Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band Song (REACTION!) 

The 1969 live version of inside looking out. You will be amazed by their live presence

You will do yourself a disservice if you don't react to "Inside Looking Out" the live version. One of the best performances out there.

Inside Looking Out, the live version! Very funky grooves!

Big fans of you guys and Grand Funk. If you want Grand Funk to take you to church then play "Some Kind of Wonderful".

GFR had two vocalists. This was actually the drummer Donnie Brewer. Awesome job guys!

That was The Benny Hill theme song! Only 2 bands sold out Shea Stadium in NY. 1st was The Beatles and next was Grand Funk, but GFR did it 3 weeks faster than The Beatles did! Their fans were hopping all over the bleachers and there was serious concern they would collapse, so they called in engineers to see. This is also a great band to watch live.

“I’m Your Captain” studio version, will take you by surprise. It’s an unexpected opus…

This was a HUGE number one hit for Grand Funk Railroad in 1973. Every time it was played at the Fernwood Roller Rink in Peoria, IL 65 kids started skating faster. My childhood was funkier thanks to these guys.

If you want to be surprised by a 70's rock group, try Uriah Heep. Less known today, despite some members still touring, but huge in the 70's. They only had a couple of chart hits "Stealin' and "Easy Livin", but they were massive on FM Stations with a variety of unusual songs. They had lead singers, but other band members routinely sang and they harmonized. Also try "The Wizard", "July Morning", "Look at Yourself", "Lady in Black" or "Bird of Prey",

I don't know what notes you guys are reading but this is actually the drummer Don Brewer who sings this song plus many other great songs by them. Mark Farner the guitarist has a higher pitched voice and the essentially split the lead vocal duties 50/50 between themselves. Both are great singers with distinct and different voices that blend very well together and also rock-out on their own. 🤘🏻 Anyways, you *DEFINITELY* need to go down the Grand Funk Railroad rabbit hole. They have so many great songs: The 10-minute epic "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home," their great cover of The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," "Walk Like A Man," "Footstompin' Music," their great cover of Little Eva's "The Locomotion" and "Some Kind Of Wonderful" which was a rare example of Don and Mark sharing lead vocals within the same song. I'm telling you guys, you are going to *love* Grand Funk Railroad when you're done checking them out. They are truly a great American band.

GFR is just a great straight ahead rock band. They should get more love. They were adored by fans & reviled by critics because it was the time of prog & Zeppelin. Other songs: Time Machine, Heartbreaker, Sin's a Good Man's Brother, Footstompin Music, Rock N Roll Soul, Walk Like a Man 🤘🤘

GFR have a ton of bangers. They were yuge from 69-74, releasing eleven albums, including one live and one compilation, during that period. All certified: 5 gold, 4 platinum and two double-platinum. They also had two platinum singles, "We're an American Band" and "Some Kind of Wonderful".

"Some Kind Of Wonderful" extremely soulful. IT'LL BE RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY! Great call!

Not only did they fill stadiums they sold out Shea Stadium quicker than the Beatles. “By 1971, Grand Funk equaled the Beatles' Shea Stadium attendance record, but sold out the venue in just 72 hours whereas the Beatles concert took a few weeks to sell out.”

The drummer is the one singing also. Amazing to be able to sing and keep the beat and not sound out of breath.

I just want to point out years ago y'all were super impressed with Queensryche (who were heavily influenced by Rush and Iron Maiden) but never came back to them.

GFR does a great version of "Locomotion" too! And still partying like a mug to that!!!

You HAVE to listen to Inside Looking Out by these guys and it has to be live!!!! They are an amazing talented group!! Please do that one, you won't regret it!!!

wish you had done Closer to Home but I'll take it ;)

Their cover of "Inside Looing Out", live (1969) is a must see.

If you want to be caught off guard, then perhaps try Heart - Barracuda.

Logical Song... Super Tramp, that will catch you off guard

Inside Looking Out live version PLEASEEE!!!!!! Grand Funk’s finest work

@4:24 the song you're thinking about isnthe then song to throw Benny Hill show, a British risqué comedy of the 60's & 70's. It's absolutely classic song put probably millions of vignettes. Y'all should do a react to the best of Benny Hill and have a great laugh

Stranglehold- Ted Nugent. It's a must

"I Come Tumblin" is my favourite track by them. Seriously good musicianship on that one

Being a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist myself, one of the most interesting things to me about this song is that the drummer is singing the lead vocals and playing the drums at the same time. There is a studio video and also a live video of this song and he is playing and singing in both of them. The drummer is Don Brewer. Both him and the lead guitar player wrote this song. Most of the songs for the band are sung by the lead guitar player (Mark Farner) but Don is singing this one. I think he is one of the best singing drummers because you don't see many drummers who can do all those drum rolls while they're singing at the same time. It's bad enough trying to hold down a good study drum beat and still sing lead vocals, but when you can also do all the drum rolls and still sing lead like he's doing here, that's crazy!

