Old Enough to Forget

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...