He can be forgiven for writing American Woman because he wrote These Eyes. He avoided classic rock star burnout partly because he was a Mormon. He has hobnobbed with pop music royalty but remains level-headed. Now veteran guitarist and Salt Spring Islander Randy Bachman has gathered more of his musical memoirs for Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Stories (Penguin $32), a spinoff from his CBC Radio program. His previous memoir was Takin' Care of Business (McArthur 2000).

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[BCBW 2011]