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

One of the historic early appearances, at the Texas International Pop Festival (August 30 to September 1) in Lewisville, just north of Dallas.
Grand Funk opened all three days for free and made quite a sensation, just like they did in Atlanta [Pop Festival] nearly two months earlier.
Standing ovations of an estimated 120.000 total had Grand Funk multi-encoring to the point Farner couldn't even walk off stage! (a common situation in later shows...)
More than 12 hours worth of footage films stored at the Historic Films selves waiting in the obscurity for somebody to make a move... A movie! Just like a group of intelligent people did with Festival Express! Ironically, the Railroad was absent in that 1970 Express... More ironically, absent they were from Woodstock (even if they had been asked to play) because Mark was still recovering from some very bad beating a few weeks after the Atlanta triumph... (By most accounts, Grand Funk's first public appearance after Mark's incident was in front of 30.000 at the Centennial Park [Nashville Music Festival] August 22 - 24)

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• Don
• Brewer
• Mel
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• Lewisville
• Dallas
• Texas
• 1969
• Festival

[AlexandCodypros]

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

[npauljarrett]

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

[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.

[mlong1954]

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

[wayne290]

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

[wayne290]

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

[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.

[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!