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Here's the trailer below and a post on Rushisaband.com here about it with Alex Lifeson making an appearance in the documentary.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4v5EZA_ns

Hopefully the documentary is as creative as the title!

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Saw him a year or so back and it was wonderful. Told stories about the songs he's written, how they came to be written, etc. before performing them. Really fun show/night.

One of my few concert regrets was not seeing the reunited Guess Who back in like '99 or so. They played the Greek Theater in L.A. when I was living in SoCal and it was a work night. I should've called in sick and gone to the show. Did see BTO a couple of times back in the 70s.

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Saw him a year or so back and it was wonderful. Told stories about the songs he's written, how they came to be written, etc. before performing them. Really fun show/night.

One of my few concert regrets was not seeing the reunited Guess Who back in like '99 or so. They played the Greek Theater in L.A. when I was living in SoCal and it was a work night. I should've called in sick and gone to the show. Did see BTO a couple of times back in the 70s.

 

The Guess Who lineup with Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman reunited in 2000 and beyond.

 

The Greek Theater date of 10/22/01 here may relate to your comment.

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Saw him a year or so back and it was wonderful. Told stories about the songs he's written, how they came to be written, etc. before performing them. Really fun show/night.

One of my few concert regrets was not seeing the reunited Guess Who back in like '99 or so. They played the Greek Theater in L.A. when I was living in SoCal and it was a work night. I should've called in sick and gone to the show. Did see BTO a couple of times back in the 70s.

 

The Guess Who lineup with Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman reunited in 2000 and beyond.

 

The Greek Theater date of 10/22/01 here may relate to your comment.

Yeah that's the one. Thanks for the research. I moved back to the NW from SoCal in June of '02 so I knew it was before that but was too lazy to look it up.

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I saw the reunited group at Mohegan Sun in '02. They did several BTO songs, which Cummings would introduce as songs Randy did with that "other band".

 

Interestingly, the original bassist was not with them, but he owns the rights to the name. They had to pay him to be able to tour as the Guess Who.

 

My old singer sang with the bass player's version of the Guess Who during the 80's.

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I'm not sure how many non-Canadians paid attention to Burton Cummings solo career.

 

In relation to the above, Cummings recorded a lounge version of 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'.

 

The Bachman-Turner Overdrive song 'Hey You' was directed at Cummings who had publicly stated that Bachman would never make it in the music business again following his departure from The Guess Who.

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I'm not sure how many non-Canadians paid attention to Burton Cummings solo career.

 

In relation to the above, Cummings recorded a lounge version of 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'.

 

The Bachman-Turner Overdrive song 'Hey You' was directed at Cummings who had publicly stated that Bachman would never make it in the music business again following his departure from The Guess Who.

 

Bachman would get the last laugh there, but it was an incredibly close call. The record exec that signed BTO had just come back from a vacation and found his desk full of demo tapes to be listened to. He decided he wanted a fresh start so in one motion he scooped them all off his desk into the garbage. 1 tape missed the garbage can and landed on the floor. When he went to pick it up he saw Bachman's name on it and remembered him from meeting him once before. And it went from there...

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I'm not sure how many non-Canadians paid attention to Burton Cummings solo career.

 

In relation to the above, Cummings recorded a lounge version of 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'.

 

The Bachman-Turner Overdrive song 'Hey You' was directed at Cummings who had publicly stated that Bachman would never make it in the music business again following his departure from The Guess Who.

 

Bachman would get the last laugh there, but it was an incredibly close call. The record exec that signed BTO had just come back from a vacation and found his desk full of demo tapes to be listened to. He decided he wanted a fresh start so in one motion he scooped them all off his desk into the garbage. 1 tape missed the garbage can and landed on the floor. When he went to pick it up he saw Bachman's name on it and remembered him from meeting him once before. And it went from there...

Wow, I have never heard that story. Very interesting. Thanks for posting it.

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If you get a chance to see Randy Bachman go! Great entertainer with some amazing stories. The opening riff for American Woman was the result of them going on stage at an arena somewhere in Ontario and Burton was missing - he was out in the parking lot trying to score some dope. So Randy just started playing the riff and the others jammed with him and an all time classic was born.
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If you get a chance to see Randy Bachman go! Great entertainer with some amazing stories. The opening riff for American Woman was the result of them going on stage at an arena somewhere in Ontario and Burton was missing - he was out in the parking lot trying to score some dope. So Randy just started playing the riff and the others jammed with him and an all time classic was born.

 

Randy and Burton each have a slightly different story of how the song 'American Woman' was created. See below.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2AJNs-4v7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVLG7GwoK1g

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If you get a chance to see Randy Bachman go! Great entertainer with some amazing stories. The opening riff for American Woman was the result of them going on stage at an arena somewhere in Ontario and Burton was missing - he was out in the parking lot trying to score some dope. So Randy just started playing the riff and the others jammed with him and an all time classic was born.

