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“I
think they checked out my background to make sure I wasn’t on
the Ten Most Wanted list or something, and they went ahead with
it,” Van Fleet jokingly told MLive.com in 2019, ahead of the
band's appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”
“But later, when I met the boys, I said, ‘That’s OK.' But, no,
they did not approach me to begin with," Van Fleet said.
Kyle Hauck, a drummer in the band's early days, has told
interviewers that a name was needed in time for a local
performance. He said he heard his grandfather talk about helping
a friend, Gretna Van Fleet. Something clicked. The band dropped
the ‘n’ in Gretna and Greta Van Fleet was born.
The band won a Grammy in 2019 for best rock album, “From The
Fires,” and had other nominations that year. Greta Van Fleet's
“Starcatcher” was nominated for best album in 2024.
Gretna Van Fleet's obituary describes her, too, as being
“musically talented,” playing a variety of instruments including
saxophone, violin, tuba and piano.
She said in the 2019 interview that her favorite song by the
band was “Flower Power.”
“There’s a couple others that I like, but that’s not really my
style," Van Fleet said of the music. "It’s not my era that
they’re making popular come back.”
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