Vinyl Tap podcast with Randy Bachman

This week on Vinyl Tap we get right to the heart of rock and roll…. Randy Bachman has put together a playlist that’s going to be a bit of a mixed bag. There will be songs with “Heart” in the title from Huey Lewis, The Eagles, Pat Benatar, Rush and others. The playlist will also include musicians opening their hearts in support of important causes… big and small. They use their talent and fame and hearts to help others.

This time on Vinyl Tap we’ll continue with another important instrument in pop music - the piano! On this podcast we’ll hear some of the best in a lineup that includes Bruce Hornsby, Blue Rodeo, ELO, Gino Vannelli, The Doors and Eddie Van Halen.

This week, Randy Bachman turns the spotlight on women who rock! Wanda Jackson is known as the “Queen Of Rockabilly” and shared the stage with many of the top acts in the fifties. In 2011 she released an album with Jack White of the White Stripes. It included the song “Shakin’ All Over” which was a breakout hit for Randy and the Guess Who. This week the Vinyl Tap trip through time looks at some of the other women who rocked and many who still do. The playlist includes Heart, Joan Jett, Alanis Morissette, Stevie Nicks, Pink, Pat Benatar, Janis Joplin and many others.

The Fender Stratocaster, or “Strat”, came from the evolution of the Telecaster guitar. The Telecaster was the first solid-body electric guitar with a sound that worked and was readily adopted by musicians. It was heavy and a bit clunky so some changes were made including cutting away some of the body as well as adding a third pickup. The Stratocaster was born. This week Randy introduces us to the pop world’s most iconic guitar as well as some of the people who made it famous. Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Kim Mitchell, Buddy Holly and others make the playlist. Tune in for a sampler of the guitar that rocks the world on the Tap.

This week on Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap everything is alright. Randy points out that those words have a couple of meanings… if you’re concerned about someone you might ask, “is everything alright?” But, if it’s a Sunday night and you’re rocking to some great tunes, “everything is alright!" Helping convince us that everything is alright, this week we’ve got artists including The Beatles, The Who, April Wine, Elton John, Blind Faith, U2, Free and so many more. Even the kids are alright!

On this week’s edition of the Vinyl Tapcast Randy Bachman finishes up his short sampler of Canadian rock. Randy calls it the “CamJam” and the playlist features some of the best artists who have been rockin’ the world from north of the 49th for about the past fifty years. This week we’ll hear from Red Ryder, Lighthouse, Jeff Healy, Amanda Marshal, Bryan Adams, Big Sugar, Rush, Trooper and many more.

This week the Vinyl Tap Time Machine takes us on a tour of the huge influence the Blues had on pop music. Musical tastes have changed a lot over the years but just like in the beginning you can still hear shades of the Blues in modern rock and roll. Randy Bachman shares some rules for the Blues and a whole lot of great music on The Tap!

This time Randy has a playlist guaranteed to get you on the dance floor with a whole show featuring musical mash-ups. It’s amazing how some songs go together so well while others can feel like a bit of a stretch. But where else are you going to hear Amy Winehouse together with Queen? Or how about Adele mixing it up with AC/DC? Maybe Blondie and the Doors is your combination…

This week on The Tap we’ve got drums, drums and more drums! In the early days of rock and roll a drum kit might have a kick drum, a snare, a tom-tom and a few cymbals. As rock evolved, so did drumming. Rush’s Neil Peart had a kit that sometimes included thirty drums!! The playlist this week includes Neil along with other drummers including John Bonham, Keith Moon, Dave Grohl, Ginger Baker, and many others.

Christopher Walken featured in one of the best Saturday Night Live sketches and kicks off our show this week with … “More Cowbell!” Randy has put together an entire playlist of songs that feature cowbell and even more cowbell. We’ll hear from The Stones, Santana, BTO, Mountain, Free, War and many others.

This week Randy invites you to tune in to the Tap once again. You won’t want to miss part two of our trip through the evolution of Power Trios…The playlist includes Cream, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Mountain, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, April Wine and many more.

This week the Vinyl Tap time machine takes us back to a show that Randy Bachman calls “Homegrown”. The show features music that’s been written in Canada by Canadian writers and it has been been done by artists all over the world. The playlist features music by Buffy St Marie, Neil Young, Tom Cochrane, Robbie Robertson, Leonard Cohen, Paul Anka and many other top Canadian song writers. If you want to hear some great music that’s ‘homegrown’ be sure to tune in to the Tap!

This week the Vinyl Tap the time machine takes us back to another big year in rock… 1969. It was the year Neil Armstrong and his crew stepped out onto the surface of the moon. Public Broadcasting began in the US and a computer network system called ARPNET was created and would become the basis of the internet. The Beatles gave their final public show in London Some other big music events took place including a gathering of over three hundred thousand for a festival in Woodstock, New York. Our playlist this week incudes some of the acts from Woodstock… Jimi Hendrix, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young, Creedence, The Who, Sly and the family Stone and many others. So, make one small step and be sure to tune in to the Tap!