It sure has held up well. Me and my neighborhood buddies would play the hell out of this album during the mid- 70's on the large console stereo(remember those things? :) in my parent's basement. My favorite BTO song is Sledgehammer and I always considered their Not Fragile album to be a timeless classic.
Really, listen to the whole album. Rock is My Life, Roll on Down the Highway, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Freewheelin’, Sledgehammer, Blue Moanin’, Second Hand, Givin’ It All Away. Not a bad song on this album.
Randy Bachman was also in The Guess Who as well as other bands! When I was in the Army stationed at Ft Polk LA, BTO played a nightclub where they used wireless equipment so they were amongst us all on the dance floor letting us sing with them and they danced with us and during breaks they drank and had a great time with us ! We went well past closing time and had such a great night Randy and I hung out so much the girls my crew came with left without us hahaha we walked over 10 miles back to the fort and went out with different girls right in front of the girls that left us the next night hahaha. It was an epic two days and I shall always thank Randy and BTO for a great adventure!
My favorite by BTO is Let it Ride. I like this song. Roll on Down the Highway, Gimme Your Money Please, Hey You, Sledgehammer, and Take it Like a Man. And there are plenty others.
First time I’ve ever heard that and my thought from the first riff, all the way through was just “Nasty”. The guitar and vocals were so damn goo and rhythm section just pounded right through it. Awesome song
Really great album over all. Sledgehammer is a great tune, but the tune that brings me back from this album is, Rock is My Life (and this is my song). Also, another great one from this album is, Givin' it All Away. Enjoy bro! Always great catching up with your channel
@TheAdventuresofTNT If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 1,000 times BTO is a Heavy Metal band ahead of their time. LISTEN TO THE WHOLE ALBUM Really, listen to the whole album. Rock is My Life, Roll on Down the Highway, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Freewheelin’, Sledgehammer, Blue Moanin’, Second Hand, Givin’ It All Away. Not a bad song on this album.
"Not Fragile... ha, ha, ha!" Just so you know... the name of the album was a direct jab at YES' album title "Fragile" which featured a bunch of candy-ass prog music. BTO's music was the exact opposite, hence the album title "Not Fragile". And now you know something. I loved this band in the mid-70's, and still love their music today. Glad you liked the song, too. Another great song I would recoomend you check out is a great Bluesy number called "Blue Collar" from BTO I. Also, two more rockers from that same album are "Stayed Awake All Night" and "Don't Get Yourself In Trouble". Enjoy!
In the 70s we here in Canada were inundated with BTO songs on the radio…so much so that people began to call them Bachman Turner ‘Overdose’…😂. I’m a firm believer that the best BTO songs were, like this one, written by and sung by Fred Turner, not Randy Bachman….Fred knew how to bring it! Try “Roll On Down The Highway” , another Fred Turner song, from this same album.
Another banger for you T. Apparently, BTO heard the Yes album, Fragile, and noted that they definitely were not fragile! Glad you liked it. Going deep next request
Check out their live version from 2011 at the Roseland Ballroom. For another great band and song from from Canada -actually two great bands on this track Max Webster and Rush doing Max Webster's "BattleScar"
I grew up through the 50s 60s and 70s on this vast spectrum of music that came out of the romantic feelings of the baby boomers , most concieved after victorious warriors returned home from WW2 and put a lot of bread in the oven. We all came of age through those times running on pheremones and testosterone. Now I'm 75 and the old spark aint so bright but that generation created the best music ever in history. BTOs best IMO was 'Blue Collar', the original should be first and then the one at the 'Roseland Ballroom' when they are alot older but just as hot and amazing as ever
It was there master piece. Great songs. Nothing crappy About the album. For 1974. Mercury records. BACHMAN WAS IN THE GUESS WHO. YOU KNOW AMERICAN WOMAN. CHEERS
Love Randy Bachman. Great Canadian rocker. Have seen him in concerts a few times as a solo and with his former Guess Who partner, Burton Cummings. You would love American Woman by the Guess Who with Randy. Thanks for this reaction. It’s a great rock sound. 👏🇨🇦👏🇨🇦
My favourite BTO album. Apparently it was done in response to Yes' Fragile album (which I also like BTW, but it's meant to be not that). Do Sledgehammer, that's the best cut from the album.
