BTO: THE THREAD

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Hey you, you say you wanna change the world
It's alright, with me there's no regret
It's my turn, the circle game has brought me here
And I won't let down 'till every song is set

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Better than Guess Who (though the recent GW Let's Go collection of 60s CBC recordings is pretty cool), sweaty, prole-friendly, reminds me of riding the train from Saskatoon to Calgary when I was three yrs old.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

get to the workout part.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

You realize now
You should have tried now, oooh ooh
The music's gone now, you'll find out
You lost it somehow
Hey you, sha lalala
Hey you, sha lalala
Wooo, sha la la la
Wooo, sha la la la

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

from http://cpsite.collegepublisher.com/palm/palm3.cfm?storyid=954687&paper_name=Chicago%20Business&serialNumber=1us1cq9933

When you think of BTO, you probably think about Business Technology Outsourcing or something lame like that. If you're as cool as I am, however, you know BTO refers to the original Canadian rockers...Bachman Turner Overdrive.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 31 October 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

And without BTO, maybe no Trooper. Raise a Little Hell.

― George the Animal Steele, Monday, 31 October 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

In '88 I saw BTO, Guess Who, Rare Earth, Dr. Hook and a couple other acts playing a "Super Seventies Fest" in my home town. Yowza. Randy Bachman played a guitar solo with a drum stick. Crazy.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 31 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

from AMG:
After 1977's Freeways, Randy Bachman left the group for a solo career and formed another group, Ironhorse. Bachman-Turner Overdrive continued on in his absence with replacement Jim Clench for two more albums, Street Action and Rock n' Roll Nights (both 1978), eventually changing their name to simply BTO. At the tail-end of the decade, the band dissolved, but in the 1980s they re-grouped to tour as both Bachman-Turner Overdrive (led by Randy) and BTO (led by Robbie); the ensuing confusion the name game triggered ultimately resulted in Randy Bachman filing suit against his one-time bandmates for rights to the group's logo.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 31 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Around 1996, I saw BTO and the Guess Who at a "Classic Rock Weekend" stylee thing and Randy Bachman wasn't in either. Nor was Burton Cummings.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 31 October 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

the ensuing confusion the name game triggered ultimately resulted in Randy Bachman filing suit against his one-time bandmates for rights to the group's logo.

And what a logo it is:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/bto.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 31 October 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

i know the guy who plays the randy bachman role in the current 'county-fair' incarnation of BTO. he's just a lead guitarist for hire; a paid employee of BTO inc.

his name happens to be randy too, so the original randy tried to sue them again, unsuccessfully...

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Biggest band among West Bloomfield High School students, 1973-74, I am sure of it. Unlike Aerosmith or Kiss or Nugent, they weren't scary enough to scare the kids who were scared of hard rock (like me), and unlike, uh, John Denver or Jim Croce or the Bee Gees or whoever, they rocked hard enough for the hard rockers anyway. (Okay, MAYBE they weren't as big as Elton John, I guess. But he wasn't a band.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Also, Martin Popoff (who is Canadian) calls them Buffalo Burger Overdrive, which is great (as are they, in case there's any doubt.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Randy Bachman's recent jazz guitar album is crazy boring.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

TRUE BTO FACT: Without C.F. "Fred" Turner, they would have just been B.O.
http://www.lalasreisen.de/assets/images/db_images/db_t101.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

oops i meant 1974-75 (aka freshman year)

Sometimes I confused *Not Fragile* with Yes's *Fragile* though.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me of my local radio DJ confusing The Wall with Off The Wall circa January '80!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Cage fight/writing session between Roger Waters and Michael Jackson! It's on, people!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Is this the first thread about BTO? "Hey you" is almost punk.

― duke of marlboro (mickeygraft), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Then you're probably about the only person who thinks so.

They were a perfect 8-track in the car band. High school bands playing "Takin' Care of Business" ruined some of my enjoyment of them.

Randy Bachman even had a distortion pedal designed after one of his solo tunes, "The American Woman Overdrive," by Tech 21 of NYC. At time he recorded it, you had to stand on your head to get that tone to tape. For a long time now, it's easy.

― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

god forbid anyone have any fun opinions about anything these days.

― old granddad, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I love BTO. "Looking Out For #1" is my favorite song. I even like Randy's solo album Axe! A homeless person in Philadelphia actually called me Bachman Turner Overdrive once. I took it as a great compliment.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Someone told me once that, based on my writing, they thought I would look like Roger Ebert (I don't) (except maybe we both wear glasses and are both white males under seven feet tall). I took that as a compliment too.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" is definitely a song I can't picture anyone not liking.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I cited YASNY in a Ninth Grade English paper on A Midsummer Night's Dream. I got an A.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

Randy Bachman is doing a weekly show on CBC--not sure when he started.

http://www.cbc.ca/vinyltap/

I was driving along last night and recognized the voice. Worlds colliding: he played Andrea True's "More More More" and gushed about it. (But not worlds colliding if you think about his innate gift for pop music.)

― clemenza, Monday, 4 February 2013 17:57 (thirteen years ago)

He's been doing it for a couple of years or so. It's okay but not enough music/too much chat (hello CBC) and endless self-aggrandizing from Bachman, who has to insert himself into the history of practically every artist he plays.

― everything, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:19 (thirteen years ago)

And if you are remotely interested in 60s/70s music it's a bust since the playlist is all Beatles, Stones etc with maybe only one or at the very most, two curveballs per two hour episode.

― everything, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:29 (thirteen years ago)

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