I just love watching the younger people react to the 70s music. I was a teenager for most of the 70s and it was one of if not the greatest decade. I love the 70s.
BTO rocks try"let it ride","takin care of business". Guitarist and lead singer here is Randy Bachman, he was a member of the Guess Who "American woman","these eyes"," no sugar tonight" and many more with both groups ☮️
Randy Bachman is one of the greatest guitar players of all time. This song and 'Takin' Care Of Business' are rock and roll classics. Randy Bachman is one of the reasons that make me say 'I'm proud to be a Canadian.' And doing this song on Canada Day... Bonus!!!
That was a really really good song but I love this one because it always put me in a good mood. It has a sense of humor and when it would come on 99 FM in Virginia and I was on my way to RN class & stressed over a test or exam I would hear this song and all of my worries would disappear..
Yes!! This song has so much humor to it and listening to it occasionally on my way to nursing school when I was working on my RN in 2014-2016, put me and I hyped up mood and took all my concerns away.
See, this is why I don't consider the phrase "OK Boomer" to be an insult. Music like this and the other ones you're reacting to are the soundtrack of the Boomer generation, and it was (and still is) great! In fact, keep it up and we'll grant you the title of Honorary Boomer 😁
Thank you for standing up for boomers. I spent my 20s in the 70s. Best music ever. I was 19 when I saw my first concert... Black Sabbath. The paranoid tour. The start of a very interesting decade for sure.
Right Gary! The story I heard was Randy wrote the lyrics as a joke for some music he developed earlier. The band recorded it in one take with only the intention of sending a tape to Randy's brother as a joke. Although just a joke song to the band, the music written earlier sounds relatively polished because the band had practiced playing it as an instrumental prior to the writing of the lyrics. Part of the "joke" was the corus they added copied a riff from The Who's Baba O'Riley and he took the idea of using stuttering as a vocal hook from The Who's My Generation. Their producer heard it and said they should put it on their record. They all thought he was nuts! They tried re-recording it without the stutter but the producer liked the first version better. The band then thought the record company was nuts when they chose the song to be on the b-side of the album's first single. It was a good choice as it reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, number one in Canada, and number two in the UK.
Dude! People sure are hookin you up to some great tunes! The era of music you are in now is what fueled my teen years. Radios, record players and 8 track tapes.
Randy Bachman has had an interesting life. He was THERE when Led Zeppelin recorded Stairway to Heaven! He is walking encyclopedia of Music folklore and trivia. Owns dozens of guitars. And lives a green, eco-friendly lifestyle on Vancouver Island in beautiful, Super-Natural British Columbia, Canada🍁 BTO are Classic Canadian Rockers worthy of further reviews!
Always liked 'Let it Ride'. Randy's previous band, The Guess Who, do a great version of 'Shakin' All Over' and their song 'Undun' is also a masterpiece.
Randy Bachman's stuttering was influenced by his brother and he was doing it when they were fooling around with the song in the studio and the producer told him to keep it in for the final recordings
So many good ones from them. Takin Care Of Business... seen Bachman and Turner. They kicked ass especially on American Woman Randy playing with a drum stick.
Home Run, one of theeeee coolest lyrics ever, “any lovin is good lovin, so I took what I could get” BTO has an EXTENSIVE catalog, check it out Bro, seriously.
The lead singer is Randy Bachman; he had been with the Guess Who. His brother Rob is on drums. Their other big hit singles were Takin' Care of Business and Let It Ride. I like some of their songs that didn't get much radio play like Stonegates, Gimme Your Money Please, Roll on Down the Highway, Hey You, Welcome Home
The lead singer in this group's name is (Randy Bachman) if you like listening to them Bachman-Turner Overdrive also called BTO Then check out the band he was in before he joint BTO it was called (The Guess Who) they had some of the biggest hit songs around in the late 60s and 70s they're from Canada. He helped write lots of the songs for the group (The Guess Who) He was the guitar player for the group the lead singer in the group's name is Burton Cummings who later went on to become a solo artist and one of the biggest artists in Canada check him out too (Burton Cummings)
This sound is so familiar. I remember it well, hearing it on the radio at a very young age. I like the part and never did forget it when he would say you need educatin', you need to go to school. Another one by BTO that I like so much was called Takin' Care of Business.
