The legendary Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Randy Bachman was in not one, but two of the most successful rock bands to come out of this country: The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Randy sat down with Tom Power to look back on his incredible life in music, from leaving The Guess Who at the height of their success, to Neil Young helping him start his new band, all the way up to his new BTO single, which looks back at Winnipeg — the city that he says gave him everything.
00:00 Intro
00:22 Greeting
00:41 Bachman-Turner Overpass
01:21 Writing '60 Years Ago'
03:45 Reaching out to Fred Turner
05:13 New BTO
06:16 Neil Young's on the record
12:26 The Guess Who
16:35 Being branded as an idiot
18:14 Being confident
20:07 Lenny Breau
22:32 Brave Belt and Fred Turner
27:44 Early days of BTO
30:05 Achieving success with BTO
31:51 Elvis
35:45 BTO is still going
41:40 "I have no life"
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