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!!!
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.
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..
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!
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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!!!!
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!
“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
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.
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.
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 🥰😉
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
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.
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.
Happy Canada Day! "Looking out for Number 1" by BTO has a nice jazzy, bossa nova feel. You did a Randy Bachman co-written song in May when you did The Guess Who's "These Eyes". One day, you'll get to "UnDun", Randy's best song.
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 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. 🎸🎸🎸
Cool story Randy Bachman would play his guitar with a drumstick and shit probably 10 + years ago we went to see them at an outdoor concert and was able to get close to the stage ! After he performed a solo while playing the guitar with a drumstick he threw it into the crowd and I came up with it!! The band even acknowledged me coming out of that pileup with drumstick in hand !!! It was one of my best concert experiences ! Still have that drumstick !
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
