“Whenever we weren’t playing, Neil would call up and say, ‘Are you guys playing a gig next weekend? Can we borrow the amplifier?’” When Randy Bachman and Neil Young used to share guitar amps

Randy Bachman and Neil Young.

Randy Bachman has revealed that Neil Young had the guitarist on speed dial during his early Silvertones days, because the Heart of Gold songwriter had eyes on his amplifier.

Before forming The Guess Who, Bachman traded under the Silvertones moniker for a number of years, and during that period their backline caught the fancy of Young – who, at the time, was playing with the Squires, and who labeled the Silvertones the best group in Winnipeg in the early 1960s.