Randy Bachman
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Randy Bachman. Founding member of The Guess Who & BTO. Management: https://t.co/udxeIbIiLs Media Inquiries: [email protected]
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I've been asked again about my reputation for staying clean as a musician. I have never done drugs in any shape or form. I was an asthmatic kid and couldn't handle smoke and still can't be around it. I went to a party and got drunk once and I share that story here with George on The Strombo Show, and why it was the last time. I believe being clean has been a huge part of my success. In life, things fall apart. That happens to all of us, and my choice has always been to pick up the pieces and start again and that process is streamlined when you're clean. And it let me focus solely on music and my family. #AskRandy George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺 #musician #clean #rocknroll
Randy Bachman97,033 views • 4 months ago
#MusicMonday: Led Zeppelin I’ve been asked to share a bit more about my experiences with Led Zeppelin. I first met Jimmy page in 1967 when I was with The Guess Who and he was with The New Yardbirds at The Cleveland Art Institute. Both bands shared a dressing room. He asked if he could play my Rickenbacker and I said yes, if I could play his Telecaster. This week in 1968, as an official band, Led Zeppelin played their first ever Canadian show at The Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. Their North American tour in ’68-’69 exploded their popularity in the US and Canada. In 1969, The Guess Who played The Seattle pop festival in Woodinville, WA. We ended up playing the same venues as Led Zep several times. After our band played, we’d go to the back of the crowd and watch the other acts. At one of the festivals, which were always in fields with generators, the main generator went out. Only one little amp was working. It had Robert Plant’s harmonica mic in it and the rest of the PA system was down. John Bonham kept drumming and Plant sang into this little mic and played harmonica for about 40 minutes until the power came on. I was amazed. They were just great! We crossed paths many times over the next few decades, playing the same circuits. It was a memorable moment for me as a musician when Robert Plant told me how much he loved “American Woman”. Decades later at Sweden Rock where I played with Fred Turner, I was able to give Jimmy an original poster from Seattle Pop I had saved from '69 and send one to Robert Plant as well. Incredible musicians who have rocked the world. #ledzeppelin #music #classicrock #askrandy
Randy Bachman96,835 views • 5 months ago
This week’s #FridayFeeling #guitar post goes out to the one and only, award-winning Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. While strolling through Helsinki, Finland a few years ago, Billy met a busking musician who loaned him his guitar. Billy serenaded the street with BB King’s "The Thrill Is Gone”, totally unbothered by the public. Amazing! At home would’ve been a very different story! I’ve known Billy since 1973. He’s a phenomenal guitarist and stand-up, down-to-earth gentleman. Have a great weekend, everyone! #rocknroll #viral #blowthisup ZZ Top
Randy Bachman30,861 views • 3 months ago
I recently had the chance to see Rod Stewart live again. He puts on an incredible show with a full cast of musicians & performers. After all these years on stage, he's still a powerhouse! My band and I love watching his old videos with 'Faces' after gigs when we're on the road. Charlie Fach, The VP at Mercury Records, used to comb through musicians sessions and choose "the song" that would put them on the map. He chose "Maggie May" for Rod and "You 'Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" for BTO. Something to think about!💥 Video: Isle of Wight Festival live, 2017. #maggiemay #music #rocknroll Sir Rod Stewart #rockhistory #70s Isle of Wight Festival
Randy Bachman29,822 views • 2 months ago
The perfect #valentinesday #tune Canadian style! Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" backstage at Hope Live Ottawa in 2013. Myself, Gord Downie & Serena Ryder, filmed by Rick Mercer. #Love makes the world go round.💛🇨🇦 #music #canada The Tragically Hip Neil Young Serena Ryder Rick Mercer
Randy Bachman30,537 views • 3 months ago
This week’s #FridayFeeling #guitar post goes out to British rock band Cream and their iconic hit, “Sunshine of Your Love”. Written by Jack Bruce, Pete Brown & Eric Clapton, it was originally released on the album Disraeli Gears in November 1967, and as a single in January 1968. It’s been the inspiration for millions of aspiring guitarists worldwide. Bruce and Clapton attended The Jimi Hendrix Experience show at the Saville Theatre in London. After the concert, Bruce returned home and wrote the riff. Clapton later wrote the song's bridge & title. Clapton's guitar tone on the song is created using his 1964 Gibson SG guitar through a wah-wah pedal and a Marshall amplifier. Cream's American record label, Atlantic, didn’t like the song but changed their mind when Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, whose Stax label was at the time distributed by Atlantic) said he loved it. Have a great #weekend everybody! #rocknroll #classicrock
Randy Bachman20,757 views • 2 months ago
