I'M SHOCKED!! Grand Funk Railroad - Nothing Is The Same | REACTION!!! 🔥

After checking out "Inside Looking Out", I had to check out more of Grand Funk Railroad.
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I'M SHOCKED!! Grand Funk Railroad - Nothing Is The Same | REACTION!!! 🔥
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[@billcole5035]

GFR! One of the best bands of time. It's ludicrous that they are not in the Rock Hall of Fame!

[@reality1958]

It's criminal

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

Hall of shame. F the hall

[@debitaylor2101]

Because they wouldn't play their politics.

[@dougford9]

It belittles what the "rock hall of fame" is meant to be, It's turned political... shameful

[@paulbfields8284]

Back when this first came out the rock critics considered Don’s drumming “obnoxious”… I was thirteen and this was the glory hole of early metal as far as I’m concerned… Nobody gave a more moving, penetrating and exhaustion filled experience LIVE than these guys… period. I saw em three times… best damn band

[@428chase]

Grand Funk Railroad - Aimless Lady Grand Funk Railroad Feelin' alright Grand Funk Railroad Into The Sun Grand Funk - Loneliness Grand Funk Save The Land Grand Funk I'm Your CaptainAre Grand Funk You Ready Grand Funk Time Machine Grand Funk Black Licorice Grand Funk Walk Like A Man Grand Funk Loneliest Rider Grand Funk Shinin' On grand funk railroad to get back in grand funk railroad Little Johnny Hooker grand funk railroad Carry Me Through Grand Funk Railroad Mr. Limousine Driver Grand Funk Railroad Paranoid Grand Funk Railroad Mean Mistreater Grand Funk Railroad - No Lies Grand Funk Railroad Winter And My Soul Grand Funk Railroad - Stop Lookin' Back Grand Funk Railroad The Railroad Grand Funk Railroad Creepin Grand Funk Railroad Mr. Pretty Boy

[@rondiacarman376]

Lots of great choices, buddy! I grew up on GFR! Believe it or not, I also liked “We’re an American Band”! I was 13 yrs old and the school bus always had this song playing! Memories!

[@impalaman9707]

Lyrically, my man Mark was preaching some major wisdom for a young man in his early 20s! "No matter how hard, you push on the door--it won't open without the key. Opportunity only knocks once--if you shut it out---its a sin!" I live by that!

[@arnoldbandy1867]

One of the best "3 Man Bands"...Along with The James Gang, Jimmie Hendericks Experience. ZZ Top...They were "Special"...

[@bobconklin7159]

Now is the time for, “Sin’s a Good Man’s Brother”.

[@keefmack]

Yes indeed

[@Chad_Sandridge75]

Fo Sho!!!

[@ki11atj49]

Grand funk railroad from my hometown Flint MI The name is a play on an actual railroad company called grand trunk Railroad They also have their name on one of the bridges here

[@isabelle317]

I was living in Saginaw when they released their albums... Of course we had them!

[@louofm1]

I'm in Flint too...and I know the bridge :)

[@naturesounds-ib5dh]

Grand Funk: Rock n Roll Soul!

[@webman1956]

I have been a Grand Funk fan since 1970 and have all of their albums and you have to realise that this bad ass song is 51 years old.....Let that soak in...over half a century old and it still kicks ass!

[@k.polanchekfntp8033]

Wow. I'm 55 and I did not listen to GFR, bummer. Love it!

[@lorirose5343]

GFR- "I Can Feel Him in the Morning" my favorite song.

[@yerkidnme]

Country Road is good also their version of gimme shelter and feeling alright

[@Chad_Sandridge75]

There isn't a bad song on Survival! That album probably saved my life during a very dark time in my teens.

[@donfette5301]

HOOKED ON LOVE. Same album/studio version. My favorite GF song, probably.. Trust me: it’s fire!

