The older first trooper told the younger guy I got it, and the other trooper left. Is he going to be charged with alluding?" Ouch. "I can smell the liquor all the way over here. Is there any way I can leave this vehicle right here and we go up to that hotel there and get us a room?" Another trooper steps up, apparently 2 had been following us.for a while. There was no hiding it, I was drunker than snot, no need to insult the guy by trying to weasel out or lie. Lead singer dumps a big gulp sized screwdriver right onto the floorboard, get rid of the evidence, you see. Then I see the overhead blue lights, "I'm goin' down boys, it's the law". So I'm checking the rearview every once in a while figuring if they're still behind me I'm not going too fast. It wouldn't have mattered anyway because the speed ammeter didn't work. So we're heading down the highway and I'm noticing there are no dash lights. He was drunker than snot, so I volunteered to drive.being, ahem, more sober. We were in the guitar players car, a real piece of shit hoopty. After show, the nights young, come on out to my crib! They agreed they would follow us. So we all dapped out to the car a couple of times during the evening, get high and polish off our pints, do a little touchy feely. There at the bar was this firey hot redhead older chick than he who had set sights on him. Other guitar player was a really young guy. Pint bottles for me and the guitar player, brown liquor for me, tequila for him, and the lead singer got a 5th(!) of Vodka, mixing screwdrivers. We were what you might call wide open balls to the wall at the time, so stopped off at the liquor store to pick up a little primer, for the drive. We did used to do American Band in a band I was in years and years ago.Ī night off we weren't gigging, me, the other guitar player, and vocalist went to see a band kind of way out from our central location, not too terribly far.
Yeah, I don't think them boys play well together anymore, suits over band name, bad blood, typical stuff. I don't know that much about them, GFR, but it was a pretty good interview. That, along with legendary lines like “Come on, dudes, let’s get it on!,” gets it the No 1 spot on our list of the 10 best Great Funk Railroad songs.I watched a Mark Farner interview on that classic rock heroes or whatever it's called. Brewer, of course, denies all this, but either way, this is the song that defines the band like no other.
After extolling the virtues of American legends like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, Brewer slammed down his drink, stood up, puffed out his chest, and proudly declared “We’re an American band.” The next morning, he sat down and committed his words to paper. The story goes that Don Brewer was having a few after-show drinks with the guys from Humble Pie and decided to get into an argument about British music versus American music. If anyone ever had any doubts about Grand Funk’s nationality, “We’re an American Band” put the questions to bed. The ebbs, the flows, the drama, the catchy verses, the hooky choruses… it’s all there, and it’s all magnificent. It’s a testament to the band’s prowess that it didn’t here. Described by as Mark Farner’s magnum opus, few songs exemplify what Grand Funk were all about better than “I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home).” Any other song that lasted over ten minutes would stretch your concentration to breaking point.
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