Though competition is stuff, the stuttering, nosebleed riff to its title track is among their very finest. Named in withering response to the Yes album Fragile, the group’s third album pummelled the listener like a butcher’s mallet. When all’s said and done, just about any of the nine tracks from Not Fragile could have made it onto this list though that would have made a dreadfully lopsided overview. A blistering showcase for the group’s unsung heroes, their rhythm section of bassist CF Turner and drummer Rob Bachman, its pummelling, pedal to the metal strains are at times reminiscent of both Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top. The title track of the group’s fourth album, Four Wheel Drive is a tough, hard hitting yet deeply commercial slab of boogie-rock.
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Full of rhythmic references to returning home in the ‘cool, cool, cool of the morning’, BTO do indeed leave us in no doubt of their intention to ‘truck all night long’. Stayed Awake All Night, 1973ĭoes anyone remember I Like Trucking, the Not The Nine O’Clock News skit on lorry drivers? Had that show been Canadian, it might have sounded something like this. It seems innocent enough, though its line of ‘I ride shotgun on his wife’ offers rather more dubious implications. The punchy Shotgun Rider is a great tune, ostensibly about a guy who’s offered a job in a saloon bar. They landed a deal with Mercury Records before the end of the year, but management was insisting on a name change, and Bachman Turner Overdrive was born.Though these selections are overwhelmingly and unapologetically culled from BTO’s earliest and biggest selling records, 1977’s Freeways remains a connoisseur’s favourite. Allen is not listed as a band member on the credits of Brave Belt II, although he writes and sings two of the songs, including Brave Belts only hit, the uber-folk “Dunrobin’s Gone”.įrustrated at what he perceived to be poor support from Reprise, Randy began shopping around for another label while the band wrote material for their next record, which was steadily taking a heavier, guitars tone.
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He was replaced by a third Bachman, Tim and the group honed their chops touring pretty much non-stop in western Canada. But by the time ‘Brave Belt II’ was released that summer, Allen’s vision of the group, and the conflicts which arose from it, had led to his departure. The band’s only song written solely by an outsider was also present, with “Long Way Round” by Charles Charles. At the same time Allen was contributing less – though he did co-write “Dunrobin’s Gone”, the group’s biggest hit along with Bob Ericson, and penned “Waterloo Country” and helped the Bachmans with two other tracks. With Randy again at the controls, the sessions were taking a heavier turn, with Turner contributing more, Randy Bachman, CF Turner, Chad Allen, Robbie Bachman writing 4 tracks on his own and co-writing “Put It In A Song” with Randy. Some of the music from this second outing is much bolder and heavier. They returned to Toronto’s RCA Studios for the recording of the second album Brave Belt II. *Chad Allan - Accordion, Guitar, Keyboards, Mandolin, Piano, Vocalsīullseye Records in Canada struck a deal with Randy in 2001 to re-issue the 2 Brave Belt albums (I & II), and included two bonus tracks “Hands And Faces” and a version of “Shakin’ All Over”, the track that broke The Guess Who into the limelight 25 years earlier.īy early ’72, the band had migrated from Winnipeg to the west coast following their inaugural North American tour.
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Never Comin' Home ( Randy Bachman) - 3:40ġ0.Another Way Out ( Randy Bachman) - 3:30ġ2.Hands And Faces (Bonus Track) ( C. Anyday Means Tomorrow ( Randy Bachman) - 3:02ġ2. I Wouldn't Trade My Guitar for a Woman ( Chad Allan) - 1:47ġ1. Wandering Fantasy Girl ( Chad Allan) - 2:50ĩ. Rock and Roll Band ( Chad Allan) - 3:52Ĩ. Waitin' There for Me ( Randy Bachman) - 3:17ħ. Crazy Arms, Crazy Eyes ( Randy Bachman) - 2:44ģ.