{"id":154644,"date":"2018-02-27T22:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154644"},"modified":"2018-02-27T22:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:59:38","slug":"randy-bachman-reimagines-george-harrison-tunes-goes-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/27\/randy-bachman-reimagines-george-harrison-tunes-goes-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Bachman reimagines George Harrison tunes, goes too far"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Randy Bachman, founder of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, let’s his imagination run away with 11 George Harrison songs on \u201cBy George \u00a0\u2014 By Bachman,\u201d which mostly succeeds when respecting the Quiet Beatle’s melodies, but sometimes fails to capture the grace and elegance of the originals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I Needed Someone\u201d has a jazzy feel, with a George Benson-like solo while there’s a flamenco-ish rhythm on \u201cYou Like Me Too Much.\u201d \u201cI Need You\u201d gets a power-pop rebuild and \u201cDon’t Bother Me\u201d rocks out even further, like something from the Smithereens’ catalogue. On these and a few others, the original tunes are more or less intact and they’re sturdy enough to support the makeovers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething,\u201d however, is a supple love song meant to be about \u201cthe way she moves,\u201d not the way she plods, and even some hot guitar solos can’t change that. On \u201cWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps,\u201d the instrument and the song seem way past the soft cries and closer to a complete nervous breakdown. Oh well.<\/p>\n

The album opens and closes with Bachman’s \u201cBetween Two Mountains,\u201d a tribute where Lennon and McCartney are the peaks overshadowing Harrison, whose patience pays off and his time to shine finally comes. All true, as Harrison’s \u201cAll Things Must Pass\u201d from 1970 shines as brightly as any Beatle solo album.<\/p>\n

But \u201cSomething\u201d and \u201cWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps\u201d were great songs of his already from his time in The Fab Four and, as he later famously sang with The Traveling Wilburys, they should be handled with care.<\/p>\n

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