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Talk Is Jericho

Takin' Care Of Business with Randy Bachman

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.79.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

He’s a music legend and fellow Winnipegger!  Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and BTO fame joins TIJ to talk about his love of The Beatles, his new George Harrison tribute album, “By George By Bachman,” spending 10 months on the road with Van Halen, and joining Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band!  Randy’s also got stories about the pizza guy who plays on BTO’s famous single, “Taking Care Of Business,” the stuttering in “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” and how he came up with the infamous guitar riff that is “American Woman!”  You’ll find out why he left The Guess Who at the height of his fame, how he overcame being blackballed in the music business, and what his buddy Neil Young did for Randy and BTO. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

TALK IS CHERICO BABY TALK IS CHERICO

0:07.0

TALK IS CHERICO MAMA TALK IS BABY

0:13.0

Alright, welcome to TALK as Jericho

0:15.0

It's the pod of thunder and rock and roll

0:17.0

And the rock continues on TIJ with a Canadian rock legend

0:22.0

Randy Backman is here with the guest who and backman turn our overdrive

0:26.0

Does this sound familiar?

0:27.0

Oh, there it is!

0:34.0

American woman, stay away from me

0:40.0

American woman, mama let me be

0:47.0

Yeah, it's American woman, the guest who's number one song

0:51.0

featuring Randy Backman on guitar he wrote that riff

0:54.0

Randy's gonna tell us the crazy story behind how he came up with that classic riff

0:56.0

And why he left the guest who just as that song and album hit number one

1:00.0

And the guest who was one of those popular rock bands in the world

1:04.0

You also hear how he got BTO backman turn our overdrive started

1:07.0

Not too long after he left the guest who and what inspired him to write the classic

1:10.0

How about this one?

1:27.0

Yeah, everyone knows that one

1:29.0

Take it, yeah, the business

1:30.0

He's also gonna tell us about the pizza delivery guy who ended up playing piano on that song

1:35.0

True Story plus the other BTO classic

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