Guildedagain
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MYsii4DZY
An awesomely bass heavy song
Beware of memories and goose bumps...
An awesomely bass heavy song
Beware of memories and goose bumps...
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I'm your captain, I'm your captain
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I was living in Wisconsin at the time but I think those boys were from Michigan. We played this song back in the day and it was always well received. "We're An American Band" was another really nice song.
Great song - fun to play, too!
It's not as bad as the Badfinger story, but Mark Farner was treating very badly by the rest of the band.
Still suing each other as of last year:
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2018/03/grand_funk_railroad_sues_forme.html
IMHO, there is no "Grand Funk Railroad" without Mark Farner.
walrus
It's not as bad as the Badfinger story, but Mark Farner was treating very badly by the rest of the band.
Still suing each other as of last year:
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2018/03/grand_funk_railroad_sues_forme.html
IMHO, there is no "Grand Funk Railroad" without Mark Farner.
walrus
The Guilds of Grot
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My band plays it! Here is some audio from 2014. I'm singing lead (slightly off key at times) and playing bass at the same time!
Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
Simply awesome
Great cover, Kurt!
walrus
walrus
Mark Farner still lives up North in Michigan, and he plays a Guild DV-52. I know this because I talked to him on a radio call-in show one day, I asked "Do you still play a Guild?" (He had done a couple in-studio songs live earlier in the program.) He said "You've got a good ear my friend; I'm playing my Guild DV-52 here today." I said "Hey, I have one of those too!
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He's stlil rockin' - here he is in March of this year doing "I'm Your Captain" on a LA TV show:
walrus
walrus
Guildedagain
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Didn't know the song was still this popular. Sounds fantastic, as good as ever, maybe better without some of the original keyboard craziness.
"Sold out Shea Stadium faster than the Beatles" 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA-CBXuTaeo
"Sold out Shea Stadium faster than the Beatles" 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA-CBXuTaeo
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D30Man
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Nice Grot!!! I dug it! Great tune!
When I was over in Guam/Thailand I heard them for the first time on a record. I thought they were a bubble gum band but I did like these songs and their version of Gimme Shelter. Sounds pretty good. Band relationships can be mighty tough. ONe of the reasons I gave it all up for solo gigs at the ripe old age of 20.
D30Man
Senior Member
Amen.. I am pretty much exclusively solo on the gig these days except for a fiddleplayer who is a really good dude and knows how to roll with my shenanigans.. He has like two other bands but he always tries to make it work for me because I treat him with absolute respect and split whatever I make with him..
Charlie Bernstein
Senior Member
Good rock tune!
Used to usher in a concert hall in '69 and '70. The two acts we broke up the most fights and threw out the most puking stumblers for were Grand Funk (no surprise) and Van Morrison (surprise!).
Used to usher in a concert hall in '69 and '70. The two acts we broke up the most fights and threw out the most puking stumblers for were Grand Funk (no surprise) and Van Morrison (surprise!).
Old hippie version of this song: "I'm your Grampa, I'm your Grampa..."
adorshki
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Reminds me of Al Bundy's take on the old Monkees chestnut:
"I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dodge"