Randy Bachman wrote this song about Burton Cummings after they split up from the Guess Who. Fortunately they have made up over the years and toured together again, they both belong in the RRHOF
Randy Bachman was originally with The Guess Who. They also have: Roll On Down The Highway Not Fragile Sledgehammer Rock Is My Life, And This Is My Song
I wish I could find Randy's story behind this song. I believe Gordon wanted to leave Guess Who because they were too straight arrow. This song was kinda a see ? I told ya to Gordon Cummings
..."Class of 76"...Many bands have great songs BUT...grab a BTO album, 8-track, cassette or CD and it rocks through the whole list of songs...One of my top 5 all time favorite bands...Thanks for playing them again!
@@screwyou341 Yeah, four decades ago. I had an Audiovox under-the-dash 8-track player in my '70 Beetle which came with a pair of crappy 4" coaxial speakers with paper woofers.....such high-fidelity...LOL!
My first album was Not fragile. Loved this band. 12 or 13 in a hippy town called Bridgeville ca. the freest I have ever been. It was a special time. Im so privileged to have experienced that and will cherish it forever. No one will ever know how perfect and euphoric that time was. I absolutely appreciate and not only miss but wish I could go back to that time. Im so lucky I experienced the time I had there.
Excellent…..BTO’s biggest song - that to this day would get people up out of their chairs dancing around the Globe - is Takin’ Care of Business … You must hit that one someday
"Not Fragile" and "Four Wheel Drive" are a couple BTO rockers I recommend. If you haven't done "Takin' Care of Business" "Roll on Down The Highway" and "Gimme Your Money Please" you should do those next.
@@bloppysloppy4057 Wow, didn't here that one. Randy was the oldest of those three. He must be devastated to have lost two younger brothers 4 month apart.
Another Canadina group that still awaits your ears: Lighthouse. THey had a few hits like "One Fine Morning," "Pretty Lady" and others. Amber should be especially interested because HORNS were a key part of their music.
If you like "Hey You" then you'll love "Let It Ride". BTO was actually originally known as Brave Belt which formed after Randy Bachman left The Guess Who. They started out as country rock but evolved to a harder rock style for which BTO would become famous. My favorite Brave Belt song is "Summer Soldier"
Oh kids, this is no where near the "Hardest" BTO, but really one of their Pop/Rock numbers. Top 5 Heaviest Rockers would be 1) Not Fragile, 2) Sledgehammer, 3) Four Wheel Drive, 4) Second Hand (more cowbell lol, 5) Don't Get Yourself In Trouble. Many more and on some days the bottom couple could be replaced by others so, everyone has their favorites right.
*Funny Randy Bachman* story - Randy called into our Vancouver Rock Radio Station but was put on-hold for over 25 minutes. The 20 year-old receptionist had no idea who *BTO or The Guess Who* were.
This is Randy Bachman's middle finger to Burton Cummings. They have had a volatile relationship over the years to say the very least. Hate, make up and work together, hate again, make up.... When they perform together, Burton introduces this as" the song Randy wrote when he hated me" Check out Lookin' Out For Number One.
This is my Favorite BTO song. The Cord progression is HOT 🔥🔥 It was written by Randy Bachman ABOUT his Guess Who mate Burton Cummings BECAUSE They started having disputes on the direction of the Band/Songs/Writing. THANK YOU for doing this one !
Let it Ride! There is another band, "Nantucket", who put out some great music about this same time. They are hard to pigeon hole, but a little BTO, a bit of 38 Special, a smidgen of REO Speedwagon & sprinkling of Mountain. Their biggest hit was "Heartbreaker"! Followed by "Gimme your Love", "Tennessee Whiskey ", "She's no Good", and "Girl you Blew a Good Thing".
Blown, Giving it all away, Stonegates, Don't let the blues get you down, Gimme your money please, Sledgehammer, Free wheelin', Quick change artist, Blue moanin', can't go wrong with any of these!!!
For the heavy side of them listen to Not Fragile, Sledgehammer, Second Hand of Four Wheel Drive. The song Hey You came out in 1975 on the Four Wheel Drive album. I love the fact you dig this fantastic band. The leader is Randy Bachman fron The Guess Who. This album was their fourth one
Best memory of this song on a beach on long island sound where I lived and dancing in the sand. Freaking amazing, wonderful memory. Flash back from way back. Thank you. Thank you. WOW!Sand on the feet is a memory in itself.
