By 1973‚ Grand Funk Railroad had experienced success as a trio‚ having famously sold-out Shea Stadium faster than The Beatles on the backside of 1970’s Closer to Home. Sadly‚ shoddy management dealings with longtime cohort‚ Terry Knight‚ had left Mark Farner‚ Mel Schacter‚ and Don Brewer not only down and out‚ but broke and fighting litigation. Ouch. Making matters worse‚ 1971’s Survival and E Pluribus Funk and 1972’s Pheonix were failures‚ as FM radio had shifted to a three-minute format—even on the hard rock side. And so‚ the decision was made to pull back some of the songwriting duties from Mark Farner and for Don The post Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad: The ClassicRockHistory.com Interview Part II appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.