One of the founding members of the legendary band Grand Funk Railroad. A singer, songwriter, guitar player, in September he released a full album, and his American Band continues to tour, including a cruise that they will play on next March. He is a platinum recording artist 30 times over and even earned a Dove Award nomination. A music video for one of the songs on his new album got more than 25 thousand views in just the first four weeks alone of being on his official YouTube channel. On and off the stage he works tirelessly to honor our nation’s service personnel and Veterans wherever they are stationed.
“Life and forgiveness … which I have found to be the greatest reward ever out of all the things I have achieved in life. You know, forgiveness, attaining forgiveness and giving forgiveness is the greatest reward I believe anybody could have… it is something that we are all capable of but it, I don't think it's been defined and cherished the way it should be.”
“I never looked forward so much to being with somebody as I did with Mark Slaughter.”
“Sometimes it would be three days, sometimes four days, sometimes two days. I would take whatever we had because he's a touring musician, I'm a touring musician and to get that time that we are both off simultaneously, that was more difficult than we anticipated. But when it happened, it was magic.”
“I went, ‘I can't believe what just happened. You go to get a UPS package, unbox it, and plug it right straight into the board, and here we go. We're recording’.”
“We were in New York City doing a rock 'n' roll fantasy camp … David Fishof, who runs the camp, he told me, ‘Howard Stern wants you to come over and play I'm Your Captain on his show’.”
“We had our own videos running when Bridge Over Troubled Water was playing. Everybody had a definition. We were seeing things without the assistance of a video clip that defined the song and gave it one definition.”
“It's our imaginations that are starving. We've seen too much. We need to go back to listening and making the definition appear by just listening to the mere words and we will get back on track. I really believe that. I think videos have shot the music business in the butt.”
“My father was a World War II veteran, a tank driver in the Seventh Armored Division, and returned home with four bronze medals within four major battles and lived to come home to my mother who was the first woman in the United States to weld on Sherman tanks at Fisher Body in Flint, Michigan.”
“I had to go over and see the (Vietnam) wall and when I walked up to it, I was just overcome in a way that the television didn't give me that feeling or hearing about it. But walking up to it and realizing how huge this wall was and that there were 58,000 names on this wall of men and women who had given it all, it just totally, the sorrow overcame me, and I had to take a knee. That I will never forget and even as I tell people about it, my heart always revisits that moment.”
“When it was Grand Funk and Joplin on the same roster, if I went on first, I would hang out and watch her. If she went on first, she would hang out and watch us and then her and I would get together and we were great friends.”
“Anymore”
“Real”