Loved how you were taken to church. Great reaction, Biz. Lol Thank you! I'm 66 so I was around when this music came out. Party on, man. It was a great time to be alive. Cheers!
The #1 thing that made Grand Funk was guitar player, keyboards, Organ & 92% of their songs he wrote. Mark wrote this the first day he took delivery of his Hammond B3 organ. He was alone & locked all the doors & the first thing he played was this song. Doing the basic bass part with the included foot pedal. Much like Mean Mistreated was written when he got his Fender Rhodes electric piano. The group would work on a jam Mark had, which everything that Mark writes or performs & at 73 till Sept. He's had one of James Brown's last drummer Hubert 'the H Bomb, Crawford & has had 2 great bass players with him. The first thru his years doing Christian Rock, for a while mixed both types of music. Which his solo 'God rock' as it was called he was still putting the funk in everything. He's the Godfather of showmanship, all over the stage dancing & still playing the F out of his guitar. With 2 'brothers or brothas, it added even more funk to his music. Mark was raised as were both other members of Grand Funk in Flint Michigan where the GM factory was, 40 miles north of Detroit. Hearing Motown, soul, blues, etc. It's part of his DNA. Grand Funk was the most successful rock group for me first half of the 70's & didn't get much radio airplay, they filled arenas, sold out Shea stadium in 72 hours , it took me Beatles 2 weeks, with the same way you got tickets @ the box office @ the Stadium. They started arena rock & like Mark's song 'Rock & roll soul. It's what's in him from relatives that all went north to get work in the big 3 Auto makers. Every Sunday after church his entire large family, Uncles Aunts, Mother & Mark started singing harmonies as the LP's he's singing almost all the harmonies, his powerful & pretty much unlimited range & guitar playing got me to switch from piano to guitar. Along with the realization that there'd never have been a piano in my home. I cleaned houses for inspection on the Air Force base my Dad was stationed at. Started playing at 17 in my first pro band playing lead & rhythm guitar & lead vocals on a base outside Madrid Spain. I wish that band had been Stateside, since we were limited where we could play to 3 clubs on base which 1 almost led to a riot, so we stuck to 2 & since we played a variety of songs & current top 40 in 1975 & 76. Spain was under the Dictatorship of Franco, for us to play off base we had to get a license, at the time we'd have had to bribe someone & roll the dice that they could get it done. It wasn't the kind of government you raised any crap about. 5 million people in Madrid & you were always safe, course when the police & Guadia Civil, wore long black leather capes & carried sub-machine guns & only had to answer to Franco & as long as who they felt like shooting wasn't a relative or friend of Franco. They didn't have to answer to anyone & the public knew that~. It was a great experience, but coming back Stateside on my own, & engaged when I came back to Detroit. I sold my amp, & staying in the basement of my future in-laws, I insisted that I paid them $50 a month. Which is many times the value it is today. I put my music career on hold, & had a job at Radio Shack 5 days off the plane. Got transferred to the biggest store in my district, cuz the manager whined to the District manager that he couldn't afford to pay my commission. Once I got my first shot at running a store at 19, I was happy to pay my employees. On 8 Mile road in Detroit, Eminem's neighborhood. First thing I did was fire the racist salesman, & hired the only 2 applicants who dressed & spoke like they weren't afraid to work to earn commissions. They got minimum wage as I did, slightly higher, they got commission & I whatever the % of profit there was, I got my bonus of that % of the profit. Nobody out sold me, as a salesman or manager. I was happy to pay my employees. You don't want to limit sales when you live off the profit. Duh~ I was in training when the original manager electrocuted himself drying his few hairs, in a steel shower with a blow drier with a frayed cord. Ain't no way he didn't know that could kill him. At that time we sold 5000 + small parts & you had to have at least a little bit about what the parts were & where they were. Both of the highschool seniors I hired, were able to learn quick. A gal & guy. Course she was black & beautiful so she had an advantage over him, not cuz he was black. Cuz guys started buying expensive stuff from Emily to impress her & did she know how to play them?!! Lol! As long as it stayed sold, I certainly didn't care. But I couldn't laugh when they walked out & you could hear her say "Sucka!! After tripling sales the first 3 months my boss said"Your not going anywhere" Till I got my 2nd store & brought sales up to 3rd to 5 th, pissing off older managers. Like I have a crap! Get off your ass & sell & train your employees right & stop whining like a bitch. Love your channel & it's nice to see someone broaden their musical taste. I was a huge Grand Funk fan & Wes Montgomery a great jazz guitarist, who played pop to pop jazz songs on guitar. The man had such a great way of playing, it sounded easy but being a guitarist, later I know how hard it really was. Mark Farmer could play the shit out of a guitar, but he didn't over play. The song never lost it's groove. As well a huge Chi-lites (Shy lights) Oh girl', Letre to myself, Have you seen her. Their harmonies gave me goosebumps. The Spinners to Glen Campbell to Uriah heep. Rockers to beautiful songs. Too many others influenced me. This is long enough as it is. Probably not getting more than about a total of 10 hours of sleep in the last week, has a bit to do with it Along with the fricken nerves that are being crushed by my deteriorating spine. Dipshit replacement Dr who took over for the gem I had over a year. She went back to sleep research. I had a great Dr for 30 years, I beat cancer in 93, but have paid the price. I'd do it all the same cuz I was able to raise both my son's & married 39 great years & 5.best left unsaid. But she's an ex now so who the F cares~ Not that it was easy watching her screw her life up in bottles of wine, but you either move forward or you get your ass run over, right? Take it easy & soon as I get my health back in line, I'll be happy with what you choose. It's been a blast to see others hear what I heard while the jukebox was playing in the cafeteria & a couple tables away Grand Funk was being played on a portable 1 speaker cassette player, but already a musician, I heard what I wanted to hear. Once I've heard a voice I can tell you who's singing what part. I used to get phone calls asking me , who plays ''''' & 90+% of the time I told them. The rest by the next morning, cuz it kept playing in my head. From 67 to the early 90's I knew anything I heard on radio. But that's cuz music was my first love & still a part of my life. Used to be cuz I was in bands, now it's in my studio. There's a lot of great music, though a lot of today's stuff lacks musicianship. Not entirely void, but nothing like it used to be all the work done by computers 'fixing' vocals. It takes the soul out of music. It just makes you appreciate the ones who are still out there & there's plenty of young talent especially on UA-cam & they're not using a computer to fix anything. To me it'd be like 'fixing' us~ not the way humans are done more like dogs & cats. I've heard some great comedians talking about their pet looking at them afterwards. Lol!
Great pick Biz! GFR eventually became a four piece band adding keyboardist Craig Frost. Their live album Caught In The Act is spectacular, they even do a cover of Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones ✌️
Everyone and their dog has reacted to Inside Looking Out but almost nobody has done Heartbreaker from that Amazing Grand Funk Live album. The one video I found...the dude starts crying with joy.
This was a fantastic album. This song, Upsetter, and People Let’s Stop The War are all bangers. You rarely see two Hammond B3 organs being played on the same stage. They did it to great effect on Footstompin’ Muisc live.
Hey Biz, good to have you back in the saddle! Here's a few more Grand Funk song suggestions for you, Paranoid, People Let's Stop the War, and Shinin' On. Keep up the good work!
Grew up with these dudes!! Fuzz bass! If you like Mel’s bass give a listen to People Let’s Stop the War off the same album. It will knock your socks off!
GFR is from Flint, Michigan! Always gave us Michiganders a sense of pride. My favorite songs of theirs are "We're an American Band" and "Walk Like A Man". They are legends!
They were here in phoenix this year and they are still pulling top dollar at the venues. I wanted to go but couldn't afford it. Grand Funk was my 1st rock concert. It was 1974, I was 14. They rocked!!!!!
Was Blessed to live in Detroit/ Flint Mi. SO MUCH MUSIC. GFR Bass player had been in ? and the Mysterians, and Terry Knight had been in a group( Terry Knight & The Pack. We followed Bog Seger, so often saw GFR members in their early bands.
Biz, Mark Farner (singer, guitarist, etc. for GFR) has a channel on YT! Yeah, he's still touring, but under his own name, not GFR. He does interviews too, and on one of them he was talking about cutting garlic cloves, but that you need to let the cut up garlic sit for about 5 minutes. 😂 I was glad to learn that! He's so down to earth! He got done really dirty in the end by other bandmates, which was truly a shame. Shame because of how talented GFR was, together as a group. They truly should already be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1. Grand Funk Railroad should always be listening to live. ACDC should be listening to the same way..... And brother I got a request for The Paul Butterfield Band and the song is East West.. it's an ass kicking instrumental.
