Grand Funk Railroad -- Are You Ready -- 1969 Texas Pop Festival

[sebbe357]

wtf 1:20

[sebbe357]

wow 0:38

[undertakerstu1]

thats a great ape move at 1.21!!

[undertakerstu1]

oh man!!....this is a band and thats an ass!!

[Vaughnrulez420]

dude no lie the guy with the unibrow is my spanish teacher.he got this video sent to him like last year or somthing. let me tell ya the whole class got a kick out of what he used to look like lol

[born2grooveu]

i heard when they opened for zeppelin, gfr blew zep away and zep wouldn't tour with them. ha ha

[born2grooveu]

what kind of guitar is that?

[JohninFunk]

@born2grooveu

It's a Messenger guitar by Musicraft Inc.

[witchever99]

This was one of my first bands that i discovered on my own as a kid

Awesome !

[ozzyisgodmeras2011]

great band!!!

[MrBeneveld]

thank god i survived the sex drugs rocknroll alcohol to hear this music again as a grandpa

[docdurdin]

There's a signpost up ahead... You are entering "The Twilight Zone".

[NilezII]

Don Brewer ties with Rob Tyner for Best White Guy Afro.

[TheTayedrums]

@NilezII don brewer was black...thats all..he had soul in his body and in his veins...thats why he was so funky...lol-

[carlox1]

Funny thing Grand fuck Railroad at the Atlanta pop Festival Frank was playing barefoot the heavy thunder storms an he caught an electric shock fell to he ground not only did he got up but kept on playing maybe he got problems after this incident .The sad  part is they have not been inducted into The Rock an Roll Hall of Fame . They were the first group to sue their manager for stealing their hard earn money

[Chrisrockstarweeks]

so cool!



[mlong1954]

These people weren't stoned!

[johnnystaccata]

@mlong1954 As you may know, Texas had a 10 year maximum sentence for possession of marijuana at that time. With that hanging over your head in that state, there probably was not that much toking going on in the open.

[mlong1954]

@johnnystaccata it was two to life when I was a Junior in 71"!!!!!!!!! :(

[mlong1954]

Wish you hear it better!

[ggressa]

@ LZProjects ...perhaps I am not following the posts correctly, but fatass Peter Grant had nothing to do with GFR in any way...

[ggressa]

The guitar is an obsolete now, but then great "Messenger" and is on display in Flint, MI

[npauljarrett]

its ashame, that ass at 1:35 is about 70 years old now!

[1sababoy]

@npauljarrett That IS SAD!!!

[wayne290]

@npauljarrett I agree, and most are probably dead by now from all the drugs. Lots of wacked out people.

[wayne290]

@npauljarrett Hopefully not the babe at 2:27 in the vid. She is probably still a doll.

[raponte1955]

@wayne290 No, she's not. Second law of thermodynamics always take its toll!

[samboyan]

@npauljarrett

At least she can brag about having a big ass and being there drunk and stoned! What else can she tell to their grandsons?

[rf396]

Damn I miss my life

[MegaZute]

nice guitar,just the basics.just rock

[elevinsp8716]

Messenger guitar.

[djnas76]

don brewer is amazing isn't he

[thomasjeeh]

I NEED to know how Mark gets his guitar to sound like this. I need to know the exact circuit of the dirt box that his guitar runs through. I need it!!!!

[snipelfritz]

@thomasjeeh Gibson Maestro Fuzz-Tone?

That's just a wild guess though

[AlexandCodypros]

Great song, great time, great uni-brow at 0:38!!

[manny667]

The american band of hard rock.

[jordy45678]

great combination of instruments, love the riff, the solo, the incredibly hot clothing of the woman at 1.31, love the songwriting, love his voice.

[audiotrax2000]

God, music was so much better back then. This song still gives me chills!

[LZProjects]

To bad they didn't film the whole festival professionally, to view Zeps whole set would be awesome!

[FloodWaterStL]

@LZProjects Peter Grant had such a tight grip on the group. He probably would not have allowed filming. Remember, he kept them out of Woodstock.

[derhandtrommler]

superb footage ! Great band !

[SuperYnottony]

GREAT MUSIC

[SuperYnottony]

GREAT MUSOC

[PawneeBill47]

1:36 POOTER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Odilon930]

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD FOR EVER!!!

[50Yorktown]

0:38 lmao that is my current Spanish teacher. He got old :P

[poopy1239]

@50Yorktown LOL, awesome. this should be top comment

[joelceol]

thanks for this posting...rare footage of a band that went to the top...who didnt have the red album?

