Bachman Turner Overdrive - Don't Get Yourself In Trouble (Live in Cleveland, Ohio 1974)

The Bachman-Turner Overdrive concert at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 4, 1974, was a high-energy club show during their tour promoting Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, captured as an FM broadcast (likely via WMMS, the local rock station known for airing live sets). This was BTO's classic lineup—Randy Bachman on guitar, Fred Turner on bass/vocals, Blair Thornton on guitar, and Rob Bachman on drums—playing to a packed 1,500-capacity venue in the heart of Cleveland's rock scene. The 50-minute set focused on material from their first two albums (Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Bachman-Turner Overdrive II), showcasing their blue-collar hard rock with Bachman's signature riffs and Turner's gritty vocals. It's a raw snapshot of BTO's early arena-rock phase, just months before Not Fragile launched them to global stardom.

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.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bachman-Turner Overdrive II
Not Fragile
Four Wheel Drive
Head On
Freeways
Street Action
Rock n’ Roll Nights
Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1984)
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