You couldn't get out of you chair quick enough to dance to this 70's foot stomping hit, wish I could go back and relive some of those times, we had it all musically ❤💥💯👩🦰💃, bring back flares, platform shoes and cheesecloth blouses 🥰😉
These guys are an off shoot of another Canadian Band. The Guess Who. After the Guess Who broke up, Randy Bachman started this band. They have this own string of hits.
You ain't seen nothing yet was a line he couldn't not record clean because he had a studering problem. They did several retakes, he couldn't do it, so they kept the studder in the song and it became a hit record. Love it!!!! Learned alot listening to Kasey Kaseem on Saturday's Americas Top 40 count down. Thanks Kasey!!! Rest in Peace!!!!
BTO played a gig at the night club I used to work at back in the late 90's. REALLY nice guys, all smiles, still loving their craft, still sounding great!
I saw them in concert perform this and Takin' Care of Business, which was their biggest hit. By the way, it's pronounced BOCKMAN Turner Overdrive. And they were amazing!
Dang!!! Thank you a million times over because this is such a good song and such a fun song. I would occasionally hear the song on my way to nursing school and it would pump me up for the whole day. Haahaa! I saw your face and you really enjoy the same part of the song that I do and enjoy it the most. It's well played and has a tint of humor to it.
That’s what we call real 🎵 music!!! The 70,s and 80 ‘s are the absolute best times and I was lucky enough to be a teenager then... how I miss those days
Unless I'm mistaken, the lead singer to BTO has a speech impediment (studder). So when the chorus goes, "B-B-Baby, you hadn't seen nothin' yet," it's actually him studdering, but he worked the studder into the song. Incredible work - taking an impediment and turning it into a masterful song that has stood the test of time. Now THAT'S talent.
No, the story has something to do with him making fun of his brother's stutter, and then they decided to keep it in. Randy Bachman does a show on CBC radio Fri./Sat. nights; ain't no stuttering.
BTO was a supergroup. Strong from any angle. But when Big Cecil Turner took the singing lead they hit another level altogether with Randy Bachman driving the bus on guitar.
“Way back when, my brother Garry, one of four Bachman boys, had a speech impediment; he stuttered and stammered. For the ultimate tease I wrote a song like he spoke. Then I called him up and scared him by telling him it would be on the album. “The words just flowed out without thought: ‘I met a Devil woman, and she took my heart away.’ That sounded good. Then for the chorus I copied the way he’d say: ‘You ain’t seen n-n-nothing yet,’ and also the way he stumbled on ‘f-f-forget’, and the way he said ‘b-b-b baby’. I liked it as an idea but I was never going to finish it off.” Randy Bachman
Bro the way you react to that priceless this song remember me and my dad going camping born in 1977 the smile on my dad s face . Merci Beaucoup bro love and respect from Montréal Québec Canada
This song was written by the lead vocalist, Randy Bachman. The stutter was just supposed to be a one off thing that he was going to send it to his youngest brother Gary, who stuttered as a child. It ended up as a permanent part of the song. Fred Turner said lead for most of their songs. The drummer is another Bachman brother, Robbie. Gary Bachman worked as an agent (manager?) for a time when Randy was with The Guess Who. Sadly, Gary died suddenly of a heart attack on June 25, 2020. My family is from Winnipeg and knew the Bachmans through our church. My eldest sister still had occasional contact with them. Also, BTO was the first concert I ever attended (with Trooper as warm-up).
Neighbors would enjoy this group along with me back in the 70's, although it probably wasn't right for them to hear from my house :)). Altec Lansing speakers, bars in the area used to use them, awesome in the home as well. Really enjoyed your reaction, nice to see someone feeling it for the first time.
Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings are True Canadian Legends. You can't go through one day without hearing their Music either as BTO or The Guess Who. They made History by being The First Canadian Group to do American Bandstand with These Eyes. They were very lucky because they had hits with each other but "without" each other as well.
I learned from an interview with Randy Bachman years and years ago that he wanted BTO to be a rhythm based rock band. But I didn't know until very recently that they were sharing a dressing room with the Doobie Brothers in New Orleans during Mardi Gras in the first half of the 1970s when he worked out some of "Let It Ride" and the Doobies then based "Long Train Running" on his guitar noodlings as he ironed it out. That is astonishing and good to know because the Doobies are one of my all time favourite bands! Randy said in that interview eons ago, back in the 1970s IIRC, that he wanted a band that was rhythmically similar to CCR and the Doobies. Killer rhythm was the thing back in the 1970s and is much too absent from today's music. And BTO has so many excellent lead guitar solos! 😉🎸👌 That "70s sound of guitar" comes from there not being many guitar pedals to alter the sound of the guitar at the time. So if you were going to be an excellent guitarist you had to have "touch" in your fingers. There are plenty of good guitar players around today but also way too many that bury the actual tone of their guitars underneath a ton of effects pedals. The really good guitar players around today will tell you to develop your own signature "sound" with your guitar before drifting off into "guitar pedal-land" and obscurity because you just sound like some over processed thing that no one can get next to in their heart and mind. The lead guitarist in this song was Blair Thornton from Vancouver. 🎸🎸🎸
Omg you are the very first person I've ever heard say Randy's last name right, in an interview he said his last name is Backman but on the album cover they put Bachman. My mouth fell to the floor when you said Backman, I'm impressed great job.
Randy Bachman hosts a music show every Saturday night here in Canada..he plays amazing music with background stories and on his life in the music business.
The song this is reminding you of is The Who's "Baba O'Reilley" ("Teenage wasteland, it's only teenage wasteland...") Randy Bachman made this song in jest as both a homage to The Who and to his brother who stuttered. It was a throwaway "work track" that they used to set their instrument levels when they went in to record their album "Not Fragile." The drummer is Robbie Bachman - Randy's brother.
I just love watching the younger people react to the 70s music. I was a teenager for most of the 70s and it was one of if not the greatest decade. I love the 70s.
Yes the 70’s was the best time
I was 15 when this came out ..great times and music
Agree totally!!! The 70’s were awesome 💙💙💙💙💙
@ted ritola ... Foreigner and "greatest of all" ELO!
Me too
BTO rocks try"let it ride","takin care of business". Guitarist and lead singer here is Randy Bachman, he was a member of the Guess Who "American woman","these eyes"," no sugar tonight" and many more with both groups ☮️
Also...Take it like A Man. It really rocks!!
Check out anything by Burton Cummings. Part of the original Guess Who. Happy Canada Day!!
He performs with Burton Cummings on occasion. For some reason they can't legally use "Bachman Turner Overdrive" or "The Guess Who".
Randy Bachman is one of the greatest guitar players of all time. This song and 'Takin' Care Of Business' are rock and roll classics. Randy Bachman is one of the reasons that make me say 'I'm proud to be a Canadian.' And doing this song on Canada Day... Bonus!!!
There's a story about the stuttering on this song but I can't remember it.
The rock sound of the 70s most people just call them BTO and their song Taking care of business is a great song too
Sonja Ashmore I always liked the ad lib lyrics he threw into the song " you need educating Gotta Go to Schooooool !!
Those were them days...💕😀
This is epic but you really need to do Takin Care of Business by them for real
Im 61. I said TCB so much, my now adult kids say it and THEIR kids say it. T-C-B!!
YES Taking Care Of Business...my favorite!!!
That Takin Care of Business is one of my all time faves! Awesome song!
Takin’ care of business is a must! And I can almost guarantee you’ve heard it before?!
That was a really really good song but I love this one because it always put me in a good mood. It has a sense of humor and when it would come on 99 FM in Virginia and I was on my way to RN class & stressed over a test or exam I would hear this song and all of my worries would disappear..
