maravillosa rola, como muchas otras del gran GFR. ejemplos de lo ke era el rock, no solo predominio de metal armonico, sino profundidad en su lirica. cuando el rock keria compartir ideales de amor -fraternal, ecologico, etc- y sobre todo PAZ. increible ke hoy predomine lo contrario, lastima, con estos excelentes maestros. God bless GFR
Back in the 70s, I loved get people to listen to this piece and then call their attention to the point where the band has retired and all the music is orchestral. Ever since I heard this the first time, I wanted great rock songs to be covered by an orchestra so that everyone learns that rock and roll is just music, not to be feared or shunned.
Alot of truth in this song. As with all Grand Funk music. I too was a teen when I first listened to GFRR. I am now 56 & todays so called music does not even come close. Luv GFRR!!!
you got that right.. Im old hippie and i will never listen to the new music I love the classic music so do my kids and my grandchildren.... the best music ever... in my day and still today.....
m8 I'd never heard this song before..ever. Fkn amazing, these boys have got the X factor that just about no bands have today. It's all too obvious. I've got 16 y/o and 13 y/o sons and the musc thy lstn to begs the belief that if you feed the people sub-standard crap, tht's the only crap they think they knw and like Shit we took all that good music for granted as we were growing up.
Hey guys, if you're young and find problems in society, do what they did in the past! Speak your mind through music and talking and spreading your words. Don't let corporations run government, and rape our forests and oceans. Don't let your friends die in a pointless war! Speak your mind. I've had enough. If you have, repost this somewhere else. be the change
I still have all their albums in fact just put a new needle on my record player, Grand Funk Railroad did not get the reconition they should have received....I am still so glad I grew up in the late 60's and 70's the were the best years that I have ever seen.....and the music was real....
@sunsetsky25 I was weened on Grand Funk! In Vietnam we played acoustic guitars with light electric strings so we could get down to jams inspired by Grand Funk and other great bands of "passion"....what a legacy of rock we experienced first hand. Kids today are looking back to find that passion...so much despare and just plain lousy creators out there now...God Save us...BRING US BACK TO OUR ROOTS! I'm 61 now and just as good as those who inspired me back then...Grand Funk Railroad always !
Very few people today are aware of or rem. the political and enviriomental impact of this group but few others were as straight forward concerning their anti-war sentiments
sounds awesome, one of the greatest songs ever made. i'm just wondering if this version on this video is the digitally remastered version available from Amazon or the version from the E Pluribus Funk CD?
I saw them Twice!! They sound better live and I mean better than any band I have ever seen, Greates Rock of the late 60;s and 70's. They helped put the American band back. Stopped some of the British invasion
Loneliness Speaks To The Depths Of My Soul, Crying Out To Where We Have Allowed Things To Go... How Love And Peace Have Gone Silent- And War Has Taken Over. We Carry On Because We Are Still Strong, We Will Stand And Unite Together Come What May, We The People, Not The Government Shall Lead This Country One Day!!!
Well 47tooter I would'nt say a lid was killer weed but their were better choices: Acapulco Gold, Panama Red,Chocolate Columbian and as time would have it... Fallbrook Sensi. It possesed the same quality as the music of the era.
I remember when I got this album and heard this song for the first time. I thought they really outdid themselves on this one. It`s chilling when the orchestra ramps up with the bass and drums rumbling in the background....
This song stands in one line along with "Riders On the Storm" from the Doors, Stairway To Heaven" from Led Zeppelin and "All Along The Watchtower" from Jimi Hendrix.
@greyshiloh I am 57 also, and still recall listening to this on the 8 track in my Plymouth Road Runner at the age of 19. Good stuff, sure takes me back in time.
me to im 57 i seen them in cleveland ohio when i was 19... and wow..is all I could say i was abit loaded but man it was a an awesome concert I'll always remember...:-)
RIGHT ON MARK, DON, MEL AND CRAIG. HEY BOYS, I USE TO ROCK MY FRIENDS OUT DURING LUNCH PLAYING HEARTBREAKER, LONLINESS, MR. LIMOSINE DRIVER AND ETC., WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. I'D TURN OVER A TRASH CAN, SIT ON IT, AND BORROW THE PRINCIPLE'S GUITAR (SISTER JUDE) GIVE MY LUNCH AWAY AND EAT NOTHIN BUT MUSIC! I LOVE YOU GUYS. PLEASE COME BACK!!! P.S. HEY MARK, MY SISTER DIANNE USE TO HAVE A REAL NICE POSTER TAPED ON THE INSIDE OF HER LOCKER SO SHE COULD SEE YOUR GORGEOUS BODY.... WE LOVE YOU!
