Posted April 30, 2023 8:06 PM ET
Tim Bachman exits the BC Provincial Courthouse in Chilliwack on April 8, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eric Dreger
A founding member of Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Tim Bachman, has died.
Randy Bachman confirmed his brother’s death at the hands of his manager on Sunday.
Tim Bachman’s son, Paxton Bachman, posted on Facebook that his father passed away on Friday and explains that last week he received a call from the nursing home where his father was staying, telling him the condition was improving his father’s condition had deteriorated and that subsequent tests showed him to be cancerous throughout his brain.
Winnipeg-based BTO released their first album in May 1973 and the band’s second album, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, released in December 1973, was a huge hit in the US and Canada with the hit singles “Let it Ride” and “Takin.” a big hit ‘Care of the Business.’
Tim Bachman, who played guitar and sang, left BTO in 1974 but had returned to BTO for touring over the years.
His death follows that of his brother Robbie Bachman, another Bachman-Turner Overdrive co-founder, in January at the age of 69.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on April 30, 2023.
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