If y’all want to get caught off guard by something from the 70s you should really check out some glam bands like Sparks or Roxy music. Queens music from this era is also pretty different. Check out: “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us“- Sparks “Virginia plain“-Roxy music “March of the black queen“-Queen “Death on two legs“-Queen

Grand Funk was my first concert at age 14 in 1971. They have been my favorite band from that day on! One thing, on this son drummer Don Brewer was the lead singer and the writer.

This whole album rocks! Love it!

I'm Your Captain - Grand Funk Railroad Connie was a famous groupie.

They played everywhere in the '70's.

Y'all should do Head East - Never Been any Reason. It's a lot like this song in the "70s party rock song" aspect, but it's actually a much better song too in my opinion. Kinda like Mountain - Mississippi Queen. This one is pretty substance-less, for lack of a better term.

Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out

Every person who loves Classic Rock knows who Grand Funk Railroad is!!

The connie mentioned is connie hamzy who is a famous groupie from back in the day and is mentioned by other bands like the guess who and cheap trick.

Great choice guys!!! A Classic!!! And I didn't know the band and Im like damnn, I love this track loll just didn't know the bands name! Keep em coming fam, you guys are killing it like usual‼‼💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

I'm Your Captain! Some Kind Of Wonderful!

Glad you guys liked this song. Freddie King is my all time favorite blues guitarist. Y'all should def check him out. He was a contemporary and an influence of Eric Clapton. He was a blues player that had some crossover success with the rock crowd. He was notorious for playing poker with his band and talking back most or all of the money he'd just paid them. Sweet Sweet Connie is a famous groupie from that period.

"Inside Looking Out" the live version from '69 may be the best live performance ever published on You Tube. It has to be reviewed...you guys will be amazed...

You guys are the Kings of Reactions...nobody does it like you guys. Genuine responses, always digging deeper into bands discography. Great stuff! My top 5 I would love to hear from you guys... Grand Funk "Some Kinda Wonderful" 2) Faces w/ Rod Stewart "That's All You Need" 3) Van Halen "Outta Love Again" 4) Ratt "Lack of Communication" 5) Black Sabbath "A National Acrobat"

How about something by The Guess Who? Perhaps "These Eyes".

As a Little Rock denizen, this song gets mad props around here for the shout out haha

They were my first rock band, and my best.

Grand Funk took their name after the Grand Trunk railroad, which ran close to the band's homes in Flint and Detroit MI

One of the sleeper fire songs they have is "Footstompin' Music". They are an institution in Detroit. They were good friends of Bob Seger and the whole Detroit sound of the 70's. Two great singers in the band.

Grand Funk Railroads "Inside Looking Out" is IMO their best! Live version will rock your soul!!

Sweet Connie was an actual real party girl one of the groupies for the band. She was a groupie for a lot of the bands!

the beatles sold out Shea Stadium in 2 weeks. These 3 guys sold out Shea in 72 hours. The fire marshal almost stopped the concert because the entire stadium was oscillating from the fans jumping up and down in unison during the concert. true story

One of the first rock groups I listened to, I think I was still in grade school or Jr. High when I first heard this song. You should check out "I'm Your Captain", and "Some Kind of Wonderful."

I love this song, Got it when it 1st came out. Great band to.

That song is a '70's anthem. This was my childhood

Mark Farner was the primary vocalist, but on this tune, drummer Don Brewer is on lead vocals. They are from Flint, MI...

thank you for bringing back the intro music.

You nailed GFR when you said “ just a good ass time!” Just a great band. ☮️

Don Brewer the drummer took lead on this song. He's still touring with Mel bass player. Mark Farner tours with his own band Mark Farner's American Band. In the beginning they were only a 3 member band. Eventually added a keyboard. They sold out Shea stadium faster than the Beatles did. They didn't do hard drugs, only smoke occasionally, they wanted to concentrate on the music, per Mark said in an interview.

You HAVE to watch live versions of their songs. They are immensely talented. try INSIDE LOOKING OUT, HEARTBREAKER, MEAN MISTREATER, ROCK AND ROLL SOUL and SHININ ON.

4:07 Holy shit, Ryan nailed that fill.. he must have liked it if he remembered it that well a couple minutes later lol

The Brits had the Stones. Zep, The Who, Beatles, Pink Floyd, in the early 70s. So they were saying? Were an American Band.

Inside looking out live by these guys will definitely catch y’all off guard.

I'm your Captain is one of their greatest songs

It was so good to watch another reaction from you two 🙂

Staying on the subject of 'funk...' Extreme - Get the Funk Out

Great job. Thanks for getting back to classic rock!

