Robbie Bachman, the drummer for the Canadian hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive that was recognized for such Nineteen Seventies hits as (*69*)Takin’ Care of Business(*69*) and (*69*)You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet(*69*), has died at age 69.(*69*)
His loss of life was introduced on social media Thursday by his brother and bandmate, Randy Bachman, who didn’t cite a trigger.(*69*)
“The pounding beat of BTO has left us,” Randy Bachman wrote. “He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n roll machine and we rocked the world together.”(*69*)
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The Bachman brothers have been Winnipeg natives who had been taking part in music since childhood.(*69*)
Robbie Bachman first labored together with his older brother Randy, a singer, songwriter and guitarist, within the group Brave Belt, which the elder Bachman helped discovered within the early Nineteen Seventies after leaving the top-selling act the Guess Who.(*69*)
The two Bachmans, together with brother Tim Bachman on guitar (later changed by Blair Thornton) and Fred Turner on bass, fashioned Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973 and bought hundreds of thousands of data over the subsequent three years with their mix of grinding guitar riffs and catchy melodies.(*69*)
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet(*69*) topped the charts, and the band’s different hits included (*69*)Takin’ Care of Business(*69*), (*69*)Hey You(*69*) and (*69*)Roll On Down the Highway(*69*).(*69*)
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One well-known fan, Stephen King, adopted the pen identify “Richard Bachman” as a partial homage to BTO.(*69*)
Randy Bachman left the group within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, and gave the remaining members permission to name themselves BTO (however not Bachman-Turner Overdrive in order to distance himself from the band). As BTO, Robbie Bachman and the others continued to tour and report, however their reputation pale they usually broke up in 1980.(*69*)
Over the next a long time, the band had sporadic reunions and occasional authorized battles, as Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman fought over royalties and rights to the band’s identify. The brothers hardly ever carried out collectively after the early Nineteen Nineties, with Robbie Bachman as soon as telling The Associated Press that Randy had “belittled” the opposite band members and likened them to the fictional parody group Spinal Tap.(*69*)
In current years, Robbie Bachman had been semi-retired. Bachman-Turner Overdrive was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2014.(*69*)
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