[kingfarouk2]

Are you ready to be the change? If you are young and have a voice in you, longing for change in the world around you, speak out. Be the movement. discuss free love between ANY two people. discuss the ending of war, and the uprooting of corporate control in politics. discuss the freedom earth needs from its rape. I'm young too, and we need change. Look at these guys. They were 19-20 in this video and look where they were. Come on guys! use your voice.

[jannyrcobs]

Yesss! Classic stuff!!!

[jawsband]

my fav three piece band of all time...

[Megabytemax]

I was there in the summer of 69! WOW.

[shroomangel]

They used the original Bill Rogers edit which is surprising since they obviously had access to the film rushes. They should have done a new edit, and properly synced it. Other than that it is nice to see this without the time code.

[SideburnsMoustache]

Mel Schacher was only 18!

[jyonasan1957]

このギターにはファズが入っていたのでした♪しかも、ネックはア­ルミ製でつ( ･ิω･ิ)

[atomicplayboy4u]

All i see is a bunch of future commies in the crowd ! They were so right ! GRRRR !

[midiman56]

One small correction. The Eastwood Mesenger is a modern-day re-issue of the original Musicraft Messenger that was created in 1967. The Messenger was actually a pretty revolutionary guitar for its day. Messengers were the first really modern aluminum-necked guitars. That made it very a very road-worthy axe. Unfortunately it sported some pretty crappy electronics and howled with feedback ... Mark's was always stuffed with foam rubber and had the cat's eye "F" holes taped up.

[HonkIfYouLoveHonking]

Imagine how just 6 or 7 years earlier everyone was wearing crew cuts and hats.

The 60s seemed like a huge amount of time to me because the entire time frame of my life was lived from the early 60s on. Must have seemed like completely crazy times for the older people who lived thru it all. I barely remember any of it of course.

[m1kewithaone]

@HonkIfYouLoveHonking lemme tell you somthun. i was weened on rock and roll, ok. i remember the stuff my mom and dad listened to. and i was 8yrs old in 1963 when 'saw her standing there' was played on the 'ed sullivan show', and i can hear my dad saying that they (the beatles) were the stupidest looking girls he had ever seen, as i am snickering under my breath, 'cause i knew right then that we were in for something good....

[HonkIfYouLoveHonking]

@m1kewithaone I don't remember actually seeing the Beatles on TV. I do remember the screaming girls in the audience. I was born 2 weeks before '62.

[vinnynumbnuts]

interesting to watch the sunlit cars and trucks going by in the background. who are they and where are they going?...while this rock n roll mass goes on.

[m1kewithaone]

@vinnynumbnuts they're red necks, and shit kickers, remember, they're n texas, it's a wonder 'the long hairs' got out alive!

[vinnynumbnuts]

@m1kewithaone ha, interesting observation you make there.

[m1kewithaone]

@vinnynumbnuts hey, how come your channal is not availible? i was going to ask if you've seen the song 'keep it shining on' around anywhere, but couldn't get there.

[vinnynumbnuts]

@m1kewithaone sorry, some kind of technical problem, i think. to find "keep it shining on," just type in: "grand funk-shinin on," and you should find a number of them. a great song i always enjoy.

[TheRtunnell]

@JohninFunk I'd always heard the old taped up thing was some kind of Fender; but, I'm not so sure I believe it. Probably would be best to ask Mark himself.

[Dogheadj]

@JohninFunk I concur.

[ryan401]

1:20-1:22, give me some of what hes smoking.

[ekg125]

@JohninFunk It was made by Musicraft, not Eastwood. Musicraft made neck-through guitars, and were previously known as Tuning Fork Guitars before Musicraft took them over. When Eastwood bought the company, they stopped making the neck-through models. Mark Farner's is an authentic Musicraft.

[wabankik]

The wild shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drumwork of Don Brewer?

[12lfme12]

great video. too bad that douchebag terry knight is in it though

[atomicplayboy4u]

Great music but look at the people in the crowd LOL The commie plot did take root ! Look at America !

[atomicplayboy4u]

GRF Are not in the R&R fame ? Ya lib hips should be in a lib tizzy ! LOL Probably to busy trying to look and act young ! LOL What a joke ! U2 is in the R&R hall of .... and these guys arent ! JOKE !

[SuperPluribus]

eran magos.cualquier cosa que tocaran les salìa bièn.

nacìa un verdadero grupo de rock clàsico.

[graciesueful]

Its a "Microfrets" guitar!