“Let It Ride” is the jam you want by BTO
Yes!! This song has so much humor to it and listening to it occasionally on my way to nursing school when I was working on my RN in 2014-2016, put me and I hyped up mood and took all my concerns away.
Roll On Down The Highway is better
Could you do aTower of Power Song called your still young man
Could you do the band called guess who a song called Laughing great songit isagain. Laughing
One of my all time favorites .
Love this channel man! You are a genuine soul and truly appreciate music. Such a joy to watch you discover "my" music! Thank you so much!
BTO - another legendary Canadian band. Happy Canada Day all!
Thank you Canada for another great sound.
There are many good Canadian performers and bands. Also, try Celine Dion singing “I Drove All Night.
See, this is why I don't consider the phrase "OK Boomer" to be an insult. Music like this and the other ones you're reacting to are the soundtrack of the Boomer generation, and it was (and still is) great! In fact, keep it up and we'll grant you the title of Honorary Boomer 😁
Thank you for standing up for boomers. I spent my 20s in the 70s. Best music ever. I was 19 when I saw my first concert... Black Sabbath. The paranoid tour. The start of a very interesting decade for sure.
I'm a boomer too and I agree 100% Some people are jealous of "our" music. Can't say I blame them!
BTO 💙 Let it Ride ♥️ is another great one by this band. Thanks for doing BTO. I absolutely love your reactions to these classic songs ♥️♥️
I requested Let It Ride a couple months ago on Patreon, I figured he would do that one first 🤷♂️
BAchman Turner Overdrive had some huge and memorable hits from the early to Mid 1970’s
The singer Randy Bachman was also in The Guess Who. His son Tal Bachman had a single called She's So High...check it out!
If you check out "Let it Ride" you won't be disappointed
Back in the day we were so blessed w/real music
The story goes,he was making fun of his brother who stuttered,when he said "b b b baby". Smh, turned out to be a smash hit!
Right Gary! The story I heard was Randy wrote the lyrics as a joke for some music he developed earlier. The band recorded it in one take with only the intention of sending a tape to Randy's brother as a joke. Although just a joke song to the band, the music written earlier sounds relatively polished because the band had practiced playing it as an instrumental prior to the writing of the lyrics. Part of the "joke" was the corus they added copied a riff from The Who's Baba O'Riley and he took the idea of using stuttering as a vocal hook from The Who's My Generation. Their producer heard it and said they should put it on their record. They all thought he was nuts! They tried re-recording it without the stutter but the producer liked the first version better. The band then thought the record company was nuts when they chose the song to be on the b-side of the album's first single. It was a good choice as it reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, number one in Canada, and number two in the UK.
@@rossmacintosh5652 Great story. To quote Michael Jagger, "It's only rocknroll but I like it". ✌
Dude! People sure are hookin you up to some great tunes! The era of music you are in now is what fueled my teen years. Radios, record players and 8 track tapes.
🌟🎶🌟🎶😘😘 One of the greatest groups
I’ve seen a lot of your posts. You have some fantastic music IQ. Edit: You had some great tunes growing up too.
Horse Footrot Yes I did i Love music
Love, love this song and even better to dance to!
I'm 61 and this song always made me Happy 😊 ☺ 😌 💕
Spinners "WOrking My Way back to you " and "Rubberband Man".
"It's a Shame" too
Haha I was thinking of Rubberband Man a few nights ago. Good suggestion.
The long version of Rubberband Man!
Gotta check out BTO'S "Takin Care of Business".
Randy Bachman has had an interesting life. He was THERE when Led Zeppelin recorded Stairway to Heaven!
He is walking encyclopedia of Music folklore and trivia.
Owns dozens of guitars.
And lives a green, eco-friendly lifestyle on Vancouver Island in beautiful, Super-Natural British Columbia, Canada🍁
BTO are Classic Canadian Rockers worthy of further reviews!
I saw Randy Bachman play in a dank little bar in San Francisco back in the 80's, and he blew the roof off the place. Awesome performer.
I think, for about a year, the only kind of music people should listen to is classic rock and Motown. The world would be a better place.
