Awesome, love Don and was a big influence...
Drummer: Don Brewer
Drumming Style: Rock & Roll
Band: Grand Funk Railroad
Brief Description: Don Brewer was drummer and founding member of Grand Funk Railroad. He joined his first band the Red Devils when he was 12 years old. Aside from playing drums with Grand Funk, Brewer also sang lead vocals on many of their songs. He wrote and sung the bands first #1 hit, "We're an American Band".
Other Fun Facts: Grand Funk Railroad is Homer Simpson's favorite band. In the "Homerpalooza" episode he makes the comment to Bart and Lisa, "You kids don't know Grand Funk? The wild shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drumwork of Don Brewer? Oh, man!"
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Awesome, love Don and was a big influence...
I met "lil donny brewer " when he was 16 and drumming for
'terry knight & the pack"( a singing dj from michigan wif a few local hits)
their bass player was mark farner ( not performing due to hepititus)
girls @ da show loved em so much they took da distributer wires
off da car they were in & we took them to the airport,,,
years later terry knight showed up
managing a group named "grand funk railroad"
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Grand Funk is a life time favorite of mine !
Here's one
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVZdF5OnSs"]Grand Funk Live - T.N.U.C.(with drum solo) - YouTube[/ame]
E Drums !! !
There are no loud instruments just loud players !
Protect Your Hearing !!!!
Grand Funk rules!
all the best...
+1 on Grand Funk!
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Oh yeah! Grand Funk Railroad was one of my favorite band, man for a trio they sure rocked. I had two albums 'Closer to Home' and 'Survival' that I use to play over and over when I was exhausted just to relax. Great band.
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+1 on grand
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Grand funk railroad was a great band. If you are a drummer you should really listen to all the grand funk music. Don Brewers drumming was right on the money. He had a solid rock style with kinda slight funk vibe. For me the 2 rock groups that both the music and drumming stood out was Zeplain and grand funk. If you could pickup a sense of there drum feel and apply it to your drumming, you could pretty much play any rock music.
I think that every band has played "We're an American Band".
Don Brewer was one of my early big influences. I learned the solo from T.N.U.C. note for note back in the day.
Grand Funk Railroad Live Album is a classic.
I really like him too. Came across this groove he did awhile back and really liked it, see what you think.
"Mark says Alright"
Joe
Grand Funk Railroad - Survival
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...e1lK5VXcNZvgYA
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Great drums
Great bass
Great vocals
Almost the perfect rock band!
all the best...
Great drummer and great band.. A buddy of mine says that Mark Farner came up with the intro to American Band but I dont know if it's true, I could never find any info on it.
I tried to play that intro with single pedal but cannot get it up to speed. I need to revisit that though.
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Decide whether this is love for the craft or simply an ego thing
http://www.redskymary.com/ NOT MY BAND, JUST A GREAT LOCAL BAND WHO SHOULD BE SOOO MUCH BIGGER IMO
Awesome live version.
Great drummer!
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