i'm sixty years old and my kids think i'm nuts when I tell them their shit cant touch this...I tried to raise them better......but only Jesus knows what happened
grew up on this. a lot of rock snobs,don't dig, M D & M. that's okay, i can still listen to them. it's not my day to day music,but i can still rock with it, once in a while.
@lethrneck4 Not just better I agree but the original. Sabbath ripped off GF on the paranoid thing. They got the idea from GF because they used to open for funk back in the day.
I bought this album when it came out and it sounds better than the crap out now and its from 1969. They were so good, I saw them in 1973 at the Forum in Los Angeles and it was awesome.
first heard this song when i was in the 3rd grade and it ruined me for life. i had never heard a fuzzpedal before and i fell in love with that guitar instantly. Thank You GFR!!!
I got the double album "Grand Funk Live" when I was a teen. I borrowed this red album later from a pretty older girl. Nice to hear it without all the scratches!.
@jordy45678 yeap!!its like Asteroid!!!!and the sound of bass guitar is MONSTER just like Kyuss,wah-wah pedals on guitar.......i think Josh is a big fan of Mark Farmer!
Do you really think this anti-hate anti-war pro-love group of God fearing entertainers should be grouped with a Satanic looser like Ozzy you must be a stupid and ignorant moreon as Ozzy himself
@MsSuzeque LOL, Ozzie doesn't worship Satan. He may be strange but he's not Satanic. If you listen to Black Sabbath's lyrics, they are actually pretty Spiritual. :)
I think Mark's Messenger guitar became "demon-possessed" on this track! In all my years of listening to rock or heavy metal music, I have never heard a more "other-worldly" sound being coaxed from the circuitry of an electric guitar than on this song! That's Mark at the end, 'exorcising the demon' from his guitar, as the baby cries!
@dmreeoogdaq not to bash upon GFR (they're one of my most favourite band of all time),but The Cure are one (if not the) of the most original of the 80's,one of the few who resisted during the dark times known as the Hair Metal period....
@tristanatlaticus Yeah , It does have the same riff . They probably were inspired by Grand Funk , so many bands say GFR are their Idols ! Van Halen , Guns and roses , Poison ,, To name a few .... and I like Black Sabbath but dont think they are better than Grand Funk.
I like grand funk as well but what sounded heavyer and darker then Sabbath and do you hate Sabbath or somthing? if so different strokes for different folks.Ill check it out the song to see if it is heavyer or metal.I dont think paranoid is metal more like hard rock or psyc.And the sirens were used for the song war pigs which is heavy as hell they took ideas Im sure but there music defined metal and doom period hail Iomie geezer and bill fuck ozzy tho sell out bitch
heavy metal started with sabbath bottom line all other stuff besides lucifers friend is just proto.then preist ,,slayer, death and blackmetal I like it all unlike these close minded babyboomers who shit on the future with yuppy corporate slavery and bleeding heart illeagle labor.Only thing boomers gave us is hard rock n metal ha!
@tristanatlaticus Black Sabbath were nobodys until they started opening shows for Grand Funk ! Then they became famous .. This album is BEFORE Sabbath ! and Sabbath ripped it off ! with the nuclear sirens and the name Paranoid ... Funk also has other Heavy metal " Sin a Good Mans Brother ' For one . Metal did not start with Sabbath.
@47tooter THANK YOU! I have been trying to tell the 'media droids' this very thing for years now, finally someone else who knows what is the real deal! Again THANK YOU! Sorry for buttin in bro, but I just had too comment. Michael.
@47tooter This album is BEFORE Sabbath ! and Sabbath ripped it off ! with the nuclear sirens and the name Paranoid ...
Awesome, GF were great, your right about BS ripping off GF, this album/song especially, the wah was amazing the sirens, wow BS was Inspired by GF big time
I bought this album new when it hit the shelves. Still have it too, packed away in some boxes. Those sounds were tougher to make in those days. Even the best amps only had reverb and tremelo, and if you had pedals there were only 2 to choose from... a Fuzz Face fuzztone and a Crybaby Waa Waa. Fuzz Face had an on/off pedal with two knobs (Drive and Attack), and Crybaby had one pedal which combined on/off and level.
The original paranoid! All you youngins don't know what you missed growing up to this and so much more. Zepplin 1970 Madison Square Garden 10th row. $7.50!! No cops! It was private back them. All these guys would play forever (just don't go to the 5 o'clock show). They have to end for the 8 o'clock show!! GFR so rocked!! Their version of Gimme Shelter blew away the Stones!
Brings back memories of a damp basement packed with amps, drum kit, hardly any room to stand, two windows open about six feet off the ground, several hippie chicks standing in the corner getting high, and me and my two buddies rocking out tunes by GFR, Iron Butterfly, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver... and MAN OH MAN do I sometimes long for those days, especially when I see the cell phone bills for my three kids, the morgage, dental bills, car payments, name brand clothes...FUCK!!
Oh how I LOVE Farner's voice! 62 and he still has the energy of a 21 year old on stage. I can't wait to see him live again. While I was at his concert I screamed for him to perform this song and he didn't disappoint. Favorite Grand Funk album!
