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sadie65 wrote:http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/12/01/music-week.html?ref=rss

Damn I have to watch paint dry that night

I did not know Burton Cummings was still releasing music, good for him. BTW, does anybody consider his old band the Guess Who without him? I am not sure that Randy Bachman tours with them anymore. I think the bass player owns the rights to the name.

LordofDaRing wrote:I did not know Burton Cummings was still releasing music, good for him. BTW, does anybody consider his old band the Guess Who without him? I am not sure that Randy Bachman tours with them anymore. I think the bass player owns the rights to the name.

Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman tour together in Canada a few times a year as Bachman/Cummings. Their names are so well known in Canada, they don't need to rely on the Guess Who name. They continue to work alone and together. Here is their website: http://www.bachmancummings.com/

Jimmy Kale (as you indicated, the bassist) owns the Guess Who name and tours as the Guess Who in the US (hitting the old timer circuit) with the original drummer and a bunch of others. This version of the Guess Who has been dubbed something like "Kale's Clones". I have never seen the "new version" of the Guess Who tour in Canada, probably because Canadians identify this band only with Burton and Randy.

I saw them a few years back, they had a singer who was "hair challenged" (bald). He was pretty good (no BC). I do remember him doing this goofy woody woodpecker laugh at the end of laughing. I always looked at that song as a painful experience for the writer, so did much of the crowd at that show, so nobody really laughed at "laughing". The show wasn't bad, I would have preferred to hear Hang on to your life and a copule of other gems, rather than the overplayed American Woman.