{"id":274677,"date":"2025-11-10T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:10:20","slug":"burton-cummings-randy-bachman-to-tour-as-guess-who-for-first-time-in-23-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274677\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman to tour as Guess Who for first time in 23 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Randy Bachman, left, and Burton Cummings of the Guess Who perform during the halftime show at the 88th Grey Cup game in Calgary in November, 2000.Aaron Harris\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

After reclaiming the rights to the Guess Who band name in 2024 after a protracted legal battle, chief songwriters Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman will tour Canada in 2026. The dozen dates announced Monday mark their first jaunt as the Guess Who in 23 years. <\/p>\n

The Winnipeg-born rock band released its debut album, It\u2019s Time, in 1966, the same year CBC Television went colour. Guitarist Randy Bachman split the No Sugar Tonight hitmakers in 1970; the group broke up five years later. <\/p>\n

Because the name the Guess Who was not officially trademarked, original bassist Jim Kale was able to establish rights to the brand in the 1980s. For decades, he and original drummer Garry Peterson toured and recorded as a U.S.-based Guess Who with anonymous musicians. <\/p>\n

Cummings, Bachman reach settlement over the Guess Who name with former bandmates<\/a><\/p>\n

In recent years, Bachman and singer-keyboardist Cummings contended that Kale\u2019s version of the Guess Who was misleading to fans because Kale had stopped performed publicly in 2016, while Peterson only appeared sporadically.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Bachman and Cummings settled a lawsuit<\/a> with Kale and Peterson and acquired the trademark for the band\u2019s name, clearing the path for the tour promoted by Live Nation Canada that begins at the Avenir Centre in Moncton, N.B., on May 26. <\/p>\n

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Randy Bachman (left to right), Garry Peterson, Burton Cummings and Jim Kale at the Juno Awards in Toronto in November, 1987.TIM CLARK\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

\u201cA tour was always in mind,\u201d Cummings told The Globe and Mail. \u201cWhen Randy and I are together, it\u2019s two hours of hit records.\u201d <\/p>\n

Last month, Bachman and Cummings were among a list of prominent artists including Taylor Swift and Sarah McLachlan nominated for 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame<\/a> class. Among their Guess Who international hits are American Woman, These Eyes, No Time and Share the Land.<\/p>\n

Cummings was in Toronto on Saturday for a concert in benefit of the Canadian music education charity MusiCounts at the famed El Mocambo club. Backstage after show, the 77-year-old rocker sipped a Mexican pilsner and spoke about the upcoming tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be monstrous. The momentum already is almost scary.\u201d <\/p>\n

A previously announced concert at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ont., on Jan. 31, is already sold out. The early summer tour of arenas includes stops in Halifax, Laval, Que., Toronto, Hamilton, London, Ont., Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton. Ticket pre-sales begin Tuesday, with general on-sales starting Friday. <\/p>\n

The band, composed of Cummings\u2019s solo group plus Bachman, is also booked for Ottawa Bluesfest (July 19) and the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver (Aug. 23). Future dates in the United States are expected.<\/p>\n

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Randy Bachman, left, and Burton Cummings during a Canada’s Walk of Fame fundraising event in Toronto in July, 2019.Christopher Katsarov\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The original Guess Who reunited in 2000 for a multiyear tour that included performances at that year\u2019s Grey Cup and, in 2003, for the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto benefit concert headlined by the Rolling Stones. Since then, Cummings and Bachman have hit the road as solo artists and, as recently as 2022, together as Bachman Cummings. Bachman, 82, just completed a tour with his reformed band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive.<\/p>\n

The nightly setlists for next year\u2019s concerts will consist of Guess Who classics, BTO staples and solo-Cummings hits such as My Own Way to Rock, Stand Tall and Break It to Them Gently. As well, early Guess Who songs Proper Stranger and A Wednesday in Your Garden will make appearances. \u201cThese are great album cuts from the Randy Bachman days,\u201d Cummings said.<\/p>\n

The no-longer active band Cummings calls the \u201cfake Guess Who\u201d toured for years as a pseudo cover band in the U.S., creating confusion that may still linger despite the settled trademark dispute. Cummings says any uncertainty over the band\u2019s lineup will be addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe advertising people will take care of that. Everybody will know it\u2019s the Guess Who featuring Bachman and Cummings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Randy Bachman, left, and Burton Cummings of the Guess Who perform during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-274677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}