C or D:: the Guess Who

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Okay, but a lot of the weird stuff is stranger in the album context - like spreading lead vocals around between half a dozen members on various songs when you have Burton Cummings sitting there, or putting these unusual tracks in between run-of-the-mill 50s pastiches and lounge-style piano ballads (although some of the latter are really exceptional).
Anyway, here's a chronological list from the albums I've heard:

Friends of Mine
Maple Fudge
Fair Warning
Hi Rockers medley
Truckin' Off Across the Sky
Samantha's Living Room
Those Show Biz Shoes
Hamba Gahle-Usalang Gahle
The Watcher
Glamour Boy
One Way Road to Hell

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 8 May 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link

Some album tracks I at least used to like/love.

"A Wednesday in Your Garden"
"8:15"
"Do You Miss Me Darlin'?"
"Coming Down Off the Money Bag"/"Song of the Dog"
"Herbert's a Loser"

Most of their greatest songs were singles.

clemenza, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link

Sure, I could come up with another album's worth of "deep tracks" that I love (probably heavy with Burton ballads), but I was spotlighting the weird stuff that I mentioned a few months ago.
Of the songs you mentioned "A Wednesday in Your Garden" is an excellent psychedelic jazz thing, and "Do You Miss Me Darlin'?" is probably regarded as a single now due to appearing on several compilations.

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link

You're a bigger fan of the non-singles than I am. I scrolled through their albums up till Flavours (almost all of which I owned at one time) and that's all that jumped out at me.

clemenza, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link

six months pass...

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/burton-cummings-randy-bachman-sue-former-guess-who-bandmates-over-use-of-name-1.6628569

You know, I took it to heart when they told us to share the land, so this is very disappointing.

clemenza, Friday, 10 November 2023 19:39 (six months ago) link

If it's any consolation to Bachman, the name BTO probably has more monetary value than the Guess Who.

birdistheword, Friday, 10 November 2023 19:55 (six months ago) link

This is the most generic story imaginable--rock stars sue former bandmates--it's just funny to see Cummings and Bachman on the same side. They feuded for years. Not that that's unusual either.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/randy-bachman-writes-about-split-with-burton-cummings/article_5938f364-7e7f-5223-828a-14e54fc58a82.html

clemenza, Friday, 10 November 2023 20:01 (six months ago) link

Using Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship as a precedent, judge rules that one party may continue as the Guess Who, while the other must henceforth use "the Who." More lawsuits ensue.

clemenza, Friday, 10 November 2023 22:35 (six months ago) link

Bachman sued his own brother/bandmate, this is no big deal for him.
He and Cummings could provide case histories for a whole semester’s worth of music business horror stories like these.

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 11 November 2023 02:53 (six months ago) link


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