MARK FARNER on Late Night Show with GFR

The original GFR guys back up Mark Farner on this popular Late Night TV Show.
The year is 1997 and they performed this version of "We're An American Band" just before the fully orchestrated Bosnia Benefit concert at the Greek Theater in LosAngles, California.

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• Grand_Funk_Railroad
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• Late_Nite_TV
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[MrChubbleyWarner]

I don't know why but Mel's voice kinda symbolises more of my memories of GFR than Marks...why, I don't know? - guess it's very distinctive - just loved this band so much...they are virtually unheard of in the UK by most 45+ year old!

[ForReelFunk]

@MrChubbleyWarner : Is it possible you are referring to the drummer (Don) that sings lead on a few songs?

[koolbossjock]

Don Brewer wrote this song when they got locked in at the Forum in Inglewood Ca

[ForReelFunk]

hmmm...seems like the timing would be all wrong for this to be true. No big deal though.

[rickofmis]

keyboard player is Howard Eddy Jr.

[ForReelFunk]

Thanks Rick!

I had a little "brain fade" on that one!

I knew it wasn't Craig Frost....I agree that would have made it even more special. He's a cool guy too.

[Bekki54]

Agree. Without Mark Farner, NO Grand Funk.

MARK DON and MEL = GFR.

[volksrepair]

This is a 3-piece band! The original guys "back up" Mark Farner? Please. FARNER IS ONLY 1/3 OF THE BAND that was founded by him AND Don Brewer (who wrote We're an American Band, Grand Funk's FIRST #1-hit BTW). This is the only GFR. NONE OF THESE GUYS are as good as a whole band when they're playing solo....

[Lmcdan1313]

@269lilmary this was in 1997;they reunited in96-97-98 and broke up in 99

[wing59]

I don,t like this one the horns did this one in.Grand Funk WAS RAW NO HORNS

[Obelisk2290]

they just needed to lose the horns

[269lilmary]

when was this? I would love to see them get back together and I would go see them at the drop of a hat anyday!

[motownharry]

@JDtheMusicMan The reason Frost was not good for GFR is that very few of the songs were complimented by a Organ. Organ playing during most of the GFR songs is dynamicly opposed to the GFR Sound. The reason Don pushed for a keyboard player in the band was he had the idea of the Corporate Structure Hatched long before he finally pulled it off. Graig was a friend of Dons not Mel or Mark. Don wanted to get a 3 to 1 advantage long before they broke up. Anyone who knows the real story HATES BREWER...

[MrChubbleyWarner]

@ForReelFunk - Oh dear..yes, I absolutley was...thanks for that...It was Don!

[robbiedaug]

I was a big fan of Mark, Don and Mel. When Craig came in and they became GF minus the R, starting with Pheonix, my interest faded. Soon, after a few years, they disbanded. When they started wearing all those bright colored clothes and Mark even shaved his chest, they seemed to have sold out and gone commercial and that to me was not how GF should look. I think Don, just by the way he acts, is a bit of a prick. Maybe the success of HIS GF songs went to his head. The voice of GF was mark, not Don.

[tulane111]

no mark farner wrote american band giving it two don brewer

[kyla2112]

@Obelisk2290 This was a medley with I'm Your Captain. That's why the horns were there although I agree, they should have kept silent during American Band.