Thinking back this week... Feb 3, 1959, I was playing hooky from high school with several friends, driving from Winnipeg to Fargo to see Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & The Big Bopper. Early that morning as we were getting near the US border, they announced that the plane had crashed and no one survived. We pulled over to the side of the road, cried and turned around. A few years later I was in the band Chad Allan & The Reflections and we recorded our first record, “Tribute to Buddy Holly”. Here's a bit of it live for you to hear. We later recorded “Shakin All Over” and our name was changed to The Guess Who. Since then I’ve played the Surf Ballroom several times which is where their last gig was. I also sat at the same table with Maria Elina Holly at a celebration night in Nashville honouring Buddy. It was an honour. A treasured piece of gear in my home studio is an Ampex PreAmp from Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis New Mexico that recorded Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Great talents gone too soon. Fortunately their music and legacy lives on. #rocknroll #buddyholly #remember #music #throwback
Randy Bachman27,741 views • 4 months ago
#MusicMonday Ever wonder about the opening chord to The Beatles 'Hard Day's Night'? Here's a clip from my Guitarology 101 archives where I got the scoop directly from the source. Many of you have asked to hear it again. Cheers! The Beatles #music #rocknroll #blowthisup #question
Randy Bachman23,726 views • 3 months ago
#TBT Let's Go! CBC's "Let's Go!", 1967/68. After a failed trip to England, we had lost our throne in Winnipeg-the other bands took our place. We didn’t have any bookings & ditched our management. One day, my phone rang. A man named Larry Brown from CBC TV Winnipeg said they were looking for a new house band for Let’s Go!, a weekly television show that would be broadcast across the country, coast to coast every Thursday, and featured artists from across Canada. We grabbed it. Each show was broadcast from a different city and was a great way to connect the country. All we were supposed to play was the hit parade songs and were asked if we could read music. The phrase, “Fake it ’til you make it” comes to mind here. I said we did. The audition call was a Thursday and we were told to come in with Bob McMullin to read charts. I knew Bob, so I “casually” called him up to see which songs we'd be asked to play. He had 8 lined up. I went out and got the records. We listened and when we had to play cold, we aced it. Bob came up to me after me and said: “That was amazing.” “Thanks, Bob.” “You sound just like the albums!” “Great!” You can’t read a damn note, can you?” “No.” That show meant we were seen and heard all across the nation at a time when we were down on our luck. People don’t like to talk about failures but they aren’t just an end. They’re leading you to new beginning. #rocknroll #upsanddowns #music #foryou The Guess Who CBC Music
Randy Bachman11,977 views • 2 months ago
#AskRandy You asked, we answered! The Garnet Herzog amp, how it created the legendary sound of The Guess Who songs "No Time" & "American Woman". My daughter Lorelei & son Briggs are on board for this post. Cheers! #rocknroll #gear #amps #guitarist The Guess Who
Randy Bachman19,276 views • 4 months ago
#AskRandy Lyndal Skaggs asks: I think I saw you in OKC for the Van Halen tour. Leslie West played Mississippi Queen on stage with you, right? Hi Lyndal, Yes! Here's the story. And Leslie did get clean eventually. Great guy, an enormous talent. #guitarist #rocknroll #LeslieWest #VanHalen
Randy Bachman17,833 views • 5 months ago
#MusicMonday Did you know The Guess Who once wrote jingles for Coca-Cola? In 1968, Toronto-based musician and jingle-writer Jack Richardson got involved with The Guess Who while he was with McCann-Erickson, the advertising agency for Coca-Cola. He said: "We developed this youth radio campaign whereby we decided to use younger spokespeople for our product. We did a series of radio commercials using Canadian acts & we ran them in 30, 60 & 90 second spots. The Guess Who was one of the acts we approached." By the fall of 1967, we were established television stars on the Winnipeg edition of CBC-TV's popular Let's Go show so The Guess Who was an obvious choice for the ad campaign. We were Canada's best-known group having cracked the American charts two years earlier with "Shakin' All Over." One of our dreams had been to do a Coke commercial. Ray Charles had done one and we thought it was cool. Jack brought The Guess Who to Toronto's Hallmark Studios to cut radio jingles for Coke incorporating the soft drink's signature slogan "Things go better with Coke!" "The outcome of that," recalls Jack "was that the agency recommended we put together a compilation album from the catalogues of these artists. I suggested it would be better to go with something original. The first one we did was with Bobby Curtola and it was so successful they decided to do it again. That became A WILD PAIR with The Guess Who on one side and the Staccatos on the other." Some of you still have that album! You can read more at: Cheers! #canadian #music #60s #remember Coca-Cola The Guess Who
Randy Bachman12,601 views • 4 months ago
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