Randy Bachman On New BACHMAN & TURNER - "I'm Thrilled That People Are Saying This Album Sounds Like It Was Supposed To Be Released In 1977"
August 24, 2010, 14 years ago
CTV News is reporting:
It didn't take long for the reunited BACHMAN & TURNER to get rolling.
In June, Randy Bachman and Fred Turner took the stage at the Sweden Rock festival in Solvesborg, Sweden, on a bill with GUNS N' ROSES, AEROSMITH and SLAYER. Aside from a recent series of warmup gigs in small European clubs, it was one of the first situations in which Bachman and Turner shared a stage since the early '90s.
They didn't sound check. They didn't even line check. And they couldn't use their own gear.
And as far as Bachman and Turner were concerned, the show was an unequivocal success.
"I was just brimming with electric sparks," Bachman recalled as the duo made a promotional stop in Toronto on Tuesday. "We had this energy about us. It was almost like a sci-fi movie, where you have this little glow around you. ... And the audience kind of sensed it. BAM! We just hit them in the face. BAM, BAM! Song after song. ..."It was that amazing."
Indeed, that's the sort of positive energy swirling around Bachman and Turner as they prepare to release their first new studio album since 1984, Bachman & Turner, which drops September 7. (The band, of course, will also be known as Bachman & Turner due an ongoing legal dispute over the name BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE)
Fans of the Winnipeg rockers' trademark blue-collar rock, delivered with a minimum of pretension, needn't worry that the intervening decades have altered the group's approach.
"I'm thrilled that people are saying this album sounds like it was supposed to be released in 1977," Bachman said. "That's what I was trying for. People, I don't think, want anything new from us. They want new material, but they don't want, you know, Fred doing a rap/hip-hop kind of thing.""The great thing is, I think we sound like people expect us to sound."
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