Banger of a song by my hometown boys! 🇨🇦 The Guess Who ( Randy Bachman was part of the band originally) BTO April Wine Triumph Rush of course The Tragically Hip The The Tea Party to name a few The Tea Party is an interesting band. They rock hard and some of their music has a middle eastern vibe. The lead singer Jeff Martin looks and sounds like Jim Morrison of the Doors. Check out Sister Awake live at Much More Music Toronto by them Cheers We know how to rock in Canada 😉 🇨🇦
Sup T???? Lots of gems on this album, check it out..."free Wheelin'", "Sledgehammer", "Blue Moanin'", "Roll On Down The Highway", & "Givin' It All Away". And please hook us up with more Frank Marino "Something's Comin Our Way" Live At the Agora Theater, epic performance!!✌️ ☮️ 🇱🇷❤️🎸🎵🎶🎼
My fav BTO song and album. Awesome album with many great songs. Checkout Blue Moanin, Sledgehammer, Rock is my life. Hell checkout the entire album even the instrumental is good! Nobody can belt out lyrics like Fred Turner. IMHO they even do the best House of the Rising Sun version. Also check out Triumph also from Canada. Rik may be the best lead guitarist/singer combo ever. Certainly among the best.
"Welcome Home" has a heavy BTO guitar riff and it ends with a jazz fused instrumental, it is on their second album BTO II. "Flat Broke Love" is another heavy track that hasn't been mentioned, it is on BTO's fourth album Four Wheel Drive. BTO were originally a country rock band called Brave Belt, the first Brave Belt line up in 1971 was a trio consisting of, Randy Bachman, Chad Allen and Robbie Bachman, the final Brave Belt line up in early 1973 was Randy Bachman, Fred Turner, Tim Bachman and Robbie Bachman. Brave Belt released two albums, Brave Belt (1971) and Brave Belt II (1972), both were released on Reprise Records. Their proposed 1973 album was due to be called Brave Belt III, but after Randy signed a new recording contract with Charlie Fach at Mercury Records and a new name to reflect the bands heavier rock style, the 1973 album was called Bachman-Turner Overdrive. They took the Overdrive bit from the title of a Canadian truckers magazine.
I got to see them a few times in the 70's and they put on a great show! Free Wheeling & Blue Moanin are a little more on the blues side and Sledgehammer is just what it sounds like. Keep it up! You're finding some good stuff but there is allot more out there!
Canada has a small population, the United Kingdom also has a much smaller population population than the US but much larger than Canada however, per capita, the United Kingdom seems to have given birth to a lot of great rock ‘n’ roll, and after all Canada is a child of England and so is the United States, so much of the credit actually has to go to the United Kingdom because they birthed it all
It was always worth the price of admission to their concerts just to watch the teeny boppers who were there for You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, or Takin' Care Of Business when they ripped this, as they just sat there in total cluelessness.
This is the last CD I bought. Filling in holes in my collection. The Red Tape Album from ARS was the one before it. Another lost classic. Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs is another must listen. Back when it was normal for every song on an album to be good. What a time...
All of your pops are happy that you, young people reintroduced this song! Believe me, this song is about 50 years old and at that time, no band played this much heavy duty song like BTO. And best of all, the sound is not so old, isn't it!?
Check out a band called moxy they’re from Canada damn good another band came out of LA the band called legs diamond you need to check them out I think you and your wife would love The ballad woman is a good song this band doesn’t get any recognition check them out they’re damn good
I knew that BTO was from The Guess Who out of Canada. They had a lot of hit songs. One of my favorites is "Blue Collar" but I don't remember this song. I'm loving it though.
