© Randy Bachman ~ Takin’
Care Of Business, John
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Company, 527 pages,
$34.95

Michael Becker

Nensroom Editor
mbecker@nsnews.com

B-B-B-Baby, you just
ain’r seen nu-nu-nu-
nothin’ yet.

The Guess Who are hot off
the road after a successful
cross-Canada reunion tour this
year. Randy Bachman and
Burten Cummings are hard at
it determining the live tracks
that will make the cut fora
double-dise CD chronicling,
the tour. The set is due out in
time for the Christmas rush.

week as part of The Vancouver
International Writers Festival.
He was interviewed by Stev
Burgess at Waterfront Theatre
on Granville Island.
Bachman’s career to date is
committed to print in Randy

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Bachman — Takin’ Care Of
Rusiness, by John Einarson
and Randy Bachman,

At over 300 pages the

book is thick with first-person
details of Bachman’s personal
journey. It’s nota well-written
work, but the book does
deliver the goods thanks to
Einarsat’s total access ter
Bachman while he toured with
the Guess Who,

It may be his son Tal
Bachman’s turn to shine with
the hit music (She's So High),
but the old nian is by no
means a spent force.

The Waterfront Theatre
event failed to pack the house,
yet those who tumed up were
rewarded with an intimate
slice of Canadian musical his

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the audience asked Bachman if
he was a left-handed guitar
player (because he noticed
that Bachman was wearing, bis
wrist watch on his right wrist)
Bachman told the audience
that he was bitten by a brown
recluse spider approximately
three years ago while in
Vancouver. To this day he has
limited feeling, in his left fore-
arm. Luckily his left hand was
noc affected and he is still able
to play guitar.
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from chronic back trouble.

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