"Not Fragile" was a great album, too. I still have my ticket stub for their concert in Omaha in 74(?), Styx was the warm-up band. WHAT A SHOW! Styx did 'Lady' and 'Lorelei'.
You guys are so cool and you play the most awesome tunes ever. I watch your channel all the time. I just love it. I love your reactions. It’s great watching you guys hearing something for the first time that I grew up on. I just wanted to tell you that y’all are simply the coolest and the tunes you play are the coolest to. Can I suggest something for you to play.?I think y’all will like it. The name of the song is Green Grass and High Tides and the band is the Outlaws. This song is one of my faves. Thank you so much, I really do appreciate it guys !!!😊🇺🇸💜🤟🗽
I've only done a quick skim of what "bachman" brings up in a search of your channel, BUT... If you haven't done "Taking Care of Business" by BTO yet, you are missing out on an amazing song. They lucked out on finding a pianist (or a pianist finding them,) and, OH MY GOD, listening to it, you start asking "so... why did rock start phasing out the piano?"
The drummer is the singer's brother. BTO has two Bachmans and one Turner. I checked, and there's three Bachmans. I thought there was just two. Poor Fred😁
This is why I love watching you guys! You go back to the mid 70’s, when I was a high schooler, and listen to songs I haven’t heard in nearly 50 years! You guys really give me a smile and evoke some good memories and good times!! 😉
Just been learning about this band, from the professor of music on UA-cam. He gives the stories behind the songs, and this band is great, and rad. Good driving music, yes they used the cow bell a lot through the 70's! A lot! 😂
I'm very glad you are loving BTO, but I hope you don't neglect the other half of Randy Bachman's career, in The Guess Who. Remember, he was with them before Burton Cummings even came along. Let's hear "Undun" and "Laughing" and "No Time" (the longer version, please) and some of the quirky early stuff like "The Clock on the Wall" and "Pink Champagne Sparkles in the Glass", as well as Burton's great songs after Randy left, like "Share the Land" and "Glamour Boy". Keep the Winnipeg winners coming!
Bachman used to play guitar in The Guess Who, he left and started his own band…Bachman, Turner, Overdrive. He stutters in his song “ Ain’t Got Nothing Yet. “ 👏👏👏 🩵🩵
You need to do Not Fragile! At least for me Not Fragile is their best song and their best album. The entire album rocks. This band has been robbed of their rightful place in rock!
Jay & Amber Both of you already reacted Randy Bachman of BTO. Randy started in another Canadian Band called The Guess Who before he left to formed BTO with his late brothers: Robbie and Tim Bachman with Fred Turner.
That wasn't actually an acoustic guitar. It was an electric guitar (probably a Fender) with either a phase shifter or flanger effect on it. That's what gives it that sweeping sound.
Three of there heaviest rockers ( all from the same "Four Wheel Drive" album) check out 1. Four Wheel Drive 2. Flat Broke Love 3. Don't Let the Blue Get You Down
LOVE me some BTO! Robbie Bachman, the drummer (RIP) drove their songs like a run away tractor trailer. This was a band that was the sum of all their parts for sure!!
Being a child of the mid-60s, my formative years were spent listening to bands like BTO, KISS, Foghat, Bad Co., etc. as we were hanging out, fishing, swimming. These were our Summer fun bands of the 70s. Great road trip music!
I doubt many other people will agree, but one of my favorite BTO songs has always been, "Give me your money, Please." It's a fun song that I love popping up every so often.
There was a public campaign to name a construction project in BTO's native Winnepeg "Bachman-Turner Overpass." 😂 I love "Takin' Care of Business," "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," and others whose names dont come to mind.
Excellent choice!!! They are my favourite Canadian band. Listen to the title track of that album. FOUR WHEEL DRIVE! 1975 was when this came out. Keep it comingcyou two! I'm loving your reactions! ❤❤👍👍🤘🤘
This sounds like an inverted version of Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet. I had to go listen to their reaction of that after hearing this. Was fun to play these 2 back to back.
