Chords for Kevin O'Leary - Jamming with Rock and Roll Legend Randy Bachman

Randy [D] Bachman is a legend in the world of rock and roll.
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_ [F] _ _ [D#m] _ He's earned over [A#]
120 gold and [C#] platinum [A#] albums and singles and sold over 40 million records over his long career as both [Dm] a performer and [D] producer.
CBC Music has declared November [G] as Guitar Month.
In honor of the occasion, they have announced Randy [Dm] Bachman's upcoming vinyl tap tour, [G] coming to a city [D] near you [Am] starting in [N] February.
Randy Bachman joins us in studio to share some of the stories behind his songs.
Thank you very much.
Real pleasure to meet you.
Thanks.
Pleasure to be here.
One of the things I was interested to learn was that you actually started [Bm] out playing the violin.
What made you transition [N] to guitar?
_ EP, Elvis Presley.
_ _ After about seven years of classical violin, started when I was five.
Got very bored and then _ saw this thing on television.
Black and white TV.
They blocked out the bottom half of the TV because he was shaking his legs.
My mother was there and her sisters who were younger than her, screaming like my father, going,
this is crap, get this off the TV.
I said, I want to do that.
Because compared to classical music, which was very dull, real conservatory stuff, this was exciting.
You did anything you want.
There was no rules.
You just played from inside you.
I got a guitar.
It's very fortunate to meet a guy named Lenny Bro, who spent a couple, I was 15 then, he was 16, spent a couple of years with him.
And learned my vocabulary, so to speak.
And then from then on I've had a great life.
Let's turn our gaze to the business of music.
Because [G] you were sort of in some ways in the classic era.
You could _ record an album, sell a ton of it, make a lot of money off the recording itself.
Everybody was happy.
And then the internet hit and changed everything.
What [F] advice do you give to young musicians today that want to make a living [N] making music?
Because it is damn hard. _
_ It's very, very hard.
And we just, _ Canadian Congress just passed on a bill that was supposed to give us more royalties.
And they didn't.
And that was a very hard thing.
_ _ _ _ If it's your passion and you like doing it, like when I started out, you play for nothing.
It's like when you start a business, you work 20 hours a day to get this thing up and going.
Because you love it and you're passionate about it.
You've got to like that.
Because when things go bad, you've got to like what you're doing.
_ So I've had maybe a dozen or 15 hit songs.
People celebrate those.
They don't celebrate the 300 strikeouts.
I mean, when Mickey Mantle was the king and _ _ Hank Aaron, people celebrated their home runs.
They don't realize they were also the strikeout kings.
They struck out 8,000 times, but they hit 400 home runs.
You get a check every quarter from the music you wrote.
I do.
That's a great thing.
If I make a door and sell you a door, I Michelangelo and I paint a painting like, you know what I mean, like whatever.
You sell that once and you maybe get $3, _ $30.
_ Years later, it's selling for $3 million.
It's a Van Gogh or something like that.
When you do a song, every time it's played on the radio, you get one or two pennies.
And if you have dozens of songs that are getting played in every radio station, those couple of pennies a play end up being thousands a day.
And with the classic rock format back now, that's a wonderful earning.
It's an annuity, so to speak.
But that's taken me 40 years.
And I didn't do it for that reason.
I didn't know that was going to happen.
You do your first record deal, you get nothing.
_ Everybody takes pieces of you and there's nothing.
There's no piece left for you.
So the royalties obviously are important.
You've had longevity for other reasons, though, as well.
I know a reviewer of your recent book characterized it as rock and roll minus the sex and drugs.
Is that a fair?
Minus the drugs.
_ Two out of three ain't bad.
Sex, drugs and rock and roll.
We stand corrected.
And it's a family show, so we won't. Yeah. _
No, what do you attribute to your longevity?
Seriously.
_ _ _ _ Well, I knew at the age of five when the teacher went around and said,
what's your name and what you want to do when you grow up?
I want to be a fireman or a doctor.
I said, my name is Randy Backman.
I'm a musician.
And she said, but what do you want to be when you grow up?
And I answered the question again, I'm Randy Backman.
I'm a musician.
I already was.
I'm playing classical violin.
And she kept asking me again.
I ran home.
It's the first day of school.
My mother said, what are you doing home?
I said, I hate school.
I quit.
I don't know the right answers.
_ So she took me back to school and explained to the teacher that I had already been singing and playing
and was a violinist.
And so I knew that at an early age.
So knowing that, I honor that every single day.
I never take it for granted.
I've never done drugs.
I don't drink.
I've never smoked.
I've never smoked.
I've never drank coffee.
I just _ rock and roll.
When that's your whole thing, when shooting hoops is your whole thing, you become the next,
you know what I mean, the next.
Randy, only 30 seconds left, but quick question.
Paul McCartney was [G] recently interviewed and he was asked who he really admired as songwriters.
_ Guess who was his answer?
That's remarkable.
It just shows you the legacy you [F#] built there.
What do you say to that?
_ [G] If you guys want to jam.
Are you [F] kidding?
_ That must make you feel pretty good.
Yeah.
[E] We got to take a break.
Because when we [G] come back, we're going to [A] take a break first.
[D] Randy [A] Bachman, unplugged, the legendary [E] guitarist, is going to join [F#m] Kevin on the Lang & O'Leary stage
for a [Bm] little blues jam.
[F#m] _ [A] Kevin Clapton.
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_ _ [E] _ 53 years [B] in the music [Am] industry, Randy Bachman has played with just about every guitar [A] great of the [G] rock [Em] era,
but there [A] is one [G] Axeman [Bm] he hasn't shared [A] liner notes with, Kevin O [E]'Leary.
So [D] stay with [A] us.
We're going to be [E] back with more, but first, here are [G] Randy Bachman and Kevin O'Leary, _ unplugged.
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