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You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

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Randy Bachman
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 27
Guitarist
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
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