This is a parody of Bachman Turner Overdrive’s ‘Taking Care of Buisness”. I never learned this song before, there is a little history behind why. I was in a band in High School and we played a talent show, also in the show was a rival band. They played this song and beat us. Grrrr.
My Podpartner Chris Karnes’ twitter handle is @BTOandBatbooks. BTO is the initials of a podcast he does a segment on called Batgirl to Oracle. People jokingly say that he is a big Bachman Turner Overdrive fan. So, I figured I would suck it up and do this song.
The tune is all played on my Les Paul which is unusual. The rhythm part isn’t hard but it is relentless and I thought that it would be easier to play on the LP than the Strat. Also, the LP has a nice crunchy rhythm sound I like very much. I figured since I had it set up I’d use it for the leads as well. I am happy with how the sound turned out.
The tempo is faster than the BTO song. I’m not sure how I feel about that. It made for some weird sounds in the leads because I had to play them fairly quickly and there are a few unwanted open string ringing, but the ethos of this parody work is to leave in some mistakes and move on to the next song. Mission accomplished.
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