There is need for another progressive period. We live in a nation where politics are controlled by corporation. It can be argued that this capitalist nature can "help" the economy, but look around you. Your childhood neighborhood is being torn down for housing. The mountains around you are raped by ski lodges and logging companies. Why do we destroy earth? There is no answer, other than that people are fucking ignorant and arrogant and continue to try and satify themselves with basic needs.gfr
People can respond with stupid comments . Not only did this band have great guitar riffs but Mark Farner had the all time great rock and roll voice. Learn to appreciate good Music. I agree with you rocktilludrop59!
People can respond with stupid comments . Not only did this band have great guitar riffs but Mark Farner had the all time great rock and roll voice. Learn to appreciate good Music. I agree with you rocktilludrop59!
AC/DC was also knocked by the critics and no-one understood their popularity. They just finished a sold out world tour a year and a half ago (2009-2010).
Rock is rock and almost everyone loves rock. This (GF) is rock. Yeah, rock may have some blues but the blues birthed rock.
I used to lay under my HI FI and listen to the stereo from this album,,going back and forth .Another great stereo album,was Ten Years Afters album Called Stone hedge Check It Out
albatross7677 <- Anyone else read what this asshole wrote? He deserves to get his teeth kicked in. How the fuck can you write a comment like that? That's so fucking stupid. This is the greatest band ever. If you think this is basic, it's because you listen to modern rock. i say that because "modern rock" bands did to GFR what somalies do to crashed aircraft. They strip them of all their good parts and use them themselves. Fucking jackass. God, why wasn't born back then, away from these idiots?
I saw Grand Funk RailRoad in concert plus lots of other bands and I can honestly tell you Grand Funk was the best band. I saw Zep, Black Sabbath,ACDC,now that I think about it Pink Floyd was a close second. Keep Rockin folks
NOW, this is the true meaning of HEAVY METAL just listen to the Riffs, you punk ass kids only know what you learned from listening to THIS, you dont even have the imagination to come up with anything new today without stealing lines,beats and riff from our music!!! if thats the case then rock-n-roll must be dead!!!!! :( REHASH just dont cut it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK GOD for Old Wax.........
@rocktilludrop59 dude stfu, so fuckin tired of old asses trying to disclaim younger generations of music, if i was your daddy i'd be telling you how you just ripped off old blues lines and put them into your punk ass kid music. rock-n-roll is not dead it's just evolved into different branches of equally inspirational and hard core genres of music. to deny this is simple and backward.
@blabla7234 It's funny, I understand where rocktilludrop59 is coming from, but I think I agree with you more. I like heavy metal ranging from these guys here to newer bands like Black Dahlia Murder and Mastodon. Also, back in their heyday, let us not forget, the rock critics hated, haTED, HATED Grand Funk Railroad. For the exact reasons that you said - "ripping off old blues" and turning it into something that the rock press of the time could not relate to.
@blabla7234 It's funny, I understand where rocktilludrop59 is coming from, but I think I agree with you more. I like heavy metal ranging from these guys here to newer bands like Black Dahlia Murder and Mastodon. Also, back in their heyday, let us not forget, the rock critics hated, haTED, HATED Grand Funk Railroad. For the exact reasons that you said - "ripping off old blues" and turning it into something that the rock press of the time could not relate to.
Three dudes and some attitude. No fancy studio mixing here. Just bad ass in your face roots rock. Just about any good garage band could play it but it never sounded as good as GFR.
This song is definately heavier than Black Sabbath's Paranoid. I'm still a fan of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin,This tune has been forgotten by the press as contributor in the early days of heavy metal.
agreed. pick any power trio of that era: cream, mountain, west bruce and laing, even hendrix...i've always enjoyed gf over them. chemistry in it's purest form is very rare
And just for the record, I don't really consider GFR a "heavy metal band". They were a blues-based rock combo whose occasional forays into Metal were some of the 'most' Metal!
This was one of their best songs. I was grooving to this years ago and own this album. Met up with Mark Farner at one of his gigs and he was a pretty cool guy to hang with. I always use to like the scream in this song along with the crying baby at the end of the song.
@notfragile33 what about dazed and confused? idk, was this recorded before that? and can you even count d&c by the yardbirds, since it wasn't as heavy? food for thought. at any rate, this was the tune i was listening to
@ultrakool ...Heavier and more Metal than "Dazed and Confused" BY FAR!!! Especially the sections when Mark's power chords on his guitar have his fuzztone linked to the wah-wah pedal (which I STILL haven't heard anything near as wicked-sounding in all of Metal, not even Jimmy Page's violin bow runs linked to the wah-wah pedal!), not to mention the rapid-fire solo which begins at the 6:11 mark, and he cleverly overdubs with the fuzz/wah-wah combination, and then just goes bezerk with at the end!
@ultrakool One more thing--this song was recorded in October 1969, a full year after the recording of Led Zeppelin I, and two months before the recording of the first Black Sabbath LP. I really think these guys thought they were recording something really special and groundbreaking with this track! By the way, Sabbath thought so, too, as they ripped off shreds of these ideas for THEIR OWN "Paranoid"!