When these guys came out, there was a sense of they were too commercial and looked down on as not (as) cool, hip, or talented as the enormous amount of other charting acts. Could have been marketing issues with their label...I don't know. I went to school in a college town, Gainesville, Fla, from 1968-1974...and it was a cool, hip place but perhaps a little elitist. We were drowning in quality. Tom Petty & his band Mudcrutch was the ubiquitous town band, the Allmans were over in Daytona, Jax,and then up the road in Georgia, & Lynyrd Skynyrd & Molly Hatchet were tuning up in Jacksonville...Bob Seger rolled into town playing at Dub's, where wet t- shirt contests were the usual draw "No Skin, No Win", ...a big roadhouse on the edge of town. Stephen Stills retired there. Yeah, we were a little spoiled. We thought that the quality and accessibility of music would last forever. Sigh.
Something magical happens when you combine black Gospel music with Rock n Roll.That energy will make anyone want to get up and groove!!
It don't get no better than this!!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Loved how you were taken to church. Great reaction, Biz. Lol Thank you! I'm 66 so I was around when this music came out. Party on, man. It was a great time to be alive. Cheers!
The #1 thing that made Grand Funk was guitar player, keyboards, Organ & 92% of their songs he wrote. Mark wrote this the first day he took delivery of his Hammond B3 organ. He was alone & locked all the doors & the first thing he played was this song. Doing the basic bass part with the included foot pedal. Much like Mean Mistreated was written when he got his Fender Rhodes electric piano. The group would work on a jam Mark had, which everything that Mark writes or performs & at 73 till Sept. He's had one of James Brown's last drummer Hubert 'the H Bomb, Crawford & has had 2 great bass players with him. The first thru his years doing Christian Rock, for a while mixed both types of music. Which his solo 'God rock' as it was called he was still putting the funk in everything. He's the Godfather of showmanship, all over the stage dancing & still playing the F out of his guitar. With 2 'brothers or brothas, it added even more funk to his music. Mark was raised as were both other members of Grand Funk in Flint Michigan where the GM factory was, 40 miles north of Detroit. Hearing Motown, soul, blues, etc. It's part of his DNA. Grand Funk was the most successful rock group for me first half of the 70's & didn't get much radio airplay, they filled arenas, sold out Shea stadium in 72 hours , it took me Beatles 2 weeks, with the same way you got tickets @ the box office @ the Stadium. They started arena rock & like Mark's song 'Rock & roll soul. It's what's in him from relatives that all went north to get work in the big 3 Auto makers. Every Sunday after church his entire large family, Uncles Aunts, Mother & Mark started singing harmonies as the LP's he's singing almost all the harmonies, his powerful & pretty much unlimited range & guitar playing got me to switch from piano to guitar. Along with the realization that there'd never have been a piano in my home. I cleaned houses for inspection on the Air Force base my Dad was stationed at. Started playing at 17 in my first pro band playing lead & rhythm guitar & lead vocals on a base outside Madrid Spain. I wish that band had been Stateside, since we were limited where we could play to 3 clubs on base which 1 almost led to a riot, so we stuck to 2 & since we played a variety of songs & current top 40 in 1975 & 76. Spain was under the Dictatorship of Franco, for us to play off base we had to get a license, at the time we'd have had to bribe someone & roll the dice that they could get it done. It wasn't the kind of government you raised any crap about. 5 million people in Madrid & you were always safe, course when the police & Guadia Civil, wore long black leather capes & carried sub-machine guns & only had to answer to Franco & as long as who they felt like shooting wasn't a relative or friend of Franco. They didn't have to answer to anyone & the public knew that~. It was a great experience, but coming back Stateside on my own, & engaged when I came back to Detroit. I sold my amp, & staying in the basement of my future in-laws, I insisted that I paid them $50 a month. Which is many times the value it is today. I put my music career on hold, & had a job at Radio Shack 5 days off the plane. Got transferred to the biggest store in my district, cuz the manager whined to the District manager that he couldn't afford to pay my commission. Once I got my first shot at running a store at 19, I was happy to pay my employees. On 8 Mile road in Detroit, Eminem's neighborhood. First thing I did was fire the racist salesman, & hired the only 2 applicants who dressed & spoke like they weren't afraid to work to earn commissions. They got minimum wage as I did, slightly higher, they got commission & I whatever the % of profit there was, I got my bonus of that % of the profit. Nobody out sold