When a guy can step up to the microphone and sing this song exactly like he sung it at the recording studio and sound every bit as good live, he’s the real deal. there aren’t many who can do that. Really love his voice
Tony Alfano, you're exactly right. I've always loved GFR. They were right over the border in Michigan from me. Sadly I never got to see them live, but had all their albums. Mark was always a pro! Take care.
One word, WOW!! Mark has an incredible voice and there are very few people on this planet that can stand up on a stage, play guitar and sing as well has he can, an amazingly great performance.
68 now and have such great memories of Mark , Don and Mel , please you guys , one last time ? Haven't been to a concert since the 70 's , but if this was to happen Boy would that be truly magical.
Don't know why it took me this long to realize that Mark Farner's vocal on "Bad Time" from 1975 is as remarkable as Mickey Thomas singing the Elvin Bishop tune "Fooled Around and Fell in Love," released in 1976.
It's time to bury the hatchet, forgive each other and reunite before it's too late. Don't just do it for your fans, do it for yourselves. Forgiveness is freedom. Finish your life without regrets....
Kevin you are so right I 65 and still rocking in 2021the very best music I was lucky to grow up it the 70s fast cars hot women and plenty of good smoke
MARK IS AT THE VERY TOP FOR HIS VOCALS , GUITAR PLAYING AND ALL THE INSTRUMENTS HE PUTS HIS HANDS ON ! KEEP ROCKING MARK ! GOD BLESS YOU THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AMEN ! 😇 TINA ALIMO
This song reminds me of when my girlfriend broke up with me in 1975. I can’t hear it without thinking of her. It’s been a long time ago now but still brings those feelings back every time I hear it. It’s a powerful song for me! Great group! Great song!
I wish like Hell that Grand Funk could put their Bad Times with each other aside long enough to give Life Long Fans that one last Thank You Mega-Tour . We need closure to such a Great Band .
Bands with members who hate each other and then get back together for "one last Thank You Mega Tour" is the ultimate in cynical money grubbing. I wonder, in your scenario, who is thanking who?
Mark has said he’d like to do another tour as GFR, it’s the other two (that cheated him out of his cut) that are the hold outs. Zero respect for Don and Mel for the way they treated him, in the end it’s their loss, without Mark they are not even a good cover band. Mark Farner IS Grand Funk Railroad!!
I love to see that GFRR still has so many followers, 2nd rock I've ever seen, blew my Fn mind at the Winter Land SF, I was 16 years, many great memories, thanks fellas.
Hermosa canción.......y el maestro sigue con el poder del rock. Y esos que critican el gallito que se escuchó........por favor!! eso demuestra envidia.
Agree bro...it always amazes me where the find camera operators that don't have a clue what they need to be shooting. But probably if someone over headphones would have told him to get the solo he would have filmed the pick instead of his fingers...all you can pray for is that they were a student or a volunteer...
Cameraman here. It’s up to the director or TD technical director to switch the camera shots. This also could have been edited in post. I agree tho, they picked a “BadTime” to switch shots.
Sad to think of Grand Funk Railroad without his talent. How many albums of new songs has the band done without Mark = 0. Farner has made many albums with great songs since he was forced out.
NYC girl would love to meet this guy. he's sooo awesome and he's such an amazing singer. still has the pipes and never lost them. seems like a really nice guy especially to a fan :) far as I'm concerned he is grand funk.
Mark was great. My friend brought his autistic son. We were in the first row & Mark & his guitar player definitely noticed us. After the show there was a meet & greet & when we met him he thanked my friend for bringing his son. The concert was great & Mark told some old stories & one story he told was being on a jet with his band, Janis Joplin & the Stones. He told us Janis put chocolate all over the seats just to ruin Mick Jaggers white satin pants. If you get the chance go see him. Only song he didn't sing was We're an American Band. Mark didn't write it.
NYC girl yeah id love to see mark. My dad loves grand funk and farner. We would both love to see him if he ever came to Ontario Canada. He hardly comes here sadly. His voice is still amazing and has never changed. He is grand funk. I would love to meet him and get an autograph and shake the man's hand. Of course its not marks song. Don brewer sings that song. Mark sings his own songs he wrote and sang with grand funk
NYC girl he played "American Band" in Moscow in 2011 though. His keyboard player sang it. Brewer wrote it, of course. Great drummer but far not-so-great man,it seems.
Can't believe that even though I saw them 2x in the early 70s, that I somehow missed this last hit of theirs! Still, I don't recall it ever playing on NY FM stations. Great power pop love song w. catchy lyrics & chorus. Mark really was a musical genius.
I can remember other acts and songs breaking that year, and being played in heavy rotation on WNEW, which was probably the #1 station in NYC, & outlying areas, but they were a VERY eclectic station, kinda favored "Prog Rock" & may have had a bit of a bias against GFRR & therefore Mark. But, I'm happy to have heard it, even if it's 40+ years later!!! I can listen to those guys endlessly. Mark wrote, sang, played guitar & keyboards and all at a relatively young age. He & GF just never got the full credit they deserved.
April 1975 and I was 11 when my father died. All of a sudden I could relate to songs like Wildfire that spoke of love and loss... but it was the happy innocence of songs like this that helped make life more bearable and doable.
I grew up near Flint Michigan, Marks mom and step dad lived about a quarter of a mile away from where I lived. His sister was a freshman at the same high school I went to. Always liked GFRs. music. Without Mark Farner, there wouldn't have been a Grand Fuck Railroad
