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CTV News
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings to perform as Guess Who for 1st time in over 20 years
Randy Bachman, left, and Burton Cummings of The Guess Who perform during the halftime show at the 88th Grey Cup game in Calgary on November 26, 2000. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Harris Founding members Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman are set to perform as the Guess Who for the first time in over 20 years. The pair is setting sail next year as part of the Rock Legends Cruise XIII, along with other musical guests including Gene Simmons, Eric Burdon and The Animals, and Kevin Cronin. According to an Instagram post from the band, this cruise is the first time in 23 years Cummings and Bachman will reunite as The Guess Who. Since the band's split, the musicians have performed solo, as Bachman Cummings and as Bachman-Turner Overdrive. This news comes several months after Cummings and Bachman settled a lawsuit with original members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson over the Guess Who name. In 2023, Bachman and Cummings sued their former bandmates, alleging they assembled a 'cover band' to perform and release albums under the Guess Who name, while misleading fans into thinking Bachman and Cummings were involved. As part of the agreement, Bachman and Cummings have acquired the trademark for the band's name. The Rock Legends Cruise XIII will travel from Fort Lauderdale to Jamaica from Feb. 23 to 27, 2026. • With files from The Canadian Press.
CBC
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings to reunite for 1st Guess Who performance in 23 years
Two of the Guess Who's founding members, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, are finally reuniting to perform, marking the first time the pair have performed as the Guess Who in 23 years. Bachman and Cummings will take the stage on the Rock Legends Cruise XIII which will sail from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., through the Caribbean in February 2026. While both musicians have each performed solo and as part of Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) since the Guess Who's 1975 split, on the ship they will perform the band's classics as well as solo material and BTO songs. The Guess Who's hits include American Woman, These Eyes and more, and popular songs by BTO include Takin' Care of Business and Let It Ride. Bachman is currently on tour with BTO, while Cummings is gearing up for a solo tour that begins on June 21 in Edmonton. In 2024, Cummings and Bachman settled their lawsuit against the band's other original members, Jim Kale and Garry Peterson. In the suit, they alleged Kale and Peterson had mislead fans into thinking Bachman and Cummings were still in the Guess Who, by forming a "cover band" and putting out albums albums under the Guess Who name. "I want people to realize that Randy Bachman, Kurt Winter, Bill Wallace, all the people that wrote the songs … we're the ones that made the records. I don't want the history of the band to be tied up with these fakes," Cummings told CBC Manitoba in 2024.
CBC
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
'I can't be a second-rate Guess Who': Randy Bachman on starting Brave Belt and BTO
For more than 60 years, Canadian rock and roll legend Randy Bachman has been takin' care of business and working overtime. Starting out in Winnipeg with just a dream and a guitar, Bachman co-founded not one but two of the most successful rock bands to come out of this country: The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Now, at 81, Bachman is looking back on his incredible life in music with a new BTO single, 60 Years Ago. In an interview with Q 's Tom Power, the guitarist and singer reflects on what happened after he left The Guess Who in 1970, immediately following the release of their biggest hit, American Woman. WATCH | Randy Bachman's full interview with Tom Power: "I was branded as an idiot in Winnipeg and in the press," Bachman says about his departure. "I got slammed in Rolling Stone and Creem and all the magazines at the time. [They said] that I was thrown out of the band because I was too straight. So I'm bent on proving you can make it without being bent or drugged or whatever." Bachman says his divisive relationship with his bandmates was more like a fraternal dispute. "You don't hate him, because you're brothers, but you have this thing you never get over." Starting over on his own, Bachman wanted to prove the critics wrong and find success in a new group — but he knew he didn't want it to be compared to The Guess Who. "I'm in Winnipeg with no band," he recalls. "I'm going crazy, I want to do something…. I can't be a second-rate Guess Who. I can't match Burton Cummings's voice. What I do is start over and do something different." Turning to country rock music, Bachman founded his next band, Brave Belt, with some help from fellow Canadian music legend Neil Young. "Neil said, 'This is really great. I'll set you up with Mo Ostin,'" Bachman says. "So I fly to L.A. and I meet Mo Ostin [at Reprise Records] … and Neil gets me a record deal there." Watch or listen to the full interview with Bachman to find out how he ended up founding BTO after Brave Belt eventually got dropped by its label.
