Thirty-five years ago today Canadian rock legends Bachman-Turner Overdrive played a New Year's Eve gig at Vancouver's 86 Street Music Hall.
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Newt’s top 10 closing tracks of the seventies
Remember when the last track on an album would finish and you'd wish the music would just never end? Me too.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s 20 best songs, from wicked to freakin’ awesome
Lemme guess: you thought "Takin' Care of Business" was gonna be #1. Well, you weren't far off.
Newt’s top 10 rock albums of 1974
By Steve Newton I reckon it’s time for me to head back five decades and reminisce about what was truly rockin’ in the Year of Our Lord, 1974. I’ve listed my top ten studio albums alphabetically by title, and included three choice tracks from each disc to help you remember how wicked they really were. … Continue reading Newt’s top 10 rock albums of 1974
BTO booking at the PNE sets off search for ’70s-rock souvenir
By Steve Newton Yesterday the Pacific National Exhibition announced the lineup for its Summer Night Concerts series at the Pacific Coliseum, and when I saw that Bachman-Turner Overdrive was booked to play on August 20, I had an old-school PNE flashback. Way back in the summer of 1975 a teenaged me had driven in from … Continue reading BTO booking at the PNE sets off search for ’70s-rock souvenir
Bachman-Turner Overdrive gig draws comparisons to the horror of BTO freak Stephen King
photo by narking/Wikipedia ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON FEB. 3, 1989 By Steve Newton In the book Kingdom of Fear, a collection of essays on the fiction of Stephen King, the top-selling horror author explained how he came up with the pseudonym he used on novels like The Running Man and Thinner. Once the prolific scaremeister had … Continue reading Bachman-Turner Overdrive gig draws comparisons to the horror of BTO freak Stephen King
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Randy Bachman once tried paying a surprise visit to Stephen King
By Steve Newton Hardcore fans of Stephen King are aware that he used the pen name Richard Bachman for a number of his early novels because he was a huge fan of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. But not many BTO fans know that the band's founding guitarist, Randy Bachman, once went looking for King in the horror … Continue reading Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Randy Bachman once tried paying a surprise visit to Stephen King
Van Halen kicks Vancouver’s ass before new singer Sammy Hagar channels Hugh Hefner backstage
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON OCT. 31, 1986 By Steve Newton Things started off pretty bad at Van Halen's B.C. Place concert last Thursday (October 23). But they got progressively better as the night wore on. And by the end of the show there were no complaints at all. The reason for the poor start was the reincarnation of Vancouver's … Continue reading Van Halen kicks Vancouver’s ass before new singer Sammy Hagar channels Hugh Hefner backstage
The Newt Commute #3: BTO’s “Second Hand” might be their best song ever
By Steve Newton It's been a while since I've posted a "Newt Commute" blog--the last time was back in November when I fell under the bluesy spell of Muddy Waters while making the heinous trek in to Vancouver from that other side of the Alex Fraser Bridge. But today I treated the Toyota's CD player to … Continue reading The Newt Commute #3: BTO’s “Second Hand” might be their best song ever
Tal Bachman follows his famous father up the charts with “She’s So High”
Like many Canadian music fans whose rock mentality was shaped in the ’70s, I have distinct recollections of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s heyday.
BTO to release 40th anniversary edition of Not Fragile
Universal Music Canada has just announced that Bachman-Turner Overdrive—or BTO as we liked to call 'em back in the day—will release a remastered, 40th anniversary edition of its best-selling album, Not Fragile, on March 18. That rocks. You may recall that Not Fragile—which has sold more than three and a half million copies worldwide—boasted the awesome radio … Continue reading BTO to release 40th anniversary edition of Not Fragile