Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings to reunite for 1st Guess Who performance in 23 years

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· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 4:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Two of the Guess Who's founding members, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, are yet reuniting to perform, marking the archetypal clip the brace person performed arsenic the Guess Who in 23 years.

Bachman and Cummings will instrumentality the signifier on the Rock Legends Cruise XIII which volition sail from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., done the Caribbean successful February 2026.

While some musicians person each performed solo and arsenic portion of Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) since the Guess Who's 1975 split, on the vessel they volition execute the band's classics arsenic good arsenic solo worldly and BTO songs.

The Guess Who's hits include American Woman, These Eyes and more, and fashionable songs by BTO include Takin' Care of Business and Let It Ride.

LISTEN | The audio for American Woman by the Guess Who:

Bachman is presently connected circuit with BTO, while Cummings is gearing up for a solo circuit that begins connected June 21 successful Edmonton.

In 2024, Cummings and Bachman settled their suit against the band's different archetypal members, Jim Kale and Garry Peterson. In the suit, they alleged Kale and Peterson had mislead fans into reasoning Bachman and Cummings were inactive successful the Guess Who, by forming a "cover band" and putting retired albums albums nether the Guess Who name.

"I privation radical to recognize that Randy Bachman, Kurt Winter, Bill Wallace, each the radical that wrote the songs … we're the ones that made the records. I don't privation the past of the set to beryllium tied up with these fakes," Cummings told CBC Manitoba successful 2024.