@notfragile33 yeah, i suppose you're right. i think the biggest knock on gf by the critics and other bands was that farner wasn't a virtuoso on guitar and he used "cheap tricks" to conjure up his sound. i could see how that might irritate the informed people who just shook their heads in disbelief at gf's popularity, much in the same way that, e.g., nirvana was dogged for their lack of virtuosity. yet they also pieced it together to create a popular sound the detractors are always jealous of
@ultrakool well, if this is what the critics called "bad" guitar playing, than I guess I like "bad" guitar playing, because it sure gets me in a place where Keith Richards or Eddie Van Halen can't reach. And what Mark lacked in virtuosity, I feel he made up for in creativity, there were few others at the time who were. Keep in mind, too, he was doing this with a rare semi-hollow Messenger guitar with taped-up 'f-holes' and a tube amplifier he helped build at the West factory in Michigan!
Super música del recuerdo! Patito, hermano, por tí aprendí a apreciar a esta gran banda. Aquellos tiempos, en la Mirador Viejo, avenida chillán, nueva de matte en Stgo. Saludos a todos desde Alemania.
Just 3 guys jamin their souls out. I still love this song and I was around when it was brand new. They formed in 1968. Mark Farner (guitars, keyboards, lead vocals) and Don Brewer (drums, lead vocals), and Mel Schacher (bass guitar). Hall of famers for sure in my book.
paranoid( no confundir con el paranoid de black sabbath, este es mucho mejor) , es donde se muestra todo el poderìo del trìo( tapa roja) ademàs del pluribus, que aparentemente debìa ser ese el camino del grupo.
Cuando apareciò el cuarto integrante , el grupo fuè otro, ablandaron el rock , y para colmo, a mark se le ocurriò incursionar en la parte comercial. el grupo sonò. Ahora solo quedan los buenos recuerdos.
I used 2 b a drummer and lead singer and our band played all GFR songs, we sounded just like them. They were effin awesome. Then in 77 I met the band in malaga NJ at the Liberty Bell tavern. Rock On GFR!!!!!!!!!!!!
i know this hotrod guy is talkin' about black sabbath, but why don't we all agree that both of them are FUCKIN' AMAZING!?
and make sure you put this at full blast or else you miss some of it on this particular video.
and you should play this on a radio where you can mess with the treble. if you get it just right, it sounds amazing. it sounds like shit on my x-box 'cause you can't change the treble, so it comes out really low and you can barely hear parts of it. any ideas on fixin' that?
@Monkeyfurshur I wasn't bagging the song at all,just saying that this song by the same name of the sabbath song is equally kick ass. I'm a GFR fan bigtime and have listened to em for bout 20 years now
Great post, thanks. got this album 9th grade, and was my favorite for years, GFR will live forever! rock out boys! saw them 07 they were pretty good still!
@BadBamaJamma Sounds right..Something like what we do with "row, row ,row your boat" But it goes good,right? I never questioned it, I listened to "on time" ALOT! so this kind of follows some of that timing. I love the rythem g. on this song.
GFR got so fucked by their manager. They were literally working for like $ 250 a week each at the peak of their success. Poor bastards. ALWAYS read the contract. Great band
that`s a shame that nowadays no one listen to this kind of music, im 20 from brazil, but not even distance and time will make me know what is a truly rock and roll and bullshit, GFR!!!! Terry Knight unfortunately destroyed this band, their firts album are just perfeeeect!!!! By the way, Mark have a greeeat voice!!
that`s a shame that nowadays no one listen to this kind of music, im 20 from brazil, but not even distance and time will make me know what is a truly rock and roll and bullshit, GFR!!!! Terry Knight unfortunately destroyed this band, their firts album are just perfeeeect!!!! By the way, Mark have a greeeat voice!!
Yup i'm with you @jr55ful bass playing is brilliant. You need to hear the live version of this on Live Album, its jaw-dropping, and much as I love this recording it sounds pretty muted in comparison - GO, LISTEN!
Same as ZZ Top. Grand Funk was hot in Viet Nam.
1756jhawk 19 hours ago
An Awsome Band
techmaster11 2 weeks ago
one of the best basslines ever recorded.
jr55ful 3 weeks ago 2
I was in high school and never got hold of GFR. A lot of people
had them on 8-track. What I notice was the people who listened
to them were also some of the same who poo-poo-ed Farner.
I think Mel Schacher was the star player. But they were rock,
Michigan's finest answer to Hall and Oates.
spoildn8410 3 weeks ago
One of my all time favorite albums!
atbglenn 3 weeks ago
Epic intro ♥
MrEagleDesert 3 weeks ago
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marklmansfield 1 week ago
Grand Funk, always raw always real.
harryflocyberman 4 weeks ago 2
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harryflocyberman 4 weeks ago
Chingona cancion de un superchingon grupo GRAND FUNK! Mark Farner!
fisiorobot 1 month ago
Oh my god! GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!
arturorodriguezprado 1 month ago
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arturorodriguezprado 1 month ago
i'm sixty years old and my kids think i'm nuts when I tell them their shit cant touch this...I tried to raise them better......but only Jesus knows what happened
stinkykuntz 1 month ago 6
excellent
JimBozeman1956 1 month ago
some old turntables had a low speed selector, 16?
and we would laugh at the end part, baby crying, at half-speed
krang07 1 month ago
@krang07
And I thought me and my buddies were the only ones that did that with this song! Hahahaha!
drprogensteinphp 1 month ago
grew up on this. a lot of rock snobs,don't dig, M D & M. that's okay, i can still listen to them. it's not my day to day music,but i can still rock with it, once in a while.
brainsareus 1 month ago
Luv that FUZZ face!!!!