Between this and Nights In White Satin, its hard to decide which one is the better song. Both melodically balanced, meloncholy, truthful to our generation. There will never be other groups like these. I like some of the new rock, but unfortunately they are like bottle rockets, up fast, burst and die quickly. Where have all the writers gone?
I hope Heaven has a 70's sector.I'll head straight for it .Front row seats for ALL. After the 70's,The Lord said "It's a wrap." The angelic roadies have been packing ever since.
How is it the 70's had so many bands producing albums where so many songs were great album after album ? I think Disco may have produced a type of musical PTSD from which rock never recovered....I was there and saw it! What a train wreck!It's worth applying for a reasearch grant to study the hypothesis...The critics hated these guys,but the rest of us knew better.I didn't know anyone who didn't have a copy of Grand Funk Live.I killed my parents stereo with it.God Bless thier ringing ears.
Man, this dude could sing. Not just barking out rock lyrics, but a true quality voice. Mark, Don, and Mel were excellent! Even on those early, simplistic albums, it sounded like there were 11 guys in the band belting out those heavy blasting rock tunes. Truly phenomenal!
47tooter - Yes,I went to UT (class of '80) and my son ('10) attends there also. I went back and re-read my statements to you and realized I kept it fairly short because you're just a waste of energy exept that you're a bigger liar and dick-head than expected.Now Shoo,you fucking insect.
Perhaps the most politically/socially influential band of the 'classic rock' era. Listen to Comfort Me, or Inside Looking Out, People Let's Stop The War...Think the manufactured war on terrorism, the demonization of other peoples' religions, the Canada/US co-conspiracy known as the war on drugs and tragically exemplified by the cowardly extradition of SIR MARC EMERY. To quote Harry Chapin who tried to change this s@#t and left us too soon..."All the world's a circle".
Perhaps the most politically/socially influential band of the 'classic rock' era. Listen to Comfort Me, or Inside Looking Out, People Let's Stop The War...Think the manufactured war on terrorism, the demonization of other peoples' religions, the Canada/US co-conspiracy known as the war on drugs and tragically exemplified by the cowardly extradition of SIR MARC EMERY. To quote Harry Chapin who tried to change this s@#t and left us too soon..."All the world's a circle".
GFR......man oh man what a band! These guys sang and played from their hearts. I still have all their music and still listen to them all the time. I'm especially fond of everything from the 1st album to E Pluribus Funk. They never got any respect from the critics but the people, the REAL fans, loved them. I still do and I always will!
@obtuse100 I was 13 in 1974 and I sold pot [ mostly Joints ] up to 2 hundred a day , when I was 15 or 16 I started selling bags too and quit when I was 19...I am not a liar .....and only steers and queers are from texas.
47tooter don't know shit.In '75 you stuffed your own bag FOR $10.00 and that pot was killer. Hell,even the concert pot (what you bought at the show) was a dime for 3/4 oz. Where in the fuck was he from,because it damn sure wasn't Texas.
Asi es ,gracias GRAND FUN RAILROAD,,,llenaste nuestro tiempo,con buena musica,no era comercial por eso no gusto en su tiempo,butwas XCELLENT music,time will give da reason,
Thank God we have computers so that whenever we feel like looking up some of the really old classics like Grand Funk, we can, and listen to that great 60's and 70's sound again. This music will NEVER DIE... Just keep on tokin so that you can keep it in your mind, and it will NEVER DIE!! GRAND FUNK RULES!!
love 'em....man....I know exactly what that song is talkin about...no matter how big...popular...rich...it don't matter if you are made to leave the world and its problems behind...we need each other....goddammit!!!
@irishsetterarchie next stop...Save the Land by...Grand Funk... the only train that escaped Flint MI...just ask Michael Moore...there's a great documentary I watched yesterday on youtube...seek it out
the end is closer then we want to believe;we,re losing the blessings we once had in our nation.people wake up and seek God through his Son Jesus Christ.HE alone is the who can save us from the things to come.
@ivanreyg se que en peru se hizo buena musica a finales de los sesenta y comienzos de los setenta x los menos aqui no estubimos avanzados habian agrupaciones que hasta el sol de hoy se quedaron haciendo covers de los beatles pero en materia de musica a traves de la radio si nos llego buen material de diferentes agrupaciones de diferentes partes del mundo y para muestra te invito a que visites el canal de repente hay alguna musica que te guste
"too many trying to take from my earth...if we don't stop what we all see is wrong, i guarantee you, mankind won't live long." protect our planet, speak out..."pray for your brother, let your soul find a way, help one another, oh please listen to what i say." profound words from 40 years ago, even more true today, sadly...fierce & gentle warrior for the planet..".i can't get away from loneliness".. for mother earth...peace, jillyhawk~
I must have seen GF 5-6 times growing up NYC during the 70's and they never dissapointed.They are one of the 70's bands.I still love listening to them.
