Randy Bachman
Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, OC OMis a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of Brave Belt with Chad Allan, Union and Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth27 September 1943
CityWinnipeg, Canada
CountryCanada
country growing-up growing
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
violin lessons five
When I was five I had violin lessons.
song two firefighter
Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
people scary calling
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
wall add earth
To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
song night two
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
son rocks community
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
people style lucky
You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
perseverance fifty singles
With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
success successful want
When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
people facts internet
The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
strong thinking nowhere-to-go
I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
sound labels copycats
Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
perfection imperfection imperfect
We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.