“So as I think about it, bang, it comes to mind, ‘Go get those words in the other room. And it was like, ‘Wow, what’s that?’ And I looked at my fingers and I was like, “Wow, I have to memorize that,” because that really spoke to me.įarner said the harmonics coming out of the strings created a sound unlike anything he had ever heard.
“And I went, ‘That’s pretty cool.’ And then I grabbed this chord, this inversion of a C chord that I’d never done before. “I start playing, buh-bap, buh-bap, buh-doo-doo-doo-doo, and I played this little ditty that starts the song,” Farner continued. You know, if you think of something, you can access it immediately, like I did for “I’m Your Captain”.Īfter writing the lyrics to the song in the middle of the night, which took him about 10 minutes – entirely in that state between sleep and awake – Farner said he got up the next day, went in his kitchen, had poured his morning cup of coffee, then he picked up his acoustic guitar and, while tuning it, made a discovery. Because it’s much more convenient to get your acoustic guitar out of the kitchen while you’re sitting down having a coffee than it is to go for a run and plug in your amp cord and pick up your electric guitar. “A lot of the songs we hear on the radio start on acoustic guitars,” Farner, now 73, told The Signal in a recent interview he gave by phone from his home in Michigan. Friday, August 5, at the Canyon on Valencia Boulevard in Santa Clarita. He knew that if he waited until morning to take a note, what he thought would be gone.Īnd so, still between sleeping and waking – what Farner called “between heaven and earth” – he turned on a dim red light he had on his bedside table, grabbed a nearby Steno notebook, pulled out the pen from inside the metal spiral that held the notebook together, and he wrote the words – the exact lyrics – he would make famous in the 1970 song he recorded with Grand Funk Railroad called “I’m YourCaptain”.įans may well hear that song and certainly more during “Mark Farner’s American Band Acoustic Show,” scheduled for 8 p.m. Mark Farner woke from a deep sleep with words crossing his mind in a dream.
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