I remember Grand funk when I was a young teen. great group
PLEASE go to my favs and click on SUBURBAN GUY ROCKIN OUT
he doesnt read music, really feels what he plays and improvises his songs as he goes along. the other 2 favs are him also ARIEL (awesome shredding) and ARIEL SIMANTOV (awesome sweeping) pls view comment and rate them as we think he deserves more recognition. thanks everyone!
Mark hasn't said this (anywhere i've read), but my guess is that his vocal style and manner was also influenced by Black Gospel music, a similar crying-forth, drawn-out "preachiness" found in BG
i also read that they "jammed" a lot before they recorded in the studio and composed together what they liked from these jams; the vocals and lyrics came later from listening to their own jam sessions.
i started reading the Billy James biography. Mark says his vocals were heavily influenced by soul-blues artist Howard Tate (and, in turn, songwriting by Jerry Ragovoy); it seems Mark also liked the Philly-Stax Records sound than just the homegrown Detroit-Motown sound, he was known to listen to a lot of soul music when not recording...
it's pretty amazing what GFR (with Terry Knight in the early days) came up with, it sounds original, very different than what they grew up listening to
*sigh* this is about GFR... well, anyway, about Morrison, i confirmed his run-ins with the Florida Police, even heard about some of them, but the only incidents i heard about with GFR were seizure orders from Knight's lawyers and the IRS, some bad business deals they made.
i suppose that if GFR were still around today as they were back in 1975 (Mark, Don, Mel, Craig) they would probably be framed for some bs...
Don't forget Jim Morrison of = The Doors were frame specially Jim by the Miami Police who drove him to the edge in France waiting for the Trial the result Jim Die at 27 years old.
This band is what made me want to learn guitar over 30 years ago. Mark, Don and Mel were the greatest trio, politically incorrect, harmonizing group around at that time.
My opinion is that you don't just listen to GFR, you feel it.....deep into the marrow. Anything from E Pluribus and Closer to home is great. What a wall of sound from three individuals!
@454something you got it right.... E Pluribus is pure genius! and GF are amazing rock musicians! The vietnam War I believe is the reason for a lot of awesome rock from many bands of that era- at least one good thing to come of it....
maravillosa rola, como muchas otras del gran GFR. ejemplos de lo ke era el rock, no solo predominio de metal armonico, sino profundidad en su lirica. cuando el rock keria compartir ideales de amor -fraternal, ecologico, etc- y sobre todo PAZ. increible ke hoy predomine lo contrario, lastima, con estos excelentes maestros. God bless GFR
everusD 2 days ago
lo mejor de lo mejor para los k saben
kez0able 1 week ago
Is not this a great song that concerns us now
kvylone 1 week ago
one of my favs!!! to be sure
dougc426 2 weeks ago
Back in the 70s, I loved get people to listen to this piece and then call their attention to the point where the band has retired and all the music is orchestral. Ever since I heard this the first time, I wanted great rock songs to be covered by an orchestra so that everyone learns that rock and roll is just music, not to be feared or shunned.
BeauEvil 3 weeks ago
Gran tema !! Saludos desde Iquique-Chile!! Happy New year!!!!
MsMarielaT 4 weeks ago
สุดยอดมากครับ มักหลาย
MrChemyson 1 month ago
Una de las mejores canciones del rock. Fabulosa!!!
Franknegron53 2 months ago
I can't imagine my life whitout G.F.R. Mark Farner forever
mario161957 3 months ago
I can't imagine my life whitout G.F.R.
mario161957 3 months ago
small world -i hope-, thanks from Holland...
lynskyn2 3 months ago in playlist lynskyn2's favorites
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justclassicalguitar 4 months ago
MARK FARNER GREAT VOCAL!!!!
Odilon930 4 months ago
Alot of truth in this song. As with all Grand Funk music. I too was a teen when I first listened to GFRR. I am now 56 & todays so called music does not even come close. Luv GFRR!!!
millerd55 4 months ago 11
@millerd55 Rock on Brother!!!!
chazmology 4 months ago
@millerd55
you got that right.. Im old hippie and i will never listen to the new music I love the classic music so do my kids and my grandchildren.... the best music ever... in my day and still today.....
jasonNsam4ver 4 months ago
@millerd55 GFR was pretty much prophetic in many of their songs.... "Save the Land", "Creepin", "I Can Feel Him in the Morning"... on and on
prober45 3 months ago
7 people are lonely!
RepubesRstupid 4 months ago
@RepubesRstupid they work for wall street !
snizz6913 3 months ago
Fuuuck yeah!
jimbobanalbeats 4 months ago
AWESOME BAND!!!!
TheMorning7dew 4 months ago
My favorite Grand Funk song. Brings back memories from my teen years. Damn. music was good back then.
