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Classic Rock Rewind with Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive or BTO was a hard driving Rock band that had a string of hits in the 70’s. Randy Bachman and Fred Turner teamed up to form this high flying, hard rockin band that produced their first and second album in 1973.  The self-titled first album Bachman Turner Overdrive didn’t produce a hit but their second album, Bachman Turner Overdrive 2 managed two hits in “Takin Care Of Business” and “Let It Ride”.

Their third album titled “Not Fragile” was released in 1974 and proved to be their most popular and by far my favorite. This album featured hits such as “You Aint Seen Nothing Yet”, “Roll On Down The Highway”, the self titled track “Not Fragile”, and a few of my favorites in “Blue Moanin”, “Givin It All Away”, and ”Rock Is My Life, And This Is My Song”.

Their fourth album was released in 1975 titled Four Wheel Drive and featured their radio hit “Hey You”.  The band struggled to keep the same people with little success. Co-founder Randy Bachman soon left the band after their sixth album was cut in 1977.

BTO has always been one of my favorite Classic Rock bands as their hard charging style of music was right down my alley of preference. Below are some audio links of some of their better songs. I personally use and prefer Windows Media Player for everything that it will handle.

Hey You

Roll On Down The Highway

Takin Care Of Business

You Aint Seen Nothing Yet

Givin It All Away

Not Fragile

Let It Ride

Rock Is My Life, And This Is My Song

Blue Moanin

That wraps it up for this weeks Classic Rock Rewind. I hope you enjoyed your time with BTO and please come back again. Feel free to spend some time checking out Music OverDrive as a whole. I am constantly trying to get new stuff posted for my music friends.

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Classic Rock Battle of the Bands Round 1

Welcome to Round 1 of the CLassic Rock Battle of the Bands. We are starting with 32 bands in the first round. The 16 winners of this round will advance to round two and match up against each other. Then these 8 winners will move on to round 3. Round 4 will match up those 4 winners and round 5 will feature the remaining 2 and crown an overall champion.

Vote for each band that you like best in each battle of Round One.
Battle 1 Battle 2

Battle 3 Battle 4

Battle 5 Battle 6

Battle 7 Battle 8

Battle 9 Choose The Better Band.
Battle 10

Battle 11 Battle 12

Battle 13 Battle 14

Battle 15 Battle 16

This is the last one in the first round. Round Two will match the First Round Winners against each other to determine who advances to Round Three. Don’t miss the voting in the next round and tell your friends to stop in and cast their votes also.

Here is an updated list of the bands that have been requested to be included in the second upcoming Battle of the Bands here on Music OverDrive. AC/DC – Beatles- The Who- Jimi Hendrix- The Police- Marshall Tucker Band- J. Geils Band- Steppenwolf- Blackfoot- John Cougar Mellencamp- The Outlaws- The James Gang- Genesis- Blackfoot- Dr. Hook- Eric Clapton-U2- Jefferson Starship- Neil Young- 38 Special- Loverboy- Supertramp- Peter Frampton- Grand Funk Railroad- Rush- Three Dog Night- Atlanta Rhythm Section.

I will be updating this list again soon and the actual competition will be starting in the very near future.

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Still Rocking With Those Classics

When it comes right down to it, there are regular songs and then there are those that are anything but that. I am talking about those favorite Classic Rock songs that we all have that when you hear them on the radio you tend to crank up the sound a little higher than normal.

They never seem to get old and you certainly never get tired of hearing them. Every so often I get caught in a crosswind of this elevator type music that, in my opinion, is not music. Not my choice anyway. When I hear this junk I want to blast them out some real tunes. You know, crank up some Bachman Turner Overdrive or give them a double dose of Foghat. It would be cool to even light up their ears with some Black Oak Arkansas. Have Jim Dandy come to their rescue.

I know most of those elevator listeners would cringe when my music met their eardrums but that’s OK because turnabout is fair play. What I want to see is my grandchildren come for a visit and say, Hey Grandpa, I love you, crank us up some Golden Earring. Okay Babe, Jump up here in my lap and tell what song is it you want to hear. Now that is what I want to hear!