Posted on 01/12/2023 11:21:36 PM PST by blueplum
Robbie Bachman, a co-founding member and drummer for Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at the age of 69.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive singer Randy Bachman announced the death of his brother and bandmate in a social media post. “Another sad departure. The pounding beat behind BTO, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side. Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the world together.”
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s core lineup consisted of Randy and Robbie Bachman and Fred Turner. During their peak in the 1970s, the band released several blockbuster albums...
Robbie's passing is confirmed on his brother Randy's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RandyBachmanOfficial/
He’s finally done with Workin’ Overtime.
I used to get BTO mixed up with Guess Who. For years, I thought Randy’s group recorded American Woman.
“I used to get BTO mixed up with Guess Who. For years, I thought Randy’s group recorded American Woman”
Randy was in the Guess Who before forming BTO.
Let’s all hope he has seen something now.
Damn. Another sad day for legendary music talent.
Some say these things run in 3s. So add Lisa Marie Presley in and there's your 3 rock n roll deaths
That’s two
Listening to any BTO brings back a flood of great memories for me.
Nice video of him as a kid. Good drummer.
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cia_v4vxfE
Thanks for posting. Condolences to family and friends of BTO drummer Robbie Bachman.
Ugg. Another band member of my youth passes. Just takes me back to cranking the radio on a dirt and gravel road.
Excellent. Many thanks for the link.
Memories...cranking 'Taking Care of Business' (or 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' or 'Radar Love' or 'Highway Star') while cruising up the Mount Washington Auto Road...
Yes. They are passing on.
My wife and I were down in Provincetown, MA about thirty years ago, and we went to the Governor Bradford Restaurant for dinner and drinks. It is a pub style place, occasionally with live entertainment and such.
We were sitting at a high table, and there was an older couple milling about because there were no seats, and I think we asked them if they wanted to sit down with us and share our table (I don’t remember exactly how, but I suspect this is how we came to be sitting at the table with them)
Anyway, they sat down, and somehow we started playing Trivial Pursuit, and we were having a lot of fun. He had a heavy British accent, and she was animated, and we were feeling the socially lubricating effects of our drinks.
At some point, we began just chit-chatting, and he said he was a musician, and played the drums.
We were with them for an hour or so, and had not even introduced ourselves to each other. As we got up to leave, I offered my hand and told him my name, and he said “Graeme Edge”. The name stuck in both of our brains, not because we thought he was a musician, but because he was pretty bushy and very animated with that heavy British accent, and we laughed a lot with them. Americans are often suckers for British accents!
Anyway, his name didn’t register with me at all even though we remembered it for years and would occasionally talk about how much fun we had at that table in the Governor Bradford with a couple of strangers that night.
Like many people, though I enjoyed the music of The Moody Blues, I couldn’t have named a member of the band. It was only until some time a few years later when we were talking about that night, that I looked up the guy’s name and saw a picture of him, realized he was the drummer for The Moody Blues.
I didn’t know he passed away back in 2021.
A coworker met Randy Bachman when he was doing his LDS mission. He apparently has a large number of guitars
I just watched this last week on how TCOB was conceived.
It’s a great story honoring a blind record executive.
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