Lasercrew420 1 month ago
Well, I´m more into British Rock (Black Sabbath may be my favourite band ever), but GFR are a great, varied band. Heavy Psych at its best!
theinmortal6 1 month ago
One of the first songs that I learned to play catching bass riffs for!
nicolasrao 2 months ago
@nicolasrao This bassline is orgasmic
Noseheros 2 months ago
This is not ozzy.
1olona 2 months ago 4
Im sorry everybody I broke the like knob.
GUITARDON8 2 months ago
3 lost souls that forgot great rock!
jbeng1953 2 months ago 2
Bassline from the gods! 1:45
lethrneck4 2 months ago 2
dare i say, the BETTER paranoid??
lethrneck4 2 months ago
@lethrneck4 Not just better I agree but the original. Sabbath ripped off GF on the paranoid thing. They got the idea from GF because they used to open for funk back in the day.
MichaelIanHenry 1 month ago
I can't believe that there are some kids who think this song and Paranoid by Black Sabbath are the SAME song?
rocconrollo 2 months ago 3
it don't get any better
dhhollywood1 3 months ago
We ( brother and I ) grew up to listening to Grand Funk Railroad ,
And I still love their music . I was lucky to see them in concert in
1974 on the Shinin Om tour .
CuyahogaMustang 3 months ago
MUSIC IS MY FRIEND !!! :-)
warhols25 3 months ago
I bought this album when it came out and it sounds better than the crap out now and its from 1969. They were so good, I saw them in 1973 at the Forum in Los Angeles and it was awesome.
azdodgers32 4 months ago
first heard this song when i was in the 3rd grade and it ruined me for life. i had never heard a fuzzpedal before and i fell in love with that guitar instantly. Thank You GFR!!!
cashlandrum 4 months ago
when rock was rock
puckering1 4 months ago
One guitar, one bass, one drums.
snap1024 4 months ago 13
I got the double album "Grand Funk Live" when I was a teen. I borrowed this red album later from a pretty older girl. Nice to hear it without all the scratches!.
snap1024 4 months ago
Grand Funk Railroad +Black Sabbath =KYUSS
Mr88doom88 4 months ago 17
@Mr88doom88 1.40 made you think of Asteroid too? ;P. they also have kinda the same sound-effects dont they...
jordy45678 4 months ago
@jordy45678 yeap!!its like Asteroid!!!!and the sound of bass guitar is MONSTER just like Kyuss,wah-wah pedals on guitar.......i think Josh is a big fan of Mark Farmer!
Mr88doom88 4 months ago
@Mr88doom88 y'know, i never thought of it like that. you're absolutely right.
Ozma2112 3 months ago
@Ozma2112
Ozzy clearly worships SATAN
Do you really think this anti-hate anti-war pro-love group of God fearing entertainers should be grouped with a Satanic looser like Ozzy you must be a stupid and ignorant moreon as Ozzy himself
MsSuzeque 2 months ago
@MsSuzeque LOL, Ozzie doesn't worship Satan. He may be strange but he's not Satanic. If you listen to Black Sabbath's lyrics, they are actually pretty Spiritual. :)
andyray9 2 months ago 3
@andyray9 finally someone who knows the truth , . . .people hear what they want , . . .
ahitler1000 1 month ago in playlist Watch Later
@MsSuzeque fuck off.
MarkusFOA 1 month ago
@Mr88doom88 yeah that makes a lot of sense
porsaspersereika 3 months ago
@Mr88doom88 I love your Statement, Your Royal Countess Tamm
wrk4gd 1 month ago
listen to this with headphones ITS AWESOME
theevilpickleofdeath 4 months ago
1:48 fuckin sick ass bassline
lethrneck4 5 months ago
I think Mark's Messenger guitar became "demon-possessed" on this track! In all my years of listening to rock or heavy metal music, I have never heard a more "other-worldly" sound being coaxed from the circuitry of an electric guitar than on this song! That's Mark at the end, 'exorcising the demon' from his guitar, as the baby cries!
notfragile33 5 months ago
Black Sabbath got ideas from GF, War pigs,etc
GF was more musical than BS, i like Black Sabbath though
sumstuff46 5 months ago
F n A; rock on vinyl.......
VirgiWaing 5 months ago
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Hello??? Hello??? Is anyone there?