Yeah, I know!! I've liked them since the early 70's you'll like "Blue Collar" it's a little jazzy, ☝🏾but, it still sounds like their style!! Check it out!!
Kickass Canadian bands (I'm sure I'm forgetting some): - The Guess Who - BTO (Bachman Turner Overdrive) - Rush - The Tragically Hip - Robert Charlebois - Max Webster - April Wine - Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - The Jeff Healey Band - Harmonium - Beau Dommage - Triumph - Arcade Fire - Chilliwack - Lighthouse - Steppenwolf (sort of) - The Band (sort of) - Men Without Hats - Saga - Bryan Adams - Colin James - Jets Overhead - Great Lake Swimmers - The New Pornographers - Crash Vegas - Sloan - Metric There are others but I don't like them (Loverboy, Nickelback, Trooper, etc.)
@@jethro1963 I don't take much stock of what "industry people" say. "Industry people" liked Milli Vanilli and Britney Spears too. All I know is that I've hated every single Trooper song I've ever heard, so I'll stick to forming my own opinion and not rely on what other people say.
The great and underrated Fred ‘CF’ Turner on bass guitar and vocals
not underrated at all, it’s just been a long time, but they were one of the highest rated bands back in the 70s and early 80s
Been waiting for someone to do this song. Bass line is banging.
I had this album when I was a kid, it’s held up well 🔥
It sure has held up well. Me and my neighborhood buddies would play the hell out of this album during the mid- 70's on the large console stereo(remember those things? :) in my parent's basement. My favorite BTO song is Sledgehammer and I always considered their Not Fragile album to be a timeless classic.
Still got mine from 1974 !!!! I m happy my kids love this also !!!!
I can't believe I've never heard this before...it rocked!!
Really, listen to the whole album. Rock is My Life, Roll on Down the Highway, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Freewheelin’, Sledgehammer, Blue Moanin’, Second Hand, Givin’ It All Away. Not a bad song on this album.
Randy Bachman was also in The Guess Who as well as other bands! When I was in the Army stationed at Ft Polk LA, BTO played a nightclub where they used wireless equipment so they were amongst us all on the dance floor letting us sing with them and they danced with us and during breaks they drank and had a great time with us ! We went well past closing time and had such a great night Randy and I hung out so much the girls my crew came with left without us hahaha we walked over 10 miles back to the fort and went out with different girls right in front of the girls that left us the next night hahaha. It was an epic two days and I shall always thank Randy and BTO for a great adventure!
Memories
Bachman & Turner Blue Collar live.
Bachman & Turner Not Fragile live.
Amazing.Enjoy the ride .
Blue Collar and this tune are my favorite from BTO! Canadian here 🇨🇦 and an old one 65
My favorite by BTO is Let it Ride. I like this song. Roll on Down the Highway, Gimme Your Money Please, Hey You, Sledgehammer, and Take it Like a Man. And there are plenty others.
First concert I ever went to was Bob Seager, Charlie Daniels band and BTO as the headliner. So good. Best BTO song? Blue Collar.
First time I’ve ever heard that and my thought from the first riff, all the way through was just “Nasty”. The guitar and vocals were so damn goo and rhythm section just pounded right through it. Awesome song
My favourite Canadian band! They have so many fantastic songs. This album and song was their heaviest.
Thank you!! Being 59 and seeing a young man listen to what I loved, this is awesome.
Rock and Roll is not just the music of America, it's for everyone, everywhere! No one country can own rock and roll.
Was one of our favorite 420 songs... back in the day
Really great album over all. Sledgehammer is a great tune, but the tune that brings me back from this album is, Rock is My Life (and this is my song). Also, another great one from this album is, Givin' it All Away.
Enjoy bro! Always great catching up with your channel
@TheAdventuresofTNT
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 1,000 times BTO is a Heavy Metal band ahead of their time.
LISTEN TO THE WHOLE ALBUM Really, listen to the whole album. Rock is My Life, Roll on Down the Highway, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Freewheelin’, Sledgehammer, Blue Moanin’, Second Hand, Givin’ It All Away. Not a bad song on this album.
