LOL, glad you got some memories out of my post, Janice! i meant Jim Kale, must have been self-absorbed again with 'jj' on the mind as i typed away
...probably better if i cut and paste from now on and pass on the paraphrasing, lol
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Guess Who members tussle over name
Don't hold your breath for a Guess Who tour this summer with guitarist Randy Bachman and singer-keyboardist Burton Cummings in the lineup.
Original bassist Jim Kale -- who dropped out on the eve of the band's highly successful 1999 reunion trek -- still owns the rights to the name.
"We tried very hard to get it together for this year, for '05, because it is very 'anniversaried' for us," Bachman told the Sun recently.
"It would be the 35th anniversary of American Woman, and Takin' Care Of Business was '75, Shakin' All Over was '65. There are all these anniversaries. We tried very, very hard, and it was undoable. We couldn't get a proper business arrangement on the name. ... It's one of those unfortunate things. I don't think it will ever happen now."
Bachman says Kale is currently touring the U.S. with his own lineup of musicians.
"They're touring with a clone band down in the United States and that just breaks my heart," says Bachman. " 'Cause we just spent the last few years rebuilding up the name and reputation and we toured the States and just did phenomenal. We could have done a massive tour, but now there's a couple of clone guys in the band and they're touring and playing lesser gigs, can I be polite?"
Still, Bachman has plenty of other projects to keep him busy: He's recording a "weird, prairie, country-rock, wedding" album with Toronto's The Sadies, and another solo jazz album.
Cummings, meanwhile, told the Sun he's about halfway through a new solo album in L.A. that he expects will be released in the mid-to-late summer with a solo tour to follow.
Bachman and Cummings are being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame on Tuesday night in Toronto.
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[This message has been edited by jj (edited February 08, 2005).]