Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Live in Winnipeg, Manitoba 1984 (FM Broadcast)

On August 17, 1984, the classic Bachman-Turner Overdrive lineup (Randy, Fred, Blair, Rob) reunited for the first time since 1977 in a small Winnipeg community hall (Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, St. Boniface) with only friends and family watching. Manager John Austin rented the room for $150 a day and brought in a CBC mobile truck to record two full run-throughs of the reunion set. The second take was cleaned up with overdubs, audience sweetening, and edits, sold to RKO Radio Networks for $7,500, and broadcast September 24, 1984 across North America as the “Captured Live from Misty Moon, Halifax” show—even though it was actually this raw Winnipeg rehearsal. The unedited first take leaked into tape-trading circles, while the polished version lives on as a pre-FM master in the RJPM Memorial Archive Series #58. A historic, intimate snapshot of BTO’s final roar.

01 Roll On Down The Highway
02 My Sugaree
03 Blue Collar
04 For The Weekend
05 Four Wheel Drive
06 You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
07 Another Fool
08 Let It Ride
09 City’s Still Growin’
10 Takin’ Care Of Business

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1973 by Randy Bachman after leaving The Guess Who – became Canada’s biggest hard-rock export of the 70s. With Fred Turner’s gravel-road growl, Randy’s razor-sharp guitar riffs, and a rhythm section built like a Peterbilt, BTO delivered no-nonsense, working-man rock: big hooks, bigger guitars, and songs about trucks, highways, and takin’ care of business. Between 1974 and 1976 they scored five straight platinum albums, seven Top-40 hits (including the global #1 “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”), and sold out arenas coast-to-coast on raw power and zero pretension.
After the original breakup in 1979, the classic lineup reunited briefly in 1984 for one last roar, then again in 1988-1991 and sporadically after 2009. Randy, Fred, Blair Thornton, and the Bachman brothers always brought the same gear-grinding energy that made “Roll On Down The Highway,” “Let It Ride,” and “Takin’ Care of Business” eternal road-trip anthems. Straight-up, blue-collar Canadian thunder – no filler, all killer.

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