Fans of The Guess Who may be in for an exciting 2026, as the band’s founding lead guitarist, Randy Bachman, has revealed that he and the group’s original frontman, Burton Cummings, have been discussing reuniting for a new tour.
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Bachman, who currently is focused on a 2025 tour and new single by his post-Guess Who band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, shared the news in recent interview with American Songwriter.
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Randy noted that he’s been in regular touch with Cummings, who will be touring with his own solo band throughout 2025, and reports that the two are eyeing next year for a Guess Who trek.
“[Burton is] finishing up his stuff this year, I’m finishing up my BTO stuff,” the 81-year-old Canadian rocker noted. “And we have a plan for 2026 to be The Guess Who, where … we do a set list of about 30 hit songs, and it’s probably gonna be a two- or three-hour Springsteen kind of marathonic show. And we’re all geared to do that in 2026. It’ll be the unveiling of ‘The Guess Who are back.’”
Bachman’s comments are something of a happy surprise for Gues Who fans. In late 2024, Cummings told American Songwriter that he wasn’t sure if he and Randy could agree on a plan to do another Guess Who tour.
News of the potential Guess Who trek comes after Bachman and Cummings announced in September 2024 that they’d acquired the rights to the band’s name and trademark. The settlement ended a lengthy legal dispute Bachman and Cummings had with the band’s two other co-founders, bassist Jim Kale and drummer Gary Peterson, who’d controlled the group’s name and trademark for decades.
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Cummings and Bachman wrote or co-wrote nearly all of The Guess Who’s best-known songs. These include “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “Undun,” “No Time,” “American Woman,” “No Sugar Tonight,” and “Share the Land.”
Randy left the band in 1970 and went on to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973. The Guess Who initially broke up in 1975, although the band reunited multiple times during the next 25 years or so.
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By 2006, Kale and Peterson had established control over The Guess Who trademark in the U.S. Between 2006 and 2024, a version of the band featuring neither Cummings nor Bachman toured regularly in the U.S. and even released a couple of studio albums. During the same period, Burton and Randy toured together multiple times under the Bachman-Cummings moniker.
Since the 2024 agreement, Cummings and Bachman now are able to perform as The Guess Who again.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s 2025 Plans
Bachman-Turner Overdrive will release its first new single in decades this Friday, March 28. The song, titled “60 Years Ago,” features guest vocals from founding BTO singer/bassist Fred Turner. It also boasts a guest guitar solo by Randy’s old pal, and fellow Canadian rock legend, Neil Young. You can pre-save “60 Years Ago” now.
BTO will kick off a 2025 tour with a spring Canadian leg. The trek runs from an April 1 concert in Victoria, British Columbia, through a May 8 show in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The band also has a U.S. summer tour lined up that will feature The Marshall Tucker Band as co-headliner on many of the dates. The outing gets underway on July 18 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and is scheduled through an August 23 performance in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jefferson Starship will be a special guest at most of BTO’s U.S. shows through a July 26 concert in Huber Heights, Ohio.
BTO’s current lineup also features Randy’s son, Tal, on guitar and vocals, and Tal’s wife, KoKo, on drums.
Cummings’ 2025 Tour Plans
In September 2024, Cummings released his first solo studio album in 16 years, A Few Good Moments.
He currently is winding down a U.S. tour leg with his solo band that finishes March 28 in Shipshewana, Indiana.
Cummings also has a few more solo concerts lined up this summer in Canada and California.
Tickets for Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s tour dates and Cummings’ shows are available now via various outlets, including StubHub.
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