The Guess Who are fighting and because of it, Lenny Kravitz’s forthcoming tour might lose a crowd pleasing rocker.
The classic rock group, The Guess Who, the first Canadian band to have a #1 single in the U.S., have gone through a lot of personnel changes since its inception in 1965. The most difficult being when the group’s best and earliest songwriters, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, left at separate points in the 1970s.
At some point its original bassist, Jim Kale, discovered the name of the band had never been trademarked so in 1986 he did the paperwork and owned the name. He and the original drummer Garry Peterson went on the road as The Guess Who after hiring other musicians to sing and play alongside them.
Over time Bachman and Cummings became furious with the idea that what was basically a cover band (especially after Kale retired in 2016) was damaging the band’s brand. They tried all sorts of legal avenues but nothing worked.
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