{"id":51448,"date":"2025-11-10T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/randy-bachman-burton-cummings-plot-trek\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:29:18","slug":"randy-bachman-burton-cummings-plot-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/randy-bachman-burton-cummings-plot-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings Plot Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tFollowing the end of a contentious<\/a> legal battle<\/a> with their former bandmates, Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman<\/a> will hit the road as the Guess Who<\/a> next year for the first time in over 20 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe band has announced a summer tour of their home country, Canada, with the run starting on May 26 at the Avenir Centre in Moncton, New Brunswick, and wrapping up on June 10 at Rogers Place in Edmonton. Don Felder, former Eagles guitarist, will join the Guess Who throughout the trek.<\/p>\n

\n\tTickets for all of the Guess Who\u2019s headlining shows will go on sale Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. local time, with ticket pre-sales starting tomorrow, Nov. 11. Full info is available on the Guess Who\u2019s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRandy and I are thrilled that our songs have never gone away,\u201d Cummings said in a statement. \u201cThat people still want to hear us perform them live. We are going to go out and honor the music.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBachman added, \u201cI\u2019m looking ahead and very excited to be joining up with Burton and touring as the Guess Who again. Together, we created decades of incredible songs and memories that still stand strong today. Can\u2019t wait to sing them with you all soon!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2026 Canadian run will be Cummings\u2019 and Bachman\u2019s first as the Guess Who in 23 years. (They previously announced a tour together in early 2020<\/a>, but it was scrapped because of the pandemic.) Part of the reason for that delay stems from a trademark dispute with their former bandmates, bassist Jim Kale and drummer Garry Peterson, which was finally settled in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Guess Who were one of the biggest classic rock acts to emerge from Canada, scoring memorable hits during the Sixties and Seventies, like \u201cShakin\u2019 All Over,\u201d \u201cLaughing,\u201d \u201cNo Time,\u201d \u201cShare the Land,\u201d and \u201cAmerican Woman.\u201d Not long after the release of that song, Bachman left to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive, while Cummings embarked on a successful solo career after the Guess Who officially broke up in 1975.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Bachman and Cummings occasionally returned to the Guess Who for reunion stints in the Eighties and 2000s, the band (or at least a version it) continued primarily under the direction of Kale. Kale, who was fired from the band in 1972, started performing with a group also called the Guess Who in the late Seventies, claiming he got permission from Cummings to use the name. Then, in the mid-Eighties, Kale filed a trademark request for the Guess Who name, after learning the band had apparently failed to secure a mark during their heyday.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOver the next few decades, Kale and Peterson\u2019s version of the Guess Who toured with a rotating lineup of musicians, many of whom had no connection to the original Guess Who. Kale retired from touring in 2016, leaving Peterson the sole original member, though he reportedly played infrequently with the band.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, Bachman and Cummings filed a lawsuit, accusing Kale, Peterson, and their version of the Guess Who of misleading fans to believe that this iteration of the group \u2014 which was described as \u201clittle more than a cover band\u201d \u2014 was the original group. Cummings even took the extreme and unprecedented step <\/a>of terminating his publishing agreement with his performing rights organization, which meant sacrificing royalties but effectively prevented Kale\u2019s Guess Who (or anyone else) from performing the band\u2019s hits at concert venues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen the settlement was reached in September 2024, specific details were not divulged, but Bachman and Cummings did confirm that they had acquired the trademark to the Guess Who as part of the deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Guess Who 2026 Tour Dates<\/strong>
May 26 \u2013 Moncton, NB @ Avenir Centre
May 27 \u2013 Halifax, NS @ Scotiabank Centre
May 29 \u2013 Laval, QC @ Place Bell
May 30 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
June 1 \u2013 Hamilton, ON @ TD Coliseum
June 2 \u2013 London, ON @ Canada Life Place
June 5 \u2013 Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre
June 6 \u2013 Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre
June 8 \u2013 Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
June 10 \u2013 Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
July 19 \u2013 Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest (festival show)
Aug 23 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ The Pacific National Exhibition (festival show)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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