Bachman Turner Overdrive From The Front Row...Live DVD Audio

Recorded live in Chicago, Illinois on March 8, 1974. Includes liner notes by Bruce Pilato.

This is a DVD-Audio disc. The DVD-Audio content can only be read by a DVD-Audio player. The Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS audio tracks provided on this disc will play on a standard DVD player.

All the hits are here in endearingly ragged versions. The album's highpoint however has to be the intro to the most overtly garage-like song of the set, "Slow Down Boogie," in which while exhorting the audience to raise their hands in the air, make some noise, etc., bassist Fred Turner actually manages to use the word "boogie" seven times. There's also the bonus of a 1998 Bachman interview that provides some droll anecdotes about the genesis of the band.

When guitarist Randy Bachman left Canadian hitmakers the Guess Who, he formed Bachman-Turner Overdrive, whose catchy, crunchy hard rock was a complete departure from the more polished sound of his previous band. Recorded live in Chicago in 1974, this performance from the classic-rock mainstays includes the classics "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" and "Let It Ride," presented in digitally remastered glory for the DVD-Audio format.

24 Bit/96 Khz PCM Stereo - English

24 Bit/48 Khz Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

This DVD Audio features BTO, live from Chicago in 1974.

Recorded at the peak of the band's commercial success in 1974, this live set proves that inside the stadium behemoth Bachman-Turner Overdrive had become was a great garage band trying to desperately to get out. Their studio albums may have been slick as any L.A. product of the period, but, as glimpsed here, the band's sloppy but agreeable two guitar attack, and Randy Bachman's endearingly whiney lead vocals, all but scream beer-soaked late night jams at some smoky dive in suburbia.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Randy Bachman (vocals, guitar, bass); Blair Thornton, C.F. Turner (guitar); Robbie Bachman (drums).

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