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Anthology

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Randy Bachman has always been one of those solid rocker/songwriters who I've admired. The Guess Who, BTO....incredible stuff. Beautiful rock songs. Nice variety, hard rocking stuff you'll hear on the radio (Taking Care of Business) and jazzy licks you love but seldom hear (Looking Out for Number One). This album contains a lot of re-recorded songs (probably for some legal reason?)---yes, that's "re-recorded", not remastered. OH NO! I know that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, but I don't think its foolish for an ANTHOLOGY to have songs lifted from prior albums--the songs we'd like to hear again, if you please. Randy, I have every Guess Who and BTO album--I don't mind the repetition.

The re-recordings, as you can guess by my tone, are not quite what I was hoping for. They sound tired and flat. Maybe I'm too critical or hidebound in my thinking here---please, others weigh in on this. There is good news--the Runaway tribute to Del Shannon (remember Tom Petty's homage to it?) is a nice surprise.

Randy Bachman from the Guess Who and Bachman, Turner Overdrive is a great guitar player. I saw him in concert and he was great. He was really too good for The Guess Who and really showed how good he could be in Bachman Turner Overdrive. This CD is a dissapointment as it shows a variety of Bachman's songs, but they are not all his best. I guess I really wanted Randy Bachman's greatest hits. Anyway it gives a good sample of Randy Bachman's music.