Thanks guys for bringing back a Canadian Icon band. Please check out the Roseland Ballroom version of "Not Fragile"... a slower, heavier Rock sound... and Turner's voice! A Bass riff you will remember forever! Also, do "Four Wheel Drive" and "Let It Ride". You guys rock😎😎✌✌
Randy Bachman wrote this song about Burton Cummings after they split up from the Guess Who. Fortunately they have made up over the years and toured together again, they both belong in the RRHOF
There's a great video of them performing the song together. ua-cam.com/video/mciFoeRW86s/v-deo.html
Especially when you consider the very marginal acts that are in there, and singers who weren't even Rock and Roll.
"rrhof" is a joke
So true
In my opinion "Let it Ride" is definitely their hardest rock song. Fred Turner soars into the stratosphere at the end of this song!
Or Four wheel drive 🤘
Not Fragile is definitely their heaviest hitter.
Sledgehammer!
4WR its the most hardest hard rock. Far away!!
@@sergiomattos109 absolutely that bass is pounding.
Randy Bachman was originally with The Guess Who.
They also have:
Roll On Down The Highway
Not Fragile
Sledgehammer
Rock Is My Life, And This Is My Song
I wish I could find Randy's story behind this song. I believe Gordon wanted to leave Guess Who because they were too straight arrow. This song was kinda a see ? I told ya to Gordon Cummings
Along with Fleetwood Mac and ELO, Bachman Turner Overdrive was one of my favorite bands from the 70s. This song was released in 1975.
Thanks for mentioning ELO. They were my favorite band in high school. 😊 👍
@@oldiesgeek454 Anytime!
@@MarkWYoung-ky4uc 😊👍
RIGHT ON I CAN DIG THE 70s
Great song! But my favorite BTO is "Roll On Down The Highway".
Great song. Mine is “taking care of business” it was my walk up song coming up to bat. 😁
They have done "Roll On Down The Highway" already.
@@rmacdougallaliasdogviticusAwesome. I may have to look it up.
They LOVED "roll on down ..."
Agreed 👍. Fred Turner with that growly voice, and one hell of a bass player
..."Class of 76"...Many bands have great songs BUT...grab a BTO album, 8-track, cassette or CD and it rocks through the whole list of songs...One of my top 5 all time favorite bands...Thanks for playing them again!
An 8track....that was long ago
I love BTO, such a criminally underrated band. Their career ended much too soon.
underrated is so overused...
I don't care. It applies. BTO are underrated.@@sunnystormy4973
@@screwyou341 Yeah, four decades ago. I had an Audiovox under-the-dash 8-track player in my '70 Beetle which came with a pair of crappy 4" coaxial speakers with paper woofers.....such high-fidelity...LOL!
My first album was Not fragile. Loved this band. 12 or 13 in a hippy town called Bridgeville ca. the freest I have ever been. It was a special time. Im so privileged to have experienced that and will cherish it forever. No one will ever know how perfect and euphoric that time was. I absolutely appreciate and not only miss but wish I could go back to that time. Im so lucky I experienced the time I had there.
Excellent…..BTO’s biggest song - that to this day would get people up out of their chairs dancing around the Globe - is Takin’ Care of Business … You must hit that one someday
Not just SOME day - every day!
👍 I see “watcha” did there (every day) and in (every way)🎸🥁🎸🎤✌️@@mwanush
"Not Fragile" and "Four Wheel Drive" are a couple BTO rockers I recommend. If you haven't done "Takin' Care of Business" "Roll on Down The Highway" and "Gimme Your Money Please" you should do those next.
BTO was the bomb back in the day! Loved that band!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
The drummer... we just recently lost. Robin (Robbie) Bachman, died 1/12/23
Tim Bachman (rhythm guitarist on the first two albums) also passed in 2023.
@@bloppysloppy4057 Wow, didn't here that one. Randy was the oldest of those three. He must be devastated to have lost two younger brothers 4 month apart.
I don't think Randy and Tim were close anymore. @@jimmayors2315
Another Canadina group that still awaits your ears: Lighthouse. THey had a few hits like "One Fine Morning," "Pretty Lady" and others. Amber should be especially interested because HORNS were a key part of their music.
'Sunny Days' & 'Hats Off To The Stranger' 2 more awesome "Lighthouse" tunes.
