The Guess Who — featuring core members Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman — are hitting the road this summer for their first U.S. tour in 24 years. The run kicks off June 25 in Shakopee, Minnesota, and wraps up Aug. 22 in Seattle. (It’s bookended by shows in their native Canada.) Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder will serve as the opening act.
“Randy and I are incredibly grateful that our music has endured all these years,” Bachman said in a statement. “Knowing that people still want to hear these songs live means everything to us, and when we go out on stage, our goal is to truly honour the music.”
Cummings added: “I’m really excited about reuniting with Burton and touring again as the Guess Who. We created an amazing body of work together, along with memories that have lasted for decades, and those songs are still as strong as ever. I can’t wait to sing them with everyone very soon.”
Up until this year, Cummings and Bachman hadn’t performed as the Guess Who since SARSfest in 2003. In the years that followed, former Guess Who bassist Jim Kale put together a new lineup that sparked a bitter legal fight that wasn’t resolved until 2024 when Cummings and Bachman reclaimed the name rights.
“The fake band was using music that we wrote, and Burton sang on, to promote their shows,” Cummings recently told Rolling Stone. “And some of these guys weren’t even born when those things were hits. These clowns, they were actually taking our real albums to meet and greets and signing our pictures. I was in Philadelphia one time and I opened a Live at the Paramount album. I was going to sign it for this kid. And I opened the album and someone else had already signed my picture.”
The new lineup of the Guess Who — which also includes drummer Sean Fitzsimons, bassist Jeff Jones, percussionist Nick Sinopoli, and guitarists Tim Bovaconti and Joe Augello — played their first show Jan. 31 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The set is heavy on classics like “American Woman,” “These Eyes,” “Undun,” and “No Time” in addition to the Bachman-Turner Overdrive classics “Let It Ride,” “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” and “Takin’ Care of Business.”
There hasn’t been a new Guess Who album since 1975’s Power in the Music, and the last one to feature Bachman was 1970’s American Woman. That remains unlikely to change in the near future since the focus is on touring, but they aren’t ruling it out. “Randy and I will be together for hours and hours on the tour bus,” Cummings recently told Rolling Stone. “Sometimes he picks up a guitar, starts playing riffs, and I start singing over them. So we could capture some of that wonder of the old days. You never know. I never say never.”
The Guess Who’s Taking It Back Tour Dates:
May 26 – Moncton, NB @ Avenir Centre
May 27 – Halifax, NS @ Scotiabank Centre
May 29 – Laval, QC @ Place Bell
May 30 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
June 1 – Hamilton, ON @ TD Coliseum
June 2 – London, ON @ Canada Life Place
June 5 – Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre
June 6 – Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre
June 8 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
June 10 – Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
June 25 – Shakopee, MN @ Mystic Lake Amphitheater
June 27 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
June 28 – Cuyahoga, OH @ Blossom Music Center
June 30 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
July 1 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Acrisure Amphitheater
July 3 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre
July 5 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
July 7 – Syracuse, NY @ Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview
July 8 – Gilford, NH @ BankNH Pavilion
July 10 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
July 11 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City
July 14 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC
July 16 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
July 17 – Boston, MA @ Leader Bank Pavilion
July 19 – Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
August 6 – Atlanta, GA @ Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park
August 8 – Houston, TX @ Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
August 9 – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
August 12 – Denver, CO @ Fiddlers Green Amphitheater
August 14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Maverik Center
August 15 – Las Vegas, NV @ Fontainebleau Las Vegas
August 17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
August 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
August 22 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
August 23 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pacific National Exhibition
