Guess Who the F?

I just received a blog comment in the recent article about Bachman-Cummings releasing their new album about the confusion between The Guess Who with Burton Cummings, and The Guess Who with the lead singer of Coney Hatch, Carl Dixon.

The Guess Who featuring Burton Cummings performed their final concert at Sarsstock in Toronto, Ontario on August 1, 2003.. which was perhaps one of their greatest concerts to date, in my opinion.

Since that final concert, the licence of the name The Guess Who expired, since bassist Jim Kale owned the name to the rights.

Kale has been touring with his own version of the Guess Who, which features original bassist Garry Peterson, Coney Hatch lead singer Dixon, and two other musicians from Winnipeg.

There have been many venues that incorrectly advertise this lineup of the Guess Who as the Guess Who featuring Bachman and Cummings, if a venue in your area does this, go only if you just want to hear Guess Who music, even if it cannot compare to the Bachman-Cummings lineup, or you can complain to the venue operations to change the signs.. but they may not do anything.

This lineup of the Guess Who is only touring in the United States, they most likely will not be performing any dates in Canada.

There is hope though, the Bachman Cummings Band looks to be starting up a new tour, and could potentially add on American dates as time progresses, as they did in the summer of last year.

The Bachman Cummings Band is, as said in the previous entry, a band that features Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, of The Guess Who.

The official Bachman Cummings Band website is BachmanCummings.com

If you still want to check out Kale's Guess Who, their official website is TheGuessWhoCafe.com

The Beer Pick of the Week: May 27, 2007

From time to time, I will be doing a piece on this blog selecting a band each week (or whenever I have time to do so). I select an artist that I believe is the "Beer Pick of the Week".

This week's pick is Agriculture Club.

Agriculture Club is a group from Calgary, Alberta that mixes up country with hard rock. Their music is very reminiscent to just about any band that is on the Winnipeg based label Transistor 66, which Agriculture Club is a part of. Their music is reminiscent of The Perpetrators, but mixes in an odd Albertan country influence.

I'm not a fan of country music, but whenever I hear Agriculture Club, my rural roots are exposed and I get excited. The hard rock aspect of the music makes up for the country aspect that a person may not enjoy.

They have stereotypical rural/country themes to their music such as driving pickup trucks and watching old westerns on "The Horse Always Gets it First", or drinking the infamous pilsner beer in "Ballad of Pilsner Beer."

I can relate to the themes in these songs since I was born and raised, and still live in, a very rural region, the lyrics are easy to sing along to, and as much as I detest country music, they used a perfect amount of rock to make it enjoyable to almost any rock/country music fan.

When I think of the name Agriculture Club, I imagine a group of farmers meeting at the local town bar discussing the agri problem du jour while drinking an Old Style Pilsner or a Labatt Blue/Club.

Check this band out, especially if you're a fan of Corner Gas and want to have a greater sense of the prairie life. Maybe it's just the rural life in me that likes this band so much?

Links
Official Website
New Music Canada profile
Myspace page

Bachman Cummings Band to release first studio album

The Bachman Cummings Band, which is made up of The Guess Who members Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman (who is also in Bachman-Turner Overdrive and CBC Radio One's Vinyl Tap program), and members of Toronto's famous cover band, The Carpet Frogs, are about to release their first studio album together for the first time since the 1980s, and as the first time being The Bachman Cummings Band.

The new album is titled Jukebox and features covers of many tracks by artists that inspired them while growing up in the north end of Winnipeg.

The album is to be released in June, and this will be the first time that Cummings is releasing a studio album since 1990 with Plus Signs. Bachman just released his new album Jazz Thing II featuring Jay Geils and the New Guitar Summit. Prior to the Jukebox album, the band released a compilation album titled The Bachman Cummings Songbook featuring a tracks from The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Burton Cummings' solo period, as well as a concert DVD recorded at CBC studios in Toronto titled First Time Around, and Thunderbird Trax, which is a compilation of tracks recorded by Bachman & Cummings in 1986 that never were released on an album, until now.

Jukebox Tracklist:
1. Baby Come Back - The Equals
2. Who Do You Love? - Bo Diddly/Buddy Holly/The Rolling Stones
3. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You - The Beatles
4. The Walk - Jimmy McCrackin
5. Don’t Talk To Him - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
6. Man Of Mystery - The Shadows
7. Ain’t That Just Like A Woman - Fats Domino
B. Little Queenie - Chuck Berry
9. Good Times - The Rolling Stones
10. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
11. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & The Playboy Band
12. Don’t You Just Know It - Huey Smith & The Clowns
13. Yeh, Yeh - Georgie Fame
14. Agent Double-O Soul - Edwin Starr
15. The Letter - The Box Tops
16. Ain't That Loving You Baby - Elvis Presley
17. American Woman 2006 - The Guess Who

The Hour... in a minute

I haven't posted in over a month, and the last entry I did was about The Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir.

A few weeks back, Hugh Dillon was on the CBC show The Hour where he discussed his transition into becoming an actor and his new TV series Durham County.

You can view the video at CBC.ca

Also, Grant Lawrence, host of CBC Radio 3 was featured on the show for two episodes for a piece titled Best Story Ever, where a person discusses something outrageous that happened to the person, it's always very entertaining to see.

You can view the first video here, and the second video here.