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

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