Nope. Still not there. They're busy inducting The Cure. What a disgrace.
dmreeoogdaq 5 months ago
@dmreeoogdaq not to bash upon GFR (they're one of my most favourite band of all time),but The Cure are one (if not the) of the most original of the 80's,one of the few who resisted during the dark times known as the Hair Metal period....
rocconrollo 4 months ago
one of the greatest power trios ever..til they added a keyboard player and it all fell apart
lethrneck4 5 months ago
Great tune, GFR is one of a kind.
puckering1 5 months ago
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spacepuppy4u 5 months ago in playlist fullcircle
One of the greatest songs ever. It reflected the paranoia of the time and so many people related to it for different reasons.
mydogspet 5 months ago
@mydogspet ditto that statement one of the best all time 40yrs still listeningg to funk
capriotto35 3 days ago
I checked out the song yeah sounds like Judas Preist was inspired by that song with victim ov changes check that similarity out
tristanatlaticus 5 months ago
@tristanatlaticus Yeah , It does have the same riff . They probably were inspired by Grand Funk , so many bands say GFR are their Idols ! Van Halen , Guns and roses , Poison ,, To name a few .... and I like Black Sabbath but dont think they are better than Grand Funk.
47tooter 5 months ago
I like grand funk as well but what sounded heavyer and darker then Sabbath and do you hate Sabbath or somthing? if so different strokes for different folks.Ill check it out the song to see if it is heavyer or metal.I dont think paranoid is metal more like hard rock or psyc.And the sirens were used for the song war pigs which is heavy as hell they took ideas Im sure but there music defined metal and doom period hail Iomie geezer and bill fuck ozzy tho sell out bitch
tristanatlaticus 5 months ago
heavy metal started with sabbath bottom line all other stuff besides lucifers friend is just proto.then preist ,,slayer, death and blackmetal I like it all unlike these close minded babyboomers who shit on the future with yuppy corporate slavery and bleeding heart illeagle labor.Only thing boomers gave us is hard rock n metal ha!
tristanatlaticus 5 months ago
@tristanatlaticus Black Sabbath were nobodys until they started opening shows for Grand Funk ! Then they became famous .. This album is BEFORE Sabbath ! and Sabbath ripped it off ! with the nuclear sirens and the name Paranoid ... Funk also has other Heavy metal " Sin a Good Mans Brother ' For one . Metal did not start with Sabbath.
47tooter 5 months ago
@47tooter THANK YOU! I have been trying to tell the 'media droids' this very thing for years now, finally someone else who knows what is the real deal! Again THANK YOU! Sorry for buttin in bro, but I just had too comment. Michael.
MichaelIanHenry 5 months ago in playlist MichaelIanHenry's Favorited Videos
@47tooter This album is BEFORE Sabbath ! and Sabbath ripped it off ! with the nuclear sirens and the name Paranoid ...
Awesome, GF were great, your right about BS ripping off GF, this album/song especially, the wah was amazing the sirens, wow BS was Inspired by GF big time
sumstuff46 5 months ago
@sumstuff46 Ozzy said " Bad Time " was his favorite song.
47tooter 5 months ago
@47tooter Ozzy also likes UB40 and Phil Collins--big deal!
notfragile33 5 months ago
I bought this album new when it hit the shelves. Still have it too, packed away in some boxes. Those sounds were tougher to make in those days. Even the best amps only had reverb and tremelo, and if you had pedals there were only 2 to choose from... a Fuzz Face fuzztone and a Crybaby Waa Waa. Fuzz Face had an on/off pedal with two knobs (Drive and Attack), and Crybaby had one pedal which combined on/off and level.
mnpd007 5 months ago
The original paranoid! All you youngins don't know what you missed growing up to this and so much more. Zepplin 1970 Madison Square Garden 10th row. $7.50!! No cops! It was private back them. All these guys would play forever (just don't go to the 5 o'clock show). They have to end for the 8 o'clock show!! GFR so rocked!! Their version of Gimme Shelter blew away the Stones!
mitchnbarb 5 months ago
pretty good but i like the sabbath version better
OceanderTethyseus 6 months ago
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD FOR EVER !
Odilon930 6 months ago
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Brings back memories of a damp basement packed with amps, drum kit, hardly any room to stand, two windows open about six feet off the ground, several hippie chicks standing in the corner getting high, and me and my two buddies rocking out tunes by GFR, Iron Butterfly, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver... and MAN OH MAN do I sometimes long for those days, especially when I see the cell phone bills for my three kids, the morgage, dental bills, car payments, name brand clothes...FUCK!!
Trismegistus10 6 months ago
@luckystrike8949: Bin "erst "45 und vermisse auch oft die Zeit. Trotzdem good luck!
Bewohner2000 6 months ago
Oh how I LOVE Farner's voice! 62 and he still has the energy of a 21 year old on stage. I can't wait to see him live again. While I was at his concert I screamed for him to perform this song and he didn't disappoint. Favorite Grand Funk album!
mzfreckleface 6 months ago
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There is need for another progressive period. We live in a nation where politics are controlled by corporation. It can be argued that this capitalist nature can "help" the economy, but look around you. Your childhood neighborhood is being torn down for housing. The mountains around you are raped by ski lodges and logging companies. Why do we destroy earth? There is no answer, other than that people are fucking ignorant and arrogant and continue to try and satify themselves with basic needs.gfr
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People can respond with stupid comments . Not only did this band have great guitar riffs but Mark Farner had the all time great rock and roll voice. Learn to appreciate good Music. I agree with you rocktilludrop59!
ACDC also is one of the best rock bands!
