Live Bands - The Way It Used To Be Done

[moxham123]

Grand Funk Railroad Live

Bands today could learn a lot from watching these guys perform live. Tight, energetic, great playing and singing, and they actually sound live like the record without playing along with backing tracks or doctored up electronic vocal enhancers, etc. (imagine that today).

Footstompin' Music Live 1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZj1uElA ... re=related

We're An American Band Live 1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMsIrKjS ... re=related

[Banned]

Neither link worked for me.

[moxham123]

I fixed them. They work now. Sorry about that.

[Banned]

I saw them on that tour in 1974, in Binghamton, NY. I still question the wardrobe choice.

[tornandfrayed]

Good shit, always loved "Shinin On", great album!

Love the wardrobe, very "liberal" eh Joe?

Gotta love the guys from the 70's, I remember going to school with a really kinda flowery silky shirt open all the way trying to be like PLant.

Kinda would not go over so well now a days...

Oh Well the 70's were a blast!

[RamRod 1]

Yeah Joe, what's wrong with the wardrobe?

[Banned]

Yeah Joe, what's wrong with the wardrobe?

I know, I know. A whole slew of bands went through that clothing style in the mid seventies. Yes, Ted Nugent, Rick Derringer, Bee Gees and many others. I think it all started with going on the Midnight Special where they all dressed like gay gypsies.

[moxham123]

Rick Derringer



The Bee Gees



Led Zeppelin

[DogAlpha]

Walk Like A Man....

My favorite Railroad song..

E A D how could they take 3 simple chords and make such power! Love It!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTSxAMPXJ80

[songsmith]

So many great songs from GFR! Even what could have been a cheesy song to cover, The Locomotion, and they knock it out of the park. And my wife saw an old video that showed Mark Farner shirtless, riding a horse in slow-motion... I think she had chick-wood.
They could do hard-rock, proglike stuff, pop... and like I said, so song-oriented. Some Kind Of Wonderful still goes over very well as a cover-band tun, in a lot of situations.--->JMS

[moxham123]

GFR was great at rocking up many cover tunes very well like The Loco-Motion, Feelin' Alright, Gimme Shelter, and most people do not know that Some Kind Of Wonderful was a cover tune.

Did you ever hear the original version of Some Kind Of Wonderful by Soul Brothers Six from 1967?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MouM59AbnE

The Fantastic Johnny C did a version in 1968, a year after the original by Soul Brothers Six and before the Grand Funk Railroad version in 1975.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWPqaVGais

Here is the Grand Funk Railroad version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7B5jXYRy3Q

[sunsetbass]

i love GFR but holy shit thats a big fro.