1986pacecar 4 months ago 2
m8 I'd never heard this song before..ever. Fkn amazing, these boys have got the X factor that just about no bands have today. It's all too obvious. I've got 16 y/o and 13 y/o sons and the musc thy lstn to begs the belief that if you feed the people sub-standard crap, tht's the only crap they think they knw and like Shit we took all that good music for granted as we were growing up.
mikeyj780 4 months ago
Outstanding
mrallcz 5 months ago
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Hey guys, if you're young and find problems in society, do what they did in the past! Speak your mind through music and talking and spreading your words. Don't let corporations run government, and rape our forests and oceans. Don't let your friends die in a pointless war! Speak your mind. I've had enough. If you have, repost this somewhere else. be the change
kingfarouk2 5 months ago
I still have all their albums in fact just put a new needle on my record player, Grand Funk Railroad did not get the reconition they should have received....I am still so glad I grew up in the late 60's and 70's the were the best years that I have ever seen.....and the music was real....
sunsetsky25 5 months ago 2
@sunsetsky25
grank funk for the hall of rock roll hall of fame
snapper3535 5 months ago
@sunsetsky25 DON"T YOU KNOW IT! I"m one of them at 61...still cookin' to GFR...my favorite group.
chazmology 5 months ago
@sunsetsky25 I was weened on Grand Funk! In Vietnam we played acoustic guitars with light electric strings so we could get down to jams inspired by Grand Funk and other great bands of "passion"....what a legacy of rock we experienced first hand. Kids today are looking back to find that passion...so much despare and just plain lousy creators out there now...God Save us...BRING US BACK TO OUR ROOTS! I'm 61 now and just as good as those who inspired me back then...Grand Funk Railroad always !
chazmology 5 months ago
@chazmology NICE! Great input!!!
acacia72 4 months ago
Thank you hippie parents for leaving behind the greatest musical time.
MaverickingLady 5 months ago
THESE GUYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE R & R HALL OF FAME A LONG TIME AGO!
ZubudMan 5 months ago
sooo cool to see poeple moved by music like that through the ages, a masterpiece of musical composition!
0SoUlTrAcKs0 5 months ago
i hear this song when i was l5 and now i m 53. makes me remember many thingds
GuillermoFGonzalez 6 months ago
They were one of the few "anti drug" groups back then.. I wish I would of listened better......
Bonneville462 6 months ago
damn, I really need tabs of this song
ryurik28 6 months ago
I still get chills everytime I hear this.
Billn1959 6 months ago
Mine too ! I´m 62 and love this song, grate lyrics !!!! great Mark Farmer !!!
cesarbr1000 6 months ago
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.I am 56 and still listen to it
tondavisla 6 months ago
Mark Farner ..................1*
tondavisla 6 months ago
Mark Don and Mel! The best of thier time! Ya want to get a groove on? They did it!
jbeng1953 6 months ago
Very few people today are aware of or rem. the political and enviriomental impact of this group but few others were as straight forward concerning their anti-war sentiments
boggsrogera 6 months ago
sounds awesome, one of the greatest songs ever made. i'm just wondering if this version on this video is the digitally remastered version available from Amazon or the version from the E Pluribus Funk CD?
DougCameraMan 6 months ago
Grand Funk has a unique sound. Their music is great! So them in concert when I was 14 years old!
meabhe77 6 months ago
I saw them Twice!! They sound better live and I mean better than any band I have ever seen, Greates Rock of the late 60;s and 70's. They helped put the American band back. Stopped some of the British invasion
timeofdoors68 6 months ago
toda una vida escuchando ,el comienzo de mi existencia , para darle un significado y creer en los sueños.
SuperPluribus 7 months ago
thank you for the most beautiful song ever composed MFF.was my favorite in h.s. and still is.DAH
adalbertoaggonzalez7 7 months ago
grand funk the best band of rock roll
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We Shall Never.
marlana662 7 months ago
Loneliness Speaks To The Depths Of My Soul, Crying Out To Where We Have Allowed Things To Go... How Love And Peace Have Gone Silent- And War Has Taken Over. We Carry On Because We Are Still Strong, We Will Stand And Unite Together Come What May, We The People, Not The Government Shall Lead This Country One Day!!!
marlana662 7 months ago
Still one of the most best underated bads ever.
hopper1227 7 months ago
Still one of the most underated bads ever.
hopper1227 7 months ago
And the last minute and a half of this song is incredible.
IKE11111 7 months ago
Well 47tooter I would'nt say a lid was killer weed but their were better choices: Acapulco Gold, Panama Red,Chocolate Columbian and as time would have it... Fallbrook Sensi. It possesed the same quality as the music of the era.
BoochitGuy 7 months ago
Authenticity was inevitable during this era in a way never to cross our paths again.
What power.
