“I saw Keith Richards on TV with Ronnie Wood the other day saying, ‘The new rock bands are terrible. They all rock, but they don’t know how to roll.’ And the interviewer says, ‘What does that mean?’” says Randy Bachman, guitar hero since the ’60s and renowned for not one but two hit-making bands – the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
“Keith said, ‘Rolling means you don’t play to a click track. You get together, you rock out, and you speed up when you get excited. It’s like you're jogging. You take off with a start, you slow down, you get to a pace, you speed up again. Very few bands can rock and roll anymore.’ And the interviewer asked, ‘Which bands do you mean?’ and Keith said, ‘Well, like the Guess Who’ – and he named a couple of other bands like us who play live and don't have a click track.”
