Randy Bachman

Every Song Tells A Story is sort of Randy Bachman unplugged. But there's nothing acoustic about Bachman's oeuvre. Even in these subdued renditions these songs rock. The video was compiled from two shows Randy and his band played in Vancouver last April. I had an opportunity to attend, but was on the opposite side of the country. The people who did attend look like they had a great time. The show starts with Bachman's last hit. Recorded originally in two versions with Neil Young on guitar and vocals, 'Prairie Town' is a history of Bachman, the Guess Who, Neil & the Squires, and the development of a rock scene in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Randy Bachman, co-founder and lead guitarist of Canada’s legendary Bachman-Turner Overdrive, offers a unique approach to songs written solely by the late George Harrison. Bachman, an ardent admirer of Harrison from the Beatles’ early days, pays tribute by reinterpreting and taking a few liberties with these landmark songs.The only original, “Between Two Mountains,” symbolizes (to Bachman) George’s dilemma and how every so often he did manage to squeeze in a song or two—between those of Lennon and McCartney. His songs were special and great. Over time, he became a mountain as well.

Randy Bachman always had an appreciation for jazz and it showed up in some of his compositions with the Rock bands he was a member of: The Guess Who (Undun, A Wednesday in your Garden) and with Bachman-Turner Overdrive (Lookin' Out For #1)…

Randy Bachman is a Canadian rock guitarist and singer. He was born in Winnipeg and was a member of Chad Allen & the Expressions, which evolved into the Guess Who, the most successful Canadian rock band of the 1960s. He left the Guess Who in July 1970, made a solo album, Axe, and then formed Brave Belt, which evolved by 1972 into Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO).

Available together for the first time ever - the hits of The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive - woven together with some highly entertaining stories by the man behind the music - Randy Bachman. Over a dozen top 10 hits performed by Bachman and his band during a live "unplugged" concert set, recorded in Vancouver in April 2002. The arrangements are hot and the stories behind the songs are absorbing as Randy tells the often-humorous anecdotes behind some of the biggest pop music hits of the last 30 years. Tracks include: No Sugar Tonight, Undun, Let it Ride, These Eyes, Laughing, Four Wheel Drive, No Time, American Woman, Hey You, Looking out for #1, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Takin Care of Business, Shakin All Over.