So, they took a break and it was ? and the Mysterians and Mel Schacher was playing bass. You couldn't hear it very good, but you could feel the bass coming through the wall and I said, 'Ooh, listen to that bass player, that guy's getting down under that. But while we were sitting in the outer office waiting to get in, there was somebody in their rehearsal hall playing. I said, 'We ought just do a three-piece' and Don said, 'Do you think we can?' And I said, 'If we get the right bass player we can.' We started looking and went out to Delta Promotions in Bay City where this company that sent us out to the Boston area to do these gigs and we were going to give them a piece of our minds. We got all these gigs coming up and now we don't have a band. When we got home (to Flint), the two guys that were married, their wives were gonna divorce them and the band broke up. We were melting down snow to have water to drink and mix with our oatmeal that didn't have any butter or sugar and that's all we were living on. We had the worst snowstorm in the history of the world and we got stranded there for weeks in February of 1969.
We got waylaid we were out in Cape Cod in a summer beach house, a little cabin, and it was winter. "We were actually a five-piece, I was the singer, there were four other musicians (including Brewer), but I wasn't playing anything in that band, the Fabulous Pack (so renamed after Knight had gone). Mark Farner talks of the circumstances leading up to the formation of Grand Funk Railroad:
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad objected to the use of their name and the band was forced to change their name to Grand Funk Railroad.
Knight soon became the band's manager and also named the band originally "Grand Trunk Railroad" as a play on words for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a well-known rail line in Michigan. Grand Funk Railroad was formed as a trio in 1968 by Mark Farner and Don Brewer from Terry Knight and the Pack and Mel Schacher from Question Mark & the Mysterians. The original trio reunited at various times later into the band's career after Farner's final departure in 1998, Brewer and Schacher have continued touring as Grand Funk Railroad.Ī Grand Trunk Western Railroad bridge (located at 42★9'56.2"N 83☄1'35.6"W) in Grand Funk's hometown of Flint, Michigan, that was re-painted to instead show the band's name, as well as the first names of founding members Mark Farner and Don Brewer, and early 1980s bassist Dennis Bellinger Formation (1968) Known for a crowd-pleasing arena rock style, the band toured extensively and played to packed arenas worldwide, and was well-regarded by audiences despite a relative lack of critical praise. Grand Funk released six platinum and seven gold-certified albums between their recording debut in 1969 and their first disbandment in 1976. The band achieved peak popularity and success during the 1970s with hit songs such as " We're an American Band", " I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)", " Some Kind of Wonderful" (a cover of Soul Brothers Six), " Walk Like a Man", " The Loco-Motion" (a cover of Little Eva), " Bad Time" and " Inside Looking Out" (a cover of the Animals). 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).
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