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    Grand Funk is one of those bands like Phish, not that they are similar, but I own tons of stuff by both and still can't decide if I like them or not.
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    I had my first ‘stereophonic experience’ while listening to I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home, lying on the floor with the hi-fi speakers six inches away from my ears (I don’t think commercial earphones were available then, where I lived!). Stereo panning is routine nowadays, but 50 years ago it was just the most amazing thing to hear Mark Farner’s wah-wah guitar echoing inside my head as it switched between speakers.
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    Has anyone seen Farner live lately? He tours as 'Mark Farner's American Band' and they sound pretty good in the YouTube videos I have watched. Farner still looks and sounds great.



    Setlist from the above concert:

    We're an American Band
    Rock & Roll Soul
    Footstompin' Music
    Aimless Lady
    Paranoid
    People Let's Stop the War
    Shinin' On
    Heartbreaker
    Mean Mistreater
    Bad Time
    Sin's a Good Man's Brother
    I Come Tumblin'
    The Loco-Motion
    Some Kind of Wonderful
    I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)
    Inside Looking Out

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    Listened to Survival today. It's still classic Grand Funk. Heavy, epicy, etc. I forgot Mark played Hammond Organ. Farner was a little more than serviceable imo.

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    NP: Sin's A Good Man's Brother......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Roth View Post
    Has anyone seen Farner live lately? He tours as 'Mark Farner's American Band' and they sound pretty good in the YouTube videos I have watched. Farner still looks and sounds great.

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    I saw him a couple of years ago and he was great.

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    Don Brewer knows only one drum pattern.

    No way he wrote the American Band intro.

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    Brewer’s drum solo on Grand Funk Railroad's ‘Live Album’ does a good job in simulating a steam train getting up speed. Admittedly it’s not technically dazzling but, equally, it's not bad in its own way
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    Quote Originally Posted by Munster View Post
    Brewer’s drum solo on Grand Funk Railroad's ‘Live Album’ does a good job in simulating a steam train getting up speed. Admittedly it’s not technically dazzling but, equally, it's not bad in its own way
    I have seen Brewer live twice once with Grand Funk and once with Bob Seeger. I actually thought he was pretty good. Grand Funk did a whole percussion solo thing with the whole band playing various percussion instruments / drums all centered around Brewer. I actually thought it was pretty cool.

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