Thumbs up for Hats Off To the Stranger, such a great song. @@rmacdougallaliasdogviticus
"One Fine Morning" is a masterpiece. "Sunny Day" awesome feel good song.
I keep requesting Lighthouse. Hopefully coming soon
If you want a Canadian band with amazing horns, you gotta listen to the Planet Smashers!!!
“Roll On Down The Highway” is the heaviest rocker
Guys love them crazy Canadians! 🇨🇦
Love your channel, love what you 2 bring everytime ! My all time favorite BTO song is " Not Fragile" it is pretty hard !😂
If you like "Hey You" then you'll love "Let It Ride". BTO was actually originally known as Brave Belt which formed after Randy Bachman left The Guess Who. They started out as country rock but evolved to a harder rock style for which BTO would become famous. My favorite Brave Belt song is "Summer Soldier"
This is one of my three favorites from BTO. The other two are roll on down the highway, and taking care of business
BTO has SO many cool tracks,but "Taking Care of Business," a big rockin dance song, and one of their biggest hits, is a MUST listen.
Oh kids, this is no where near the "Hardest" BTO, but really one of their Pop/Rock numbers. Top 5 Heaviest Rockers would be
1) Not Fragile, 2) Sledgehammer, 3) Four Wheel Drive, 4) Second Hand (more cowbell lol, 5) Don't Get Yourself In Trouble.
Many more and on some days the bottom couple could be replaced by others so, everyone has their favorites right.
Let it Ride by BTO, you guys will love that one!
Taking Care of Business KICKS dONKEY
*Funny Randy Bachman* story - Randy called into our Vancouver Rock Radio Station but was put on-hold for over 25 minutes. The 20 year-old receptionist had no idea who *BTO or The Guess Who* were.
This is Randy Bachman's middle finger to Burton Cummings. They have had a volatile relationship over the years to say the very least. Hate, make up and work together, hate again, make up....
When they perform together, Burton introduces this as" the song Randy wrote when he hated me"
Check out Lookin' Out For Number One.
Love this band!
I read somewhere That their song, "Takin Care of Business" was one of Elvis' favourite songs.
Little late joining the party, but you two keep it real! Hey You! Favorite BTO song!
Not Fragile is by far my favorite song, I hope it is your next pick
Anoother fabulous Canadian🇨🇦🎤 band of ours. Great reaction folks 👍. Love "Blue Collar"...🎤🇨🇦🎶
You HAVE to play Takin' Care of Business! Killer riffs!-
And then Randy Bachman’s “Takin’ Care of Christmas” 🎄
They have a great instrumental called Free Wheelin'. You would love it! I still have their album Not Fragile! One of my favorite albums!
This is my Favorite BTO song. The Cord progression is HOT 🔥🔥 It was written by Randy Bachman ABOUT his Guess Who mate Burton Cummings BECAUSE They started having disputes on the direction of the Band/Songs/Writing. THANK YOU for doing this one !
Let it Ride! There is another band, "Nantucket", who put out some great music about this same time. They are hard to pigeon hole, but a little BTO, a bit of 38 Special, a smidgen of REO Speedwagon & sprinkling of Mountain. Their biggest hit was "Heartbreaker"! Followed by "Gimme your Love", "Tennessee Whiskey ", "She's no Good", and "Girl you Blew a Good Thing".
My all time BTO favorite i Hold Back The Water. Great guitar solo! Jay would really appreciate this!
Blown, Giving it all away, Stonegates, Don't let the blues get you down, Gimme your money please, Sledgehammer, Free wheelin', Quick change artist, Blue moanin', can't go wrong with any of these!!!
And blue collar
Agreed!
For the heavy side of them listen to Not Fragile, Sledgehammer, Second Hand of Four Wheel Drive. The song Hey You came out in 1975 on the Four Wheel Drive album. I love the fact you dig this fantastic band. The leader is Randy Bachman fron The Guess Who. This album was their fourth one
Best memory of this song on a beach on long island sound where I lived and dancing in the sand. Freaking amazing, wonderful memory. Flash back from way back. Thank you. Thank you. WOW!Sand on the feet is a memory in itself.
My first concert I ever went to! BTO! I know, I'm may be old to you, but not to me! I'm still rockin! ✌You had to be there, different times!
