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Back in the 70s part of takin’ care of business for Bachman-Turner Overdrive meant performing underneath a large steel replica of the band’s gear-shaped logo, with flashing lights — a visual gimmick as heavy as the opening chords of “Not Fragile” or “Four Wheel Drive.” The quartet used the prop throughout its arena-filling heyday, when it had three albums in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart (BTO II, Not Fragile, Four Wheel Drive) and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” lodged at No. 1. “that thing weighed tons,” Randy Bachman tells UCR. It was tonnage. It was built on one-inch plywood all bolted...
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Randy Bachman was having severe back pain. His doctor told him that the solution was to stop playing guitar. The main offender was the 1959 Les Paul Standard he’d used to write and record “American Woman” with the Guess Who. “That’s not going to happen,” he immediately shot back. In the decades that followed, the Guess Who guitarist went on to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive and eventually, he also enjoyed a solo career. In that time, he amassed hundreds of additional guitars. The pandemic and the return of his fabled orange 1957 Gretsch guitar in 2022, which had been missing for nearly 50 years...
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Randy Bachman hopes that recent legal actions against the current version of the Guess Who will help other key members who’ve lost control of their original groups. Bachman co-founded the band in 1966 just before Burton Cummings joined. They combined to co-write many of the Guess Who’s best-known songs, including the Top 10 hits “These Eyes,” “No Time” and “American Woman.” Bachman left in 1970 to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive and then the Guess Who split in 1975. Cummings joined Bachman in a handful of Guess Who reunions but the group eventually moved forward on a permanent basis without them...
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