Talk:Randy Bachman

just had to edit it, someone changed the name of Randy's band to be sort of an "insult", and his band is known as the Randy Bachman Band, not Randy Bachman's Rock Thing.

Honourary v Honorary

Shouldn't it be honourary (not honorary), since Bachman is Canadian and the only nation (that I know of at least) that spells it "honorary" is the United States, while just about every other english nation spells it with "u"?

There is no word spelled "honourary". Although the root is "honor" in the U.S. and "honour" in Canada, honorary is spelled without the "u" in both places.

Honorary at all?

Is it really appropriate to include an honorary degree in the initial-salad following Bachman's (or anyone's) name? Personally, I think not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 13:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Tal Bachman

Should this page make mention of his son, Tal Bachman, famed for his song "She's so High"? Vampus 10:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Since Tal Bachman is independently notable enough to have an article of his own, I think the answer is "yes." 129.97.79.144 22:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Still a Mormon

I don't exactly have any solid proof other than a post deep within Bachman's forums (in a post by Randy's wife) that Tal got tired of Mormonism, shared his feelings on the matter, and most of the family broke off from the religion, including Randy and his wife. Not exactly the best source of information, I know.

However, if you notice, there's no longer any mention of Mormonism on his website's biography, whereas there used to be about 6-12 months ago.

If there's no proof, then shouldn't it stay stating the fact that he IS a mormon, since that is the most solid proof we got. There isn't even any references to where the supossed info is from.

I think that's true... it says at the top of the page that if there isn't concrete evidence + a link to send people to, then there shouldn't be any mention of it at all. Currently, we just have speculation which isn't good enough to let us put it on the page. It should stay here in the discusions section until there is some real evidence. 68.144.179.31 (talk) 18:58, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I found some hints in the article "Career in Constant Overdrive has rewards, and casualties." http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-2500558_ITM. It doesn't specifically mention him leaving the Latter-day Saint church, the demise of his marriage to his Mormon wife, who introduced him to the church, would support the view that he is no longer a practicing mormon.

I heard Randy speak to a student gathering when I was a student at BYU, sometime between 1976 and 1979. I have the following recollections. He described meeting his wife at a Coffee House where his band was playing. She was there with her sister and ended up inviting him home. He was surprised by the fun, large Mormon family that she came from. He described having feelings he had never before had that gave him a different perspective. This led to a conflict with the band and ultimately its break up. He said that his formoer colleagues (Keith Richards?) told him that he would never amount to anything. He said smugly that the next time he saw them was in a London airport lounge, when BTO was the number one album in the world. Finally, he said that people read too much into his lyrics. "I'm a commercial Rock Musicion. I write songs to sell records to make money." —Preceding unsigned comment added by George was curious (talk • contribs) 19:13, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Jewish descent?

Does anyone know? -- Y not? 08:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

More information needed

I don't understand why the biography starts with his life in the 2000s, maybe someone can write a few sections on his early life, and career with the Guess Who and BTO.

Buy the Book - Randy Bachman, Taking Care of Business - this will take you up to 2000

Pronunciation

Could someone who knows how to do the phonetics thing give a better statement about the pronunciation.