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Who Else Likes Riding On The Railroad?


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I've been listening to these guys all week and I think their stuff is just fantastic! msp_thumbup.gif

 

This is by far the greatest song I've heard in a long time! msp_thumbup.gifmsp_thumbup.gifmsp_thumbup.gif

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZM25ZG6ZZU

 

 

And then of course there's Time Machine. Great 1,4,5 Blues progression:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tSPGYIf7lk&hd=1

 

 

So who else is a GFR fan? msp_cool.gif

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As a teenager growing up in the 70s no band was panned more by the critics than GFR.

Of course no bands music was more fun to play or got a better audience response than that of Mel, Mark and Don.

 

This is the one we used to do that killed every time.

 

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Great band. And the name was common sight around here was the Grand Trunk Railway with the name painted huge on the line's box cars. :) . . One of the things I remember about the late 60s and early 70s here in Michigan is the music scene was huge. Lots performances/concerts, some free. I remember seeing a lot of local Michigan bands, sometimes playing outdoors no tickets - Seger, Nugent and the Dukes, Grand Funk Railroad, MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, Tommy James, Mitch Ryder, The Frost (D!ck Wagner), SRC, among a lot of lesser known local bands. I remember more than a couple times walking around East Lansing and MSU, coming up on an outdoor performance I didn't know was going on until I stumbled across them. It didn't take too long into the 70s when the whole music scene went very commercial/business.

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Haven't ever been in a band, 1975 - 2003, that didn't do at least a couple of theirs. I'm Yer Captain almost always picked over Stairway as a closer for us, we would mostly let the crowd pick it.

 

If you don't have it, get this one:

 

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YES! I saw GFR on their first tour. What A Show. They opened with "Are You Ready." [thumbup] [thumbup] [thumbup] Hiwatt amps.

 

The guitarist Mark still tours..............on his own..........

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