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Grand Funk Railroad frontman to hold concert in Versailles Provided photo VERSAILLES — Musician Mark Farner considers himself a rock patriot. As the son of a World War II veteran, and the platinum-recording frontman for the original Grand Funk Railroad, he’s not very far off. Farner grew up in Flint, Mich., and got his start in music at weekly jam sessions with family. “We would have everyone in the family play,” he said. “My grandpa played fiddle and banjo, Uncle Woody played the gu...

"Lou Dog" behind the board at Pedernales Studios in 1996 (photo courtesy of Michael "Miguel" Happoldt) In this week’s Austin Chronicle cover story, in which six individuals involved in the creation of the landmark 1996 album share stories and reflections, producer Paul Leary recounts Sublime’s “long, dilapidated” RV getting stuck up the hill upon entry to Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studio in Spicewood, where the foundation of the album was tracked, before overdu...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago….. When you think of power rock trios, who springs to mind? Cream? ZZTop? Rush? Sure, all of those were great…but in the early 70’s there was no bigger power trio (at least commercially) than Grand Funk Railroad. The boys from Flint Mich (the name was a play on words of the train line that ran through the city…Grand Trunk Railroad) had been churning out records and selling out stadiums for awhile. They were always more p...

Alice Cooper 's new studio album, Detroit Stories , has debuted at #1 on Billboard 's Top Current Album Sales chart, which is based solely on traditio...

Alice Cooper 's new studio album, Detroit Stories , has debuted at #1 on Billboard 's Top Current Album Sales chart, which is based solely on traditio...

Alice Cooper 's new studio album, Detroit Stories , has debuted at #1 on Billboard 's Top Current Album Sales chart, which is based solely on traditio...

Alice Cooper 's new studio album, Detroit Stories , has debuted at #1 on Billboard 's Top Current Album Sales chart, which is based solely on traditio...

Mark Farner will be putting out a new concert DVD called From Chile with Love on April 6 , and to help promote the release the former Grand Funk Railroad frontman will appear live tonight on a streaming event hosted by the social-shopping site TalkShopLives Rock n Roll Channel . During his appearance, which begins at 7 p.m. ET, Farner will chat with Ingram Entertainments Steve Harkins , whose company is releasing the DVD, and the veteran rocker also will field some questions subm...

Mark Farner talks new live DVD, Grand Funk Railroad hits, Rock Hall snub Updated Mar 03, 2021; Facebook Share Where would ’70s rock be without Grand Funk Railroad? The Flint, Michigan trio spent the decade liquifying hi-fi’s and coliseums with blue-collar groove-guitar songs, like “We’re An American Band,” “Shinin’ On,” and “Footstompin’ Music,” and big-hair covers of R&B gems “Some Kind of Wonderful” and “The Loco-Motion.” Grand Funk sold out New York’s Shea St...

Rock legend Alice Cooper may have his first number one in Australia but the end of this week based on midweek sales of his ‘Detroit Stories’ album.