RIP Tim Bachman and Gordon Lightfoot

[Farrell Jackson]

Two more legends gone...Tim Bachman and Gordon Lightfoot...a sad bit of news.
Rip Tim Bachman (BTO)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/tim-bachman-founding-guitarist-of-bachman-turner-overdrive-dies-at-71/ar-AA1aC1Wk

RIP Grodon Lightfoot.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/canadian-singer-songwriter-gordon-lightfoot-dies-at-84/

[chapperz66]

That's sad.  I read about Gordon Lightfoot but hadn't picked up on Randy Bachman passing.

[Farrell Jackson]

Paul, Tim is Randy's Bachman's brother who was also a guitarist in BTO. RIP

[cuthbert]

Very sad news, and a strange coincidence they both died the same day. Sad day for our Canadian friends.

RIP, Gordon Lightfoot and Tim Bachman.

[Johnbee]

Both Canadians.  How ironic.  RIP to both.

Gordon was one of my greatest heroes. I started writing songs mostly because of him and Dan Fogelberg.
He was an amazing man and musician.  I will miss him sorely.

  John B

[T.C. Elliott]

I heard about Gordon today and while I admit he was never my favorite, I do have good memories of both my mother and father listening to him (separately, they divorced when I was quite young) as a child. You cannot deny his career, that's for sure.

[des0free]

Sad news.  I did a cover of "If you could read my mind" a few years ago:

https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=30025.msg356162#msg356162

[Ted]

In 1994 I did a massive solo road trip across the USA on a motorcycle – Phoenix to Washington, DC via wherever I decided to go. I visited some family in Minnesota, and then spontaneously decided to do a full circumnavigation of Lake Superior – starting and ending in Duluth – before continuing. I don't think a waking hour went by during that circumnavigation when that fucking "Edmond Fitzgerald" song wasn't going through my head.

I do have good memories of both my mother and father listening to him (separately, they divorced when I was quite young)

Goodness, T.C., that little vignette is devastating. You could write a song about that. A child can barely remember – or can't remember – a time when his parents were together, but grows up hearing the echos of a failed marriage in the common music to which they listen separately. Perhaps in-between the tense or awkward moments when he experiences his divorced parents interacting.

Speaking of dead and Canadians and broken families: I never gave Tim (or Randy) Bachman much thought, but I have a Canadian "relative"* who partially pierced through my teenage prog-punk snobbery and got me to appreciate BTO just a little bit.

*He's the half-brother of my mother's second husband, who she eventually divorced. So this relative is my Canadian ex-step-half-uncle.

[chapperz66]

Paul, Tim is Randy's Bachman's brother who was also a guitarist in BTO. RIP

Ah yes. I obviously misread that.

[Blooby]

Bob Dylan apparently idolized Gordon. High praise indeed. Love his voice and songs.

Never did the deep dive into BTO, but I practically wore out a best of as a teen.

It's an odd thing when you hit the age where influential folks from your youth are dying on a weekly basis. I remember my mother talking about this very thing when I was a young lad.

Blooby