269lilmary 6 months ago
People can respond with stupid comments . Not only did this band have great guitar riffs but Mark Farner had the all time great rock and roll voice. Learn to appreciate good Music. I agree with you rocktilludrop59!
269lilmary 6 months ago
AC/DC was also knocked by the critics and no-one understood their popularity. They just finished a sold out world tour a year and a half ago (2009-2010).
Rock is rock and almost everyone loves rock. This (GF) is rock. Yeah, rock may have some blues but the blues birthed rock.
thecuttingpoint 6 months ago
i wouldn t say "metal" ... in my opinion they founded the stoner rock genre....
Gainfulwahwah 6 months ago
Das ist meine Jugend! Lederjacken mit Nieten usw.!!!
Ich vermisse das Zeitweise mit meinen 53 Jahren!
luckystrike8949 7 months ago
Bad ass song! Raw, heavy and true to the roots of Rock! Classic!
lifedeathexpert 7 months ago
a mosh pit to this would be fuckin sick!!!!
crazycasy 7 months ago
@crazycasy fast enough?
MichaelHansenFUN 7 months ago
@MichaelHansenFUN oh yea if your 50 and n heroin!or slow spots for overweight moshers lol,with the right crowd anything can happen!
crazycasy 7 months ago
@MichaelHansenFUN crumpin could happen, double the time, herky jerky!
crazycasy 7 months ago
this is back when we were dropping real acid and smoking weed,getting free love and good fellings
dappertbormet292 7 months ago
what moron hit dislike?
chopulinn8i 7 months ago 29
what a song
beachlover1971 7 months ago
Best band ever.
Hopkins1148 7 months ago
I used to lay under my HI FI and listen to the stereo from this album,,going back and forth .Another great stereo album,was Ten Years Afters album Called Stone hedge Check It Out
grasscarpets 8 months ago
Back in the days when the closest you got to techno was a $12 fuzz box ! Just love it, thanks a million for a million great memories.
katesdad0 8 months ago
Mark Farner!
danpolicarpo 8 months ago
hey someone misclicked
Legat246 8 months ago
@Legat246 nah, it was some rapper who thought it said "dis i like" and he did
prober45 8 months ago
albatross7677 <- Anyone else read what this asshole wrote? He deserves to get his teeth kicked in. How the fuck can you write a comment like that? That's so fucking stupid. This is the greatest band ever. If you think this is basic, it's because you listen to modern rock. i say that because "modern rock" bands did to GFR what somalies do to crashed aircraft. They strip them of all their good parts and use them themselves. Fucking jackass. God, why wasn't born back then, away from these idiots?
Monkeyfurshur 8 months ago 3
I saw Grand Funk RailRoad in concert plus lots of other bands and I can honestly tell you Grand Funk was the best band. I saw Zep, Black Sabbath,ACDC,now that I think about it Pink Floyd was a close second. Keep Rockin folks
ALOMNH 9 months ago
NOW, this is the true meaning of HEAVY METAL just listen to the Riffs, you punk ass kids only know what you learned from listening to THIS, you dont even have the imagination to come up with anything new today without stealing lines,beats and riff from our music!!! if thats the case then rock-n-roll must be dead!!!!! :( REHASH just dont cut it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK GOD for Old Wax.........
rocktilludrop59 9 months ago 34
@rocktilludrop59 everything is copied from something else, and something else and something else... etc etc
mikexlong 9 months ago
@rocktilludrop59 It's true man, people in these days dont know a shit about what is REAL CLASSIC Rock music.
bands like: mountain, Blue Cheer, Cream, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Zeppelin, are the GODFATHERS of what is now Heavy Metal
I'm 19 years old, and i DISLIKE TODAY'S MUSIC. I hate people saying me: Why you like dino rock ¬¬ ???
Today's music sucks.
Damn Why i born in the wrong decade??? : (
greetings from Mexico
blizzardmadman1980 9 months ago 3
@blizzardmadman1980
your play an instrument right?
NegerSkrapaN 7 months ago
@rocktilludrop59 Might I add I stand with you!
MichaelIanHenry 7 months ago
@rocktilludrop59 "prototype' heavy metal. but I love this song.
MichaelHansenFUN 7 months ago
@rocktilludrop59 Afuckingmen!
HOTROD74GremlinX 6 months ago
@rocktilludrop59 dude stfu, so fuckin tired of old asses trying to disclaim younger generations of music, if i was your daddy i'd be telling you how you just ripped off old blues lines and put them into your punk ass kid music. rock-n-roll is not dead it's just evolved into different branches of equally inspirational and hard core genres of music. to deny this is simple and backward.
blabla7234 6 months ago
@blabla7234 It's funny, I understand where rocktilludrop59 is coming from, but I think I agree with you more. I like heavy metal ranging from these guys here to newer bands like Black Dahlia Murder and Mastodon. Also, back in their heyday, let us not forget, the rock critics hated, haTED, HATED Grand Funk Railroad. For the exact reasons that you said - "ripping off old blues" and turning it into something that the rock press of the time could not relate to.
