Posted on 06/12/2021 8:17:36 PM PDT by simpson96
"I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" is a 1970 song written by American musician Mark Farner and recorded by Grand Funk Railroad as the closing track to their album Closer to Home.
The song conveys the pleas of a captain on a troubled sea voyage and facing a mutiny from his crew. Its use of an orchestra during the long repeated refrains of the closing movement served to differentiate it from much of Grand Funk's work.
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain - Shea Stadium 1971
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I saw GFR in Germany at a concert for the troops in the summer of ‘71, great music, Mott the Hoople opened for them and then after GFR there was a group called the Who that rocked the night away, great times!
It makes ya wonder what happened to all those groups who were big for a couple years then went into obscurity. Some of them are probably doing county fairs and carnivals.
All those people gathered to hear music and not one shooting reported.
great band
Do you have a similar performance for their classic: “WE’RE AN AMERICAN BAND” ?
I listened to that album for many hours back in the very early 1970s. A few years following I attended a GFR concert at Boston Garden and that ‘Brain Salad Surgery’ was pathetically awful.
I still have the Closer To Home album, but on CD.
My favorite song of theirs!
Mark Farner is a born again believer now.
Notice the prominent display of the American Flag at the beginning of this? And some of the young people were wearing red, white and blue.
I loved GFR in the early 70’s, but they were too loud for an indoor concert. I actually plugged my ears while they were playing. Billy Preston was the warm up band and he blew them out of the water. What a talent!!! Their music was great, was well performed and I loved the concert, but they were too loud. I could hear them with my ears plug about as loud as in my car on 10.
Mark, Bill and Mel as I recall. Mel was the bassist, and he was awesome.
Great memory!!! In my favorite now
Never got the chance but a couple of years later I started going to concerts with my first being Black Sabbath and Brownsville Station. LOUD. All concerts were and my ears would ring for days after. Can you imagine being a band member and playing at that level of loud each night? I’m sure many are deaf now.
Great D-Dsus song!
The guy at 5:13 ate the brown acid.
Quite possibly the mist underrated ‘anthem’ of that period. The challenge, like Buddy Holly’s Crickets before them, was how to make a 3-piece rock band sound like an entire orchestra.
Just for the record, Brain Salad Surgery was a great Emerson Lake & Palmer album. I saw them touring behind it c. 1974.
>The challenge, like Buddy Holly’s Crickets before them, was how to make a 3-piece rock band sound like an entire orchestra.
It’s easy. Just be Jimi Hendrix . . .
Excellent performance. Very nicely filmed.
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