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Randy Bachman, co-founder and lead guitarist of Canada’s legendary Bachman-Turner Overdrive.This is an odd one, or maybe just unexpected. Bachman has been issuing solo albums for many years, and By George By Bachman is Randy Bachman’s first studio release since 2015’s Heavy Blues. By George By Bachman is a tribute album of sorts to George Harrison.
Bachman is a Beatles fan. He played with Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band in 1995 (you can hear him with that band on Ringo Starr and His Third All Starr Band, Volume 1, released in 1997) . He has often demonstrated the opening chord of “A Hard Day’s Night”, and he has played The Beatles (both solo and as a band) on his weekly radio show. He has covered the Beatles in the past with Burton Cummings on the 2007 release On Jukebox (they covered “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You”). He loves The Beatles, so a tribute album to a fellow guitarist is not the odd part of this release. It is how he has decided to interpret the songs. He does not stick to the original arrangements at all, and often, one is left wondering what song it is until he starts singing.
Sometimes this works, his version of “You Like Me Too Much” is quite intriguing and works very well. He actually ties in hints of “In My Life” in slide guitar played in a very Harrison style. And he turns “Don’t Bother Me” into a Bachman Turner Overdrive rocker. It works, as Bachman puts his own stamp on the songs while maintaining what is brilliant about the song.