Bachman-Turner Overdrive

   
Artist: Bachman-Turner Overdrive

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Hard-Rock
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Any Road

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 Head On

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 9


   
 Not Fragile

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 9


   
 Bto 2

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 8


   
 Bto 1

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 8


   
 Street Action

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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Following his 1970 divergence from the Guess Who, guitar player Randy Bachman recorded a solo album (Axe) and plotted a project with ex-Nice keyboardist Keith Emerson (later canceled due to illness) ahead forming Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1972. Originally called "Audacious Belt," the metal grouping was comprised of singer/guitarist Bachman, fellow Guess Who alum Chad Allan, bassist C.F. "Fred" Turner, and Randy's brother, drummer Robbie; after a couple of LPs (Audacious Belt I and Audacious Belt II), Allan was replaced by some other Bachman brother, guitar player Tim, and in homage to the trucker's cartridge Overdrive, the unit became BTO.


Piece their self-titled 1973 debut caused little wallop in the U.S. or the band's native Canada, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II was a smash, netting a score single with the anthemic "Takin' Care of Business." Prior to the button of 1974's Non Fragile, Tim Bachman exited the chemical group to begin a career in production, and was replaced by Blair Thornton; the album was a chart-topping success, and saw-toothed a phone number one single with "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."


After 1977's Freeways, Randy Bachman left the grouping for a solo life history and formed some other group, Ironhorse. Bachman-Turner Overdrive continued on in his absence with refilling Jim Clench for two more albums, Street Action and Rock n' Roll Nights (both 1978), eventually changing their identify to just BTO. At the tail end of the 10, the band dissolved, but in the 1980s they re-grouped to tour as both Bachman-Turner Overdrive (lED by Randy) and BTO (lED by Robbie); the ensuing confusion the name game triggered finally resulted in Randy Bachman filing case against his one-time bandmates for rights to the group's logo.