[@kathleenkarsten5739]

Love, love, LOVE GFR! ❤️ Thanks for reacting! 👍

[@twwtjohns]

The first timebI saw Grand Funk Railroad in concert was 1971 and I couldn't believe only 3 people were making all the music I was hearing. I swore there must have been musicians somewhere I couldn't see. But no, it was just the 3 of them and I felt the effects of that sound in my body for days.

[@bencolquitt7828]

Grand Funk Railroad kicks butt hey maybe a little Nazareth broken down Angel - whisky drinkin' woman -turn on your receiver - woke up this morning - rock'n' roll telephone great music LFR FAMILY thank you have a bless day!

[@tonyshoemaker2831]

Grand funk railroad the band is from Flint Michigan. Need to check out the album flight of the Phoenix and the title track. It's Craig Frost introduction to the band and to the public. It's an instrumental ,absolutely great rock and roll.

[@dennisholiday1868]

If he had the original album he would have seen the red eyes! I'm glad he talked about the word's of the song because I had that album when I was in The Army in West Germany and Grand Funk did the job.

[@homoerectus744]

I've had a revival with gfr thru you tube ,& rediscovered this pear that I never really listened to thelyrics back '72, I focused on histrionics.but brother man broke a lot of the message down ,along with facts on Mel/Don (?)on drums.but in my abstract musical imagination I can see it being sprung gospel like in a church setting.thnx

[@joankelly9609]

Next song by GFR "I'm Your Captain" My high school boyfriend had every album, 8 track, by Grand Funk Railroad. Those were the days!

[@paulbfields8284]

This is possibly my favorite GFR tune ever. It affected me when I was a teenager in 69-70.. it helped me a ton getting used to who I was or was trying to be.

[@debbeborders5762]

Mark Farner is still working in his band with his music. He has parted 3ays with the other two original members. He wrote most of the songs way back when.

[@yotelodije8943]

YES DUDE, GO FOR IT, JUST GO FOR IT

[@gregoryblock9542]

Just an incredible band all around

[@jillybean3688]

They're awesome and the lead singers hot!

[@jangunner]

Super jam

[@janellacleland5393]

Killer bass....

[@rondiacarman376]

I strongly believe you should also call out how great and funky the bass player is! He’s working it!

[@gbcookiesyqr]

Master Ace - Music Man used this song. Soon as I got into sample digging Grand Funk became my favorite band. They laid some killer tracks and almost all their songs are at least good.

[@johnpetrone6602]

Rush and GFR are the two best three-piece bands of all time IMHO...

[@marcdewey1242]

Finally a reaction to a Grand Funk track other than Some kind of wonderful or Were an American band,some other tracks you might like are: Sins a good mans brother, Country road,Foot stomping music,Hooked on love and too many more to list.

[@boroblueyes]

All of the albums up to We're An American Band were phenomenal.

[@janellacleland5393]

I love you reacting to Michigan rock. Some of the best ever!

[@davidbray7998]

Flint Michigan. It’s the water!😝

[@jakdrpr2106]

I think Aerosmith, Grand Funk and Humble Pie all had that Raw garage band sound that people could relate to.

[@impalaman9707]

But the key ingredient to all of them was SOUL! It was hard rock for sure---but it was R&B based hard rock!

[@jameskirschling7887]

I'm sure I heard this song before but I can't remember when so it must be forty plus years now since I heard it. I'm glad you reminded me of it Van. Don Brewer has always been an underrated drummer. I think you nailed it when you said his kit is small. Don does as much with that small kit that others do with a kit five times the size. I love your analogy in the middle of the song about not worrying about what others think of you. I'm going to steal that one. The end message was very well spoken as well. Clear and to the point.

[@chrisjamieson3452]

It was an excellent basic rock n rolk album. The title track is a very haunting good song.

[@jimmyramos6814]

good luck with your channal you and your son do very well i like your style

[@sherryarflin726]

American Band and I’m your Captain are great songs to. Foot Stompin Music also....

