Greta Van Fleet drummer Danny Wagner told Entrtnmnt in an interview last month that Grand Funk Railroad were one of their earliest influences, and now that band’s singer has told the band to write ‘original music’ in a new MLive interview.
Mark Farner said, “I’ve seen them. A friend of mine who is an investment banker in Panama asked my opinion,” said Farner in a one-on-one interview with MLive-The Flint Journal. “He said ‘check this band out,’ so I checked them out and I went back to him.”
“I said I think they’re a good band, but I think they need original music,” said Farner. “I think they need to stop doing anybody else’s music and do all their own and they’d have something, then they’ll have something, you know.
“And, I wouldn’t mind writing them a couple of songs,” he said with a laugh.
In a March 2018 interview Australia’s Network Ten, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant was asked what current bands the he enjoys. He said about Greta Van Fleet, “They are like Led Zeppelin I” when referring to the band’s sound.
“[Josh Kiszka] borrowed it from somebody I know very well,” comments Plant, with a wry smile across his lips. “But, I mean, what are you going to do? It’s OK.”
“A beautiful little singer,” notes Plant of Kiszka, who’s joined by twin brother Jake Kiszka on guitars, younger brother Sam Kiszka on bass and best friend Danny Wagner on drums.
Plant jokingly stated “I hate him” when Fitzgerald refers to Josh Kiszka’s youth and his “huge voice.”
“He borrowed it from somebody I know very well,” comments Plant, with a wry smile across his lips. “But, I mean, what are you going to do? It’s OK.”