Once again you 2 really surprise me and I'm blessed to be apart of the family now thank you for having me
"Not Fragile" was a great album, too.
I still have my ticket stub for their concert in Omaha in 74(?), Styx was the warm-up band. WHAT A SHOW! Styx did 'Lady' and 'Lorelei'.
BTO was my first concert nearly 50 years ago in San Antonio. Loved it.
I still remember when the first BTO album was released, a reviewer really ragged on them for giving a song a title like "Gimme Your Money Please"
BTO, great party music. Play their tunes at your next outdoor barbecue. (Don't forget to bring a cowbell and one drum stick!). 🙂
You should react to Randy Bachmans Taking Care of Christmas. Randy Bachman is still touring.
Bto - Four Wheel Drive BTO - Takin Care Of Business BTO - Down Down BTO - Lookin' Out For Nº1 BTO - Tramp
Love your reactions ,, check out BTO at the Rosemont theater in NYC ,,, live 11 yrs ago and still sound incredible 👍👍👍👍✌️✌️
I saw BTO open for Van Halen in Pullman, WA 1986. 🤟
You guys are so cool and you play the most awesome tunes ever. I watch your channel all the time. I just love it.
I love your reactions. It’s great watching you guys hearing something for the first time that I grew up on.
I just wanted to tell you that y’all are simply the coolest and the tunes you play are the coolest to. Can I suggest something for you to play.?I think y’all will like it. The name of the song is Green Grass and High
Tides and the band is the Outlaws. This song is one of my faves. Thank you so much, I really do appreciate it guys !!!😊🇺🇸💜🤟🗽
I love the bluesy kind of song like blue-collar that was a great song…
they did several great songs but in my opinion the ultimate is "Rock Is My Life And This Is My Song".
This is from 1975. BTO formed in 1973. It was 3 Bachman brothers Randy (formerly of The Guess Who), Robbie and Tim and their friend Fred Turner.
the title track to this album. 4 Wheel Drive. This song is the smooth BTO. 4 Wheel Drive is the DRIVING, BTO!
I've only done a quick skim of what "bachman" brings up in a search of your channel, BUT...
If you haven't done "Taking Care of Business" by BTO yet, you are missing out on an amazing song.
They lucked out on finding a pianist (or a pianist finding them,) and, OH MY GOD, listening to it, you start asking "so... why did rock start phasing out the piano?"
My fave.....hold back the water
BTO ' s " Rock is my life and this is my song ". Good song also.
I love this band! Brings back memories of college, this was our time! I think Blue Collar is my absolute fave of theirs, more of a laid back song.
BTO - Talkin care of Business is a must!!!!!!!
The drummer is the singer's brother. BTO has two Bachmans and one Turner.
I checked, and there's three Bachmans. I thought there was just two. Poor Fred😁
I suggest "Let it Ride" by BTO, also "Stand Tall" by Burton Cummings. Thanks for your reactions!
People always recommend Stand Tall by Burton Cummings but my favorite is I'm Scared.
100%🔥
Another great Canadian Band was "The Band". Some hits were "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”, “Whispering Pines”.
I saw them opening for Van Halen in 1985. They were awesome.
There most rockin' song is "Stayed Awake All Night"
The songs “Hold Back the Water,” “Gimmee Your Money Please ,” and “Blue Collar “ from their debut album are awesome too!
Wow! Thanks for the memories guys.
Blue Collar is a surprise. Very subtle in comparison. Work of art.
Randy Bachman was the singer and lead guitar player. The man behind the band "The Guess Who" and American Woman.
" Down Down" is another great BTO song!
This is why I love watching you guys! You go back to the mid 70’s, when I was a high schooler, and listen to songs I haven’t heard in nearly 50 years! You guys really give me a smile and evoke some good memories and good times!! 😉
The very first album I ever bought with my own money. I was 8 lol.
Just been learning about this band, from the professor of music on UA-cam.
He gives the stories behind the songs, and this band is great, and rad.
Good driving music, yes they used the cow bell a lot through the 70's! A lot! 😂
Had this on 8-Track way back in the 70’s when I was just a kid.
I'm very glad you are loving BTO, but I hope you don't neglect the other half of Randy Bachman's career, in The Guess Who. Remember, he was with them before Burton Cummings even came along.