[@davidward3122]

Try Aimless Lady by early gfr. Loved it. Melissa Ward here

[@rogerkelly7988]

I went through highschool listening to Grand Funk Railroad and you are right about the music they recorded with just three people and then along came ZZ Top

[@TechGFR]

I heard the main reason Brewers small kit was the fact he sang so much. Not only harmony but he also sang lead. I think it is more difficult to play drums and sing.

[@vickilee7494]

Happy New Year

[@bryanforis1839]

He goes to jails to talk to the prisoners teachs the word god and the music is great song is good

[@kellysteele4311]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@commonsense1012]

Hey Van love your political vids! GFR was one of my favorite bands Mel inspired me to become a bassist Mark’s singin and playing are great great tune God Bless

[@Sh3ba5843]

My father was a saxophone and organ player he introduced me to them and as I grew older my ear has grown to love them

[@danholm4952]

great job!

[@yerkidnme]

All You Got is Money is a great song by them also

[@davidpeterson144]

They tore that shit up. Amen

[@davidzornes6863]

Now " TNUC" live in 74. great drum solo..God Bless,

[@jeffcooper3765]

You were talking about looking at yourself for a job in a job you might want to check out Uriah Heep they have a song called Look At Yourself

[@annmills3163]

☮️💜

[@riccottrell369]

