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Key Points The Guess Who reunites with original members for a 2026 tour after two decades. Burton Cummings fought legally to stop a "fake" band from performing their songs. The Takin’ It Back Tour includes Don Felder as opening act and several Canadian dates. The Guess Who, the Canadian rock band known for the 1970’s hit “American Woman,” famously covered by Lenny Kravitz, is touring with original members for the first time in more than 20 years. While a version of the Guess Who has been on the road in recent years, it featured no original members after founding bassist Jim Kale and drummer Garry Peterson, who held the rights to the band’s name, retired. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Guess Who singer Burton Cummings and founding guitarist Randy Bachman weren’t happy with that arrangement, so Cummings went to court to get control of the band’s name and invited Bachman to reunite with him for a tour, per Stereogum. Extreme Measures and Lawsuit Cummings even went to the extreme measure of giving up some of his own publishing royalties to prevent what he called the “fake” version of the band from performing his songs, according to Rolling Stone. In their lawsuit, Cummings and Bachman claimed that the group that held the trademark of the Guess Who was “a cover band” that used original recordings of the band in advertising “in an effort to boost the Cover Band’s ticket sales for live performances and to give the false impression that Plaintiffs are performing.” “I’m willing to do anything to stop the fake band; they’re taking [Bachman and my] life story and pretending it’s theirs,” Cummings told Rolling Stone back in April 2024. “They’re not the people who made these records and they shouldn’t act like they did. This doesn’t stop this cover band from playing their shows, it just stops them from playing the songs I wrote. If the songs are performed by the fake Guess Who, they will be sued for every occurrence.”