me, as a salesman or manager. I was happy to pay my employees. You don't want to limit sales when you live off the profit. Duh~ I was in training when the original manager electrocuted himself drying his few hairs, in a steel shower with a blow drier with a frayed cord. Ain't no way he didn't know that could kill him. At that time we sold 5000 + small parts & you had to have at least a little bit about what the parts were & where they were. Both of the highschool seniors I hired, were able to learn quick. A gal & guy. Course she was black & beautiful so she had an advantage over him, not cuz he was black. Cuz guys started buying expensive stuff from Emily to impress her & did she know how to play them?!! Lol! As long as it stayed sold, I certainly didn't care. But I couldn't laugh when they walked out & you could hear her say "Sucka!! After tripling sales the first 3 months my boss said"Your not going anywhere" Till I got my 2nd store & brought sales up to 3rd to 5 th, pissing off older managers. Like I have a crap! Get off your ass & sell & train your employees right & stop whining like a bitch. Love your channel & it's nice to see someone broaden their musical taste. I was a huge Grand Funk fan & Wes Montgomery a great jazz guitarist, who played pop to pop jazz songs on guitar. The man had such a great way of playing, it sounded easy but being a guitarist, later I know how hard it really was. Mark Farmer could play the shit out of a guitar, but he didn't over play. The song never lost it's groove. As well a huge Chi-lites (Shy lights) Oh girl', Letre to myself, Have you seen her. Their harmonies gave me goosebumps. The Spinners to Glen Campbell to Uriah heep. Rockers to beautiful songs. Too many others influenced me. This is long enough as it is. Probably not getting more than about a total of 10 hours of sleep in the last week, has a bit to do with it
Along with the fricken nerves that are being crushed by my deteriorating spine. Dipshit replacement Dr who took over for the gem I had over a year. She went back to sleep research. I had a great Dr for 30 years, I beat cancer in 93, but have paid the price. I'd do it all the same cuz I was able to raise both my son's & married 39 great years & 5.best left unsaid. But she's an ex now so who the F cares~ Not that it was easy watching her screw her life up in bottles of wine, but you either move forward or you get your ass run over, right? Take it easy & soon as I get my health back in line, I'll be happy with what you choose. It's been a blast to see others hear what I heard while the jukebox was playing in the cafeteria & a couple tables away Grand Funk was being played on a portable 1 speaker cassette player, but already a musician, I heard what I wanted to hear. Once I've heard a voice I can tell you who's singing what part. I used to get phone calls asking me , who plays ''''' & 90+% of the time I told them. The rest by the next morning, cuz it kept playing in my head. From 67 to the early 90's I knew anything I heard on radio. But that's cuz music was my first love & still a part of my life. Used to be cuz I was in bands, now it's in my studio. There's a lot of great music, though a lot of today's stuff lacks musicianship. Not entirely void, but nothing like it used to be all the work done by computers 'fixing' vocals. It takes the soul out of music. It just makes you appreciate the ones who are still out there & there's plenty of young talent especially on UA-cam & they're not using a computer to fix anything. To me it'd be like 'fixing' us~ not the way humans are done more like dogs & cats. I've heard some great comedians talking about their pet looking at them afterwards. Lol!
one of my favorite songs to open a concert. If this doesn't get a crowd up and ready to rock I don't know what will.
Great pick Biz! GFR eventually became a four piece band adding keyboardist Craig Frost. Their live album Caught In The Act is spectacular, they even do a cover of Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones ✌️
Why in the Hell🔥isn't Grand Funk Railroad in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame??
Everyone and their dog has reacted to Inside Looking Out but almost nobody has done Heartbreaker from that Amazing Grand Funk Live album. The one video I found...the dude starts crying with joy.
A highly underrated album “E Pluribus Funk”
It translates as "out of many, funk".
This was a fantastic album. This song, Upsetter, and People Let’s Stop The War are all bangers. You rarely see two Hammond B3 organs being played on the same stage. They did it to great effect on Footstompin’ Muisc live.
Great band ❤ so badass in concert in the 70s 😎☮️🎸🎶🎵
Hey Biz, good to have you back in the saddle! Here's a few more Grand Funk song suggestions for you, Paranoid, People Let's Stop the War, and Shinin' On. Keep up the good work!
thank you
Grew up with these dudes!! Fuzz bass! If you like Mel’s bass give a listen to People Let’s Stop the War off the same album. It will knock your socks off!
Mel is a criminally underrated bassist.
