Robbie Bachman, the drummer for Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive – recognized for such Nineteen Seventies hits as Takin’ Care Of Business and You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, has died on the age of 69.

His loss of life was introduced on social media on Thursday by his brother and bandmate, Randy Bachman, who didn’t cite a trigger.

“The pounding beat of BTO has left us,” Randy Bachman wrote.

“He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n roll machine and we rocked the world together.”

The Bachman brothers were Winnipeg natives who had been playing music since childhood.

Robbie Bachman first worked with his older brother Randy, a singer, songwriter and guitarist, in the group Brave Belt – which the elder Bachman helped found in the early 1970s after leaving the top-selling act the Guess Who.

The two Bachmans, along with brother Tim Bachman on guitar (later replaced by Blair Thornton) and Fred Turner on bass, formed Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973 and sold millions of records over the next three years with their blend of grinding guitar riffs and catchy melodies.

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet topped the charts, and the band’s different hits included Takin’ Care Of Business, Hey You and Roll On Down The Highway.

One well-known fan, Stephen King, adopted the pen identify Richard Bachman as a partial homage to BTO.

Randy Bachman left the group within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, and gave the remaining members permission to name themselves BTO (But not Bachman-Turner Overdrive in order to distance himself from the band).

As BTO, Robbie Bachman and the others continued to tour and document, however their recognition light and so they broke up in 1980.

Over the next many years, the band had sporadic reunions and occasional authorized battles, as Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman fought over royalties and rights to the band’s identify.

The brothers hardly ever carried out collectively after the early Nineties, with Robbie Bachman as soon as telling The Associated Press that Randy had “belittled” the opposite band members and likened them to the fictional parody group Spinal Tap.

In latest years, Robbie Bachman had been semi-retired.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive had been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2014.