{"id":59104,"date":"2026-02-28T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/the-real-guess-who-finally-have-their-name-back\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:32:33","slug":"the-real-guess-who-finally-have-their-name-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/the-real-guess-who-finally-have-their-name-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Guess Who Finally Have Their Name Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTo a passerby, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-guess-who\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-guess-who\" data-tag=\"the-guess-who\">the Guess Who<\/a>\u2018s Jan. 31, 2026, gig at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario, probably didn\u2019t seem like a significant event. After all, the Guess Who have been mainstays on the oldies circuit for decades, playing hits like \u201cAmerican Woman,\u201d \u201cThese Eyes,\u201d \u201cNo Time,\u201d and \u201cShare the Land\u201d at clubs, casinos, and fairs all over North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut for the Guess Who faithful who traveled to Niagara Falls for the show, it was an evening of triumph many thought they\u2019d never live to see. That\u2019s because the band masquerading as \u201cThe Guess Who\u201d since 2003 was little more than a group of competent ringers assembled by original bassist Jim Kale. Guitarist Randy Bachman and singer Burton Cummings \u2014 the heart of the real Guess Who and the songwriting duo behind all the classics \u2014 were completely frozen out and had to hopelessly watch from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/guess-who-name-dispute-lawsuit-settlement-1235092842\/\"> legal maneuver<\/a> finally gave them back their rightful name last year. Niagara Falls was the first of many shows they\u2019ll play in 2026. Weeks after the gig, as they prepare to travel from their homes in Canada down to the Caribbean where the Guess Who are booked on the Rock Legends Cruise alongside the Gene Simmons Band, Rick Springfield, Art Garfunkel, and Blue Oyster Cult, Bachman and Cummings are still in a state of semi-shock that this is really happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s surreal in many ways,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cOur songs have become the soundtracks to peoples lives. We look out from the stage and they know every word of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Guess Who (Randy Bachman &amp; Burton Cummings) \u201cUndone\u201d - Live - Rock Legends Cruise, Feb 24, 2026 \" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-lb2grTiHS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis was the dream back in 1967 when the Guess Who took a job as the house band on the Winnipeg version of the Canadian television show <em>Let\u2019s Go. <\/em>\u201cYou had to play the Hit Parade every single week,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cAnd our producer came to us and said, \u2018If you guys start writing songs that are good enough to fit in between \u2018Ruby Tuesday\u2019 and \u2018Let It Be,\u2019 I\u2019ll put it in there.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThat was a tall order, but Cummings and Bachman had spent much of their downtime trying to do exactly that. \u201cI was still living with my mother and grandmother, and one Saturday morning Randy came over with his guitar in his hand,\u201d Cummings says. \u201cHe started playing this riff and singing the line \u2018No time left for you.\u2019 And I started answering over the top of it, \u201cOn my way to better things\u2026\u2019 We started answering each other. I\u2019ve told this so many times, but it still excites me to tell it.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRight around this same time, they also wrote \u201cThese Eyes\u201d in much the same fashion. It was good enough for the <em>Let\u2019s Go<\/em> producers to let them play it on the air. \u201cThis is where fate comes in,\u201d says Cummings. \u201cIt\u2019s the God\u2019s truth what I\u2019m telling you, but it sounds like I\u2019m making it up\u2026Jack Richardson, who ended up producing all 15 Guess Who albums for the RCA label, just happened to hear us 1,500 miles away in Toronto.\u00a0He heard us do \u2018These Eyes,\u2019 and he believed so much in the song that somehow he put it together to take our band to New York City and record <em>Wheatfield Soul<\/em>, our first album for RCA.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Guess Who - These Eyes (Audio)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcLdbsrSngA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThings happened very quickly from here. \u201cThese Eyes\u201d hit No. 6 on the U.S. Hot 100. Follow-up singles \u201cLaughing,\u201d \u201cUndun,\u201d and \u201cNo Time\u201d were also smashes. Their days of playing cover songs on Winnipeg television were over. They were now playing large halls across North America, and raking in real money. But the members of the group didn\u2019t all feel the same way about the rock &amp; roll lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cRandy had married his wife Lorayne, and had converted to Mormonism,\u201d says Cummings. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t even have a Coca-Cola or a Pepsi or a cup of coffee or tea, nothing. And Jim Kale and I were not exactly living the life of a Buddhist monk. Before HIV, there was far more crazy casual sex. It was a wilder world. And things didn\u2019t go  all that smoothly for the band.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cTo this day, I\u2019ve never done any drugs or drank or smoked,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cThe late \u201960s was \u2018Let\u2019s go cuckoo.\u2019 I was too afraid to do any of that. So I never did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Guess Who - American Woman (Official Audio)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9uf6EY2BZBw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFor a brief moment in early 1970, they were on top of the world when the title track to their 1970 LP <em>American Woman<\/em> hit Number One on the Hot 100. But the tour was a hellacious time for Bachman. \u201cI had a gallbladder attack every night on the road for two weeks,\u201d he says. \u201cMy daughters have had them, and also had children. They said to me, \u2018You can\u2019t compare having a child to a gallbladder attack. Because you have a child once. You have a gallbladder attack, you have it every single night.\u2019 And that happened for two weeks on the road. I couldn\u2019t get any medical attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe finally went home to Canada to see a doctor, and learned he\u2019d have to wait two months for surgery. The Guess Who were booked at the Fillmore East in four days. He flew out to New York for the show, unable to eat anything but sugar-free Jell-O and crackers, per instructions from his doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIf you got caught with marijuana back then, you couldn\u2019t cross the border and work,\u201d Bachman says. \u201cAnd we were earning all our money in the States. John Lennon got to New York, and he couldn\u2019t leave. He couldn\u2019t work. He couldn\u2019t do anything. He was screwed up. So that was alway going through my head. I was the leader of the band. And then getting married and having children also makes you aware of money. Where\u2019s it going to come from? Where is it going? You\u2019re not just paying for yourself anymore. You\u2019re taking other people on a ride. Burton was single and I wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBachman quit the band after the Fillmore show in May 1970, fed up with the rigors of touring, business disputes, and lifestyle clashes. Cummings and the rest of the Guess Who recruited guitarists Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw to fill the void and scored hits with \u201cShare the Land,\u201d \u201cHand Me Down World,\u201d and \u201cHang On to Your Life.\u201d \u201cBy 1972 and 1973, the bubblegum aspect of the perception of the band had changed,\u201d says Cummings. \u201cWe were being taken much more seriously as a rock &amp; roll band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBachman, meanwhile, formed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bachman-turner-overdrive\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bachman-turner-overdrive\" data-tag=\"bachman-turner-overdrive\">Bachman-Turner Overdrive<\/a> with his brothers Robbie and Tom, and singer Fred Turner. And just as the Guess Who were winding down in the mid-\u201970s, B.T.O. released the enormous hits \u201cTakin\u2019 Care of Business\u201d and \u201cYou Ain\u2019t Seen Nothing Yet,\u201d which have been staples of classic-rock radio for five decades. (They\u2019re also favorites of Homer Simpson.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bachman Turner Overdrive on the Simpsons\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dsGMB2nKJLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRelations were rocky between the former Guess Who bandmates when B.T.O. were ascendant, and Burton Cummings was struggling to launch his solo career. But it was short-lived, dismissed by them both today as a silly spat. \u201cWe were both dedicated musicians,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cAnd shared the same dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThey made peace in the late 1970s, appeared on each other\u2019s solo albums, and signed on for a Guess Who reunion tour of Canada in 1983. They sold a lot of tickets, but it was a miserable time for Cummings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI remember it as \u2018The Nightmare Tour,&#8217;\u201d he says. \u201cWe were all feuding with each other. We weren\u2019t friendly. And they were pushing us so hard to sell Molson\u2019s. \u201cWe\u2019re doing this interview backstage in Toronto and they\u2019ve got [drummer Garry] Peterson with a Molson shirt on and Jim Kale with a Molson cap. I was more like a Jim Morrison guy. I\u2019m not going to be paraded around with logos on me. I was furious. At that same time, Kale and I were drinking too much and probably into some other nasty stuff. It just wasn\u2019t a happy band in \u201983.