Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
From Randy Bachman
Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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