Robbie Bachman, the drummer for the Canadian tough rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive that was known for these 1970s hits as “Takin’ Care of Business” and “You Ain’t Viewed Nothin’ Yet,” has died at age 69.
His dying was introduced on social media Thursday by his brother and bandmate, Randy Bachman, who did not cite a cause.
“The pounding conquer of BTO has remaining us,” Randy Bachman wrote. “He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n roll equipment and we rocked the entire world collectively.”
The Bachman brothers were being Winnipeg natives who had been taking part in music since childhood.
Robbie Bachman first worked with his older brother Randy, a singer, songwriter and guitarist, in the team Courageous Belt, which the elder Bachman aided found in the early 1970s just after leaving the prime-selling act the Guess Who.
The two Bachmans, alongside with brother Tim Bachman on guitar (later on replaced by Blair Thornton) and Fred Turner on bass, shaped Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973 and sold millions of documents above the up coming 3 yrs with their mix of grinding guitar riffs and catchy melodies. “You Ain’t Found Nothin’ Yet” topped the charts, and the band’s other hits incorporated “Takin’ Treatment of Organization,” “Hey You” and “Roll On Down the Highway.”
1 well recognized lover, Stephen King, adopted the pen title “Richard Bachman” as a partial homage to BTO.
Randy Bachman left the team in the mid-1970s, and gave the remaining associates permission to phone them selves BTO (But not Bachman-Turner Overdrive so as to length himself from the band). As BTO, Robbie Bachman and the others continued to tour and record, but their attractiveness faded and they broke up in 1980.
Around the following many years, the band had sporadic reunions and occasional authorized battles, as Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman fought about royalties and legal rights to the band’s name. The brothers almost never executed collectively soon after the early 1990s, with Robbie Bachman once telling The Related Push that Randy had “belittled” the other band members and likened them to the fictional parody team Spinal Tap.
In the latest several years, Robbie Bachman had been semi-retired. Bachman-Turner Overdrive was inducted into the Canadian Songs Corridor of Fame in 2014.
