Old Enough to Forget

I know this is my second post about BTO, but this was a cool find for me. I had mentioned I had been looking for the B.T.O. Japan Tour album for years, and last fall my wife and I were hanging around Commercial Drive checking out the shops. She shopped for clothes, and I stood around looking lost for the most part. It was a beautiful fall day, and as we made our way along the Drive, there on the corner was a small stall with a guy selling records. They were between five and ten bucks, which was a little high considering the condition of some of the records, but as I'd been forced to endure a few clothing shops, I felt justified in stopping to see what was there. There were quite a few records I wanted, but I already had them on CD, and the general agreement was that if I had it already, I didn't need to get it again. I've mostly stayed true to this, as frankly I spent a lot of money buying discs to replace the snap, crackle, and pop of my old record collection. There were ...

Growing up a good Canadian kid, there was no band bigger or more influential than Bachman-Turner Overdrive. I mean, when you're a kid, anything that seems to last more than a week is a long time. Heck, if you can like something for more than a school year, it's an eternity. Seriously, as I got older I started confusing events that happened last year with things that happened a decade ago. But kid years? Yeah, they're like dog years. Here I was listening to the radio as a kid, rocking out to "Let It Ride," and a year later sitting on the floor listening to a special program on the radio playing Not Fragile and loving "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet." Then in 1975 they dropped Four Wheel Drive , which would be the first record I bought with my own money. It was a dilemma too. My older cousins were playing Led Zeppelin, KISS, Nazareth, and Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies . When I told them I wanted to get Four Wheel Drive , they weren't as...