Bachman-Turner Overdrive
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
This song was never meant to see the light of day, and when it did, it became the biggest track in Bachman-Turner Overdrives history. Main songwriter and lead vocalist Randy Bachman was producing the Not Fragile album and wrote the track to test out the sound acoustics in the studio as the song featured parts of everything that was going to be recorded on the album. When the band did record it, they did so with the impression it would never be released so much of the lyrics are non-sensical and the performance was just using scratch vocals.
The band only played the track for their label after they label listened to the 8 tracks the band submitted and didn't hear a hit. The bands sound engineer suggested the 'work song' and Bachman reluctantly agreed. When Mercury Records label boss Charlie Fach heard the track he loved it and stated it had to be on the album.
The vocals for the song were pretty much non-sensical and Randy Bachman sang them with a stutter to poke fun of his brother and former manager Gary Bachman.
“Way back when, my brother Garry, one of four Bachman boys, had a speech impediment; he stuttered and stammered. For the ultimate tease I wrote a song like he spoke. Then I called him up and scared him by telling him it would be on the album.“The words just flowed out without thought: ‘I met a Devil woman, and she took my heart away.’ That sounded good. Then for the chorus I copied the way he’d say: ‘You ain’t seen n-n-nothing yet,’ and also the way he stumbled on ‘f-f-forget’, and the way he said ‘b-b-b baby’. I liked it as an idea but I was never going to finish it off.”