Random music news for Thursday, June 9, 2022
Why does this groundbreaking sex robot speak with a Glasgow accent? Ponder that as we look at music news for June 9, 2022. A big charity concert tour for Ukraine is happening this
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Randy Bachman
This is my all-time favourite music tutorial: Randy Bachman breaks down the “Hard Day’s Night” chord
The opening chord of The Beatles’ “Hard Day’s Night” flummoxed guitarists for years. What is it? How many guitars are used? Randy Bachman (The Guess Who/BTO) is a scholar of the guitar and
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The Guess Who’s “American Woman” hit #1 50 years ago. Randy Bachman explains how the whole thing was an accident.
[This is from a Zoom interview for Global News in which I participated this past week. -AC] The era of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a particularly bleak one in terms of the music industry,
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Rock My World Canada, chapter 69: Randy Bachman
[Mike Carr is determined to create a catalogue/reference work featuring all kinds of Canadian rock and alternative releases from the past few decades. Check out his a massive volume on Canadian music history
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Random music news for Saturday, March 9, 2019
Barbie (as in the doll) made its debut 60 years ago today. And when it comes to music news for March 9, 2019… Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca. One of
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Random Music News for Friday, July 8, 2016
On this day in 1932, the Dow Jones hit 41.22, its lowest level ever. Today it’s up at around 18,000. And now, some music news. Randy Bachman is selling his Washington State summer
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Geeks&Beats Podcast, Episode 109: A Hard Day’s Chord
I did my best. Really, I did. I went almost the entire podcast without diverting into some analogy that involved porn. And I actually did it–until Michael tricked me into it. Bastard. I’m
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A Concert Doesn’t Get Much More Canadian Than This
Watch what happened in Hamilton on Thursday (Feb 26) night.
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Randy Bachman Opens Up
Randy Bachman–he of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, of course–has a couple of things coming at us this spring. 1. Tales from Beyond the Tap: A new book featuring a collection of
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