Saw him at a songwriters event at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls. Fantastic show, great music, great stories.
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Have always been a fan of Randy Bachman, but was disappointed that B.T.O. never found that next gear!! They started out when, what was the remnants of Bachman's first post-Guess Who attempt "Brave Belt", ended up thru happenstance playing at a club in Thunder Bay, Ontario where they realized they got a better response when they played songs people could dance to. This resulted in what became B.T.O. writing a lot of pretty vanilla stuff, the highlight of which was surely Randy's cool guitar hooks and solos. Certainly I liked their hits [except "Hey You" whose repetitiveness, even at age 14, was too much to bear]. The problem was, some of their albums' filler tunes were so pedestrian that you would most likely miss some great soloing if you didn't stick it out past the front half of the tune!

 

Granted, when he was with The Guess Who, the more experimental nature of the late 60's period elicited, even from the self-professed drug-free Bachman, some pretty nice psychedelic guitar turns. Though it was when he invoked his jazz influence - due largely to his childhood friendship with future jazz guitar legend Lenny Breau - in tunes like "Undun", and B.T.O.'s "Blue Collar" and "Looking Out For #1" that you really see that extra dimension to his playing.

 

Even some of his later, lesser known solo efforts while, not groundbreaking, are still more sonically interesting - to me at least - than the bulk of B.T.O.'s repertoire, hits aside. [Though, possibly his greatest contribution (with no disrespect to Randy's own legacy) is his custodianship of the mound of unreleased tapes of Lenny Breau, the best of which Bachman released thru his own "Guitarchives" label. Lenny Breau's place in jazz guitar history can't be understated. During his tenure at the clubs in L.A. the respect he commanded amongst his peers was such that, with the frequency with which they themselves would come to see Lenny play, if you dropped a bomb (so it was said) on one of these clubs you would wipe out half the jazz guitar pantheon].

 

All that said, and for all my love of jazz, jazz fusion, and prog, one of my favourite guitar solos - in all its relative simplicity - is still the one from "Roll on Down the Highway"... and neither would I ever change the channel on "Let It Ride"!!

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I'm not sure how many non-Canadians paid attention to Burton Cummings solo career.

 

In relation to the above, Cummings recorded a lounge version of 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'.

 

The Bachman-Turner Overdrive song 'Hey You' was directed at Cummings who had publicly stated that Bachman would never make it in the music business again following his departure from The Guess Who.

 

Bachman would get the last laugh there, but it was an incredibly close call. The record exec that signed BTO had just come back from a vacation and found his desk full of demo tapes to be listened to. He decided he wanted a fresh start so in one motion he scooped them all off his desk into the garbage. 1 tape missed the garbage can and landed on the floor. When he went to pick it up he saw Bachman's name on it and remembered him from meeting him once before. And it went from there...

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Thanks RushFanForever and Driventotheedge!! Had totally forgotten about the meaning behind "Hey You" and was completely unaware of that story about the record exec and Bachman's brush with obscurity!!!

 

I heard a lengthy interview on the radio with Cummings - back in the 80's I think it was - where he came off like a total dick, though i don't think he was Randy bashing or anything like that. I do remember though, in that same interview he was trying to advise people on how to preserve their singing voice over time, exercising it and all that, something which, if his singing on the Guess Who reunion tour a few years back is any indication, he is eminently qualified to do, love him or hate him.

 

All that said, the drama that ensued when Bachman left The Guess Who in 1970, regardless of who said what :rage: was very un-Canadian!!! :eh: :hockeygoon:

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Just a reminder to the Canadian fans out there; the Randy Bachman: BACHMAN documentary will be airing this Sunday on October 28th on CBC at 9pm ET/PT.

 

Your Avatar reminds me of the cover art of the original SYNERGY 'Semi Conductor' album...

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Just a reminder to the Canadian fans out there; the Randy Bachman: BACHMAN documentary will be airing this Sunday on October 28th on CBC at 9pm ET/PT.

 

Your Avatar reminds me of the cover art of the original SYNERGY 'Semi Conductor' album...

XZXn8fi.jpg

CFqwtQ9.gif

 

My avatar is the cover of

(1980) by the band Wireless. Geddy Lee produced the album.
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Just a reminder to the Canadian fans out there; the Randy Bachman: BACHMAN documentary will be airing this Sunday on October 28th on CBC at 9pm ET/PT.

 

Your Avatar reminds me of the cover art of the original SYNERGY 'Semi Conductor' album...

XZXn8fi.jpg

CFqwtQ9.gif

 

My avatar is the cover of

(1980) by the band Wireless. Geddy Lee produced the album.

 

I'll have to check that one out!

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