hotcarlcade 6 months ago
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@blabla7234 It's funny, I understand where rocktilludrop59 is coming from, but I think I agree with you more. I like heavy metal ranging from these guys here to newer bands like Black Dahlia Murder and Mastodon. Also, back in their heyday, let us not forget, the rock critics hated, haTED, HATED Grand Funk Railroad. For the exact reasons that you said - "ripping off old blues" and turning it into something that the rock press of the time could not relate to.
hotcarlcade 6 months ago
@rocktilludrop59 everyone takes something from something else........
gumbyonacid 4 months ago
Three dudes and some attitude. No fancy studio mixing here. Just bad ass in your face roots rock. Just about any good garage band could play it but it never sounded as good as GFR.
sonorcrusher 9 months ago 2
I wore this song out back in the day.
cliffandy 9 months ago
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This song is so basic. Give me a break.
albatross7677 9 months ago
great toon
puckering1 9 months ago
This song is definately heavier than Black Sabbath's Paranoid. I'm still a fan of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin,This tune has been forgotten by the press as contributor in the early days of heavy metal.
qclegg 10 months ago
agreed. pick any power trio of that era: cream, mountain, west bruce and laing, even hendrix...i've always enjoyed gf over them. chemistry in it's purest form is very rare
ultrakool 10 months ago
And just for the record, I don't really consider GFR a "heavy metal band". They were a blues-based rock combo whose occasional forays into Metal were some of the 'most' Metal!
notfragile33 10 months ago
i remember my mom had this album and she'd play it when i was a lilttle kid, so loud it made the floor shake... i loved it
missmisfit1984 10 months ago
@missmisfit1984 you have the coolest mom ever man!
blabla7234 6 months ago
This song is the birth of Heavy Metal.
47tooter 11 months ago
una gran rola....esos chavos ke apenas le andan empezando a la tocada tomenla como referente para los ensayos.....!!!!!!!!!!!
petronkonrock 11 months ago
40+ years of hearing this and it still sends chills up my spine.
MrKirkenstein 11 months ago
This was one of their best songs. I was grooving to this years ago and own this album. Met up with Mark Farner at one of his gigs and he was a pretty cool guy to hang with. I always use to like the scream in this song along with the crying baby at the end of the song.
BARRY2JA 1 year ago
mel is the bassist that first made me aware of how cool a bass could be.
jr55ful 1 year ago
This whole album kicks major as@!
stomp919 1 year ago
there's only one justin bieber fan who dislikes this song. pussy
chechosalas 1 year ago
I don't think there was a HEAVIER song in 1969 than this one!
notfragile33 1 year ago
@notfragile33 what about dazed and confused? idk, was this recorded before that? and can you even count d&c by the yardbirds, since it wasn't as heavy? food for thought. at any rate, this was the tune i was listening to
ultrakool 10 months ago
@ultrakool ...Heavier and more Metal than "Dazed and Confused" BY FAR!!! Especially the sections when Mark's power chords on his guitar have his fuzztone linked to the wah-wah pedal (which I STILL haven't heard anything near as wicked-sounding in all of Metal, not even Jimmy Page's violin bow runs linked to the wah-wah pedal!), not to mention the rapid-fire solo which begins at the 6:11 mark, and he cleverly overdubs with the fuzz/wah-wah combination, and then just goes bezerk with at the end!
notfragile33 10 months ago
@ultrakool One more thing--this song was recorded in October 1969, a full year after the recording of Led Zeppelin I, and two months before the recording of the first Black Sabbath LP. I really think these guys thought they were recording something really special and groundbreaking with this track! By the way, Sabbath thought so, too, as they ripped off shreds of these ideas for THEIR OWN "Paranoid"!
notfragile33 10 months ago
@notfragile33 yeah, i suppose you're right. i think the biggest knock on gf by the critics and other bands was that farner wasn't a virtuoso on guitar and he used "cheap tricks" to conjure up his sound. i could see how that might irritate the informed people who just shook their heads in disbelief at gf's popularity, much in the same way that, e.g., nirvana was dogged for their lack of virtuosity. yet they also pieced it together to create a popular sound the detractors are always jealous of
ultrakool 10 months ago
@ultrakool well, if this is what the critics called "bad" guitar playing, than I guess I like "bad" guitar playing, because it sure gets me in a place where Keith Richards or Eddie Van Halen can't reach. And what Mark lacked in virtuosity, I feel he made up for in creativity, there were few others at the time who were. Keep in mind, too, he was doing this with a rare semi-hollow Messenger guitar with taped-up 'f-holes' and a tube amplifier he helped build at the West factory in Michigan!
notfragile33 10 months ago
the best rock band ever great vocals that Mark could really sing great drummer and great bass player they should be in Hall of Fame
nunile18 1 year ago
@nunile18 you are right on...they surely should be!
prober45 1 year ago
teare me apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flunder 1 year ago
fo ecouter la basse elle est du tonnerre
pavot31 1 year ago
they ARE the FUNK...GRAND!
prober45 1 year ago
Super música del recuerdo! Patito, hermano, por tí aprendí a apreciar a esta gran banda. Aquellos tiempos, en la Mirador Viejo, avenida chillán, nueva de matte en Stgo. Saludos a todos desde Alemania.
MrFirulai 1 year ago
the BETTER Paranoid? i think so
lethrneck4 1 year ago
MY favorite so far!! Excellent!!!!
