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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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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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 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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I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.
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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.
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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.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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I'm so glad I found Maren to work with. She has the most perfect voice. She has absolutely perfect intonation and control.
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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.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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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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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.