Grand Funk Railroad-Im Your Captain-LIVE-at Shea Stadium 1971-Dolby Pro LogicII 384kbs--REMIX.mp4

"I'm Your Captain" (Closer to Home)

Grand Funk Railroad LIVE AT SHEA STADIUM 1971

This Remix has the black bars gone with sharper colors and better Audio with 2 tracks.
EDIT: I inadvertently removed the black bars using my other PC set at 16:10 video size. So please forgive me, and set your Video sized to 16:10, this will fill your screen (I use 60" Samsung 1080P) and will not effect the picture. I did not realize this until I watched it on my other PC. Still 16:10 is perfect sized and looks great.

"Am I in my cabin dreaming?
Or are you really scheming
To take my ship away from me?
You'd better think about it
I just can't live without it
So please don't take my ship from me
Yeah, yeah, yeah"
Personals: At that time a bunch of us used to pile into 1-2 cars and drive out into the country after work at a local drive-in (The Steer Restaraunt) roll a few , then roll a few more lol, and our main songs were "Closer to Home" and "Magic Carpet Ride", one guy HAD to hear "A Horse with No Name" EVERY FRKN NIGHT! LOLOL. The King Biscuit Flour Hour used to play live rock music for a hour every night and we would just all cruise and chill. Great times with some great guys in Franklin. This Band was quite possibly the most favorite band of everyone at that time as they did indeed beat even The Beatles sold out record at Shea Stadium, don't believe it? Just look at all these fans literally almost breaking down the stands jumping up and down. Yeop a period of heavy drug use but still they almost closed the concert that night because the were scared the stadium would collapse. but the NY police were powerless against all the GFR Fans! Count em I have done ONLY 2 Remixes of the 2 bands that competed for Shea Stadium Record. Tell you anything? Side Note: Supposedly the entire show was taped but the original tapes were `lost' and never distributed. (right) so hold onto this one! Somehow? :) this one made it out YEAH!!!

Grand Funk Railroad (also known as Grand Funk) is an American blues rock band that was highly popular during the 1970s. Grand Funk Railroad toured to packed arenas worldwide. David Fricke of Rolling Stone Magazine said "You cannot talk about rock in the 1970's without talking about Grand Funk Railroad!" A popular take on the band during its heyday was that, although the critics hated them, audiences loved them.(Please let me rephrase that: WE EFFN LOVED THEM TO DEATH! Watch the kidds in the stands for proof. The band's name is a play on words of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a railroad line that ran through the band's home town of Flint, Michigan.Formation (1969) Originally a trio, the band was formed in 1969 by Mark Farner (guitar, vocals) and Don Brewer (drums, vocals) from Terry Knight and the Pack, and Mel Schacher (bass) from Question Mark & the Mysterians; Knight soon became the band's manager. Knight named the band as a play on words for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a well-known rail line in Michigan. First achieving recognition at the 1969 Atlanta Pop Festival, the band was signed by Capitol Records. After a raucous, well-received set on the first day of the festival, the group was asked back to play two additional days. Patterned after hard rock power trios such as Cream, the band, with Terry Knight's marketing savvy, developed its own popular style. In 1969, the band released its first album titled On Time, which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold record in 1970. In the same year, a second album, Grand Funk
(aka "The Red Album"), was awarded gold status. The hit single "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)", from the album Closer to Home, also released in 1970, was considered stylistically representative of Terry Knight and the Pack's recordings. The band spent $100,000 on a New York Times Square billboard to advertise Closer to Home. In 1970, they sold more albums than any other American band and became a major concert attraction. By 1971, Grand Funk broke The Beatles' Shea Stadium attendance record by selling out in just 72 hours. Despite critical pans and a lack of airplay, the group's first six albums (five studio releases and one live album) were quite successful. In 1970, Knight launched an intensive advertising campaign to promote the album Closer To Home. That album was certified multi-platinum despite a lack of critical approval.
Following Closer To Home, Live Album was also released in 1970, and was another gold disc recipient.[2] Survival and E Pluribus Funk
were both released in 1971. E Pluribus Funk celebrated the Shea
Stadium show with an embossed depiction of the stadium on the album cover's reverse.By late 1971, the band was concerned with Knight's managerial style and fiscal responsibility. This growing dissatisfaction led Grand Funk Railroad to fire Knight in early 1972. Knight sued for breach of contract, which resulted in a protracted legal battle. At one point, Knight repossessed the band's gear before a gig at Madison Square Garden. In VH1's "Behind the Music" Grand Funk Railroad episode, Knight stated that the original contract would have run out in about three months, and that the smart decision for the band would have been to just wait out the time. However, the band felt they had no choice but to continue and fight for the rights to their career and name. In 1972, Grand Funk Railroad added Craig Frost on keyboards full-time. Originally, Grand Funk attempted to attract Peter Frampton, late of Humble Pie; however, Frampton was not available due to signing a solo-record deal with A&M Records. The addition of Frost, however, was a stylistic shift from Grand Funk's original garage-band based rock & roll roots to a more rhythm & blues/pop-rock-oriented style. With the new lineup, Grand Funk released its sixth album of original music Phoenix in 1972. The new combination worked. To refine Grand Funk's sound, the band secured veteran musician Todd Rundgren as a producer. Their two most successful albums and two No. 1 hit singles resulted: the Don Brewer penned "We're an American Band" (from We're an American Band) and "The Loco-Motion" (from Shinin' On, written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and originally recorded by Little Eva). The album We're an American Band topped out at No. 2 on the charts. "We're an American Band" was Grand Funk's first No. 1 hit, followed by Brewer's #19 hit "Walk Like A Man". 1974's "The Loco-Motion" was Grand Funk's second chart topping single, followed by Brewer's #11 hit "Shinin' On". The band continued touring the U.S., Europe, and Japan.In 1996, Grand Funk Railroad's three original members once again reunited and played to 250,000 people in 14 shows during a three-month period. In 1997, the band played three sold-out Bosnian benefit concerts. These shows featured a full symphony orchestra that was conducted by Paul Shaffer (from the David Letterman Late Show). The band released a live two-disc benefit CD called Bosnia recorded in Auburn Hills, Michigan. This recording also featured Peter Frampton who joined the band on stage. In 1998, after three years of touring, Farner left the band and returned to his solo career.On the long-running series The Simpsons, Grand Funk Railroad is a favorite band of Homer Simpson. In the season seven episode "Homerpalooza", upon hearing that Bart and Lisa do not know anything about GFR, Homer says "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!" and in the season twelve episode "A Tale of Two Springfields" when he gives The Who a list of songs to play, Roger Daltrey states that most of the songs are by GFR. In the series premiere of season 18, "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer", Bart and Lisa get on the school bus, and Bart will not share his seat (the last available one) with Lisa. Instead of dealing with her problem, Otto puts a Grand Funk tape into his Walkman and sings to "We're an American Band". When asked in interviews, Don Brewer has confessed to being incredibly flattered about having Homer as a fan.

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Video:
Frame Width: 636 (black bars gone)
Frame Height: 368
Total Bitrate: 1500kbps
Frame Rate: 29 FPS

Audio:
Track 1
7.1 ch mix
Bit Rate: 1536kbps
Audio Sample Rate: 48 khz

Track 2
Dolby Pro Logic II
Bit Rate: 384kbps
Channels 2(stereo)
Audio Sample Rate: 48 khz