BoochitGuy 7 months ago
Pure Class Rock
sirwob 8 months ago
we will never be here again...to long ago?
lynskyn2 8 months ago
oooo maaan still got the chills when the orchestra comes into the music...ev'rythime...
lanana9255 8 months ago
Just like greyshiloh, am too is 57 and still listen to all Grand Funk songs and I am a Malaysian
lanana9255 8 months ago
Musica de los 70's cuando éramos Hippies y el Rock era glorioso!!!
oigres96 8 months ago
One of GFR's best.
IKE11111 8 months ago
Just The great band forever.
alextrillanes 8 months ago
My GF favorite song;I've listened to it for almost a thousand times.Just wonderful song and lyric!
Ladymorgues 8 months ago
I remember when I got this album and heard this song for the first time. I thought they really outdid themselves on this one. It`s chilling when the orchestra ramps up with the bass and drums rumbling in the background....
whyyeseyec 8 months ago 8
cool.
ladybluluv 8 months ago
my favorite
heepster417 9 months ago
very nice...very 70´s years
MrLuisguilherme 9 months ago
Still touching heart after decades; almost 4.
mrallcz 10 months ago
Thank you Acayetan! I'm 56 and this one song is a time machine to me.
esuohnuf 10 months ago
Timeless...Like Shakespeare...
Chadzxx1 10 months ago
Just turned 54 & yeah, GFR Cannot be forgotten
They ROCKED THEN & Still Do!
Listen to the words........................
starmanexp 10 months ago
Loneliness, that is very beauty, a like it, a calling to the reflexion for keeping all circle of the earth, to recicle all the wround
012345678997655 10 months ago
...and why is this band not in the R&R Hall of Fame
jdlewis60 11 months ago
So much time has passed since I first heard this...
esuohnuf 11 months ago
MARAVILLA DE CANCIÓN, AÑOS ESCUCHANDO A GRAND FUNK :'( CADA VEZ, COMO SI FUERA LA PRIMERA VEZ!
tyrant9123 11 months ago
This song touches the soul. It's true, meaningfull and a real work of art.
One of the all time greatest songs ever.
Grand Funk Railroad FOREVER!!!!!!!!!
TheGipoman 11 months ago
This song stands in one line along with "Riders On the Storm" from the Doors, Stairway To Heaven" from Led Zeppelin and "All Along The Watchtower" from Jimi Hendrix.
True masterpieces of Rock for all times.
miep0202 11 months ago
hell, the world is so dysfunctional everyone just wants to be the hell alone........
justclassicalguitar 1 year ago
What a Memories !!!!!
Never Fade :)
LuisAlfredoJ 1 year ago
One of the best and most underrated Rock ballads of all time!!!
DABOJ 1 year ago
I've just turned 58, and I too listen to it today...
H842027 1 year ago 2
Just about my favorite Grand Funk song...I am 57 and still listen to it
greyshiloh 1 year ago 34
@greyshiloh I am 57 also, and still recall listening to this on the 8 track in my Plymouth Road Runner at the age of 19. Good stuff, sure takes me back in time.
jdhumm 11 months ago
@greyshiloh
Yeeesss....this song is beautiful . I saw GFR 2-times in Munich at Circus Krone. This was so fett (we called it in
German). You know only 3 guys do this ultra-sound.. A little man, but HE IS THE "IRONMAN".
I remember the "Orange"-Boxen looked like a "Kathedral"...Das waren tolle Zeiten...and the girls...Wauhhh !
subass378 10 months ago
@greyshiloh was born on 6.6.52 I must be your age 58 now....................great band from 1970
pkappel006 9 months ago
@greyshiloh i am 29 and i think they are one of the best bands ever, great song
tijeras69 9 months ago
@greyshiloh I'm 16 and I like this band and of course, this song! I love 70's and 80's rock, I wish I was born in that years :(
amgere2195 5 months ago
@greyshiloh
me to im 57 i seen them in cleveland ohio when i was 19... and wow..is all I could say i was abit loaded but man it was a an awesome concert I'll always remember...:-)
jasonNsam4ver 4 months ago
@greyshiloh so many to pick from but I agree.... it's a great tune. Remember "Creepin" though?
prober45 3 months ago
Beautiful song from one of the best of the time!!!! GFRR rocks my world!!!!
jbeng1953 1 year ago
CRIED WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT AS I HAD JUST BROKEN UP WITH MY FIRST GIRLFRIEND when i was 12 years old back in 1974.
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madisimmons2006 1 year ago
Damn...great post!
This is one of my favorite songs by Mark, Don and Mel.
They were truly an American Rock and Roll Band....Thank you
countrysamurai 1 year ago
God make Timeless, GFR make Loneliness ..Ich sterbe 2 mal ?
