Coming up… an interview with legend Randy Bachman, a co-founding member of both Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) and The Guess Who on his classic rock standard Takin’ Care of Business TCB that sat unfinished for years, because The Guess Who thought it sounded too similar to the Beatles Paperback Writer... Then one day he got an idea from a random saying he heard on a radio show and the chorus was finished, but it was still missing something musically until a pizza delivery guy walked in and offered to play piano on the track which was the missing piece… When he played the demo for a record exec, he flipped out… He wanted him to release it asap… Now Randy just needed to track down the pizza guy to sign a release… Which proved too tough. He had to call every pizza place to try and track him down… Elvis also picked up on the song and made it his mantra. Which brought it full circle since Elvis was the reason Randy got into music as a kid...
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I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs. This is one of the most unbelievable stories you’ll ever hear about a song. It comes from a legendary guitarist singer and songwriter who has quite a few stories like this. Randy Bachman who was a co-founder of the Guess Who and Bachman turner overdrive.
He wrote or cowrote so many fire-breathing classic rock standards like American Woman, You Aint Seen Nothing yet, and No time. Today he tells us the story of the 70s classic rock ditty Taking Care of Business which had been written when he was in the Guess Who, only Burton Cummings felt it sounded too much like the Beatles Paperback Writer and wanted no part of it. To be fair Randy did gain some inspiration from Lennon and McCartney and was calling it White-collar worker but it just didn’t have the right touch to record… then he heard a radio DJ say the words Taking Care of Business and he knew that had to be the chorus.
But it was still missing something musically and who could’ve ever predicted that the missing puzzle piece would be through a pizza delivery guy who knew how to play a mean piano? Up next Randy tell the high-flying story of a song that refused to go away and how it became one of the biggest hit on rock radio and how Elvis Presley, the whole reason Randy got into music in the first place, used Taking Care of Business as his mantra. Randy tells all of it coming up.
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6 янв 2023
