Chords for Behind The Vinyl: "Takin' Care Of Business" with Randy Bachman from Bachman-Turner Overdrive

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_ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] There it is.
_ [F] _
My mistaken [C] beginning on that.
I had banged my guitar and it [Bb] was out of tune.
I went to play a [F] Chuck Berry bottom and it sounded different.
[C] I checked the tuning and
found out, yeah, I need to retune my guitar and [Bb] I had to relearn how to play that intro.
[F]
And then when we were recording [C] it, there was a knock at the door _ [Eb] and a guy [Bb] standing
there with three or four [F] pizzas.
_ We [C] had already been in the studio 14 hours and he said, did
you guys order the pizza?
I said, no.
Down the hall, Steve Miller was recording his Felt
Like an Eagle album and War was [Cm] doing their Why Can't We Be Friends album.
So I said,
go [G] down the hall and ask for Steve Miller, ask for Jerry in the next studio.
[C] And then
he came back and the song was [G] still playing.
We were putting [Bb] on our coats.
It was about
1 o'clock in the morning.
[F] And he said, that song [C] sounds like you could really use the
piano.
[Am] And I said, yeah, I'd like to get out and join a little Richard, but they're [Bb] kind
of in LA right now having a [F] party.
And he said, I'm a piano player.
[C] Will you give me
a shot?
And I said, you're kidding.
He said, no, [G] I've been listening to [Bb] the song.
It's
really easy.
It's three chords.
So [Cm] I said, okay.
He wrote down the chords and the spaces
on a napkin.
_ [G] The two of Mike and the piano, he played the [F] piano and left.
_ [C] And the next
day, Charlie Fouch came into our studio and he said, let me hear [Bb] the song.
And I said
to the engineer, when [F] you play it, don't play the piano [C] track.
We hadn't heard it back.
We just let him play one take.
I thought I'd give him a break and [G] I'd erase it the next
day.
So we'd come back in and Charlie, [C] I said, when you play TCB, keep the piano track
down.
But halfway through the song, the engineer pushed up the volume and then came the piano.
Charlie said, [G] what is that?
BTO to piano?
That's incredible.
Cause Elton John [C] owns Top
40 Radio and Album Radio.
And [Cm] you having keyboards will get you some [F] real estate on Top 40 Radio
because all you guys, [A] ZZ and [C] Doobies and Frampton, you're all the same.
[G] Your guitar, bass and
drums, Aerosmith, you're all the same.
[F] Having you, having the [Cm] piano, we give you some Elton
John space on Top 40 Radio.
_ Play it again.
[Bb] We backed it up, played the whole thing with
the piano.
[F] He said, that's amazing.
_ [Cm] Who's playing the piano?
_ _ [G]
And I said, a pizza delivery
[Bb] guy.
And he said, [Am] seriously?
And I said, [C] seriously, I don't know who this guy was.
He brought,
he was standing at the door with some pizza [G] and he delivered it down the hall.
I said,
well, we got to find him.
[F] So we had to do some [C] detective sleuth work.
We had to get
yellow pages, fooling around to try to find this guy.
Long story short, his name [Fm] was Norman
Durkee.
That's one piano track he did.
[C] _ And _ that was a break frame.
He went on to become
Bette Midler's music director on her first North American tour.
And when I toured in
95 [F] as part of Ringo [Bb] Starr's all-star band with Billy [C] Preston and John [Eb] Entwistle and
Mark Farner [Bb] and Ringo, [C] our tour [F] ended in LA [Bb] at the Hollywood Bowl.
And [F] the pianist for
the LA [Bb] Philharmonic was [C] Norman Durkee, same guy.
_ [F] So that's kind of the story of this guy
who just walked in and said, I'm [G] a piano player.
Give me a break.
There was his break. _ _
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