News about Randy Bachman

A number of pieces instrumental to rock 'n' roll history will soon be up for grabs during an auction - if the price is right. Nearly 200 guitars from Canadian rocker Randy Bachman's personal collection, many of which are stage-played, will be available for purchase through Julien's Auctions in May. Bachman, now 80, is one of the few musicians who has enjoyed success as a founding member of two different bands: The Guess Who, who soared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and in Bachman-Turner Overdrive, who followed in the mid-1970s and went on into the 1980s and beyond. One of the more coveted items set to hit auction: the musician's 1959 Gibson Las Paul Standard, known as the 'American Woman' guitar because Bachman used it to write The Guess Who's most famous hit song, which is expected to sell for between $200,000 - $400,000. There's many other guitars up for auction that are expected to sell for various other price ranges, starting at $600 and going all the way up to $200,000.

Tim Bachman, the guitarist and vocalist of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at the age of 71. Paxton Bachman, the musician's son, reported the musician's death on Friday in a Facebook post. Tim - who played in BTO from 1973 to 1974 and then returned to the team a decade later - died of cancer 'throughout his brain,' according to Paxton.'