Months after filing a lawsuit, The Guess Who's founder Burton Cummings terminated a performance license to try and stop the current band's concerts.
The classic era Guess Who lineup of Burton Cummings, bassist Jim Kale, guitarist Randy Bachman and drummer Garry Peterson of the rock band"The Guess Who" pose for a portrait in 1966., has been in a bitter legal dispute to wrest control of his old band’s legacy. Now, he’s adopting an aggressive and relatively unheard of approach to make that happen: giving up on certain royalties so the band can’t play his songs.
Cummings’ strategy is both very aggressive and particularly rare. Two music attorneys with no affiliation to the case tellthey’d never seen such a strategy before. Cummings’ attorney Helen Yu spent several months working to get the license properly terminated. She adds that part of why it’s so unheard of for artists to consider such a strategy is that often, writers don’t own the publishing, which is required to pull both ends of the license.
The strategy, to the group’s chagrin, seems to be working, at least for now. Two shows were canceled over the weekend, with the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Cyprus Lake, Florida announcing that the show was canceled “due to an unforeseen issue with the music licensing.” The Sunrise Theatre in Fort Pierce, Florida similarly made a last-minute cancellation Wednesday night, also citing the licensing dispute.
By the late 1980s, the Guess Who’s original drummer Garry Peterson joined the band as well. Kale retired in 2016, leaving Peterson as the only original member left. But he doesn’t play every show, Bachman and Cummings alleged, meaning some shows feature no original members of their band.
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