60L45P 1 year ago
Back to memory lane..when I was in high school..now at 54, still searching & listening to GFR...
nassirismail 1 year ago
Had a spiritual moment when i heard this in my navy days!!!!
jbeng1953 1 year ago 2
timeless music, timeless message. thanks for posting this, you brought back a lot of memories.
krzy18 1 year ago 2
RIGHT ON MARK, DON, MEL AND CRAIG. HEY BOYS, I USE TO ROCK MY FRIENDS OUT DURING LUNCH PLAYING HEARTBREAKER, LONLINESS, MR. LIMOSINE DRIVER AND ETC., WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. I'D TURN OVER A TRASH CAN, SIT ON IT, AND BORROW THE PRINCIPLE'S GUITAR (SISTER JUDE) GIVE MY LUNCH AWAY AND EAT NOTHIN BUT MUSIC! I LOVE YOU GUYS. PLEASE COME BACK!!! P.S. HEY MARK, MY SISTER DIANNE USE TO HAVE A REAL NICE POSTER TAPED ON THE INSIDE OF HER LOCKER SO SHE COULD SEE YOUR GORGEOUS BODY.... WE LOVE YOU!
DEBOROCK1 1 year ago
Between this and Nights In White Satin, its hard to decide which one is the better song. Both melodically balanced, meloncholy, truthful to our generation. There will never be other groups like these. I like some of the new rock, but unfortunately they are like bottle rockets, up fast, burst and die quickly. Where have all the writers gone?
TheWynch 1 year ago
I hope Heaven has a 70's sector.I'll head straight for it .Front row seats for ALL. After the 70's,The Lord said "It's a wrap." The angelic roadies have been packing ever since.
DANGITPEPE 1 year ago
How is it the 70's had so many bands producing albums where so many songs were great album after album ? I think Disco may have produced a type of musical PTSD from which rock never recovered....I was there and saw it! What a train wreck!It's worth applying for a reasearch grant to study the hypothesis...The critics hated these guys,but the rest of us knew better.I didn't know anyone who didn't have a copy of Grand Funk Live.I killed my parents stereo with it.God Bless thier ringing ears.
DANGITPEPE 1 year ago
Man, this dude could sing. Not just barking out rock lyrics, but a true quality voice. Mark, Don, and Mel were excellent! Even on those early, simplistic albums, it sounded like there were 11 guys in the band belting out those heavy blasting rock tunes. Truly phenomenal!
454something 1 year ago
Every band of this status has an epic song, ballade etc.
To me this is an epic song by Grand Funk, I FEEL it. So awesome.
Dimagg1973 1 year ago
ＧＦＲ大好き☆
kyokoyuki100 1 year ago
simplemente hermosa....Saludos desde Quito
RobertzBrito 1 year ago
aceyetan -Oh yeah, great post and song.
obtuse100 1 year ago
47tooter - Yes,I went to UT (class of '80) and my son ('10) attends there also. I went back and re-read my statements to you and realized I kept it fairly short because you're just a waste of energy exept that you're a bigger liar and dick-head than expected.Now Shoo,you fucking insect.
obtuse100 1 year ago
@obtuse100 Yeah , you got to stuff your own bag for 10 dollars , Whos the liar ?
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Perhaps the most politically/socially influential band of the 'classic rock' era. Listen to Comfort Me, or Inside Looking Out, People Let's Stop The War...Think the manufactured war on terrorism, the demonization of other peoples' religions, the Canada/US co-conspiracy known as the war on drugs and tragically exemplified by the cowardly extradition of SIR MARC EMERY. To quote Harry Chapin who tried to change this s@#t and left us too soon..."All the world's a circle".
MrClassicRockster 1 year ago
Perhaps the most politically/socially influential band of the 'classic rock' era. Listen to Comfort Me, or Inside Looking Out, People Let's Stop The War...Think the manufactured war on terrorism, the demonization of other peoples' religions, the Canada/US co-conspiracy known as the war on drugs and tragically exemplified by the cowardly extradition of SIR MARC EMERY. To quote Harry Chapin who tried to change this s@#t and left us too soon..."All the world's a circle".
MrClassicRockster 1 year ago
*****
sirronald69 1 year ago
GFR......man oh man what a band! These guys sang and played from their hearts. I still have all their music and still listen to them all the time. I'm especially fond of everything from the 1st album to E Pluribus Funk. They never got any respect from the critics but the people, the REAL fans, loved them. I still do and I always will!
jdpicher 1 year ago
WHERES THE VID FOR THIS TUNE
TheMalibu383 1 year ago
WHERES THE VD FOR THIS
TheMalibu383 1 year ago
realmente
es una gran canccion , que vivira por siempre
ira por todoa los tiempos
comision 1 year ago
never mind your dumb-ass, you were nothing but a punk-ass 12 yr. old in '74.Tell us another lie about how you sold in those days.
obtuse100 1 year ago
@obtuse100 I was 13 in 1974 and I sold pot [ mostly Joints ] up to 2 hundred a day , when I was 15 or 16 I started selling bags too and quit when I was 19...I am not a liar .....and only steers and queers are from texas.
