In 1981, Farner and Don Brewer started a new Grand Funk lineup with bassist Dennis Bellinger and recorded two records, Grand Funk Lives and What Is Funk?. Farner went solo again with 1988’s Yet Another Injustice on Frontline Records.His third Frontline launch was 1991’s Some Kind of Wonderful, which featured a revamped form of the Grand Funk classic of the exact same name. Farner have success using the John Beland composition “Is Not it Amazing”, which earned him a Dove Award nomination and reached No. 2 on the Contemporary Christian music charts. In the 1990s, Farner formed Lismark Communications with former Freedom Reader editor Steve Lisuk. Shortly after, Farner started reissuing his solo albums on his own record label, LisMark Records. In the late 1990s, Farner reunited with Grand Funk, but left after three years to restart his solo career. He now tours with his group, NrG, which plays a blend of Grand Funk tunes and Farner’s solo offerings. Farner had a pacemaker installed 22 October 2012. He’d suffered with heart troubles for the past eight years