Not Fragile was always my go-to when checking out a speaker system, especially a subwoofer ;-)
Hahahahaha…. Nice
@@TheAdventuresofTNT
From Canada, besides RUSH and Nickelback, have you checked out Triumph or April Wine?
I bought this album when it came out, I still have it. BEST of times!
I HAD THE 8 track lol loving 🥰 this I’m 64 years old now
BTO was fabulous!! Love their music!!
BTO “Four Wheel Drive” is a banger and a personal favourite 😉👍🏼
Good request Lance! BTO was a one of kind. And from Canada 🇨🇦 Canada rocks! So many incredible bands from Canada!
Agreed!
"Not Fragile... ha, ha, ha!" Just so you know... the name of the album was a direct jab at YES' album title "Fragile" which featured a bunch of candy-ass prog music. BTO's music was the exact opposite, hence the album title "Not Fragile". And now you know something. I loved this band in the mid-70's, and still love their music today. Glad you liked the song, too. Another great song I would recoomend you check out is a great Bluesy number called "Blue Collar" from BTO I. Also, two more rockers from that same album are "Stayed Awake All Night" and "Don't Get Yourself In Trouble". Enjoy!
BTO..Great band! Caught them on Van Halen's 5150 tour in 86.. man they played this song and Kemper Arena went nuts!!!!
I was at the Seattle show on that tour.
In the 70s we here in Canada were inundated with BTO songs on the radio…so much so that people began to call them Bachman Turner ‘Overdose’…😂. I’m a firm believer that the best BTO songs were, like this one, written by and sung by Fred Turner, not Randy Bachman….Fred knew how to bring it! Try “Roll On Down The Highway” , another Fred Turner song, from this same album.
Another banger for you T. Apparently, BTO heard the Yes album, Fragile, and noted that they definitely were not fragile! Glad you liked it. Going deep next request
Rock is my life (this is my song) was always my favorite by them
Finally! Something other than taking care of business.
Bachman Turner Overdrive, omg, 8-track days baby. Smoked a lot of weed to them. 😅😅😅😅
Check out their live version from 2011 at the Roseland Ballroom. For another great band and song from from Canada -actually two great bands on this track Max Webster and Rush doing Max Webster's "BattleScar"
Oh Yeah BTO is a Great DOWN & Dirty Rock band.
I grew up through the 50s 60s and 70s on this vast spectrum of music that came out of the romantic feelings of the baby boomers , most concieved after victorious warriors returned home from WW2 and put a lot of bread in the oven. We all came of age through those times running on pheremones and testosterone. Now I'm 75 and the old spark aint so bright but that generation created the best music ever in history. BTOs best IMO was 'Blue Collar', the original should be first and then the one at the 'Roseland Ballroom' when they are alot older but just as hot and amazing as ever
Mahogany Rush, Rush, BTO, April Wine - all Canucks
Whole "Not Fragile" album kicks ass do the whole dam thing!
It was there master piece.
Great songs. Nothing crappy
About the album. For 1974.
Mercury records. BACHMAN
WAS IN THE GUESS WHO.
YOU KNOW AMERICAN WOMAN.
CHEERS
Love Randy Bachman. Great Canadian rocker. Have seen him in concerts a few times as a solo and with his former Guess Who partner, Burton Cummings. You would love American Woman by the Guess Who with Randy. Thanks for this reaction. It’s a great rock sound. 👏🇨🇦👏🇨🇦
My favourite BTO album. Apparently it was done in response to Yes' Fragile album (which I also like BTW, but it's meant to be not that). Do Sledgehammer, that's the best cut from the album.
Love your reaction T. Keep rocking and rolling man. 63 years I've been going. Never gonna stop!!!!🤪
I love.to see an African American rock out to shit I grew up with, and realize what they have missed out out on.