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"the GUESS WHO ? - together again- TORONTO ONTARIO 1983 LIVE\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AfPXAPOjPdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBachman has a wildly different take on the tour. \u201cI loved it,\u201d he says. \u201cBurton had a drinking problem at the time, at that time. He didn\u2019t like it. I\u2019ve got the tapes, we\u2019ve got the video. He won\u2019t let me put them together. It would be a great thing to have the Guess Who \u201983 together with all those songs. We did four new songs. And the guy who made the 16-track tapes gave them to me. I had them transferred to digital. I\u2019ve got the film. All I got to do is remix it. Maybe he\u2019ll want to do that one day for prosperity\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFor the next 16 years, the Guess Who again went dormant. Bachman largely blames the chaos of his personal life. \u201cI had six kids, and I was going through my first divorce,\u201d he says. \u201cMusic became very secondary. I was just like, \u2018I\u2019m losing my kids, I\u2019m losing my money.\u2019 You go through all kind of weird stuff when you\u2019re going through that, and you don\u2019t want to share your feelings with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThey reformed again when the Pan American Games came to Winnipeg in 1999, which sparked a series of tours that culminated at the SARSfest concert on July 2003 where they played for half a million people at Toronto\u2019s Downsview Park. \u201cWe were there with AC\/DC, Rush, and the Rolling Stones,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cAnd we rocked as good as any of them. When I did \u2018Takin\u2019 Care of Business\u2019 and said, \u2018Clap your hands,\u2019 and the hands went up in the air, there were a million hands in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Guess Who -- No Time - Live Toronto 2003\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXDlwkuInBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt was his last happy moment with the Guess Who for a very long time. In the years that followed, Kale \u2014 who secured the Guess Who trademark in 1987 when he realized nobody else had bothered to do so \u2014 put his own version of the Guess Who on the road with Peterson on drums. They played with them at first, but eventually stepped aside and kept it going as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/bands-without-original-members-lynyrd-skynyrd-foreigner-1235071467\/\">zombie band<\/a>. Cummings and Bachman, meanwhile, went out under the name Bachman Cummings in 2006, but discovered it was tricky to get bookings if they didn\u2019t own the name to their own band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe fake band was using music that we wrote, and Burton sang on, to promote their shows,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cAnd some of these guys weren\u2019t even born when those things were hits. These clowns, they were actually taking our real albums to meet and greets and signing our pictures. I was in Philadelphia one time and I opened a <em>Live at the Paramount<\/em> album. I was going to sign it for this kid. And I opened the album and someone else had already signed my picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFor Peterson, the decision to perform as the Guess Who was a way to preserve a legacy. \u201cThe Guess Who is kind of unique in the way that it\u2019s had four or five successful versions with different members. There was no one definitive band, unless you just want to say the people that recorded \u2018American Woman\u2019 are the definitive version of the Guess Who,\u201d he <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goldminemag.com\/features\/the-plein-damour-version-of-the-guess-who-defends-their-place-in-storied-legacy\/\">told <em>Goldmine<\/em><\/a> magazine in 2024. \u201cWe\u2019re just a continuation of a long legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe situation for Cummings and Burton seemed hopeless until 2023 when they teamed up with attorney Helen Yu and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-guess-who-tour-war-lawsuit-bmi-burton-cummings-1235510336\/\">sued<\/a> Kale\u2019s Guess Who for $20 million, alleging false advertising, unfair competition, and violation of right of publicity. Before the case could be adjudicated, Cummings took the wildly unprecedented step of terminating the performing rights agreements for all the Guess Who songs he wrote. It meant that nobody could play Guess Who songs to a paying audience since there was no way to properly compensate the rights holders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m willing to do anything to stop the fake band; they\u2019re taking [Bachman and my] life story and pretending it\u2019s theirs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-guess-who-burton-cummings-lawsuit-band-1235001408\/\">Cummings told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> at