47tooter 1 year ago
@47tooter
Wen interessiert das ? Now you are almost 50 years and has nothing learned about that shit.
subass378 10 months ago
@subass378 Speak English.
47tooter 10 months ago
47tooter don't know shit.In '75 you stuffed your own bag FOR $10.00 and that pot was killer. Hell,even the concert pot (what you bought at the show) was a dime for 3/4 oz. Where in the fuck was he from,because it damn sure wasn't Texas.
obtuse100 1 year ago
To 47tooter O.K., You know everything.
stevenrthr100 1 year ago
Asi es ,gracias GRAND FUN RAILROAD,,,llenaste nuestro tiempo,con buena musica,no era comercial por eso no gusto en su tiempo,butwas XCELLENT music,time will give da reason,
colindres11 1 year ago
This tune rules, I've been listening for a while man! Just listen to the words,it's really a true thing!!!!!!
kimberlyme19 1 year ago
This tune rules, I've been listening for a while man!
kimberlyme19 1 year ago
what a voice. great record.
tomitstube 1 year ago
This is not a trend... this is for ever and ever permanent!
guruartist 1 year ago
Thank God we have computers so that whenever we feel like looking up some of the really old classics like Grand Funk, we can, and listen to that great 60's and 70's sound again. This music will NEVER DIE... Just keep on tokin so that you can keep it in your mind, and it will NEVER DIE!! GRAND FUNK RULES!!
F15Eaglejet1 1 year ago
Gracias Grand Funk R lo maximo x siempre en el Rock.
MrUlisse007 1 year ago
love 'em....man....I know exactly what that song is talkin about...no matter how big...popular...rich...it don't matter if you are made to leave the world and its problems behind...we need each other....goddammit!!!
wallofshine 1 year ago 11
@wallofshine Amen, man im so with you
tijeras69 9 months ago
YOUTUBE PRESENTS: Songs that don't Suck....in STEREO!
GrandFunker 1 year ago 2
In the 80ths smoking pot and listening to GFR was always a good kick.
Thank u for this music.
Om shanti
EduardHeinrichAlfons 1 year ago
LOVE THIS PROPHETIC SONG.....AND HERE WE ARE TODAY...FLYING OVER THE WORST OIL SPILL IN U.S. HISTORY.
irishsetterarchie 1 year ago 2
@irishsetterarchie next stop...Save the Land by...Grand Funk... the only train that escaped Flint MI...just ask Michael Moore...there's a great documentary I watched yesterday on youtube...seek it out
wallofshine 1 year ago
es de lo mejor!! uno de ms grupos favoritos,gracias a quien los subio
0681231 1 year ago
Put your ear buds in and just listen to some 1968 grand funk railroad.
TheLonesome101 1 year ago
@TheLonesome101 Grand Funk started in 1969 ...this album , around 1971.
47tooter 1 year ago
the end is closer then we want to believe;we,re losing the blessings we once had in our nation.people wake up and seek God through his Son Jesus Christ.HE alone is the who can save us from the things to come.
locog7 1 year ago
Pedazo de tema Hermano.... lo mejor del rock por siempre
mitchelalej 1 year ago
El Perú los espera.
ivanreyg 1 year ago
@ivanreyg se que en peru se hizo buena musica a finales de los sesenta y comienzos de los setenta x los menos aqui no estubimos avanzados habian agrupaciones que hasta el sol de hoy se quedaron haciendo covers de los beatles pero en materia de musica a traves de la radio si nos llego buen material de diferentes agrupaciones de diferentes partes del mundo y para muestra te invito a que visites el canal de repente hay alguna musica que te guste
kayctusunderground 1 year ago
Grand Funk is a Proof that the Sound of this Era was simply incredible.
BlazyBlazoo 1 year ago
God they were good...this is one of their best!
Thanks for the vid...
countrysamurai 1 year ago
NO MARK NO FUNK.
koolbossjock 1 year ago
"too many trying to take from my earth...if we don't stop what we all see is wrong, i guarantee you, mankind won't live long." protect our planet, speak out..."pray for your brother, let your soul find a way, help one another, oh please listen to what i say." profound words from 40 years ago, even more true today, sadly...fierce & gentle warrior for the planet..".i can't get away from loneliness".. for mother earth...peace, jillyhawk~
jillyhawk 1 year ago 2
I played it LOUD every evening, my neighbours must still remember this song!!
centwestern 1 year ago
muy buena
mamolo34 1 year ago
good funk...