PamelaElaineNovikoff 1 year ago
These guys were one of my first concerts.
cornholiyo2 1 year ago
summer of 1970 seen with a group called" head hands and feet"
amwaitingforrapture 1 year ago
I saw them do this live in Seattle in 1970. It was awesome beyond belief!
MrLilStinker 1 year ago
@MrLilStinker Me too! Do I know you -LOL! They are great ive!
NaughtGinger57 1 year ago
I remember 1st hearing this tune in1970 in a good friend's car & the siren had me looking for police!
peanut329 1 year ago
Real music. Nobody does it like this anymore!
1thedrummerman 1 year ago 16
Swedish band Graveyard kick ass. Try this one on for size : GRAVEYARD - Hisingen Blues
REAL MUSIC!!!!
ImMartyHelloMCFLY 6 months ago
Just 3 guys jamin their souls out. I still love this song and I was around when it was brand new. They formed in 1968. Mark Farner (guitars, keyboards, lead vocals) and Don Brewer (drums, lead vocals), and Mel Schacher (bass guitar). Hall of famers for sure in my book.
informantnewsdotcom 1 year ago
OUTTA SIGHT!!!!!!!!!
universalmessenger 1 year ago
paranoid( no confundir con el paranoid de black sabbath, este es mucho mejor) , es donde se muestra todo el poderìo del trìo( tapa roja) ademàs del pluribus, que aparentemente debìa ser ese el camino del grupo.
Cuando apareciò el cuarto integrante , el grupo fuè otro, ablandaron el rock , y para colmo, a mark se le ocurriò incursionar en la parte comercial. el grupo sonò. Ahora solo quedan los buenos recuerdos.
los escucho desde los 14 años.tengo 52
SuperPluribus 1 year ago
this is a monster
crazycasy 1 year ago
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DJMixmasterDee 1 year ago
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I used 2 b a drummer and lead singer and our band played all GFR songs, we sounded just like them. They were effin awesome. Then in 77 I met the band in malaga NJ at the Liberty Bell tavern. Rock On GFR!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DJMixmasterDee 1 year ago
This is still the wickedest "wah-wah" pedal I have ever heard in my life! And the heaviest song to come out in 1969!
notfragile33 1 year ago
i know this hotrod guy is talkin' about black sabbath, but why don't we all agree that both of them are FUCKIN' AMAZING!?
and make sure you put this at full blast or else you miss some of it on this particular video.
and you should play this on a radio where you can mess with the treble. if you get it just right, it sounds amazing. it sounds like shit on my x-box 'cause you can't change the treble, so it comes out really low and you can barely hear parts of it. any ideas on fixin' that?
Monkeyfurshur 1 year ago
@Monkeyfurshur I wasn't bagging the song at all,just saying that this song by the same name of the sabbath song is equally kick ass. I'm a GFR fan bigtime and have listened to em for bout 20 years now
HOTROD74GremlinX 1 year ago
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IndicaEuphora 1 year ago
@wittman501 and LPs too GFR and GFR Live: loud and noisy:-D
mesphinx 1 year ago
Great post, thanks. got this album 9th grade, and was my favorite for years, GFR will live forever! rock out boys! saw them 07 they were pretty good still!
funkadelisized 1 year ago
@BadBamaJamma Sounds right..Something like what we do with "row, row ,row your boat" But it goes good,right? I never questioned it, I listened to "on time" ALOT! so this kind of follows some of that timing. I love the rythem g. on this song.
broodyart 1 year ago
this did get alot of playing time on fm stations. am was more folk and pop before fm took over.
196raider 1 year ago
this song will live forever. great
amonduultje 1 year ago
Best of Rock!
salamandra717 1 year ago
this number playng highscool festival^^
hyoutantugino1 1 year ago
Amazing then and now!!
cckeach7 1 year ago
GFR got so fucked by their manager. They were literally working for like $ 250 a week each at the peak of their success. Poor bastards. ALWAYS read the contract. Great band
proxima 1 year ago
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that`s a shame that nowadays no one listen to this kind of music, im 20 from brazil, but not even distance and time will make me know what is a truly rock and roll and bullshit, GFR!!!! Terry Knight unfortunately destroyed this band, their firts album are just perfeeeect!!!! By the way, Mark have a greeeat voice!!
vilas89 1 year ago
that`s a shame that nowadays no one listen to this kind of music, im 20 from brazil, but not even distance and time will make me know what is a truly rock and roll and bullshit, GFR!!!! Terry Knight unfortunately destroyed this band, their firts album are just perfeeeect!!!! By the way, Mark have a greeeat voice!!
vilas89 1 year ago
MERA CHIMBA DE TEMA LO MEJOR.................
hvr19041984 1 year ago
I like it . GFR
Etuechi 1 year ago
One the most underrated rock bands of the 70's----compared to the british bands anyway. No glitz, no glam, NO pretence, just raw rock and roll.
gdkangas 1 year ago
Yup i'm with you @jr55ful bass playing is brilliant. You need to hear the live version of this on Live Album, its jaw-dropping, and much as I love this recording it sounds pretty muted in comparison - GO, LISTEN!
iamstillman 1 year ago