charts. Its funny how younger kids react when they hear stuff like this. Their faces are epic! No longer do they say, Who? Never heard of them

[@davepomeroy8697]

One of the greatest bands i ever seen (1974) Seattle Center Coliseum, just 1 of 59 concerts i lived through

[@gregthacher2436]

Oct’71 was magical…

[@cherylbaker2667]

Woohoo Best days of my life.! Groovin to GFR and Dancing, smokin & shotguns ie mary Jane

[@ramonsanchez7961]

The Best trío, Atlanta pop Festival a few days from Woodstoock, Don, Mell and Mark great's World of Rock 🎸

[@Cinemagoer_64]

This made Zeppelin look like the Vienna boys choir!

[@MariaRamirez-nj8kc]

Un grupo con altos volumenes para una gran audiencia, geniales son excelentes

[@beuski6531]

Being a drummer this my most played song on the whole album. I have all of the GFRs albums so when CDs came around I had to get all of GFRs stuff on CD. What's really funny is that on the CD the song goes over to the next track which is TNUC when Mark says alright. That's why just listening to this song for the first time you may wonder, where did they ever come up with the title of this song? Just Sayin'.

[@paolodrago3872]

In this song it is all perfect; also the screams.

[@eefmonique]

Led Zeppelin was asome But Grand Funk is from an other planet. Love this LIVEAlbum. Insane fantastic

[@erichinton5774]

Now this is alright!!!

[@mariodibari9486]

ALRIGHT MARK GOOOOOOOO !!!!!!

[@MrSadsack56]

uploading this post has put you in my TOP Class Poster.. argueably Grand`s best live song for me!

[@omarga100]

violent !! I love it

[@David-qy5np]

Best Drum Intro ever Rock On

[@sergioamayajr.5868]

Grand Funk's Live Album is my second most favorite album. Second only to Deep Purple's Made in Japan. If you don't believe me, just ask my neighbors.

[@gregorymarchant3273]

😍

[@igomoo]

This is best then Purple.GFR are only trio

[@sergioamayajr.5868]

@@igomoo Yes, I guess you are right. Both bands are in my to 10 favorites and got to see both perform.

[@igomoo]

@@sergioamayajr.5868 Purple is my favorite band.I remember when I was young in the garden with my friend we talk about who is best Gillan or Coverdale.Oh times,but GFR rules,because of my opinion Richie on the concert don't play good.

[@surewhynot6040]

In case you forgot how good these dudes really were

[@Cinemagoer_64]

Astonishing

[@benjaminvoncannon2389]

go mark...........u bad ass

[@perrykalamaras7102]

MARK FARNER!!!!

[@michaelgoodman1314]

Anyone feel like rockin?

[@58allendavis]

My wife informs me that we now live in the 21st century. She says its time I trim my Don Brewer afro. I must admit it does get in my way while playing drums, especially when I'm sweating. Perhaps I should go back to looking like a Republican so I can play my drums better.

[@ilCorvo.51]

Aaaàaahhhhhh yeaaaahh

[@deanguando9950]

Fantastic

[@jillclark428]

excellent drummer gets down

[@MrStinger70VetontheNet]

Drummer Don Brewer Destroyed GFR

[@perrykalamaras7102]

MADONNA IS THE HALL AND GRAND FUNK RAILROAD ISNT! PLEASE! ANOTHER THING I WANT TO SAY IS WHY DO MOST PEOPLE CLAIM THAT AEROSMITH IS THIS GREAT AMERICA BAND? WE ALL KNOW THE TRUE AMERICAN BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@PeterRodkey]

No wonder Led Zeps Peter Grant pulled the plug on Mark, Mel, and Don in Detroit 1969, then kicked them off the tour so Zep would not follow jams like THIS

[@williamcucinotta4552]

Been following them since the beginning.

[@fredthompson4568]

I would love to see someone do the Bass cover to this song & T.N.U.C.

[@AJs-guitar-bass]

OK, here ya go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKSXf5Spg92mbsk

[@AJs-guitar-bass]

and here's TNUC kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3rVamVmZ9WlfLc

[@LACHRA1]

GFR Groove Is Life Time!~.~May 3, 2017, 0041 Hrs. ~.~

[@TheYeti308]

That drum kit took a good threshing . !

[@johnanderson8180]

like a wild fuckin horse

[@gregthacher2436]

Visceral

[@mbritt97]

Funk!

[@clockmaster77]

Yeah that's true Allen, but I'm greatfull that at least Terry got their name out there. ;-)

[@judochop61]

Agreed

[@fredthompson7465]

+herman munster Mark's old Messenger guitar and Mel's converted bass guitar. That was rock-n-roll.

[@AJs-guitar-bass]

This has always been one of my favorite albums of all time - the intensity of this album from start to finish is palpable. And this song gets referred to by GFR as a "jam" which I always thought was interesting, because I always think of a jam as a free flowing improvised piece. However, this "jam" is really pretty intricate and has some complex parts and timings. And the driving tempo is relentless! It seems to me this had to be well thought out and practiced MANY times to get it down as tight and perfect as it is performed here. It becomes really apparent how difficult this song is to play when you try to play it - here's my bass cover of it kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKSXf5Spg92mbsk which is fun to try to play, but Mel just knocks it out of the park on this album and especially on this song!

[@jajcasz6648]

For the first 2 minutes they're just jamming with Bo Diddley rhytm and then it explodes into a nasty (in a good way) riffing with some grainy fuzz. I love it!

[@johnanderson8180]

me too

[@jillclark428]

he had to have the baddest guns on him to play the drums that long my man

[@benjaminvoncannon2389]

alrighty mark.......!!!!!!?!?

[@mitzmess]

can someone explain me how this is related to the butthole surfers song mark says alright???

[@boboloko]

Nothing. That’s what I love about the Butthole Surfers. They truly did whatever they wanted for whatever random reason that felt good and logical at the time. The bass is pretty heavy on both tracks though, but the BHS are the true rock legends.

[@mitzmess]

@M P haha ok cool I expect nothing less ;P

[@perrykalamaras7102]

TELL ME WHY GFR ARE NOT IN THE HALL

[@extrasolar213]

lol

[@58allendavis]

Too bad Terry Knight was in charge and all the techs were either high or drunk

[@scowell]

He never got to say Alright! very disappointed.

[@stephenprice5883]

except he doesnt say it ...lol

[@perrykalamaras7102]

AERO SMITH ARE NOT THE AMERICAN BAND WE ALL KNOW WHO IS!!!

[@gc4238]

Hmmm Very Amateur, Truly Shit Weak Bass... So Sad

[@richardkilgore1677]

Don't take it so serious lighten up have fun and thank God this ain't modern day rap frappe love gfr

[@gc4238]

Hmmm Screw you amateur wannabe W/E.. Its all good BOY!!!!!

[@miguelparra492]

g c if you don’t like it don listen to it