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Cover art for Bob Seger's Night Moves album
The Randy Bachman connection behind Bob Seger’s breakthrough hit, “Night Moves”

By Gary Graff Published

Too busy with BTO to produce the record himself, Bachman made a key introduction— rock history did the rest

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Randy Bachman and C F Turner of Bachman Turner Overdrive performing on stage, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1975.
Randy Bachman on his “gift from the songwriting gods”: “Takin' Care of Business”

By Gary Graff Published

The guitarist reveals that the Bachman-Turner Overdrive hit was actually inspired by the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" and written for the Guess Who

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LEfT: Randy Bachman and (cropped out) Fred Turner of Bachman & Turner perform on stage at High Voltage Festival in Victoria Park on July 25, 2010 in London, UK.; RIGHT: Neil Young poses for a portrait circa 1988 in Los Angeles, California
Randy Bachman on sharing guitars and amps with Neil Young as rock and roll upstarts

By Joe Bosso Published

They grew up as friends and helped each other learn guitar — but they never played together until they became famous

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LEFT: Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive performs on stage at The Magnolia on November 05, 2023 in El Cajon, California. RIGHT: Burton Cummings former lead singer of "The Guess Who" performs at Sony Hall on November 18, 2018 in New York City.
Randy Bachman on the fake Guess Who — and how he reclaimed the band and the name

By Andrew Daly Published

After decades of watching other musicians tour under the band’s name, Bachman tells how he and Burton Cummings finally reclaimed the Guess Who

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Les Paul, Mary Ford during a skit on "The Jimmy Dean Show," September 16, 1958.
Randy Bachman was 15 and waiting for a bus when Les Paul pulled up with a proposition

By Andrew Daly Published

Turned away from a Winnipeg nightclub, the future Guess Who guitarist suddenly found himself face to face with his hero.

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LEFT: Stephen Stills and (cropped out) Graham Nash of Crosby Stills and Nash perform at Eventim Apollo on September 12, 2015 in London, England. RIGHT: Randy Bachman, co founder of the classic rock band's Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, performs onstage at The Canyon Club on July 22, 2018 in Santa Clarita, California.
Randy Bachman on his jaw-dropping introduction to Stephen Stills at Neil Young’s 70th birthday party

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Bachman and Young have been friends since they were teens in Winnipeg. But he never met Stills until 2015

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LEFT: A photo of Lenny Breau hanging in Lenny's restaurant, in Westbrook, Maine, which is named for musician. RIGHT: Randy Bachman of Bachman & Turner performs at Hard Rock Live! in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on April 30, 2012 in Hollywood, Florida.
Randy Bachman on the obscure jazz guitar genius whose influence runs through the music of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive

By Joe Matera Published

Bachman met Lenny Breau when they were teens in Winnipeg and continues to honor the late guitarist's legacy with a deep archive of unreleased gems

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Randy Bachman of Bachman & Turner plays during NHL Face-Off 2011 at The Forks on October 6, 2011 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Randy Bachman on the rehearsal mistake that led him to became the the guitarist for Canada's biggest American hitmakers

By Joe Matera Published

As Bachman and Guess Who frontman Burton Cummings prepare to return to the road next year, the guitarist recalls how it all began

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LEFT: Randy Bachman performs at Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, Florida. RIGHT: Neil Young performs on stage at Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park at Hyde Park on July 12, 2019 in London, England.
Neil Young tells how Randy Bachman helped him track down his long-lost Gretsch. Now he’s playing it in concert

By Elizabeth Swann Published

Young used the guitar during his early 1960s tenure with the Squires but sold it after he developed ambitions to become a folk singer

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LEFT: Randy Bachman speaks at AOL Build Speakers Series: Randy Bachman at AOL Studios In New York on April 22, 2015 in New York City. RIGHT: Pete Townshend performs with The Who in concert at the HP Pavilion on October 19, 1996 in San Jose, California.
Randy Bachman on Pete Townshend's hilarious response when the Guess Who told the Who to change their name

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Bachman says the Who's hotel-trashing antics caused his band trouble with staff when “we could not convince them we were quiet Canadians”

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