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text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >20 Rock Around </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 594.450000pt; height: 17.550000pt; top: 9.150000pt; left: 191.050000pt;" > <LAYER top=12.200000px left=254.733333px width=792.600000px height=23.400000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,792,23" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The World I April 1978 </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 222.600000pt; height: 36.200000pt; top: 26.700000pt; left: 279.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=35.600000px left=372.800000px width=296.800000px height=48.266667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,296,48" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.290000; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 64.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 29.870000pt; letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >out of 15,000! </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 172.900000pt; height: 24.500000pt; top: 124.300000pt; left: 329.300000pt;" > <LAYER top=165.733333px left=439.066667px width=230.533333px height=32.666667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,230,32" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.960000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"Deep down inside every musician <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >is an enthusiastic little kid that </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 186.850000pt; height: 24.250000pt; top: 148.800000pt; left: 315.350000pt;" > <LAYER top=198.400000px left=420.466667px width=249.133333px height=32.333333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,249,32" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.960000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >hears a piece of music and says 'that's great, let's do that stuff'." </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 271.950000pt; height: 72.550000pt; top: 102.400000pt; left: 509.750000pt;" > <LAYER top=136.533333px left=679.666667px width=362.600000px height=96.733333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,362,96" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 78.840000pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >BTO </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 45.400000pt; height: 6.500000pt; top: 183.600000pt; left: 185.500000pt;" > <LAYER top=244.800000px left=247.333333px width=60.533333px height=8.666667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,60,8" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.660000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >DELICATE' </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 48.950000pt; height: 8.650000pt; top: 191.050000pt; left: 179.050000pt;" > <LAYER top=254.733333px left=238.733333px width=65.266667px height=11.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,65,11" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >/017/?0/10- </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 46.300000pt; height: 5.050000pt; top: 207.600000pt; left: 172.100000pt;" > <LAYER top=276.800000px left=229.466667px width=61.733333px height=6.733333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,61,6" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: 6pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >GROAT CANE </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 159pt; height: 20.650000pt; top: 300.250000pt; left: 38.050000pt;" > <LAYER top=400.333333px left=50.733333px width=212px height=27.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,212,27" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.870000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 21pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Band on the Corner </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 155.400000pt; height: 18.650000pt; top: 320.900000pt; left: 38.050000pt;" > <LAYER top=427.866667px left=50.733333px width=207.200000px height=24.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,207,24" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.500000; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7.200000px; margin-left: 100.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >by Marc Shapiro </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 247.550000pt; height: 638.200000pt; top: 347.500000pt; left: 38.050000pt;" > <LAYER top=463.333333px left=50.733333px width=330.066667px height=850.933333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,330,850" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Guitar intro, lyrics, hook riff, more lyrics, bridge, more <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >lyrics and finish. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >This is the blueprint for a rock and roll song, and take it from me, the plans aren't of recent vintage. Back in <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >prehistoric times (when rock and roll was </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >really </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >rock and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >roll) Neanderthal man would beat out simple rhythms </SPAN>with stones, not realizing that his primitive banging would <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >someday come to be known as bar chords. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >In the years beyond B.C. the practitioners of what has <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >become three-chord rock and roll have alternately fallen and risen from grace. In leaner times the trio of patterns </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >is resurrected from shame, dusted off and relegitimized </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.970000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >in the guise of new wave or some other transient phenom. <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >But let a fat creative year come in and it's slings and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >arrows for sure. A case in point being Bachman-Turner Overdrive. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.970000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >BTO was unfortunate in coming into existence at a <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >time when critics were moving to a progressive drummer. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >The idea that a band would devote its entire being to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >recycling E,D,A was considered uncouth and was treated </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >accordingly. The band, however, wasn't helping matters. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >It took balls to clone out five near perfect imitations of "Taking Care of Business" on an unsuspecting top forty </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >public. Phrases like 'connect the dots rock' were everyday </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >occurences as reviewers waded in with feet flying. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 28.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"Well, Randy, as you know, was very good at the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >formula stuff." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.970000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Fred turner punctuated the sentence with a stifled <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >laugh. It was a relaxed sign that BTO's guitar player was </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >up to answering anything, even the inevitable barb of why </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the band seemed content to play by the numbers. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"If you'll notice," continued Fred, "most of our hits <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >were Randy's. If we needed a top forty hit we'd go to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Randy and say 'hey Randy, we need a hit single.' And </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >he'd always come up with something. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"It wasn't our intention to become a formula band in <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >people's minds. Personally I know of a couple of things </SPAN>that happened that did put us in that situation. Around <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >the time of the </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Not Fragile </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >album we were under record </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >company pressure to come up with material and, as a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >result, we came up with two LPs, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Not Fragile </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Four </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Wheel Drive, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >that sounded incredibly similar. The reason </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >being that the material was written for both at the same time. What we didn't realize at the time is that we were giving people the impression that we had run out of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ideas." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Turner recounted that the other major problem lay <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >with Randy Bachman's slide into the valley of lightweight pop and the dictatorial restraints (both </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.950000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 33.600000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 4pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >• -<SPAN style=" vertical-align: super;" >I</SPAN> <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >,,rid social) he placed on the band. Needless to </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 158.400000px; line-height: 0.530000; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >into a genuine deodorant say the friction soon<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" > ,,,,»1n</SPAN> </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.970000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 33.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >problem that ended with Bachman leaving <SPAN style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 4pt;" >tile </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: super;" >6</SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;" >,</SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: super;" > </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;" >,</SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: super;" > </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >amidst all sorts of legal hassles. