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Location: Tennessee | For those already in the know, I know I'm late to the party. For the rest, I discovered this great radio show on Sunday night.
It is called Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap, and is produced by CBC. I caught it on Sirius at 8pm Pacific on Sunday night. It's a two hour show hosted by Randy. This week he has a Rickenbacker with him and he explained and demonstrated how the trademark Rickenbacker sound was played ... followed up by the various signature songs by the Byrds, Beatles, CCR, Tom Petty, etc. I missed the first half of the show, where he did the same thing with Gretsch guitars. It was very cool. Apparently, every week he takes different guitars and explores how their sound impacted rock music. If you have Sirius, you ought to check it out on the CBC channel. If you live up north and can pull in Canadian stations, you may be able to catch it that way. It's on every week. |
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Location: south east Michigan | From what I saw on the Guess Who reunion (PBS), Randy Bachman is still a hellava player. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | A lot of his BTO material was pretty good stuff too. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yep.. But I still preffer the more complicated Guess Who material.
Brian & I are working up a couple more.
"Been goin' to librarys.... been learnin' about books" |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Every show of Randys has a different theme. He's been on the guitar kick for a month or so now...Tele's, Strats, Les Pauls....etc.
At other times it's been 'Vocal groups through pop history' or 'Cover tunes'.
But all the best bits are couched in the "and then I met..." stories. The one about going to England to fight the Who never gets old.....though I'm sure Randy treasures more the time he saw Tina Turner and the Ikettes naked. |
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Location: Tennessee | When I was in high school, I saved up my money and bought a Quadraphonic hifi system. The coolest track to demo was "Hand Me Down World" ... when the drums came in at the end of the intro they tracked around the room as Garry Peterson rolled around the kit. Very cool effect. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | A Quad! Now THAT brings back memories. Hazy ones, but they're still back there... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
When I was in high school, I saved up my money and bought a Quadraphonic hifi system. No joke. I still have my Panasonic Quadraphonic set up in the living room and it continues to sound just fine, although I haven't had anything to put into the 8-track for decades. I purchased it new in the early 1970's. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Yep.. But I still preffer the more complicated Guess Who material. I'm not too sure the BTO material was all that much less complicated than the GW material (which I also liked). Sure the "TCoB" and "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet" the radio hits were without a doubt but there were a lot of others where he had some great jazz/rock progressions going. He was/is just a great guitarist IMHO. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | A college roommate had a quadrophonic stereo, but fortunately I couldn't afford anything that modern, so we'd just listen to his stuff. I think he had an 8 track, too. I'm glad to say I never owned one of those. I figured out that cassettes were the way to go. Only problem was that when the cassette tape got all tangled up, the hole was a lot smaller to try to fish it out of the stereo. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I saw Randy & Co. as Brave Belt just after Chad Allan quit. (again) Caught one of the Lps they were tossing out at the gig too! May even still have it, haven't looked at the record library in......months? |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Randy Bachman and Quadraphonic stereos in one thread. Holy crap! I'm having a flashback. |
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Location: N.E. Pa | I think you can listen to it here too; http://www.cbc.ca/vinyltap/
Haven't tried it yet, but I think I see links there. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Brave Belt - Another Way Out
Depending on your perspective on the matter; It's amazing how much Burton Cummins sounds like Chad Allan.....(the other way around for those who came to the party later) |
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PSA: Vinyl Tap