Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive has been takin’ care of business and pleasing fans with their overdriven boogie rock for quite sometime now and they are continuing to rock out as hard as ever.
When soft rock and pop music flooded the airwaves in the 1970’s, Bachman-Turner Overdrive came along to save the day with their hard rock music. They are known for getting really gritty sounds on their distorted electric guitars and play direct, but catchy chord progressions. They also can get some funky swamp music sounds as well as create some face melting, heavy metal guitar riffs. Their lead singer, Randy Bachman, sings in a raspy, howling manner similar to the style of John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Bachman-Turner Overdrive also use interesting musical techniques such as call and response, which includes the singer singing a line of the music and the guitar player replicating the melody on his guitar right after.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s performance is usually simple and straight forward. They are down to earth people playing catchy rock music to their working class fans. The band builds great depth to their performance through vocal harmonies that are keenly incorporated into their music. They often play in a boogie musical style that makes their whole audience want to dance along to the music. Their song’s choruses are also highly catchy allowing great opportunities for their audience to belt out sing along tunes with the band. The band also knows how to work a crowd. They always seem to be engaging their audience with stage banter and thanking them thoroughly for their support. The band’s live shows clearly show why they have gained such critical and commercial success. They have sold over 30 million albums worldwide and have strongly influenced other musical acts. They will be sure to crank out all the tunes we love so much such as “Let it Ride” and “Roll on Down the Highway”. If you haven’t seen Bachman-Turner Overdrive live before, then “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”.

I had the pleasure of seeing Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap show at Fallsview Casino. The Vinyl Tap show is one that combines Randy's story telling (he is superb) with much of his music over the years. We were treated to many interesting and humorous stories beginning with Randy and his time with Chad Allan and the Expressions to how the band became known as The Guess Who (the band had nothing at all to do with this), to his many experiences with Burton Cummings, and finally to his time with Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Learning the history behind all of these great songs and how they came to be written was as entertaining as the songs themselves.

As for the music we were treated to the following setlist:
Roll On Down the Highway
Shakin' All Over
These Eyes
Laughing
No Sugar Tonight
Undun
No Time
American Woman / Whole Lotta Love
Let It Ride
Lookin' Out for #1
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Encore:
White Collar Worker including a snippet of Oye como va
Takin' Care of Business

Randy did vocals on many tunes, but his support band was superb and various members also sang lead on songs which would have featured Burton Cummings. I am a huge Burton fan and while these guys were definitely not Burton, they did a mighty fine job. It was an extremely enjoyable show and I highly recommend if you ever get the chance!