American Woman — The Guess Who
From the comments:
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Randy Bachmann is playing one of the most recognizable leads in guitar history
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It was sung on the spur of the moment on stage in Canada and then later written from a taped copy of the onstage performance
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Burton Cummings interviewed by Ray Shasho:
“… it’s time to start the 2nd show and the guys are back onstage. I hear them start this riff (American Woman.) I run inside and run up onto the stage and just grab a microphone and started singing whatever came into my head; it was all stream of consciousness at the moment stuff … all that stuff about war machines and ghetto scenes, colored lights can hypnotize …it was all just spur- of- the- moment.”
bearspawprint 
I like the idea that this was an ‘instant’ brain crunch song. If that’s really true then it’s ‘cool.’
Bear. you’ve got some special connection with that “They’re coming…” song. Hmm?
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ptero9 ‘s big sister teased her with the song, as I had done previously, and again.
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My dad bought tickets to see the Guess Who on the day of the lunar landing, July 20, 1969 at the Brookhaven National Lab, where he worked. My sister and I went and before the concert she chided me into going backstage to see if the band was there. We walked around a side entrance and saw a door opened and Randy Bachman was tuning his guitar. He smiled at us, put the guitar down and came over to talk with us. My sister took a polaroid of him with his arm around me. I was only 11, but what a thrill and what a performance! They were awesome.
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🙂 I was 19 in July of 1969. How old was your sister? “They’re coming to take me away……”
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She was born in October of 1955, so she was 14.
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I coulda been ya’lls babysitter/chaperone!! Where you two there without adults?
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Funny that you ask that. I know my dad dropped us off and picked us up, but he worked there, in another building, so I am thinking he must have either gone for a swim (there was a pool there too), or gone to his office to work while we enjoyed the concert.
Yeah, you could have been our chaperone, lol!
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🙂 🙂
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