Grand Funk Railroad’s Don Brewer takes us behind the scenes of upcoming tour
nypost.comGrand Funk Railroad‘s drummer and singer Don Brewer’s head.“The band was going through a pretty rough time period,” Brewer told the New York Post. “We had left our former manager, Terry Knight, and he was suing us over rights to the band name.
We were looking for a hit song because Knight had taken all of our money,”“And so we’re on an airplane, flying into a town to play.
I’m looking down at the ground and all of a sudden, ‘We’re coming to your town, we’ll help you party down’ comes to me and I wrote the song around that line.”A half century later, the classic rockers are still comin’ to your town to help you party down as part of their ‘American Band 50th Anniversary Tour.’From September 2023 through March 2024, Grand Funk Railroad — which is now made up of members from KISS, .38 Special, Bob Seger’s Silver Bullet Band and ?
and the Mysterians — will hit 13 venues all over North America celebrating their classic song and more at each and every gig along the way.That includes huge shows at Waterloo, NY’s The Vine at Del Lago Resort and Casino on Friday, Nov.
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