Randy Bachman is a pretty amazing guitar player, and now and then with BTO he'd show off his jazz chops a bit on songs like "Lookin' Out For #1" and "Blue Collar", which today's riff comes from. I've always wanted to do a full tab of this song, but it would be a real project. What really stands out is the soft touch and subtlety of the playing, in comparison to the full-throttle attack of most of BTO's songs.

BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE - "Blue Collar"

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/canriffs.txt

I tabbed the Intro of the song and I couldn't find a sound clip of it, so I linked to the closest thing I could find. In the sound clip on this page, the guitar part between the verses is almost the same as the Intro, but for the lower staff guitar part only. The lead guitar part in the sound clip (single line lead) is different from the lead in the tabbed Intro (octaves).

http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Bachman-Turner-Overdrive/dp/B000001DZ2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-1917792-7767241?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1189985301&sr=1-2