Vinyl Tap podcast with Randy Bachman

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Power Trios #2 Nov 18, 2022

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This week Randy invites you to tune in to the Tap once again. You won’t want to miss part two of our trip through the evolution of Power Trios…The playlist includes Cream, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Mountain, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, April Wine and many more.

Power Trios #1 Nov 12, 2022

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This week on Vinyl Tap Randy Bachman turns the volume to 11 and plays some Power Trios! Rock at its most basic… drums, bass and lead guitar. Add a vocal and you’ve got a rock and roll recipe for success.

The playlist includes Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Rush, ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughn and many more.

Be sure to tune in to the Tap for some power trios!

Homegrown Nov 04, 2022

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This week the Vinyl Tap time machine takes us back to a show that Randy Bachman calls “Homegrown”.

The show features music that’s been written in Canada by Canadian writers and it has been been done by artists all over the world.

The playlist features music by Buffy St Marie, Neil Young, Tom Cochrane, Robbie Robertson, Leonard Cohen, Paul Anka and many other top Canadian song writers.

If you want to hear some great music that’s ‘homegrown’ be sure to tune in to the Tap!

1970: A New Decade Oct 28, 2022

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This week the Vinyl Tap time machine takes us back to 1970. Protests against the war in Vietnam continued. The tragic shooting at Kent State happened and Neil Young wrote the song “Ohio”. But there was good news as well…It was the year that the first Earth Day was celebrated. The playlist this week includes Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Santana, The Stones, Badfinger and more. And it was a big music year for Randy… the Guess Who had world-wide hits with American Woman and No Sugar so he did what any artist would do when they had success… he quit the band.

It’s a rock and roll tour of 1970 so be sure to tune in to the Tap!

1969 Revisited Oct 21, 2022

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This week the Vinyl Tap the time machine takes us back to another big year in rock… 1969. It was the year Neil Armstrong and his crew stepped out onto the surface of the moon. Public Broadcasting began in the US and a computer network system called ARPNET was created and would become the basis of the internet. The Beatles gave their final public show in London Some other big music events took place including a gathering of over three hundred thousand for a festival in Woodstock, New York. Our playlist this week incudes some of the acts from Woodstock… Jimi Hendrix, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young, Creedence, The Who, Sly and the family Stone and many others.

So, make one small step and be sure to tune in to the Tap!

A Journey South Oct 14, 2022

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This week the Vinyl Tap journey takes us to the deep south.

Its 1970 and the new decade opened with a new sound. The Allman Brothers rocked onto the music scene with a guitar-driven band that drew its influence from rock and roll, country and southern blues.

More and more bands began to fill the airwaves with what we know as southern rock and the playlist this week includes some of the best…

Lynyrd Skynrd, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special, ZZ Top, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, BTO and more.

So, for a musical trip through the deep south and beyond be sure to tune in to the Tap!

Women Who Rock! Oct 07, 2022

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Wanda Jackson is known as the “Queen Of Rockabilly” and shared the stage with many of the top acts in the fifties. And she’s kept on rockin’ her whole life…releasing an album in 2011 with Jack White of the White Stripes. In 2021 Wanda released “Encore”, an album produced by Joan Jett. Wanda was 82 years old.

This week the Vinyl Tap trip through time looks at some of the other women who rocked and many who still do. The playlist includes Heart, Joan Jett, Alanis Morissette, Stevie Nicks, Pink, Pat Benatar, Janis Joplin and many others.

You oughta know we are gonna hit you with our best shot so be sure to tune in to The Tap!

Rockin’ 68 - Part 2 Oct 01, 2022

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This week, the Vinyl Tap time machine lands in another important year in the growth of rock and roll. It’s 1968. There was lots happening in the world… not quite a time machine but Boeing did launch the first 747 jumbo jet. TV history was made when Star Trek’s James Kirk shared an on-screen kiss with Lieutenant Uhura. The winter Olympics were held in France and broadcast for first time on colour TV and the Beatles released the White Album.

Other musical artists of note that year included Cream, The Zombies, Traffic, The Kinks, Bob Seger, Steppenwolf and the Rolling Stones.

We’ll here them plus many others this week so jump on your magic carpet for a ride back to 1968 and be sure to tune in to The Tap!

Rockin’ 68 Sep 23, 2022

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Other musical artists of note that year included Cream, The Zombies, Traffic, The Kinks, Bob Seger, Steppenwolf and the Rolling Stones.

We’ll here them plus many others this week so jump on your magic carpet for a ride back to 1968 and be sure to tune in to The Tap!

The Summer of Love Sep 16, 2022

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The Vinyl Tap time machine is still in 1967 as we feature more of the great music made that year.

As Randy Bachman reminds us, 1967 and the “summer of love” was a time of change. And a bit of science fiction as well.

Montreal hosted the world for Expo ’67. The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine came out. The Beatles created Sgt Pepper. The first human heart transplant was performed.

Woodstock was still two years away. So was the Apollo moon landing.

And the music was great. We’ll from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Traffic, Jefferson Airplane, The Moody Blues, The Guess Who and many others.

Come along for a magical mystery tour when you tune in to The Tap!