associated_acts years_active label article_title past_members background genre origin name
bachman -- turner overdrive , the guess who 1971 -- 72 reprise records brave belt
 randy bachman bachman chad allan robbie bachman fred turner tim group_or_band country rock , soft rock winnipeg , manitoba , canada brave belt
brave belt

brave belt was a canadian rock band from winnipeg , manitoba originally consisting of randy bachman -lrb- guitar/vocals -rrb- , his former the guess who bandmate , chad allan -lrb- vocals/keyboards -rrb- , and randy 's brother robbie -lrb- drums -rrb- .
randy also provided bass tracks for the recording of the band 's first album , `` brave belt '' -lrb- reprise records , 1971 -rrb- .
but c. f. `` fred '' turner was added shortly after as bassist for the supporting concerts .
the band made the canadian top 40 with the minor hit `` crazy arms , crazy eyes , '' which peaked at # 35 in november 1971 .
however , they missed the u.s. charts completely .
turner became the lead vocalist for the `` brave belt ii '' album in 1972 .
allan left the band after the recording of `` brave belt ii '' album in 1972 .
during the supporting concerts for `` brave belt ii '' , tim bachman was added as a second guitarist .
with this lineup -lrb- c. f. turner with randy , tim and robbie bachman -rrb- a demo was shopped around that was supposed to be a `` brave belt iii '' album .
new management convinced them to change their name − they eventually settled on bachman -- turner overdrive .
thus , the first -lrb- and eponymous -rrb- bachman -- turner overdrive album is essentially `` brave belt iii '' , the album that was rejected by reprise records .
bachman had contacted many record labels to get the `` brave belt iii '' tapes signed .
charlie fach at mercury eventually listened to the tapes and liked what he heard .
bachman listened to some suggestions , remixed and re-edited the tapes , and recorded at least two new songs .
the result was the first bachman -- turner overdrive album for mercury .
though brave belt is relatively unknown some 40 years later , the importance of the band was summed up by randy bachman in a 2001 interview : `` it was an innocent time of soul-searching .
nobody would play with me when i left the guess who .
i was completely black-listed .
i could n't get a decent musician to play with me , except chad allan , who had also been in the guess who and left .
he and i bonded together , and i might not have gotten started without him , even though he left sometime after that first album .
those belt albums are so important to me because , for the first time , i was making my own music , paying for it , finding strengths in it , and going through the process of finding the right music for the record .
it led to me becoming a stronger producer for bto . ''
`` brave belt i '' and `` brave belt ii '' were re-released on a single cd march 17 , 2009 .
