Grand Funk Railroad Live Are You Ready (1969)

One of the historic early appearances, at the Texas International Pop Festival (August 30 to September 1) in Lewisville, just north of Dallas. Grand Funk opened all three days for free and made quite a sensation, just like they did in Atlanta Pop Festival nearly two months earlier. Standing ovations of an estimated total had Grand Funk multiencoring to the point Farner couldn t even walk off stage (a common situation in later More than 12 hours worth of footage films stored at the Historic Films selves waiting in the obscurity for somebody to make a A movie Just like a group of intelligent people did with Festival Express Ironically, the Railroad was absent in that 1970 More ironically, absent they were from Woodstock (even if they had been asked to play) because Mark was still recovering from some very bad beating a few weeks after the Atlanta (By most accounts, Grand Funk s first public appearance after Mark s incident was in front of at the Centennial Park Nashville Music Festival August 22 24)