And it was difficult to cope with, really. By the time we got to our second album we were known all over the country and even other parts of the world. We took off from the Atlanta Pop Festival and then we started playing venues in the South, through Texas and Georgia and Louisiana, and it just all took off. All of a sudden we were on the national stage and we were the new hot band, especially in the south. “It was pinch me, is this real - that kind of a thing. “Oh it was scary,” Brewer said of the instant fame. Their performance was a raging success and lead to a contract with Capitol Records and two albums by the year’s end. Things happened fast for Grand Funk after they were asked to play at the 1969 Atlanta Pop Music Festival. You just had different people coming and going at different times and then all of a sudden it morphed into a whole other entity.” That band eventually became the Jazzmasters, and that band became The Pack, and that band became Terry Knight & The Pack, and then that band became Grand Funk Railroad. “I was in a band called Red Devils - I started that band in my basement in Swartz Creek, Michigan. “It was the result of meeting different people and having people coming and going in the band,” Brewer said. The band formed out of several previous arrangements. This legendary rock group began as a power trio in 1969 consisting of Don Brewer on drums and vocals, Mark Farner on guitar and vocals and Mel Schacher on bass. They’re comin’ to our town and they’ll “help you party it down.” Don’t miss the American band, Grand Funk Railroad, playing at the Edge Pavilion at 7 p.m.
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