Subj : Randy Bachman / BTO
To   : Alan Tenorio
From : Martin Ridgley
Date : Wed Jul 19 2000 09:12 am

-=> Alan Tenorio wrote to Martin Ridgley <=-

 AT> You may be surprised, but it was Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) that
 AT> got me listening to rock music.  It was their grooving rock sound
 AT> that I liked.

   No, I'm actually not that surprised....

 AT> The Guess Who's 'Nashville Sneakers' was really nice and jazzy, and
 AT> that song got me into finding out who Randy Bachman was, which led
 AT> me to BTO.

   I was a big fan of the Guess Who, and of Randy Bachman's guitar
 playing from the very beginning.  And I was actually disappointed with
 BTO for becoming a rather generic sounding pop-rock band.  Still, I
 quite liked some of their early songs.
   On almost every album they made (both with and without Randy), The 
 Guess Who displayed 'jazzy' influences.  "Undun" was one of the 
 earliest to actually become a hit, but every one of the Guess Who's
 dozen or so albums had some kind of jazzy song on it.
   BTW, Randy Bachman isn't actually on "Nashville Sneakers".  It came
 out almost two years after he left the group.

 AT> I remember borrowing the LPs 'Not Fragile' and 'Four Wheel Drive'
 AT> from a classmate in high school.  I don't know if I listened to
 AT> all of BTO's albums ... can you help refresh my memory?

   Sure.  Here's a partial discography:

  Bachman-Turner Overdrive - 1973
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive II - 1973
  Not Fragile  -  1974
  Four Wheel Drive - 1975
  Head On   -   1975
  Best of B.T.O. (So Far) - 1976
  Freeways   -   1977
  Street Action - 1978
  Rock 'n' Roll Nights - 1979
  Bachman Turner Overdrive - 1984
  All Time Greatest Hits Live - 1986
  Greatest Hits - 1987

 AT> I sure wanna trip all the way back to the good old days.  The
 AT> Canadian maple leaf was used a lot as a logo, right?

   I'm honestly not sure.  I've probably seen most of the albums, but
 I've never actually owned one.  They got so much radio airplay here
 in Canada that you really didn't need to buy the albums to hear them
 all the time.  ;-)

 AT> Let me recall some of the song titles: 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet,'
 AT> 'Not Fragile,' 'Takin' Care Of Business,' 'Welcome Home,' 'Looking
 AT> Out For Number One' ... I can't recall all of them.  It's been a
 AT> while and I'm scouting around for CDs. :-)

   Ack!  You missed my two personal favourites, "Blue Collar", and
 "Let It Ride".   ;-)

     Martin
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