It BG, bard isn't really an awful choice though there are better classes (mage/thief or fighter/mage), but you can certainly beat either BG or BG2 as a bard if you want to.
In BG1, wands are extremely powerful (that is, they are stupidly overpowered - I soloed BG1 as a level 1 mage due to the availability of wands) and bards can use them. In BG2, the Blade kit is not bad and you have spells on top of that.