Somewhere I've got the video of how to play Mean mistreater on piano, since Mark is the reason I became a singer, lead & rhythm guitar player, songwriter & first a fan of everything Mark ever wrote, he was tricked out of the band, twice & the Corporation,, while his 20 or 21 year old son was paraplegic, from a fall & friends deciding to put him in the back of the truck & continue to party. They were trying to prevent him from advertising at 1/4 the size of Mark Farner, formerly of Grand Funk Railroad. When he wrote 92% of the music & songs. Don the drummer's whittle ego couldn't handle the fact that Mark was the front man. Duh~ He's the fricking front man & reason without airplay until they had to change to a cleaner sound,🛏️a bit more pop, but Mark's music & message has always stayed the same, it's about love. He prayed to God in 71 during his nightly prayers,she asked God for a song to reach out to those that God felt needed it most. Turns out Vietnam Vets many credit this song for picking them up when they needed it most. As told to Mark after many concerts Vets relayed their feelings to Mark, whose never stopped playing or writing. Spent part of a decade doing Christian rock, but too many preacher's didn't want Mark singing in their church, either cuz of his long hair, a tribute to his Mother's Cherokee blood. He was given a chief's blanket from the Cherokee, pretty much their version of a medal of honor. Even though Grand Funk sold out 72,000 seats the same way as the Beatles did earlier in the 60's. The Beatles took 2 weeks, Grand Funk in less than 72 hours! A record that will stand, as Shea Stadium was torn down, some say from the melodic motion Grand Funk caused with as Mark called it Rock & roll soul that dared you to sit on your ass! He calls himself the cussing Christian, just released a 16 track live DVD with 2 music videos & 5 previously unreleased songs. His drummer & bass players have been black since Don said he wanted to quit in 76. Reality was his ego couldn't take Mark being front man. But Don's voice is good for a few songs & fine for the lower harmonies, as Mark always sang the higher notes. Don can scream high, but it's not a full voice, it's all head. Mark's sounded great with soul brothers & to him & most Grand Funk songs & fans are about love saying fuck Vietnam, let the politicians send their candy assed sons & we'd never have war. The Military Industrial Complex would have to start making something good for the world & be a value, not what Ike warned us about vin his 1960 farewell speech. Kennedy was going to end the Vietnam war, free the blacks from oppression & preventing them from voting, still being hung in the South by ignant tiny dicked haters. Who need to have their lack of manhood shown on TV, to shut their lying pie holesm The CIA has been funding black opps like 9/11 by selling Heroine, and meth, then Crystal Meth which went from 20% pure to 80 ot 90 predominately in black & Latino poorer neighborhoods & used oppressve laws to jail far too many black men, screwing with their children's lives, their wives & for pot, these drunk bastards stripped their rights to vote by making pot a schedule 1 drug. A drug that is and was back to Queen Elizabeth using it & many indigenous people for menstrual cramps, cancer pain & lack of appetite. I spent a year injecting myself 6 Nights a week for a year. Even with pot, I dropped from 175 which little fat, since I'd been working outside in the Phoenix Valley, where 115 in the summer is average, I don't care if it's dry or humid, that's hot. I got down to as low as 122, without pot, illegal but off the record one of my Dr's said I should try it. He didn't have to know I had been since I was 22, when you're jamming it lets you perform without caring that there's an audience, you want & need a responsive audience & you talk with them between songs, but for leads you escape in the music. Yes Grand Funk was known to smoke pot back in the day. They did benefits for hard drug rehabilitation & they'd check that whomever they were sending the checks were doing it right & it worked. Albums were banned for "People let's stop the war" a platinum album which in 72 was a big deal their first 10 albums before the drummer & keyboard player & bass player would say Mark's songs were too political. That's why they were the people's band. No race owned them. They're all 3 dmfrom Flint Michigan & heavily influenced by R&B & Motown, who alive then & now ain't? Before 9/11 poppy production in Aphganistan was at 10%, after a 20 year waste of trillions, cuz over 2.3 trillion was 'misplaced' by the Pentagon, a good trick when they're yearly reported budget was 900 million something. The afternoon before 9/11. I know the truth but realize after the 'war& poppy production? Back up to 90% Heroine so strong it releases all your endorphins & Dopamine Along with the Heroine you're hooked the first time & you'll never be as high as the first time Unless you get clean & hopefully don't take the dose you used to just to keep from being sick. America fricking lying rich through wars Republican politicians, who get out our get back in like Cheney who was being investigated or his ex company that he had millions of dollars of stock, ex my ass! When bldg 7 came down at 5:30 pm undamaged by any plane, at freefall speed. Rid sent out 40 truckloads from bldg 7, which just happened to be where all the records against Enron. In 2001 we're supposed to believe nothing was on computer. Yet cell phones worked from 42,000 ft? In 2001 I couldn't move from my bedroom to my living room in a Scottsdale without losing Cell service. Phones don't work today above 15 to 1800&, not till if they have satellite communication at cruising altitude the Captain allows electronic devices can be used. Then they have WI-FI on some. But none on 9/11. Back to Funk. They've got a professional recording from Shea Stadium, Don won't release it cuz Mark's the front man, well he wrote every song they played that night. When Mark spent 3 when he promised 2 years in the reunion tour, which was filmed in Detroit proceeds from the movie were supposed to go the the kids of Bosnia,again blocked by Don. He got Mark drunk & tricked a high school buddy, whose writing & front man singing & guitar , keyboards & harmonica energized every crowd & still does. Now he goes out with all American made everything & it's Mark Farner'e American band, which as a guitarist that played at least 10 to 12 or his songs from Spain to here, Mark wrote the chords and changes to American band, but Don asked for full writer's credit Mark obliged. He could cause then trouble playing his songs, but won't. He's said let's bury the bs & play as Grand Funk for th fans, no! Even to 20 million dollars! That's how big Don's ego is. They play with hired guitarist's & never advertise it's Mark Farner not in grand Funk. My ex & a drummer v& his wife we lasted until a sickly falsetto version of Closer to home. Not a word was spoken, we all got up grabbed our blanket & headed for the gates, even at $2 a ticket thx but no thx. Mean mistreater was written when Mark took delivery of his Suitcase Fender Rhodes, Footstompin music when he got his Hammond B3 a toady's nightmare! But a kickass organ with the spinning Leslie cabinets. Anything you want to know about Grand Funk, just ask. [e-mail] or Mark Farner's material I've got it all & know links to everything out there. Mark's drummer was James Brown's last drummer Hubert Crawford, the H bomb. You think Grand Funk has soul hear Mark & his brother's in every way!

