Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories
Randy Bachman
Language: English
Pages: 178
ISBN: 0143180401
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Randy Bachman has been rolling out chart-topping songs his whole life—“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” “These Eyes,” “American Woman,” “Taking Care of Business”—and, since 2005, treating fans to a lifetime of rock ’n’ roll stories on his hit radio show Vinyl Tap.
His approach is always fresh—even the most hardcore music fans will be surprised by what they can learn from Randy. Whether he is touring around the world with Ringo Starr, jamming with Little Richard, or recording with Neil Young, music is his life and his anecdotes put you at the centre of it all. A fifty-year career in music is full of extreme highs and lows. It is also a life filled with some very colorful characters. Randy’s stories are candid and always entertaining.
These are his best stories. The most memorable Vinyl Tap moments are all here, from Randy’s Guitarology 101 to his favorite songs to be played at funerals. Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Stories opens up a joyous world of rock and popular music.
again a few days later. As well, I’d be flying out during the week to pitch our third Brave Belt album, which ultimately became BTO I, to record labels across the U.S. The other guys couldn’t afford to stay in hotels during the week, so they tented. My dad had a tent we used to take on camping trips as kids, so Robbie and I knew how to camp. The band would drive to Calgary, look for a suitable site to pitch the tent, do the gig, and return to the tent for the night, making sure no one was
down to Eaton’s department store on Portage Avenue and said to the woman at the record bar, “I need a ‘chedatkins’ record.” “You mean Chet Atkins?” “No. Chedatkins. It’s a kind of guitar style, like flamenco.” She grinned at me and replied, “I think you mean Mr. Chet Atkins. He’s a guitar player.” She went behind the counter, pulled out an album, said “Listen to this,” and put it on. “That’s Chet Atkins.” So I bought the record, took it home, and learned “The Third Man Theme” all by myself,
Rickenbackers reversed that. Having the high string first gave it a more jingle-jangly sound, which became a signature sound of the Rickenbacker twelve-string electric guitar. When the Beatles were in New York to play The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 George Harrison was presented with a Rickenbacker 360 Deluxe. That was only the second one made, and that’s the one he played on “A Hard Day’s Night.” He also played it on “You Can’t Do That,” which was filmed for the movie but didn’t make the
question-and-answer session and I was asked who my musical influences were, I replied, “Hank B. Marvin, Lenny Breau, and Chet Atkins.” Lo and behold, who should I meet soon after in the RCA building but the man himself, Chet Atkins, who thanked me for mentioning his name in my bio. He was an executive with RCA and so he knew about our signing with the label. I said that it was an honour to meet him, that I wouldn’t be the guitar player I was without having learned from his records and from Lenny
Antonin, 131–32 Dwight, Reginald, 23. See also John, Elton Dylan, Bob, 131 E Eaton, Thor, 143 Echoplex, 121 Ed Sullivan Show, The, 4, 18, 85, 87 Eddy, Duane, 85–86 Einarson, John, 183 Elvidge, Tod, xiii Embers, the, 6 Entwhistle, John, 103, 162–63, 165 Epstein, Brian, 11 Esquires, the, 43 Everly Brothers, 139 “Every Song Tells a Story” tour, 51, 168–69 “Expecting to Fly,” 49 F Fach, Charlie, 130, 131, 135, 137, 151 Faith, 167 Farlow, Tal, 41 Farner, Mark, 162, 163, 165