Badass!!
…… and a great reaction!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
thank you
Great pull BizMan!!!! Thanks for this!!!! Have a great weekend!!!!! 😎🍸✌️
Thanks! You too!
@@watchbizmatikOh yeah I was here!!!! 🥳🥳🥳❤️🤩😎🍸
hey bro do the drum solo it's crazy from gfr live video called t.n.u.c. thanx !
Grandfunk, dont miss. Ever ☘️🇺🇲
i have tom agree
Big fan of GFR, especially their earlier stuff. Thanks for the reaction, Biz!!
This song should have been in Blues Brothers, dang it, now I gotta go watch it.
I went to a lot of concerts when I was young. Back when you could afford tickets. Now it is ridiculous.
Say Biz, another one to check out (though there be many) is "Inside looking out. Live version if possible
i already did it
This band is EASILY in my Rocker top 10
hmmmmm
GFR is from Flint, Michigan! Always gave us Michiganders a sense of pride. My favorite songs of theirs are "We're an
American Band" and "Walk Like A Man". They are legends!
Great song
that is a fact
Thanks Biz. Appreciate it
Any time!
Oh HAIL YA
Walk Like A Man, Rock and Roll Soul
They were here in phoenix this year and they are still pulling top dollar at the venues. I wanted to go but couldn't afford it. Grand Funk was my 1st rock concert. It was 1974, I was 14. They rocked!!!!!
Was Blessed to live in Detroit/ Flint Mi. SO MUCH MUSIC. GFR Bass player had been in ? and the Mysterians, and Terry Knight had been in a group( Terry Knight & The Pack. We followed Bog Seger, so often saw GFR members in their early bands.
Check out live Inside Looking Out
already did
Probably my favorite great song
Crazy good 🎉sounded great, thanks Biz
Great party tune! Next, do either Shinin’ On or the live version of Black Licorice. It’s not like you get to meet the artist when you go to concert. 😜
Love this album. EVERY song is good. You should do a complete album reaction.
Oh yeah, hot hidden gem🤘❤️
In Need next 🔥🔥🔥
The song after this one is good too !
I can relate!
Great reaction my guy! Still waiting for the Shondells...dirty water....
Coming soon!
That whole album was slammin'!! That's the first song on it. Try the next three. "People Let's Stop The War" , "Upsetter", and "I Come Tumblin'".
I remember playin this album. Damm, no wonder my beards grey.
Great band/great song !!
absolutely
Biz, Mark Farner (singer, guitarist, etc. for GFR) has a channel on YT! Yeah, he's still touring, but under his own name, not GFR. He does interviews too, and on one of them he was talking about cutting garlic cloves, but that you need to let the cut up garlic sit for about 5 minutes. 😂 I was glad to learn that! He's so down to earth! He got done really dirty in the end by other bandmates, which was truly a shame. Shame because of how talented GFR was, together as a group. They truly should already be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
oh thats dope
I know GFR came before, but this song reminds me of The Blues Brothers.
Biz! Ain't seen ya on my stream for a minute
yeah i was gone for a while
@@watchbizmatik roll on
Always enjoy your reactions bro
Thanks fam
1. Grand Funk Railroad should always be listening to live. ACDC should be listening to the same way..... And brother I got a request for The Paul Butterfield Band and the song is East West.. it's an ass kicking instrumental.
MORE G.F.R. HEARTBREAKER 💔
i did heartbreaker already
🦶
When these guys came out, there was a sense of they were too commercial and looked down on as not (as) cool, hip, or talented as the enormous amount of other charting acts.
Could have been marketing issues with their label...I don't know.
I went to school in a college town, Gainesville, Fla, from 1968-1974...and it was a cool, hip place but perhaps a little elitist. We were drowning in quality.
Tom Petty & his band Mudcrutch was the ubiquitous town band, the Allmans were over in Daytona, Jax,and then up the road in Georgia, & Lynyrd Skynyrd & Molly Hatchet were tuning up in Jacksonville...Bob Seger rolled into town playing at Dub's, where wet t- shirt contests were the usual draw "No Skin, No Win", ...a big roadhouse on the edge of town. Stephen Stills retired there.
Yeah, we were a little spoiled. We thought that the quality and accessibility of music would last forever. Sigh.
Go back to the song that put them on the map, Time Machine. Dirty blues rock at it's best. ua-cam.com/video/eDxyiCRUDzY/v-deo.html