[@Loko-wl7fo]

If you want hear some FUNK from Grand Funk Railroad, PLEASE listen to "People Let's Stop the War" from the E Pluribus Funk album. You won't regret it

[@impalaman9707]

I did! Now there's the greatest song Sly Stone DIDN'T write, but wished he had!

[@benmetzloff9124]

Never really listened to gfr..but this is dope

[@ki11atj49]

They are great I'll tell you that

[@jskit92380]

Hi Van, entertaining reaction as usual. Thank you!! For a totally different vibe from GFR, could you please react to I Can Feel Him In The Morning, you'll either love it or hate it, but worth a listen. Janet from Louisiana ☮🖤🤘

[@aaronstrerk5521]

That solo was so good it froze the recording.

[@uyoebyik]

I never heard them before

[@ki11atj49]

If you know any classic rock you probably know a few of their songs without knowing it was them

[@lisaeddins5291]

🔥🔥🔥 GFR rule‼️

[@MEWA-ft3fg]

LFR enjoy your vibes. You should check out GRR “ The Railroad “ I think you will love it

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

Ah man, he's your main man, I thought I was.

[@MrRunt128]

Opportunity knocks once

[@impalaman9707]

If you shut it out--its a sin (Preach it, brother Mark!)

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Check out "Bad Time".

[@drew65sep]

Definitely imbibed in the combustible botanicals

[@KingKronik11]

Great video I'm new to the channel but gotta say I'm loving it immensely. If you enjoy vocalists might I suggest Vince Gill's Go Rest High On The Mountain. Yes it's a slow country type song but I promise you won't regret the listen. Anyway thank you for the awesome work.

[@Chad_Sandridge75]

All You've Got Is Money should be next! Your man Chad Sammich!

[@debitaylor2101]

They were only 19, 20 years old when they did this album. They didn't do hard drugs, say too many artists who were destroyed by them. They smoked a little weed.

[@kathryndunn9655]

See I find I can only do one thing at a time with a song listen properly to the lyrics or to the music and 90 % of the time it's the beat my ears go for Rhythm

[@jamesmiller-hg1vu]

Check out ( The Steel Woods : The Rock that says my name) I think you’ll really dig it.

[@tonyshoemaker2831]

Grand funk railroad sold out Shea stadium faster than the Beatles.

[@impalaman9707]

And every demographic was there---black and white, rich and poor, young and old, headbangers and people who like to boogie. Because GFR's unique brand of R&B based hard rock attracted everybody.

[@douglaskford]

Interesting that the song I think is one their best hasn't been reacted to. Try, "Sin's A Good Man's Brother". Mark has many newer, live versions, but I think you should listen to the studio version first. The reason this band has made such a hit is they have truly bridged the Motown/rock. Since this band is from Flint, Michigan they were very influenced by Motown since they were within radio waves of the center of Motown to the world in Detroit. So you could even call this Detroit Rock. I'm sure that's where they got the FUNK from...... kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGS4p6qflql7hZY

[@impalaman9707]

They were probably the most soulful hard rock band of the 1970s. Their music and concerts attracted everybody---black and white, rich and poor, young and old. It was a cross section of North America that sold out Shea Stadium in 1971. Don't believe me---look at the crowd shots. Every demographic was there!

[@Miller7747]

Excellent channel, great work! Here's what you can review next from the same artist (Grand Funk Railroad) The song is called Dues, as in I paid my dues. It has a bit of personal history with me, because it NEVER reached radio play (I don't know why, it's quite good) I found out about it by accident, one day I was riding by bicycle in the "barrio" (I was sixteen years old) while looking in a dumpster, I found an LP record (ask your parents an LP record fits about 45 min of music) by Grand Funk Railroad, I took it home, and this was my favorite song in the album. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIXapWagqNWLr6c

[@jangunner]

Here is live with bigger drum kit SMOKIN m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6uWkoKvqtuAi80

[@krissgerman3353]

You talk to much smack

[@lisaeason6874]

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