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ABOUT. Photo Credit: Neil Preston. Legendary all-American frontman and guitarist, Mark Farner, was the engine that pulled the original Grand Funk Railroad repeatedly to the top of the charts, and today he’s a platinum recording artist 30 times over. At age 70, Farner commands the stage with the same intensity and outpouring of love as he did ...
Oct 9, 2023 · Features. “I had an operation and the doctor told me, ‘No more heavy guitars.’. He rattled off a ton I couldn't play – I said, ‘Doc, what can I play?!’” Mark Farner on what led him to the Parker Fly – and what’s preventing a Grand Funk Railroad reunion. By Andrew Daly. published 9 October 2023.
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Sep 29, 2023 · September 29, 2023 Jim Sullivan. Mark Farner of Grand Funk (Image: Pinterest) Grand Funk Railroad was, in the early ‘70s, the most popular band of its day and, in some critical quarters, the most hated. The trio from Flint, Michigan was the “people’s band” – a hard rock outfit that came out of a garage. Over the years, they sold more ...
Dec 1, 2020 · Knight convinced the band they needed him as their lead singer and frontman to propel them to success, and The Jazz Masters were renamed Terry & The Pack. Mark Farner was then recruited, initially as a bass player, Knight being impressed by Farner because of his resemblance to Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones.
Grand Funk Railroad (often shortened to Grand Funk) is an American rock band formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1969 by Mark Farner (vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica), Don Brewer (drums, vocals), and Mel Schacher (bass).
Mark Farner —co-founding singer-songwriter-guitarist of Grand Funk Railroad, a band that’s sold more than 25 million albums—has both kinds of stories. One is a doozy. It’s about him and Jimi Hendrix. “I knew Jimi,” Farner says, on the phone in our 2017 interview from his home in Petoskey, Mich.
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