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Selling quick tunes1/28/2024 Roll On Down The Highway (1974)īTO were the masters of keeping it simple and pleasurable. There’s no denying it’s a bloody great tune. However, like so many such tunes it also has a slightly darker undercurrent, addressing the loneliness of a touring musician and, many years ahead of its time, mourning the fact that ‘few of us are left alive’. No cliché is left untapped in Randy Bachman’s love song to the road and for the band’s audience. Rock Is My Life, And This Is My Song (1974) Its gentle chords are juxtaposed by a heaving great monster of a riff and a set of lyrics that leave us in no doubt of what went on here, and who was at fault: ‘ You’re like a sledgehammer/You keep hittin’ on my mind/You’re like a sledgehammer, baby/You been hittin’ from behind’. Yes folks, BTO opted to display the softer side of their oeuvre with a sensitive ditty to a lost lover by the title of, er… Sledgehammer. Steven Adler rejoins Guns N' Roses for 2nd time in a week.Joe Perry collapse: Aerosmith guitarist ‘better than we feared’.The Top 10 Best Robert Plant Solo Songs.Though competition is stuff, the stuttering, nosebleed riff to its title track is among their very finest. Named in withering response to the Yes album Fragile, the group’s third album pummelled the listener like a butcher’s mallet. When all’s said and done, just about any of the nine tracks from Not Fragile could have made it onto this list though that would have made a dreadfully lopsided overview. A blistering showcase for the group’s unsung heroes, their rhythm section of bassist CF Turner and drummer Rob Bachman, its pummelling, pedal to the metal strains are at times reminiscent of both Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top. The title track of the group’s fourth album, Four Wheel Drive is a tough, hard hitting yet deeply commercial slab of boogie-rock. Full of rhythmic references to returning home in the ‘cool, cool, cool of the morning’, BTO do indeed leave us in no doubt of their intention to ‘truck all night long’. Stayed Awake All Night, 1973ĭoes anyone remember I Like Trucking, the Not The Nine O’Clock News skit on lorry drivers? Had that show been Canadian, it might have sounded something like this. It seems innocent enough, though its line of ‘I ride shotgun on his wife’ offers rather more dubious implications. The punchy Shotgun Rider is a great tune, ostensibly about a guy who’s offered a job in a saloon bar. Though these selections are overwhelmingly and unapologetically culled from BTO’s earliest and biggest selling records, 1977’s Freeways remains a connoisseur’s favourite.
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