Memphis Music would cover all the bases for that !
Disco as well
Once again. For Sure
I know you would love the harmonies and guitar in “Let It Ride”
Wow I forgot this song went way back to the 70's but then again I was only 11 years old.. Great song!!
That was the sound track of this 61year old white dude's life. Happy to see young people enjoying it 50 years later. Rock on Brother!
Love this song, great reaction!!!!
Im 61 I love that younger people are loving are music we were blessed to have so many different bands brings back a lot of memories god bless you all
Always liked 'Let it Ride'. Randy's previous band, The Guess Who, do a great version of 'Shakin' All Over' and their song 'Undun' is also a masterpiece.
Randy Bachman's stuttering was influenced by his brother and he was doing it when they were fooling around with the song in the studio and the producer told him to keep it in for the final recordings
'You Ain'f Seen Nothing Yet' - Bachman Turner Overdrive - Let's Rock.
RANDY BACHMAN AND NEIL YOUNG WERE VERY GOOD FRIENDS JAY! :)
This man has impeccable taste in music.It cheers me up so much to see his appreciation.Brilliant👍🏼
Canadian band on Canada Day...u are really becoming my favorite RUclipsr!
This song never gets old.
So many good ones from them. Takin Care Of Business... seen Bachman and Turner. They kicked ass especially on American Woman Randy playing with a drum stick.
My very first concert, BTO. Beginning of 1976 in Utica, N.Y. They played for almost 3 hours,it was crazy good. Great group of musicians.
Another great memory this was a Canadian band that had several songs that were played on the radio stations in the 70s great band
Another classic, I'm loving this 🎧👍😁❤
“Let It Ride”, “Taking Care of Business”
Happy Canada Day! Listen to some more feel good music and party on, Garth.
Does that Manchurian candidate clown Trudeau, still allow Canada day?
😅😅😅
There’s no way to NOT smile when hearing this song!!! 😊😊😊
Canadian Band on Canada Day ... well done !
Awesome classic of my youth!! Thank you! Love your channel and you do such a great job!💕
Really like this Jay great choice. Go Jay got you moving hey wicked reaction 😊😊💖
What A Blast!! Had me singing, humming, bopping my head... man you have picked great songs today!!!
I use to listen to this song all the time!
Home Run, one of theeeee coolest lyrics ever, “any lovin is good lovin, so I took what I could get” BTO has an EXTENSIVE catalog, check it out Bro, seriously.
The lead singer is Randy Bachman; he had been with the Guess Who. His brother Rob is on drums. Their other big hit singles were Takin' Care of Business and Let It Ride. I like some of their songs that didn't get much radio play like Stonegates, Gimme Your Money Please, Roll on Down the Highway, Hey You, Welcome Home
I love your reactions, they are so real. This is one of my favorite bands, am very happy to see another generation enjoy them.
My son is now 22. He saw Randy Bachman when he was 7yrs old in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada
the brilliance of this song is the added "bububu" and " nanana" to the words. it makes all the difference. amazing.
" bbbbbbbaby, you aiin't seen nothing yet", often imitated but NEVER duplicated !. nice reaction.
Now you know the secret to a happy life.....good 70-80s music 🤷🤗
The lead singer in this group's name is (Randy Bachman) if you like listening to them Bachman-Turner Overdrive also called BTO
Then check out the band he was in before he joint BTO it was called (The Guess Who) they had some of the biggest hit songs around in the late 60s and 70s they're from Canada.
He helped write lots of the songs for the group (The Guess Who)
He was the guitar player for the group the lead singer in the group's name is Burton Cummings who later went on to become a solo artist and one of the biggest artists in Canada check him out too (Burton Cummings)
Is it me or dose Randy look a little like actor John C. Reilly? BTO's "Let It Ride" is a classic.🌟 Nice set of songs this week Jayvee!
This sound is so familiar. I remember it well, hearing it on the radio at a very young age. I like the part and never did forget it when he would say you need educatin', you need to go to school. Another one by BTO that I like so much was called Takin' Care of Business.
