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Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, (; born September 27, 1943) is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of Brave Belt with Chad Allan, Union and Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums. He is also a national radio personality on CBC Radio, hosting the weekly music show, ''Vinyl Tap''. ==Early years== Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Karl (Charlie) Bachman and Anne (Nancy) Dobrinsky, Bachman is of half German and half Ukrainian ancestry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who Do You Think You Are? )〕 At age three, he won a singing contest on CKY's King of the Saddle program and age 5 he had started studying the violin in the Royal Toronto Conservatory system.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hey You! Randy Bachman shows how to grow a rock star )〕 He studied violin until the age of 12 when he grew dissatisfied with the structured lessons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Classic Interview: Randy Bachman from the July 1975 GP )〕 He found that while he couldn't read music, he could play anything if he heard it once; he referred to it as his phonographic memory.〔 At age 15, Bachman saw Elvis Presley play on Tommy Dorsey's television show and the sight of the guitar around Presley's neck inspired him. He learned three chords from his cousin, then started practicing on a modified Hawaiian dobro.〔 At age 16, Bachman met up with Lenny Breau; over the next two years Breau taught Bachman finger picking and also introduced him to the music of Chet Atkins.〔 In 1959 Bachman bought a ticket to see Les Paul in concert at a Winnipeg supper club but could not get in as he was too young. He instead helped Paul set up before the show and also helped him reload everything into the car after the show. Still a budding guitarist at this point, Bachman asked Paul if he could teach him a guitar lick; Paul ended up teaching his version of "How High the Moon".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Randy Bachman recalls playing with Les Paul, calls him 'biggest influence on rock – Economy – Business – The Journal Pioneer )〕 He was initially a good student at school until he took up the guitar, when he focused on that instrument to the exclusion of his education. He passed Grade 9 at Edmund Partridge Junior High School, but repeated both the 10th and 11th grades, initially at West Kildonan Collegiate. In his second year of Grade 11, he was placed in a class of students who mostly either "flunked or dropped out and came back", and was asked to be class president by the teacher, who thought he had "discipline and determination" because he had been playing violin since the age of five. He was expelled from West Kildonan in the middle of that year because of his "lack of studiousness", and finished his schooling at Garden City Collegiate. He went on to study business administration at what is now Red River College, but did not graduate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Randy Bachman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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