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
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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I would go on the bus by myself; I couldn't even read with my violin under my arm, but it was a learning experience and I ultimately persevered.
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I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
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I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a band that was number one at the time on all of the charts, both albums and singles.
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People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.