Randy Bachman is shedding gentle on his unbelievable guitar obsession with a brand new momentary exhibit set to open at Calgary’s Studio Bell subsequent month.
Organizers say the Guess Who co-founder and “Taking Care of Business” hitmaker will showcase greater than 80 of his prized axes for “Randy Bachman: Every Guitar Tells a Story.”
The exhibit will embody devices from each a part of Bachman’s profession and have movies of the 79-year-old musician telling the tales behind them.
Highlights embody 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 Woman.”
Also 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 lodge in 1976 and recovered final yr in Tokyo.
The exhibit runs from May 5 to Oct. 1 at Studio Bell, situated contained in the National Music Centre.
