Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings — founding guitarist and classic-era singer of the Guess Who, respectively — have been in talks a couple of Guess Who reunion tour in 2026.
“[Burton is] ending up his stuff this 12 months, I’m ending up my BTO stuff,” Bachman informed American Songwriter. “And now we have a plan for 2026 to be the Guess Who, the place … we do a set checklist of about 30 hit songs, and it’s in all probability gonna be a two- or three-hour Springsteen form of marathonic present. And we’re all geared to do this in 2026. It’ll be the disclosing of ‘The Guess Who’re again.’”
Bachman already has rather a lot on his plate, as he’ll embark on an intensive North American tour with the newly revived Bachman-Turner Overdrive from April by means of August. He is additionally promised the band’s first new album in additional than 40 years. Cummings, in the meantime, launched A Few Good Moments in 2024, marking his first album in 12 years. He has a handful of solo tour dates scheduled by means of August.
Information of a potential Guess Who reunion tour additionally arrives after an intense authorized battle during which Bachman and Cummings fought to forestall a distinct model of the band from touring underneath the identify.
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How Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings Gained Their Guess Who Lawsuit
Bachman and Cummings filed a lawsuit in late 2023, accusing the then-current Guess Who — which at that time solely featured unique drummer Garry Peterson — of falsely promoting “a gaggle of employed musicians who’ve been touring and recording utilizing the band’s identify.”
Cummings even went as far as to terminate the performing rights of the Guess Who’s songs, stopping anybody, together with himself and the alleged “cowl band,” from performing them stay. The transfer additionally halted all royalty funds from live shows, TV and film placements and radio performs.
It was a expensive and unprecedented gambit, however it labored. Bachman and Cummings reached a settlement with Peterson and unique drummer Jim Kale (who carried out with the unauthorized Guess Who till his retirement in 2016) final September and now share the band’s trademark rights.
“If there’s a group on the market calling themselves the Guess Who, it may have the lead singer who wrote the songs and the guitarist who made the riffs,” Cummings stated on the time. “It will have Bachman and Cummings in it. I say ‘if’ as a result of we don’t know. Randy has loads of bookings and I’ve acquired solo gigs. What we do know is that Randy and I are joyful as a result of there is not a pretend Guess Who on the market anymore.”
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