![]() ![]() ![]() To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. July 19 - Rocking the River - Detroit, Mich.īLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. July 13 - White Nights Festival at Ice Palace - St. June 15 - Historic Everett Theatre - Everett, Wash. May 31 - Blast Friday at Ruth Eckerd Hall - Clearwater, Fla.* May 25 - Teatro Caupolican - Santiago, Chile May 24 - Teatro Aula Magna Universidad - Valparaiso, Chile May 21 - Centro De Convenciones Daniel Alcides Carrion - Miaraflores, Peru May 18 - Montecello Grand Casino - San Fransisco De Monstazal, Chile May 17 - Teatro Munipal - Concepcion, Brazil May 15 - Teatro NET Rio - Copacabana, Brazil May 11 - Teatro Bom Jeasus - Curitiba, Brazil March 24 - The Coach House - San Juan Capistrano, Calif.**Īpril 19 - Capitol Theatre - Flint, Mich.Īpril 22 - Pima County Fair - Tucson, Ariz.Īpril 24 - 10th Annual Great Dames - Wilmington, Del.* March 23 - The Canyon - Agoura Hills, Calif.** March 16 - Boot Barn - Colorado Springs, Colo. ![]() March 15 - Boot Barn - Colorado Springs, Colo. MARK FARNER'S AMERICAN BAND will honor Farner's golden anniversary in music, as well as shine a spotlight on his legendary contributions to society, in his 2019-2020 50th-anniversary tour.ĥ0-Year Celebration - MARK FARNER'S AMERICAN BAND 2019 tour dates: Today, Farner's amplifying his remarkable career another full decibel selling more than 30 million records worldwide, including 16 gold and platinum albums. His story and his imprint on music starts with Flint and since 1969 from his humble beginnings and a blue-collar outlook, Farner has captained a global crusade for love and freedom and became a rock 'n' roll icon.ĥ0 years later, he commands the stage with the same intensity performing epic hits that defined a generation - "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)", "Bad Time", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Foot Stompin' Music", "Heartbreaker", "Locomotion", "Mean Mistreater" and "We're An American Band". From his soulful voice and power rock riffs, to fueling the FUNK with his atomic stage presence. The ruling on the preliminary injunction motion does not end the case it will now proceed through the discovery phase.Īs one of the founding members, lead singer, lead guitarist, and wrote more than 90 percent of the GRAND FUNK music catalog, Farner has always been known as the energetic driving force on stage, the engine that pulled the original GRAND FUNK RAILROAD to the top of the charts. I have never heard that anyone confused my group with GRAND FUNK RAILROAD." "I've got a trademark registration on MARK FARNER'S AMERICAN BAND, and I've been using it for two touring seasons. "The judge did the right thing," Farner said. Quist, United States District Court judge for the Western District of Michigan, found that GRAND FUNK RAILROAD "fails to show a strong likelihood of success that Farner's use of MARK FARNER'S AMERICAN BAND creates a likelihood of confusion among consumers." In a 26-page opinion, the Honorable Gordon J. The very best is here, though.A federal court in Michigan has denied GRAND FUNK RAILROAD's motion for preliminary injunction to stop former singer Mark Farner from using the band name MARK FARNER'S AMERICAN BAND. For most, this single-disc collection will be more than adequate, but listeners looking for the complete Grand Funk story should check out Capitol's three-disc Thirty Years of Funk from 1999, or the four-disc Trunk of Funk, also from Capitol, released in 2002. Greatest Hits has all the essential jukebox fare (lacking only their so-so cover of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter"), including the clichéd but emotionally right "Heartbreaker," everybody's favorite guilty pleasure, the mock epic "I'm Your Captain," and a pair of pop-soul gems, the group's cover of the Soul Brothers Six's "Some Kind of Wonderful," and Mark Farner's best-ever song, the marvelous "Bad Time," which came complete with cellos and fuzz guitar. Distilled into a 14-track greatest-hits set like this one, it's easy to see that Grand Funk (they dropped - then re-added - the "Railroad" part of their name as the juggernaut rolled on) was essentially a singles band (although their albums did phenomenally well back in the day) with not a whole lot to say but a knack for saying it really well, which, when you think about it, is usually a sure ticket into the Top 40. Grand Funk Railroad took their veiled Motown/Stax influences and grafted them onto a fuzz-drenched hard blues-rock template, and muffler dragging roared out of Flint, Michigan like the little engine that could, confounding the critics and building an impressive record sales portfolio in the 1970s by giving their ardent, blue-collar fans no more and no less than what was expected of them. ![]()
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