The Guess Who

Juno Songwriter's Circle Full Of Amusing, Adorable Moments

"Every man's got a plan until he gets punched in the mouth," Sylvia Tyson sang on stage at Toronto's Massey Hall last night, prompting raucous laughter from the crowd at the annual Juno Awards Songwriter's Circle.In case you're wondering, that's not some rare, unreleased tune Tyson's been keeping from you all these years. Well, actually, it kind...
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Luke Doucet

You Can Call Me Gary: The Guess Who Through The Looking Glass

I was searching through the CHARTattack archives for information regarding Yo La Tengo's chart success over the years when I came across one of my old Charty Chart Chat columns. Back then, I had some licence to wax poetic about music and culture before delving into the serious business of chart analysis. Here's a pre-blog blog from July 2003...
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Randy Bachman In Order Of Canada

Randy Bachman was made an officer of the Order Of Canada on Friday. Governor General Michaelle Jean presented Bachman with the medal in a ceremony at Ottawa's Rideau Hall. Bachman told The Canadian Press he'd hang the medal in his home on British Columbia's Salt Spring Island and wouldn't wear it on stage. "Starting out just as a kid in...
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Randy Bachman

Bachman And Cummings Team Up On CD, TV And In Concert

Be you a fan of The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive or the solo successes of Burton Cummings, The Bachman Cummings Songbook is the record for you. Material from all three sources will be packaged together for the first time on the album, which will be released by Sony BMG on April 25. Cummings and Randy Bachman are ranked among Canada's...
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Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings

The Guess Who - Running Back Thru Canada (Live)

A quarter of a century after the greatest Rock 'N' Roll band in Canada's history ended a 15-year career, The Guess Who are back to exploit both their tremendous back catalogue and the vast fan base's collective memories. Principle songwriters Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman front a hybrid band that includes original drummer Garry...
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The Guess Who - Running Back Thru Canada

Top 50 Canadian Albums Of All-Time (40 To 31)

40. SIANSPHERIC Somnium (Sonic Unyon) 1995 Like a velvet glove dipped in iron, they knew exactly when to punch and when to stroke. Armed with a sinewy intellect and their own brand of gaseous post-rock prescience, they burned a path through the sonic stratosphere. The waves of gentle turbulence and ethereal beauty are still as hypnotic and...
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Top 50 Canadian Albums 2000
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