000rotten000 1 year ago
This song is a masterpiece. Liked the video, too!
sksepulv 1 year ago
Something we all go through even in a room full of people..
Jericoa1000 1 year ago 2
I seen GFR in Hampton Virginia 1973 in my Navy days GREAT !!!
sidewalksofnj 1 year ago 2
just look at this piece of hunk. baby your in my dreams mark . i wish i was with u then whooooo baby ilove you.
77sandy49 1 year ago
I must have seen GF 5-6 times growing up NYC during the 70's and they never dissapointed.They are one of the 70's bands.I still love listening to them.
nyrvg 1 year ago
EPOCA DE WIROS....
CHEVERE
jocumar117 1 year ago
SONG OF THE MEMORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR...not to be put aside..GREAT SONG BY MARK FARNER..MEL..DON...DON'T FORGET !!!
nassirismail 1 year ago 2
my theme song as a godless, hopeless, womanless teenager in the 70's.
bunyah 1 year ago 2
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kamuszify 1 year ago
This song just plain KICKS ASS!!!
wheel60 1 year ago
@wheel60 one of the greatest songs ever written
04jari62 1 year ago
EXCELENTE !! BANDA GRAND FUNK
una de las mejroes banda de rock clasico de todos los tiempossssssssss
saludos desde LIMA - PERU
victoriadaniel 1 year ago 2
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kamuszify 1 year ago
This is REALY MUSIC!!!!!!!
GRF with honor
ROCKKERFAT 2 years ago
I remember Grand funk when I was a young teen. great group
PLEASE go to my favs and click on SUBURBAN GUY ROCKIN OUT
he doesnt read music, really feels what he plays and improvises his songs as he goes along. the other 2 favs are him also ARIEL (awesome shredding) and ARIEL SIMANTOV (awesome sweeping) pls view comment and rate them as we think he deserves more recognition. thanks everyone!
suburbangal 2 years ago
Mark hasn't said this (anywhere i've read), but my guess is that his vocal style and manner was also influenced by Black Gospel music, a similar crying-forth, drawn-out "preachiness" found in BG
astronomius 2 years ago
i also read that they "jammed" a lot before they recorded in the studio and composed together what they liked from these jams; the vocals and lyrics came later from listening to their own jam sessions.
astronomius 2 years ago
i started reading the Billy James biography. Mark says his vocals were heavily influenced by soul-blues artist Howard Tate (and, in turn, songwriting by Jerry Ragovoy); it seems Mark also liked the Philly-Stax Records sound than just the homegrown Detroit-Motown sound, he was known to listen to a lot of soul music when not recording...
it's pretty amazing what GFR (with Terry Knight in the early days) came up with, it sounds original, very different than what they grew up listening to
astronomius 2 years ago
Farner was blessed with a voice. That guy could sing a beautiful song perfect, then he could turn it around and ROCK your socks off!!!!!
Rawhide53 2 years ago 2
can't get this song out of my head...
astronomius 2 years ago
De la fuerza del rock metálico al melodioso y hermoso... Grande!!...
Lusolactea 2 years ago
Muy grande
Glidas2 1 year ago
*sigh* this is about GFR... well, anyway, about Morrison, i confirmed his run-ins with the Florida Police, even heard about some of them, but the only incidents i heard about with GFR were seizure orders from Knight's lawyers and the IRS, some bad business deals they made.
i suppose that if GFR were still around today as they were back in 1975 (Mark, Don, Mel, Craig) they would probably be framed for some bs...
astronomius 2 years ago
Don't forget Jim Morrison of = The Doors were frame specially Jim by the Miami Police who drove him to the edge in France waiting for the Trial the result Jim Die at 27 years old.
FastMg42 2 years ago
This band is what made me want to learn guitar over 30 years ago. Mark, Don and Mel were the greatest trio, politically incorrect, harmonizing group around at that time.
Kr4ftw3rk 2 years ago
INCREDIBLE! never heard this before... POWERFUL song, just burrows and buries itself deep! i wish i did this.
astronomius 2 years ago
@astronomius
This Vynil has it`s place in my Home since centuries... welcome !!
xsellsbrod 2 years ago
TG for the Internet...I've lost these bands...Now I've found em all again!!! whooo whoooooo
didn't make it to any concerts during my teans....But sure the hell wished I did...Love to watch the video clips♥
lilESQUE 2 years ago
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UJ96LFA 2 years ago
My opinion is that you don't just listen to GFR, you feel it.....deep into the marrow. Anything from E Pluribus and Closer to home is great. What a wall of sound from three individuals!
454something 2 years ago 10
@454something you got it right.... E Pluribus is pure genius! and GF are amazing rock musicians! The vietnam War I believe is the reason for a lot of awesome rock from many bands of that era- at least one good thing to come of it....
slitherysnakes 1 year ago