A great Canadian band on Canada Day. Thanks Jayvee!
You couldn't get out of you chair quick enough to dance to this 70's foot stomping hit, wish I could go back and relive some of those times, we had it all musically ❤💥💯👩🦰💃, bring back flares, platform shoes and cheesecloth blouses 🥰😉
These guys are an off shoot of another Canadian Band. The Guess Who. After the Guess Who broke up, Randy Bachman started this band. They have this own string of hits.
An ice hockey team I worked with used the chorus every time they scored! So it brings back so many memories....
They are simply BTO to an entire generation. We rocked out to this song. Great band
Great songs from this group for sure. Randy Bachman definitely knew how to write songs.🎼🎶😎
I'm so thankful to remember all these awesome bands from my teenage life
Saw them in concert!! Awesome
You’re bringing back such great memories! Loving it
Bachman Turner had alot of good songs, Takin Care of Business, check it out!
You ain't seen nothing yet was a line he couldn't not record clean because he had a
studering problem. They did several retakes, he couldn't do it, so they kept the studder
in the song and it became a hit record. Love it!!!! Learned alot listening to Kasey Kaseem
on Saturday's Americas Top 40 count down. Thanks Kasey!!! Rest in Peace!!!!
BTO played a gig at the night club I used to work at back in the late 90's. REALLY nice guys, all smiles, still loving their craft, still sounding great!
This was one of my favorite songs back in the day 😍
I saw them in concert perform this and Takin' Care of Business, which was their biggest hit. By the way, it's pronounced BOCKMAN Turner Overdrive. And they were amazing!
Dang!!! Thank you a million times over because this is such a good song and such a fun song. I would occasionally hear the song on my way to nursing school and it would pump me up for the whole day.
Haahaa! I saw your face and you really enjoy the same part of the song that I do and enjoy it the most. It's well played and has a tint of humor to it.
That’s what we call real 🎵 music!!! The 70,s and 80 ‘s are the absolute best times and I was lucky enough to be a teenager then... how I miss those days
Well that took me back to 1975 when I was a freshman in high school!!!! Thanks man!!!! Keep digging up that gold!!!😍😍😍😎
Takin care of business by BTO is a MUST!!! 💛
It's not just music.... it's the energy that it projects!
Unless I'm mistaken, the lead singer to BTO has a speech impediment (studder). So when the chorus goes, "B-B-Baby, you hadn't seen nothin' yet," it's actually him studdering, but he worked the studder into the song. Incredible work - taking an impediment and turning it into a masterful song that has stood the test of time. Now THAT'S talent.
No, the story has something to do with him making fun of his brother's stutter, and then they decided to keep it in. Randy Bachman does a show on CBC radio Fri./Sat. nights; ain't no stuttering.
Welcome aboard! Enjoy this band from my youth, back in the '70s
Love this song! Rock out in the car! So much fun to watch Your reaction.
Check out "Let It Ride," and "Takin Care of Business." by Bachman Turner Overdrive. Really great songs.
BTO was a supergroup. Strong from any angle. But when Big Cecil Turner took the singing lead they hit another level altogether with Randy Bachman driving the bus on guitar.
“Way back when, my brother Garry, one of four Bachman boys, had a speech impediment; he stuttered and stammered. For the ultimate tease I wrote a song like he spoke. Then I called him up and scared him by telling him it would be on the album.
“The words just flowed out without thought: ‘I met a Devil woman, and she took my heart away.’ That sounded good. Then for the chorus I copied the way he’d say: ‘You ain’t seen n-n-nothing yet,’ and also the way he stumbled on ‘f-f-forget’, and the way he said ‘b-b-b baby’. I liked it as an idea but I was never going to finish it off.”
Randy Bachman
I was just thinking about texting this very tidbit. I always remembered that and thought how great it was!💜💜
Pure truth!
One of Canada's finest bands on Canada day!Eh!🍁
The Dead and the Yankees awesome. That is a Steal your face right.
I'm sure someone will protest this song on behalf of those with a speech impediment ...