Banger of a song by my hometown boys! 🇨🇦
The Guess Who ( Randy Bachman was part of the band originally)
BTO
April Wine
Triumph
Rush of course
The Tragically Hip
The The Tea Party
to name a few
The Tea Party is an interesting band. They rock hard and some of their music has a middle eastern vibe. The lead singer Jeff Martin looks and sounds like Jim Morrison of the Doors.
Check out Sister Awake live at Much More Music Toronto by them
Cheers
We know how to rock in Canada 😉 🇨🇦
The lead singer on this song is Fred Turner.
Love what you've done to your studio it looks great
Sup T???? Lots of gems on this album, check it out..."free Wheelin'", "Sledgehammer", "Blue Moanin'", "Roll On Down The Highway", & "Givin' It All Away". And please hook us up with more Frank Marino "Something's Comin Our Way" Live At the Agora Theater, epic performance!!✌️ ☮️ 🇱🇷❤️🎸🎵🎶🎼
I remember this as a teenager they rock
My fav BTO song and album. Awesome album with many great songs. Checkout Blue Moanin, Sledgehammer, Rock is my life. Hell checkout the entire album even the instrumental is good! Nobody can belt out lyrics like Fred Turner. IMHO they even do the best House of the Rising Sun version. Also check out Triumph also from Canada. Rik may be the best lead guitarist/singer combo ever. Certainly among the best.
I don’t know BTO’s non radio hits as I never followed them that much but this song was a banger. Great choice Lance. 🔥
"Welcome Home" has a heavy BTO guitar riff and it ends with a jazz fused instrumental, it is on their second album BTO II. "Flat Broke Love" is another heavy track that hasn't been mentioned, it is on BTO's fourth album Four Wheel Drive.
BTO were originally a country rock band called Brave Belt, the first Brave Belt line up in 1971 was a trio consisting of, Randy Bachman, Chad Allen and Robbie Bachman, the final Brave Belt line up in early 1973 was Randy Bachman, Fred Turner, Tim Bachman and Robbie Bachman. Brave Belt released two albums, Brave Belt (1971) and Brave Belt II (1972), both were released on Reprise Records. Their proposed 1973 album was due to be called Brave Belt III, but after Randy signed a new recording contract with Charlie Fach at Mercury Records and a new name to reflect the bands heavier rock style, the 1973 album was called Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
They took the Overdrive bit from the title of a Canadian truckers magazine.
Four Wheel Drive
Find the video from the corrections facility
The Saskatchewan Penitentiary concert.. Yes!
Listen to four wheel drive. My favourite song by them is Second Hand. Killer guitar solo. I promise you'll love it!!!!!!
Such a kick ass song
I got to see them a few times in the 70's and they put on a great show! Free Wheeling & Blue Moanin are a little more on the blues side and Sledgehammer is just what it sounds like. Keep it up! You're finding some good stuff but there is allot more out there!
Man you just scratched the surface of BTO they are timeless
Canada has a small population, the United Kingdom also has a much smaller population population than the US but much larger than Canada however, per capita, the United Kingdom seems to have given birth to a lot of great rock ‘n’ roll, and after all Canada is a child of England and so is the United States, so much of the credit actually has to go to the United Kingdom because they birthed it all
Same album sledgehammer fantastic. Great album start to finish
Yes put out the Fragile album and this was BTOs' reply. 😁
Love your reactions T , keep on rockin brother.😎🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶
First time I got drunk was a grade 7 BTO concert. I also mocked Burton Cummings in a bar years later. Proud to be Canadian.
It was always worth the price of admission to their concerts just to watch the teeny boppers who were there for You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, or Takin' Care Of Business when they ripped this, as they just sat there in total cluelessness.
This song is so fkn HEAVY.
You aint seen nuthin' yet. You aint heard nuthin yet !!
Awesome song, I keep trying to get our band to try to play it.
I remember going out and buying that on 8 track when it was released, it was a unique sound.
Listened to bto in high high high school 75-77. Listened to this just Cranked full volume! Shirt eatn grins heads bobbing, yeah!!!