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.970000; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The ensuing 18 months saw surviving members <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >(Turner, Robbie Bachman and Blair Thornton) involved in a cat fight that left them with a compromised name </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >change, `BTO,' and little else. The group, however, was </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >not about to crawl away and die. Five days before BTO </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >was due to record its first non-Randy LP, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Street Action, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Jim Clench was added on bass. Some quick relearning of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >old instruments turned into a highly energetic recorded </SPAN>effort. </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 241.500000pt; height: 408pt; top: 577.700000pt; left: 291.550000pt;" > <LAYER top=770.266667px left=388.733333px width=322px height=544px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,322,544" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 14.400000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Turner's bittnerness towards what had transpired in the past was tempered with enthusiasm for the new <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >model BTO. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"As far as the group stands now, we're not going to <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >worry about whether or not we're conforming to a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >formula. We're just going to </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >sit </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >down and write our </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >music and if a lot of it turns out the same—well that's </SPAN>just the way we'll be writing. We're hoping that we won't fall into the same trap we did before but we're certainly <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >not going to lose any sleep if critics think so. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"If nothing else people will sense that we're back to <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >having a good time with the music. Deep down inside every musician is an enthusiastic little kid that hears a </SPAN>piece of music and says 'that's great, let's do that stuff.' That's the fun in music that's been missing from this <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >band for quite a while. With BTO now there's a free, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >democratic feeling within the band. In </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Street Action </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >we've all reached back to all the basic things we like in </SPAN>rock and roll and incorporated them into the music. So <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >while it may sound a bit familiar it's actually new by </SPAN>virtue of the enthusiasm of our interpreting these <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >elements that have come before." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Turner was quick to admit that the music, in most <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >instances, would not be too far removed from the pre </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >`Randy goes pop' band. But in describing BTO's approach </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >to rock and roll it became obvious that common sense </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >ran a dead heat with individual taste as the band's reasons </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >for doing the things they do. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"Our attitude is, in ,a sense, the same as our fans. We </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 38.400000px; line-height: 0.780000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >-<SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt; vertical-align: super;" >4—</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >* </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt; vertical-align: super;" >we </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >like to hear just like they do. I don't like </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >know </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 6pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >wlia,</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 6pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" > — .,.acre</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 6pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" > </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >nlaving a million </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 9pt;" >to hear somebody going berserx </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-size: 5pt;" >011 </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >notes. I want to hear something hard and basic and to the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >point. You can lose an audience if you make things to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >complicated. It tends to get too bland when you're </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >running down the same things over and over. There's a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >level where you've got to stay with people. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"But that doesn't mean that we're forced to be limited <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >musically. There's spaces in the music where we can . </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >stretch out and be intricate. We're skilled enough as </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 239.300000pt; height: 408pt; top: 577.700000pt; left: 542.400000pt;" > <LAYER top=770.266667px left=723.200000px width=319.066667px height=544px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,319,544" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >musicians to be able to flex creative muscles and still keep <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >the music in the hard, melodic frame of reference for </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >which it was intended. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"If we have a progressive song we write it. If we don't, <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >we don't go out of our way to manufacture one. We </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >don't deliberately sit down and try to write a basic thing. </SPAN>We're just four guys who write music in a certain manner <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and whatever comes out that's it. On the other hand if a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >progressive song happens to pop up because of some </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >emotional thing, we don't automatically discard it because it has more than three chords. We're not trying to make any deliberate statements with our music although </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >sometimes we do." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: 0.970000; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >The conversation made the rounds of many subjects, not the least of which was that "Taking Care of Business" <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >(being a definitive example of simplistic rock) had become a staple with every garage band going. At this point Fred </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >laid a tale on yours truly that destroyed in a matter of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >moments what had taken years of myth making to create. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"I know you're not going to believe this but the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >original version of 'Taking Care of Business' had </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >something like 15,000 chord changes in it. Back in the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >early days of BTO we were playing a four sets a night </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >club in Vancouver called The Image. At that time I was </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >doing all the singing. One night we had one set to go and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >my voice was completely shot. 1 told Randy it was </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >impossible for me to sing. He told me 'I've got a song called 'Taking Care of Business.' It's a jazz song and it's </SPAN>got 15,000 chords to it but I think it would work if we <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >play only three.' He gave us the chords to play and that </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >night a jazz song became a rock and roll standard." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 9.600000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >*<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt; vertical-align: super;" >1</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >-*„nine to the present Fred ended with a rather </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.740000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 201.600000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" > tc for the future. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.470000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >encouraging comment on the </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.380000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 158.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" > ptw<SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: super;" >N</SPAN> <SPAN style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 4pt; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >-</SPAN> </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"It won't fail. I know it. I haven't been this excited <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >since 1971 when Randy asked me if I'd like to join a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >band." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >But for this reporter it was too late. Nothing could compete with the notion of "Taking Care of Business <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >with 15,000 chord changes. </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 243.850000pt; height: 36.200000pt; top: 26.700000pt; left: 32.150000pt;" > <LAYER top=35.600000px left=42.866667px width=325.133333px height=48.266667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,325,48" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" ><LEFT> <IMG src="0440O020_Picture1.jpg" alt="Picture" align="top" height="48" width="325"></LEFT> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 299.750000pt; height: 61.400000pt; top: 62.900000pt; left: 32.150000pt;" > <LAYER top=83.866667px left=42.866667px width=399.666667px height=81.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,399,81" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" ><LEFT> <IMG src="0440O020_Picture2.jpg" alt="Picture" align="top" height="81" width="399"></LEFT> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; 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