Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings — founding guitarist and classic-era singer of the Guess Who, respectively — have been in talks a few Guess Who reunion tour in 2026.
“[Burton is] ending up his stuff this 12 months, I’m ending up my BTO stuff,” Bachman instructed American Songwriter. “And we now have a plan for 2026 to be the Guess Who, the place … we do a set listing 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 try this in 2026. It’ll be the revealing of ‘The Guess Who’re again.’”
Bachman already has so much on his plate, as he’ll embark on an in depth North American tour with the newly revived Bachman-Turner Overdrive from April by way 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 way of August.
Information of a potential Guess Who reunion tour additionally arrives after an intense authorized battle through which Bachman and Cummings fought to forestall a unique model of the band from touring underneath the title.
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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 authentic drummer Garry Peterson — of falsely promoting “a gaggle of employed musicians who’ve been touring and recording utilizing the band’s title.”
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 concert events, TV and film placements and radio performs.
It was a expensive and unprecedented gambit, nevertheless it labored. Bachman and Cummings reached a settlement with Peterson and authentic 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’ll have the lead singer who wrote the songs and the guitarist who made the riffs,” Cummings mentioned on the time. “It is going to have Bachman and Cummings in it. I say ‘if’ as a result of we don’t know. Randy has quite a lot of bookings and I’ve received solo gigs. What we do know is that Randy and I are comfortable as a result of there is not a faux Guess Who on the market anymore.”
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