This is the last CD I bought. Filling in holes in my collection. The Red Tape Album from ARS was the one before it. Another lost classic. Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs is another must listen. Back when it was normal for every song on an album to be good. What a time...
Rock is my Life and This is my Song
Been a minute since I heard this one. Love it.
The whole album is great.
i GOT THAT ALBUM AS A 70'S TEEN I think the bass guitar is a Rickenbacker Bass
From the album of the same name. Which I had on 8-track and then cassette and then cd and now on my phone.
Don't forget the reel to reel!!!!
Dam BAD ASS BANDS IN THE 70 s
All of your pops are happy that you, young people reintroduced this song! Believe me, this song is about 50 years old and at that time, no band played this much heavy duty song like BTO.
And best of all, the sound is not so old, isn't it!?
The live version is great! I've got a great one for you. BTO Welcome home! Been a fan since they came up together!
Yes 🙌 indeed the 70 s
great song and band!
Great review. Never did see them live but love the music.
Check out a band called moxy they’re from Canada damn good another band came out of LA the band called legs diamond you need to check them out I think you and your wife would love The ballad woman is a good song this band doesn’t get any recognition check them out they’re damn good
I had T react to MOXY "Moonrider"
Moxy was a great Cdn band!
I knew that BTO was from The Guess Who out of Canada. They had a lot of hit songs. One of my favorites is "Blue Collar" but I don't remember this song. I'm loving it though.
We all say your welcome for our generations music enjoy. 😂
The bass player is singing. CF Turner
BTO was one of my favorite bands besides April Wine growing up.
We were loaded on weed lol 😂
Our weed was better
Underrated BTO song. Listen to Rock is my Life by BTO.
Yeah, I know!! I've liked them since the early 70's you'll like "Blue Collar" it's a little jazzy, ☝🏾but, it still sounds like their style!! Check it out!!
Sounds awesome on some 400 watt cerwin vega speakers
Check out the live version of Grits Ain’t Groceries by Wet Willie!
I cleaned the sticks and seeds lol
When I listen to BTO my neighbors do too.
Ive heard of them, but not this song. I dig its rhythm and hard sound.
If you like this sound you should also check out Robin Trower.
BTO Let it Ride.Takin Care of Business. Enjoy the ride.
From Canada, check out Triumph and April Wine if you haven't already.
Kickass Canadian bands (I'm sure I'm forgetting some):
- The Guess Who
- BTO (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
- Rush
- The Tragically Hip
- Robert Charlebois
- Max Webster
- April Wine
- Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
- The Jeff Healey Band
- Harmonium
- Beau Dommage
- Triumph
- Arcade Fire
- Chilliwack
- Lighthouse
- Steppenwolf (sort of)
- The Band (sort of)
- Men Without Hats
- Saga
- Bryan Adams
- Colin James
- Jets Overhead
- Great Lake Swimmers
- The New Pornographers
- Crash Vegas
- Sloan
- Metric
There are others but I don't like them (Loverboy, Nickelback, Trooper, etc.)
Also Prism
Many industry people say Trooper was one of the best live bands and they had a good catalogue of hits.
@@Nana_Reads Prism and the people around the band were probably some of the most talented people who went further on in the industry.
@@jethro1963 I don't take much stock of what "industry people" say. "Industry people" liked Milli Vanilli and Britney Spears too. All I know is that I've hated every single Trooper song I've ever heard, so I'll stick to forming my own opinion and not rely on what other people say.
@@frankpentangeli7945 "hated every single Trooper song I've ever heard" Close minded much?
Our weed was different
Sledgehammer is another good one!
Bad ass songs
Our weed was different no chemicals
BTO from Manitoba
Canadian bands always get short shrift. Especially Mahogany Rush.
Take a listen to a song of theirs Blue Collar.
Most definitely!
Not Fragile' "It must be Italian" or maybe not.
BTO was heavy metal before there was heavy metal!
Good Stuff!!
thank you for going into the rabbit hole , most just snoop around the top. I found the best music doesn't make it in the top 100 so called hit list .