Bro the way you react to that priceless this song remember me and my dad going camping born in 1977 the smile on my dad s face . Merci Beaucoup bro love and respect from Montréal Québec Canada
i got this '45 for Christmas 1974...lol...Roll On Down The Highway and Let It Ride are also real good.
This song was written by the lead vocalist, Randy Bachman. The stutter was just supposed to be a one off thing that he was going to send it to his youngest brother Gary, who stuttered as a child. It ended up as a permanent part of the song. Fred Turner said lead for most of their songs. The drummer is another Bachman brother, Robbie. Gary Bachman worked as an agent (manager?) for a time when Randy was with The Guess Who. Sadly, Gary died suddenly of a heart attack on June 25, 2020. My family is from Winnipeg and knew the Bachmans through our church. My eldest sister still had occasional contact with them. Also, BTO was the first concert I ever attended (with Trooper as warm-up).
Randy Bachman played with the Guess Who. Randy wrote one of my favorite songs by them. "She's Come Undone".
Neighbors would enjoy this group along with me back in the 70's, although it probably wasn't right for them to hear from my house :)). Altec Lansing speakers, bars in the area used to use them, awesome in the home as well. Really enjoyed your reaction, nice to see someone feeling it for the first time.
Some members of the group were still performing in the 2,000's as Bachman/Turner. A couple of 70 years old rockers!
Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings are True Canadian Legends. You can't go through one day without hearing their Music either as BTO or The Guess Who. They made History by being The First Canadian Group to do American Bandstand with These Eyes. They were very lucky because they had hits with each other but "without" each other as well.
Great and very "FULL" sound...total vibe...drivin on sunny summer day!
This was the very first record (vinyl) that I bought. And I still have it. :o)
Who the hell thought stuttering singing a song would sound so good. Alway makes me smile this song.
Bachman was playing guitar with the Guess Who with hits like American woman and No time just to mention a few.
I learned from an interview with Randy Bachman years and years ago that he wanted BTO to be a rhythm based rock band. But I didn't know until very recently that they were sharing a dressing room with the Doobie Brothers in New Orleans during Mardi Gras in the first half of the 1970s when he worked out some of "Let It Ride" and the Doobies then based "Long Train Running" on his guitar noodlings as he ironed it out. That is astonishing and good to know because the Doobies are one of my all time favourite bands! Randy said in that interview eons ago, back in the 1970s IIRC, that he wanted a band that was rhythmically similar to CCR and the Doobies. Killer rhythm was the thing back in the 1970s and is much too absent from today's music. And BTO has so many excellent lead guitar solos! 😉🎸👌
That "70s sound of guitar" comes from there not being many guitar pedals to alter the sound of the guitar at the time. So if you were going to be an excellent guitarist you had to have "touch" in your fingers. There are plenty of good guitar players around today but also way too many that bury the actual tone of their guitars underneath a ton of effects pedals. The really good guitar players around today will tell you to develop your own signature "sound" with your guitar before drifting off into "guitar pedal-land" and obscurity because you just sound like some over processed thing that no one can get next to in their heart and mind.
The lead guitarist in this song was Blair Thornton from Vancouver. 🎸🎸🎸
I've always the rhythm runs in the this. That chord progression is a lot of fun to play.
Omg you are the very first person I've ever heard say Randy's last name right, in an interview he said his last name is Backman but on the album cover they put Bachman. My mouth fell to the floor when you said Backman, I'm impressed great job.
Randy Bachman hosts a music show every Saturday night here in Canada..he plays amazing music with background stories and on his life in the music business.
The song this is reminding you of is The Who's "Baba O'Reilley" ("Teenage wasteland, it's only teenage wasteland...") Randy Bachman made this song in jest as both a homage to The Who and to his brother who stuttered. It was a throwaway "work track" that they used to set their instrument levels when they went in to record their album "Not Fragile." The drummer is Robbie Bachman - Randy's brother.
Can't listen to this without my head going, still so fresh today, really enjoyed your reaction on this one Jay