Let's hear "Undun" and "Laughing" and "No Time" (the longer version, please) and some of the quirky early stuff like "The Clock on the Wall" and "Pink Champagne Sparkles in the Glass", as well as Burton's great songs after Randy left, like "Share the Land" and "Glamour Boy".
Keep the Winnipeg winners coming!
You all need to play "Taking Care of Business" it's one of their best songs
Bachman used to play guitar in The Guess Who, he left and started his own band…Bachman, Turner, Overdrive. He stutters in his song “ Ain’t Got Nothing Yet. “ 👏👏👏 🩵🩵
They did that one.
Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Ain’t seen Nothing Yet! “
Been too long since I've heard any BTO!!! Love It... Great Reaction, You Guys! :) More Please!
Saw them in Wichita falls. Tx 1979. I think that's the year.
You need to do Not Fragile! At least for me Not Fragile is their best song and their best album. The entire album rocks. This band has been robbed of their rightful place in rock!
Jay & Amber
Both of you already reacted Randy Bachman of BTO. Randy started in another Canadian Band called The Guess Who before he left to formed BTO with his late brothers: Robbie and Tim Bachman with Fred Turner.
BTO was one of my favorites growing up in the '70's.
BTO brings back so many memories when I was growing up in the 70's. Great choice of music.
That wasn't actually an acoustic guitar. It was an electric guitar (probably a Fender) with either a phase shifter or flanger effect on it. That's what gives it that sweeping sound.
Three of there heaviest rockers ( all from the same "Four Wheel Drive" album) check out 1. Four Wheel Drive 2. Flat Broke Love 3. Don't Let the Blue Get You Down
LOVE me some BTO! Robbie Bachman, the drummer (RIP) drove their songs like a run away tractor trailer. This was a band that was the sum of all their parts for sure!!
🇨🇦Bachman 🇨🇦Turner 🇨🇦Overdrive 🇨🇦
We were rockin to BTO in the late 70s. 😎
Being a child of the mid-60s, my formative years were spent listening to bands like BTO, KISS, Foghat, Bad Co., etc. as we were hanging out, fishing, swimming. These were our Summer fun bands of the 70s. Great road trip music!
Randy Bachman can't get all the love, lol. Time for some Burton Cummings. Maybe "Stand Tall"?
True it is Bachman TURNER overdrive.
I doubt many other people will agree, but one of my favorite BTO songs has always been, "Give me your money, Please." It's a fun song that I love popping up every so often.
Friday is coming Melanie Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) Netherlands. You will so love this song
YES! Especially the live TV performance from Denmark. Totally hippie vibe!
There was a public campaign to name a construction project in BTO's native Winnepeg "Bachman-Turner Overpass." 😂 I love "Takin' Care of Business," "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," and others whose names dont come to mind.
Definitely gotta hit "Let It Ride". There is no way to listen to it too loud!
Excellent choice!!! They are my favourite Canadian band. Listen to the title track of that album. FOUR WHEEL DRIVE! 1975 was when this came out. Keep it comingcyou two! I'm loving your reactions! ❤❤👍👍🤘🤘
So glad they regrouped so younger people can enjoy their music...great harmonies, fun songs and oh so good guitar playing.
The Song "Not Fragile" is the heaviest BTO song.
This sounds like an inverted version of Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet. I had to go listen to their reaction of that after hearing this. Was fun to play these 2 back to back.
From their Not Fragile album from 1974 are also Not Fragile, Rock Is My Life And This Is My Song and Sledgehammer
"TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS'
"ROLLING DOWN THE HIGHWAY"
Great song! Used to listen to this on my brothers 8 track player when i was a kid!
Let It Ride is a great BTO song you will love 🔥
Jay and Amber ,great reaction to one of my favorite 70's band. You've got to react to " Takin' care of Business ". One of my favorites !
Thanks guys for bringing back a Canadian Icon band. Please check out the Roseland Ballroom version of "Not Fragile"... a slower, heavier Rock sound... and Turner's voice! A Bass riff you will remember forever! Also, do "Four Wheel Drive" and "Let It Ride". You guys rock😎😎✌✌
Probably the first song I played on my brand new bass when I brought it home at 14 years old, my birhday present that year