Chords for Mark Farner Has Some Angry Words For Ex Bandmates in Grand Funk

Grand Funk are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, a momentous occasion.
The band's been together for a long time, but chief songwriter and lead singer Mark
Farner hasn't been in the band for a lot of years.
Bassist Mel Schacher's still there, and drummer Don Brewer is still in the fold.
I asked the main man, Mark Farner, what he thinks of the 50th anniversary of Grand Funk.
What are you thinking about the 50th anniversary Grand Funk tour?
_ You mean the Grand Fraud tour?
Is that what you're calling them?
Yeah, the Grand F-A-U-X Railroad.
It's too bad, you know, because it's really dishonest.
As legal as it may be, it is completely dishonest to the fans, and the fans are taking a slap
in the face, just like they are with [E] that fake foreigner that's out there.
There's not even an original member in that band, and they go out as a foreigner without
telling the prospective audience that there's no original members.
But the audience, the fans, don't get the truth.
They get screwed [G] again.
And I think the fans have been screwed enough, man.
Why not tell people the truth and [N] go out with a chest held high instead of hiding behind
your dark glasses and trying to present a fraud?
Yeah, Mick Jones is not_
Last time I heard he wasn't going_
There was_
He'd come out for a few songs, and then someone said, no, no, I just saw them, and he didn't
come on stage.
I went, oh.
Yeah, that's the last word that I got, John.
Listen, I've been asking everyone lately if they_
And you know the answer to this, but I've been asking everyone, hey, do you have an
end date, not death?
Do you have a date where you're going, yeah, I've had enough of this?
I just talked to Rich from Kansas, and he said, he says, you know, I kind of like doing this, though.
This is why God put me here, or whatever.
Everyone says the same thing.
What about you?
Do you ever look at that?
I mean, you seem healthy.
You're doing it?
As long as I'm hitting my notes, brother.
If I start_
If my ears get so bad that I can no longer hit my pitch, then I'm saying, see ya.
You know?
God bless everybody.
I'm out of here.
I'm going to spend my last days with my tinnitus, because I do have tinnitus, but thank God,
we can boost the monitors up above that shit.
Besides being an incredible musician that helps shape rock and roll, what else are you good at?
Farming.
Really?
Yeah, man.
Why did I not know that?
Yeah, my wife and I love to farm.
We absolutely_
We're grounded.
Hands and knees, barefoot, digging into the dirt.
October, brother, we are planting garlic, right?
I mean, the snow is coming down, and we're out there planting garlic.
Year before last, or no, I guess it was last year, our harvest was_
We had 364 head of garlic, and that's quite a lot of garlic, especially when you come
to the harvest process, and you got to take all the dirt off of it and hang it up in a
place, and we put fans on it in our big pole barn, because it's nice and warm in there,
and it forms that paper, because the paper, until you cure it out, the paper is just a membrane.
It's kind of like a skin on, like an onion.
And then when it dries out, then it'll_
I've still got garlic that we grew last year that's good, and we're using it every day
as part of my health routine, eating garlic.
But here's the point.
I mean, as long as we're on garlic, did you know that there are two constituent chemicals
in the garlic that don't see each other until you mince it or chop it?
And once you've chopped or minced this garlic, you're not supposed to use that until you
give it 10 or 15 minutes of setting time.
So the first thing I do, because what happens while it's setting is it forms this_
It starts with an A, and it's one of those words, it's about that long, but it's [Eb] the
healing properties and the flavor that comes from leaving it set for that curing time before
you add it to your dish, whether you're going to use it in the raw form or if you're going
to cook [E] it into something, makes no difference.
You need to let it set for 10 or 15 minutes.
No idea.
Yeah, man.
What's garlic do for you?
What's the benefits of garlic?
It's a blood purifier.
It's a natural [N]
antibiotic, antifungal.
_ I mean, if there was one thing that you could do_
A friend of mine used to tell me how he would take it.
Of course, he always put it in whiskey and honey.
Put a shot of whiskey in there.
But he said, if I feel a cold coming on, Farner, I just grind it up and I put it in a little
whiskey in a jar with some honey and I leave it set.
And then I'll take a teaspoon or a couple of teaspoons and it rests, whatever's going on.
And it's serious, man.
That's one of the old-time cures.
And friends of mine have told me about other ones that people use, but garlic is in most of them.
I had no idea.
How far back do you go with firming?
How far back_
When do you start firming?
I used to drive the John Deere Model M wide front end.
There was the M with the narrow front end.
But my granddad, my father's father, he was planting non-GMO.
That's all they had back then.
Real corn that had real weeds coming up between the rows.
So you had to use the tractor to cultivate and that would cover the weeds up and arrest
them until the corn got up to where it could shadow out those weeds and come to maturity.
And I was seven, eight years old doing that because at that age, I was strong enough to
grab the handle that lifts the cultivator and squeeze it because you got to release the spring.
And I found out that if you pushed forward, there wasn't much squeezing that had to take place.
You just push forward and I could do that and release that cultivator and drop it down
in the rows.
And I loved keeping a straight line with that tractor.
I love being able to go right down that row and it was like there was something guiding me.
I've had that line in there, kind of like a dirt bike rider or a motocross rider.
They draw a line before they get there.
They're following a line, this imaginary line in their head.
That's what I had going for me.
And I loved it back then and I loved knowing that when we put that corn on the table and
my dad's other three brothers and all the children, all my cousins, and everybody's
gathered at grandma and grandpa's house, that I had a hand in putting that corn on the table,
brother.
It was like, talk about something special.
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