He’s 80. He announced the return of Bachman-Turner Overdrive to touring (plus a concert film and an album). Joining him is his 55-year-old son, Tal, and touring musicians. Fred Turner is around and involved, the press release said, but won’t be touring.
I saw BTO playing with Burton Cummings at SARSstock in Toronto in 2003. The Rolling Stones got top billing; AC/DC played the best show, says me. As the band started Takin’ Care of Business, my 19-year-old son’s face lit up—finally a song he recognized. “Staples commercial, right?” he said.
I have a BTO record—Head On, released in 1975. Little Richard played piano! Take It Like a Man was about the drudgery of touring small towns in out-of-the-way places where people would come to see the band. Lookin’ Out For #1 expressed the same point of view. That was serious existential dread for a rock band. The world is different with Prozac.
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