the time. <\/a>\u201cThey\u2019re not the people who made these records, and they shouldn\u2019t act like they did. This doesn\u2019t stop this cover band from playing their shows, it just stops them from playing the songs I wrote. If the songs are performed by the fake Guess Who, they will be sued for every occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis left Kale and his legal team hopelessly cornered. They agreed to a settlement that finally allowed Cummings and Bachman to tour as the Guess Who. They rounded out the lineup with member of Cummings\u2019 solo band, including drummer Sean Fitzsimons, bassist Jeff Jones, percussionist Nick Sinopoli, and guitarists Tim Bovaconti and Joe Augello. \u201cWe now have three lead guitar players,\u201d says Cummings. \u201cRandy leads a guitar army. It\u2019s very powerful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe set includes the three biggest Bachman-Turner Overdrive songs (\u201cLet It Ride,\u201d \u201cYou Ain\u2019t Seen Nothing Yet,\u201d and \u201cTakin\u2019 Care of Business\u201d), and Cummings\u2019 1977 tune \u201cMy Own Way to Rock.\u201d But the rest of the show is dedicated to Guess Who classics. \u201cThe set is a celebration of me and Burton: <em>Wheatfield Soul,<\/em> <em>Canned Wheat<\/em>, and <em>American Woman<\/em>,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cBetween us, we\u2019ve sold 40 or 50 million records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCummings is 78, but his voices shows shockingly few signs of wear and tear, and he still hits every high note without struggle. \u201cIt\u2019s luck, practice, and exercise,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m still getting people telling me, \u2018Hey, Burton, you still sound like you did when I was a kid,\u2019 or, \u2018Hey, you still sound like the guy on the records.\u2019 And I\u2019ll tell you, man, I think that is something every singer yearns to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMany singers also yearn to earn a spot in the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame. But the Guess Who haven\u2019t even been nominated despite being eligible for the past 36 years. \u201cI don\u2019t really think about the Hall of Fame that much,\u201d says Cummings. \u201cI have enough awards on my doors and walls in my house that I\u2019m not hurting for any acceptance, put it that way. And logically, who would be up there? Certainly I\u2019m not going to stand on stage with Peterson and Kale as the Guess Who.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBachman feels the same way. \u201cThere\u2019s people in there we love, like Dolly Parton and Leonard Cohen, who\u2019ve never rocked in their lives,\u201d he says. \u201cThey are great artists, but should be in a different Hall of Fame. And don\u2019t hold your breaths waiting for us to get in. You might turn purple.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRight now, his focus is on gearing up for an extensive Guess Who tour of Canada, and more dates are expected to be added in North America in the summer. Later in the year, he\u2019s headed to Japan for a run of Bachman-Turner Overdrive shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFred Turner no longer tours because he suffers from vertigo, and both Tim and Robbie Bachman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bachman-turner-overdrive-co-founding-guitarist-tim-bachman-dead-obituary-1234726614\/\">died<\/a> in 2023. But Randy\u2019s son Tal Bachman now tours with the band, and there\u2019s talk of cutting a new B.T.O. album with Turner contributing his parts remotely. \u201cHalf of my year this year is with the Guess Who, and the last half of this year will be with B.T.O.,\u201d says Bachman. \u201cI\u2019m working like I\u2019m 32 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThere are no plans for a new Guess Who record. \u201cRandy and I will be together for hours and hours on the tour bus,\u201d says Cummings. \u201cSometimes he picks up a guitar, starts playing riffs, and I start singing over them. So we could capture some of that wonder of the old days. You never know. I never say never.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tJust don\u2019t expect to hear anything new this year when the Guess Who tour. \u201cThere was a big record by Ricky Nelson called \u2018Garden Party\u2019 and he said something in that song that always surprised me,\u201d Cummings says. \u201cHe said, \u2018If memories were all I sang, I\u2019d rather drive a truck.\u2019\u00a0I\u2019m so opposite of that. First of all, that\u2019s a little bit demeaning to truck drivers. And secondly, Ricky, your whole life was creating memories for people. I\u2019ll be glad to sing the memories forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-guess-who-have-name-back-1235522329\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a passerby, the Guess Who\u2018s Jan. 31, 2026, gig at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario, probably didn\u2019t seem like a significant event&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}