[stratmaniac]

@JohninFunk actually it's a musicraft. eastwood guitars have made a new production model of it, like they have done with many old legendary guitars

[moonlit51]

Anyone posting...did you attend the festival? I did summer of 1969. Wish I had pics only have my memories and are they some memories.

[sirwob]

@JohninFunk it's those kinds of comments that make me love youtube

[ahzmonolith830]

I believe that's a Selmer guitar that Mark Farner played up until it was consficated by their ex-manager Terry Knight. Those guitars were purchased with S+H Green Stamps.

[martinmand1r]

Everyone is sitting down. They need to be up dancing and groovin. !!!

[12347771]

@JohninFunk

Thanks Dude !!!

[happypacow]

Freak!!!!!! Cool post dude.

[12347771]

will somebody please settle once and for all: What kind of guitar is Mark Playing???

[boneypart]

@12347771

he's right, it's a Messenger, but the originals were made by Musicraft out of San Francisco. Eastwood makes a reissue of the Messenger.

[2468oldschooltimes]

@12347771 it is an original Messenger (i cant recall who made it that time. Now Eastwood has copied the Messenger without the fuzz switch

[atomicplayboy4u]

@12347771 Its online if you do a search its made of steel hence the sound.

[ekg125]

@12347771 It was made by Musicraft, not Eastwood. Musicraft made neck-through guitars, and were previously known as Tuning Fork Guitars before Musicraft took them over. When Eastwood bought the company, they stopped making the neck-through models. Mark Farner's is an authentic Musicraft.

[TheRtunnell]

@12347771 

[TheRtunnell]

@12347771 Musicraft Messenger (before Eastwood)

[goosop]

@12347771 It IS a Messenger but NOT an Eastman! Eastmans are a Chinese wanna be that just came out recently. Marks' was made by Musicraft in Astoria, Oregon.

[goosop]

@12347771 It is a Messenger but NOT by Eastman. They are a relatively new company making a wanna-be copy with no built in fuzz. The original maker was Musicraft made in Astoria, Oregon.

[mozartfx1]

@12347771 electric. ~

[bassblaster55]

@12347771

Mark is using a Micro-Fret guitar, he used them for the first 4 albums.

Micro-fret company was in Maryland, went out of Business.

My Uncle took me on a tour of the company, Farner was was to be there that day, but we never got to see him, :(

[heyazzhole]

this nothing but a bunch of filthy hippys smokin dope and commie music

[sirwob]

@heyazzhole lmbo, I love it

[rosepearljanis]

has anyone notice the audio and video dont matrch?

[chilirich]

Oh God That's Just Priceless ! ! ! .....! ! !

[jenzeppelin]

Awesome performance!

[zeromeobass]

One of the greatest drummers in rock ever and one of the all time best 3 piece bands ever.

[dinosauriorex1000]

amazing band .realmente me gusta su rock.

[joetoronto]

Thanks so much. :)

[jakeboy2000]

I was there. Tony Joe White opened with just a drummer, the Chip Monckannounced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I know of no other band that plays so good, for free. GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!", and they opened with this song. I believe they played first (other than Tony Joe) for all three days of the festival. We were slightly behind and to the left of the light tower that you see at 2:49. It was so Dallas HOT! 100+, and a sea of people, Aug.30-Sept.1, 1969. $18.00 for three days tix.

A lifetime experience.

[ricadrew]

@jakeboy2000 Wow, that's very cool, thanks for sharing your experience you lucky s.o.b. I think you put the wrong time on though, there's no tower there at 2.49. Maybe you meant 2.39?

[ledzeppelinrocks100]

Grand Funk dont need the rock n roll hall of fame I would build a big ass museum call it THE GRAND MUSIC HALL OF FAME build it next to the rock n roll hall of fame to piss em off induct Humble Pie and other 60s & 70s classic rock bands along with Grand Funk supply beer & wine to all the fans and have one big fuckin party Cleveland,OH will remember

[Subhuman80]

Cool shirt, Mark.

[Archigearour]

All 3 were under 21, incredible.

[Keyboardman88]

Those were the days with those big WEST Filmore amps. Too bad that they're not still being manufactured. They relly kicked ass.

[hodadsmusic]

Excellent all around!

[mightyhighrocks]

This kicks ass!

