Little known Grand Funk related stuff

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When I was younger, I took a bit of grief about being a Grand Funk fan.  There's a lot of Grank Funk on YouTube.  Evidently, they are still popular.  That may cause certain people to roll their eyes, as Grand Funk got a lot of bad press back then.  This may have been a gimmick, as their manager is quoted to have said that there was no such thing as bad publicity.  All of the bad publicity may have helped to make them popular with the rebellious youth of the day.  It also may have made them a bit underrated, in my opinion.

Anyway, not having much in the way of ideas for posting, I started browsing some Grand Funk stuff on Youtube.  I found some stuff I haven't seen before, and thought I'd link it up here.

The first here is from the pre Grand Funk days when Mark Farner, the front man of the group, who at the time of this recording was with a group called The Pack.  This song here is similar to the Locomotion, which was one of Grand Funk's most popular songs,  making it all the way to number one in 1974.  This particular song, which is a bit different, but similar in that it is a dance song,  is called Widetrackin'.  I could be wrong, but that almost has to be Farner doing the vocals.  Farner's voice is much more laid  back in this song, but it is clear to me that it is him.

The next song is a cover of Jimi Hendrix' Fire.  It is also a Pack recording done way back in 1968.  Grand Funk got started in 1969, if memory serves.

Farner did another cover of a Christian song called Isn't it Amazing?  This recording was in 1989.

Just after Grand Funk broke up, Farner went solo and here's a song off one of the two albums in the late seventies.  It is called He Sent Me You.  This live performance of that song was recorded in 1988.