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The New Music Mondays: Bachman & Turner - "Rollin' Along"

Every Canadian's favourite CBC musical radio show host Randy Bachman and his old partner Fred Truner are together again but not as Bachman Turner Overdrive since the rest of BTO did not want to tour. This is their first single and the blonde in the video is the daughter of a friend of my Dad's so I have a brush with Canadian celebrity.

Here is their website and you can see there that there is a definite homage to BTO: http://www.bachmanandturner.com/

Notes from Wikipedia:

Bachman–Turner Overdrive (frequently known as BTO) is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums in Canada in that decade. Their 1970s catalog included five Top 40 albums and six Top 40 singles. The band has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, and has fans affectionately known as "gearheads" (derived from the band's gear-shaped logo). Many of their songs, including "Let It Ride", "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", and "Takin' Care of Business", still receive play on FM classic rock stations.

One of the few phonograph albums I owned was BTO's "Head On"

The Venture Bros. will be premiering on Sunday, Sept. 12 at 11:30pm EST!

The title of the next eight episodes:

"The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter-glider"
"Pomp & Circuitry"
"Every Which Way But Zeus"
"Everybody Comes to Hank's"
"Bright Lights, Dean City"
"Assisted Suicide"
"The Silent Partners"
"Operation: P.R.O.M."

Jackson Publick gives more details at his blog: http://jacksonpublick.livejournal.com/29389.html

Including stills and a video for you Americans out there.

Person builds their own 190's style Cray super comuter with modern technology

http://chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/

Now all he needs is some software to run on it.