L-R:
Randy Bachman, Fred Turner, Chad Allan,
Robbie Bachman
The importance of Brave Belt
was summed up by Randy Bachman in a 2001
interview conducted by Dave Brosha.
"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
couldn'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 [Brave 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."
