Randy Bachman is shedding gentle on his unimaginable guitar obsession with a brand new non permanent exhibit set to open at Calgary’s Studio Bell subsequent month.
Organizers say the Guess Who co-founder and “Taking Care of Enterprise” hitmaker will showcase greater than 80 of his prized axes for “Randy Bachman: Each Guitar Tells a Story.”
The exhibit will embrace devices from each a part of Bachman’s profession and have movies of the 79-year-old musician telling the tales behind them.
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Highlights embrace the primary guitar Bachman bought from a Sears catalogue at 13-years-old and his signature 1959 Les Paul electrical guitar, which was used on the Guess Who’s beloved hits “These Eyes,” “No Time” and “American Girl.”
Additionally deliberate for the show is his uncommon first-year white Stratocaster, which he performed on quite a few Bachman-Turner Overdrive albums, and his 1957 Gretsch electrical guitar, which was famously stolen from a Toronto resort in 1976 and recovered final yr in Tokyo.
The exhibit runs from Might 5 to Oct. 1 at Studio Bell, positioned contained in the Nationwide Music Centre.
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