Fellas, the Benny Hill Theme is actually "Yakety-Sax", written and recorded by Boots Randolph in Nashville in the early 1960s.

Every bar band in America back in the day covered this song, lol.

At our house parties in the’70s if you wanted to up the tempo and jump up and boogie, this was the song that we dropped on top of the record stack.

The girls danced their asses off to this tune at school dances in the high school band hall -- I WAS THERE!

Sweet Connie was a well known groupie who serviced many rock stars back in the 70s.

I was at the concert in Little Rock Arkansas where they met Sweet Sweet Connie! Met her later and people should definitely stop romanticizing groupies!

Coast Contra is back! Waiting for a reaction of their new freestyle, might be their best yet.

A review so nice. I cranked it up twice.

RIP Sweet Connie. I used to party with her in Little Rock. She was a lot of fun to hang out with.

These guys rock. great song. the drummer sings this song while he plays the drums. great to see live.

If a tune you listen to today from the 70s is even halfway great it's a pretty darn good song. 💜 GFR.. But when they hold the test of time to be great all through the decades that is really spectacular. And as you know listening to music rock and roll in the 60s and 70s was something out of the ordinary. This was all very very new. And of course you're listening out of context so I think you're doing a good job for being out of context oh, and thanks for playing this song it was definitely killer! I did not go in for that lifestyle but I definitely enjoyed the music. Very strong and very loud. Haha

Absolutely fantastic band, huge catalog, very versatile. Terrific live, or studio versions featuring the band in a video. Thanks for your reaction.

"We're An American Band" is the rockingest song Grand Funk ever recorded, but if you guys want to hear a completely different side of the band, check out "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home". You will love it!

I bought the single in 5th grade at a yard sale across the street and I wore it out. And Yeah, within a couple short years I would be in a much more Progressive stuff like Kansas and rush and so forth but really I liked everything. Lynyrd Skynyrd is huge huge huge favorite. Check out Captain my Captain by them. If you want to be at least a little surprised although it's still totally classic rock, check out the ZZ Top song Heard It On The X, which is actually kind of autobiographical for them. It's a total banger.

Hi Gentlemen. How are two of the finest men on RU-vid today?? I can't believe you are just now hearing this, but I'm glad you did.

If you want to be caught off-guard by the 70’s, you have to listen to Gino Vanelli, “Brother to Brother”. It’s a ride you don’t wanna miss. Transitions like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

4:24, that was the melody for the closing chase sequences of the Benny Hill Show!

Inside looking out. The LIVE VERSION!!!! It's incredible.

The Doors...Roadhouse Blues, you guys will love it..funky as hell!

Produced by the brilliant Todd Rundgren. He smoothed out some of the rough edges of GFR and produced this masterpiece of an album.

I got a fever and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!!! Rob Zombie also did a cover of this song.. That was the BENNY HILL theme you guys were humming

This was the first record I ever bought with my own money. I was 10 yrs old & I picked it because the album cover was gold foil and I had heard this song on an older kid's radio by the community pool.

The official music video to this song is worth checking out.

Dam they should’ve done “Inside Looking Out” instead.

If you guys liked this, another by Grand Funk that you'd probably like is Sin's a good man's brother. It's a bit heavier.

I wouldn't have believed it if neither of you had heard at least part of this song. A classic rock tune from the 1970s. One of the many rock/party anthems from the '70s. I also love their Some Kind of Wonderful.

Inside Looking out is pure Funk, give it a Whirl!!

I find it fun to watch you guys get into some of these songs, In many ways you remind me of all the music, I've forgotten. If you guys ever do Jazz, I got a list!

One of the greatest trios ever.

“I’ve got a fever…” Cow Bell, babee. It’s always a cow bell making you strut that neck and stomp you feet.

Between Don Brewer (this song) and Mark Farner singing all the songs, they kill it on everything.

Grand Funk..alot could argue..they are the appitomy of blues/funk rock n roll. From "Inside looking out " "Heartbreaker" to "Closer to home"-(I'm yer captain) and you've done "Were an American band. Dig into these guys. You will appreciate them. FYI. That was (drummer)Don Brewer singing American band He also sings "Some kind of wonderful "..."Stop lookin back" and a few more. Mark Farner sings/writes most songs. Mel is a phenomenon on the bass. I think you'll like alot of their songs

Don Brewer is the singer on this one. The main singer is Mark Farner, who is also the main song writer and guitarist. Also, Mark Farner = Grand Funk! Check out Loneliness, which is a masterpiece. Other early gems are Heartbreaker, In Need and T.N.U.C.

Got my head shaking!

Grand Funk-Live Album is awesome!