![]() ![]() Original singer-bassist Fred Turner, also 80, is mostly off the road now. When I’m on with (the Guess Who’s) Burton Cummings.Īt 80, Bachman is the only original full-time BTO bandmember as the group marks its 50th anniversary. You go back to that time when I’m on with (Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s) Fred Turner. “When I’m on stage, I feel like I’m 20 or 30 when I wrote and played these songs. It’s kind of like a journey through time. “That song takes you back there,” Bachman says. Or the girl you were dancing with or making out with. “You would go back to the car, the truck or the tractor you were driving. – “or ‘American Woman’ or ‘These Eyes’ or ‘Takin’ Care of Business,’” he continues, pivoting from Sting to his own songs. “If I asked you, ‘What were you doing the first time you heard “Message in a Bottle” or “Roxanne” ‘ – “And he said to the guy interviewing him, ‘If I asked you what you were doing 10 years ago or 20 years ago from tonight, you’d have no idea,’” Bachman says. “He’s one of the great guys, been around forever, and he’ll do songs from every era that he was in. “I saw Sting on TV a while ago, and people were asking him about his songs,” Bachman says by phone from his home in Victoria, British Columbia. Ask Randy Bachman to explain the enduring appeal of classic rock and the singer-guitarist – and cofounder of both the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive – points to … Sting? ![]()
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