[purplehouse26]

i have GFR live in Tokyo Japan 1974 dvd. if interested, message me : )

[danielgirard]

Nice to see the WEST amps in the background that GFR used. These were louder than hell, and were extremely HEAVY. It took 2-3 roadies just to move and set up the Heads of these amps. These were Michigan made amps and originated from a guy in Flint Michigan who started custom-building them himself. Extremely rare amplifiers. GFR lived in a farmhouse on Parshallville rd in Hartland twp, in Michigan at the time of this video. They lived right down the road from me.....

[WlSEGUY]

was GFR at Woodstock?

[Whiskyninja666]

Pretty epic

[vinnynumbnuts]

Always love that blonde's ass.

[PackedFunk]

@vinnynumbnuts

I could dig it Vinny!

[utterchaos63]

@vinnynumbnuts Think of what that ass looks like now, 41 years later.

[vinnynumbnuts]

@utterchaos63 well, hey, you're too clever for me.

[alvin5516]

Fantastic. Grand funk Rocks.

[snubbs741]

hey man do you think you could send me the DVD too? thanks

[astronomius]

that's beautiful, Mel comes right in, lays down a fat, bass hammer at the right time, like they worked it out. GREAT song, i see why they played for many of their concerts.

why didn't Mark, Don and Mel play Woodstock 1969? they would have sounded better than The Who!

[Maxharddrive64]

Thank you for sharing this JFunk....Its just kind of a bummer that back then they had such shitty recording equipment.

[PAULLONDEN]

0:40....I had a 'moustache' like that,

regret it to this day €;~€▬~"

[priapo2]

I want a biographic movie about GFR so bad!

[getula64]

Mark was beaten???? :( i never heard this story!

[MattHatter]

Read his account of the incident in his biography "From Grand Funk To Grace." It was really brutal, too long to recount here in the comment forum. Let's just thank the Lord Mark is still alive because he almost died on that day!

[sporty05]

Me neither, what's up with that?

[getula64]

i don't know! i had heard about Peter Cetera getting his jaw broken back in the early days, but not this!

[stephenaleake]

Thanks. I was there and they were great.

[Bekki54]

At 3:03...That WAS Terry Knight.

These guys had an awesome sound for only a three piece band. Greatest band of all time!

[mrfcollins]

back then he is...today he was...unfortunately. He died stabbed while trying to save his daughter from her boyfriend, completey under hard drugs effects...sad story, i loved him...as well as the three rock musicians called GFR he cretaed from nothing...

[txlastrebel]

F Terry Knight PO garbage. Rip offed GFR. Rot in the ground you POS.

[txlastrebel]

should read ripped off

[cast390]

Hippies....Outta site hash pipe

[beefheart67]

right on 302 they have this weird sound but alot of bands in the late sixties early seventies had this groove vibe so i twas just how it was! GOD BLESS ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[geoabe302]

Thanks for the video bringing back memories, I saw them at the Atlanta Pop Festival over the July4th holiday of '69 and they were indeed fantastic. Three army guys from Ft. Bragg, NC getting as far away from army life as possible, like an oasis in the desert. Being from Michigan made it extra special for me. The highlight though was Time Machine. GFR just had so much energy early in their career.

[999manman]

The dude at 3:03 looked kinda like Funk manager Terry Knight.

[mrfcollins]

yes, he is. RIP Terry.....

[Sunshine484848]

I was there all three days...it was awesome!!!

[madgasser01]

Man, my father is out there in the crowd (I think I saw him in some footage for the the Texas International Pop Festival). Awesome song, a great song to drum on your steering wheel why lead-footing it down the TX backroads.

[SathenMusic]

Hey guys, anyone have any live video of the band listed on the inside of the Red Album that warmed them up and Rare Earth called Sainte Anthony's fyre They left out the E on Sainte by accident I guess. They are like Jimi Hendrix and Grand Funk on speed...looking for any live stuff from that band, contact me or please post! thanks

[ElectricCandleLight]

dont we all haha

[unknownkingdom]

I want one of those hippy girls in the crowd.

[blueraider316]

hey thanks john!!!! that was the birth of the greatest rock band in history!!! thanks for sharing!!!!!

[funfunkydiana]

Hi Johnin - thanks !

Mid March '09 (the 40th Anniversary Of Funk) ....MONUMENTAL FUNK II  Is coming ?

Best

lovin

[JohninFunk]

Oui, mon ami!

[marcmickey]

Hi John

This Is A Great Video--You Always Come Up With Some Great Stuff !---You Should Make A Grand Funk Web Site

Take Care

Marc

[Lmcdan1313]

Thanks John! written by Mark Farner from the 1969 Grand Funk album ON TIME.