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This song about moving on and finding your true calling was written by Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and lead singer Burton Cummings.

In an interview with Bachman, he explained that musically, the song was inspired by two tracks on the Buffalo Springfield Again album: " Rock & Roll Woman(youtube.com)" and " Hung Upside Down(youtube.com)." Neil Young of Buffalo Springfield (a fellow Canadian) played an acetate of the album for Cummings and Bachman when his travels took him to Winnipeg. The they heard it, they loved the country-rock sound and set out to write something like it. "That was our country-rock song," Bachman said. "Me and Burton trying to be like Neil and Stephen Stills."

According to Randy Bachman, the guitar lick on this song is an inversion of what Stephen Stills played on the Buffalo Springfield track "Hung Upside Down"(youtube.com). When Bachman heard the theme song to the TV show Law & Order (composed by Mike Post), it sounded familiar. "It's the same riff," Bachman told us. "It's just recycling the riff in a different context."

Note that Bachman doesn't fault Post for lifting the riff: Randy believes that just about any modern music music is based on something that came before.

This song about moving on and finding your true calling was written by Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and lead singer Burton Cummings. In an interview with Bachman, he explained that musically, the song was inspired by two tracks on the Buffalo Springfield Again album: "[Rock & Roll Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QDpdS3Atyo)" and "[Hung Upside Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhANys3Hw8)." Neil Young of Buffalo Springfield (a fellow Canadian) played an acetate of the album for Cummings and Bachman when his travels took him to Winnipeg. The they heard it, they loved the country-rock sound and set out to write something like it. "That was our country-rock song," Bachman said. "Me and Burton trying to be like Neil and Stephen Stills." According to Randy Bachman, the guitar lick on this song is an inversion of what Stephen Stills played on the Buffalo Springfield track ["Hung Upside Down"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhANys3Hw8). When Bachman heard the theme song to the TV show Law & Order (composed by Mike Post), it sounded familiar. "It's the same riff," Bachman told us. "It's just recycling the riff in a different context." Note that Bachman doesn't fault Post for lifting the riff: Randy believes that just about any modern music music is based on something that came before.

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Saw them live in '73 or '72 in Houston TX.

Yes, nothing new, Keith Richard's "Satisfaction" riff was taken from "Dancing in the Streets" by Martha and The Vandellas he says.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc

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That's one of the reasons I do my MusicFor.Us site. So many songs are an evolution and the '60's especially showed the "up and coming" musicians playing and listening to each other and inspiring each other. Most were glad to share with each other and considered it an honor. It wasn't always only about the money, that's the Industry taking over. Sheesh, Fogerty couldn't even play his own songs, the corrupt greedy bastards.

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It was great back then. You have a link to your site?

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That's it MusicFor.Us . It's free, no ads, no tracking or registering (unless you want to). Has a good Table Of Contents and the search is pretty good. I haven't been very active since I've been ill but there's still a couple hundred articles already there. The About page explains what I tried to do. Thanks for the interest.

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Thanks for the link, great site

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Thanks, it's a labor of love.