Belting out the oldies From Page B12 Turner, the’ gravel-voiced blues shouter who plays bass and handles the majority of the lead vocal work, settles into a_ second-floor hotel room and allows that ‘‘this is kind of a strange situa- tion’’ for the band. ‘*The first show was a hit- tle uneasy, with all the media there and the room being so intimidating,’’ he says. A lot of what’s happening for the new BTO (originals Bachman and Turner with Tim Bachman _ handling rythym guitar and ex-Guess Who member Garry Peter- son behind the drum kit) seems strange to Turner, as quiet and articulate offstage as he is loud onstage. “The other day 1 was walking down the street and looking up the hill and 1 kind of got the feeling that if 1 went up the hill I’d see my family,’” he says. The fami- ly, now living in Winnipeg, has to settle for a pre-show phone call, however. BTO became a function- ing musical unit again two years ago last May. Original- ly brought together by a pair of Bellingham based pro- moters who ‘‘obviously couldn't deliver’’, the members felt good about be- ing together again. ‘‘Basically we needed to do something, as far as Randy and myself were con- cerned, muscially again,”’ says Turner. ‘‘Winnipeg was not a very good place for me to find musicians that are in my age group and that are sul! playing professionally so 11 was a chance for me to get together with musicians who are of that group and start another project.”’ Over the two years the band has recorded two albums, releasing only one, and started this year to play the club dates. The process 1s made more difficult because Turner and Tim Bachman continue to reside in Win- nipeg while Peterson and Bachman live in the Van- couver area. The members went in fully aware that the days of world tours had ended and that to reach that point again will mean a couple of years of grinding out rock in what venues they can find as they build a new following. “TI have to go out and put in all this time on the road and I know what’s coming...”’ eee Despite the fact that their 90-minute Plazazz show is two new songs and 15 old monsters that made BTO a world-wide success through the early 1970s, the band in- sists that this is not merely a reunion. “We have to go back and do the older songs because people want to hear them,"’ Turner says. ‘‘But we're hoping that the songs that we write in the future will have as much value to peo- ple as old songs. “*We have to play the old songs until the newer mate- rial is recognized) We can throw iCin a bit at a me but you can't throw too much at people at once.”’ That preception — almost a conservatism — 1s reflected in the group’s decision to leave its first album unreleased. “It was so diversified, there were so many (musical) directions on it, we looked at each other and said this real- ly isn’t believable,’’ says Turner. ‘‘If someone says here’s BTO again, what we had done was not believable as being BTO. So we decided to record the second album (the one that was released) and try to be closer to what we were. We needed the star- ting point to be as close as possible to what we were. | think that this album is a step off what BTO was and now we can step further forward.”’ Since the release of the album and a summer tour of clubs from Winnipeg to Halifax, the band has been ‘*staggered’’ by the response of those they’ve played for and encouraged that there is a future for the band, that the diverse influences that went into the first ‘‘not believable’ album — rang- ing from synthesized new wave to country rock — will be incorporated eventually into a new BTO sound. *“Band members plan to have more fun”’ Along the way, says Turner, the band members plan to have more fun ‘““We've changed,’ he says. 0% DISCOUNT a TRACK ON WHITE SET OF 2 LYTESPOTS AND ONE 4’/TRACK EXCLUDING SPECIALS) 11C31-4T COLMEI2 my POLISHED ay BRASS SET SPECIAL __ PO watte MATTE WHITE SET ‘790° ITH CANOPY NORBURN LIGHTING CENTRE ».. 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