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I have seen there show before and came back because they were so good. I’ve seen them both separately as well but I had to be at this show. The venue always has good sound and the band with Burton and Randy are always awesome! Everyone in the audience knew all there songs and it was fun to see everyone having a great night. Highly recommend to anyone!
Memories To be able to hear and see two of Canada's legendary singers. It was about the music and not the production. No smoke. No mirrors. This was rock n roll as we remember and grew up with. Part of the musical roadmap or our lives and I'm just glad both still want to perform and give us the chance to look in the rearview mirror. Thank you Randy Bachman ..Burton Cummings and band.
We bought these tickets last minute 2 days before the concert and boy were we glad we did. The concert was fantastic, Randy & Burton played every song you could possibly want to hear. We sat in section 403 which was fine with us as we usually buy lawn seats. Best bang for the buck at $40.00 each. We would definitely attend more concerts if we could buy tickets at that price.
We received an email the day of the performance, and the concert starts at 7:30 PM; we planned the arrival time accordingly. In our seats at 7:15, ready for the show. Sadly, Bachman and Cummings did not show up on stage till 8:15 PM - 45 minutes late??? Not happy with how they did not respect their fans enough to be on time. They should perhaps take a page out of Maren Morris's playbook, as we were at her concert a few nights before, and they said she would be on at 9:15 PM and at 9:15, she was on stage.
What a wonderful trip down memory lane…very nostalgic. Burton and Randy were beyond amazing.
Fabulous show. The walk from Exhibition Go train station was hard in 40 degree humidex but the show was worth it.
Crazy that Burton Cummings still has a great voice. Randy B didn’t need to come. He sat on a speaker most of the night playing guitar except when he did 3 BTO songs. But Cummings should go back to Massey Hall and do alone with his piano
It was like listening to the "old" Guess Who!! All the people around us were up and dancing ... I loved the energy!
It was ok - Randy Bachman sounds great, his voice is still good, could’ve worked out his guitar tones for each song a bit better. His banter is fantastic - a radio show will do that to you. Burton not so much - lost his range and a constant quiver in his voice. He seemed to have trouble keeping up. He sounded old. It happens to all of us. Sound mix was ok - a bit muddy and vocals were too soft sounding. Played all the hits which was good.
The concert was excellent Randy,Burton and the band where awesome.
Although the boys have aged, and who hasn’t, the great tunes and tight playing carried the evening. Some standout songs were the lengthy and powerful American Woman, Share The Land, Break It To Them Gently-with it’s infectious “Roll the old lady”, sing- a-long, and of course, the greatest Canadian anthem ever-Taking Care of Business. Thank you for a great evening boys!
My wife and I truly enjoyed seeing these 2 icons from our home town perform again. Brought back great memories. If you have not had an opportunity to see them in the last few years would strongly recommend seeing them when they are touring in your area!!
We loved every minute of the Bachman Cummings show. The music brought back so many wonderful memories and the energy with all of the musicians was uplifting and joyful. Those guys are legends and whenever possible we will be there to enjoy them and their music!
Burton & Randy still have the magic… a great selection of #1 hits all night long… a hot humid evening but we’ll worth the beautiful songs and rock
The concert was fantastic. However the ushers were absolutely no help to people who could not find their seats. The Budweiser box seats were a distraction with servers constantly going in front of patrons. Would never sit near them again. At the end of the show it was like walking through a minefield avoiding vomit everywhere...no cleaners in sight!!! Yech...
.With their songs having been rerecorded by artists ranging from Junior Walker and the All Stars to Lenny Kravitz, there are few people on the planet who haven’t been exposed to the songs of Bachman and Cummings. As the former creative driving force behind The Guess Who, they are legends in Canada and well known international stars. But in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Randy and Burton’s hometown, they enjoy a near godlike status. So when the announcement leaked that the two would be making a Winnipeg stop (6/9/09) as part of their tour, I was “Johnny at the rathole” to grab tickets. The “hometown boys made good” entered to a thunderous standing ovation, and immediately staked their claim on the Guess Who legacy, opening the pre-Canada Day concert with their Canadian flag-waver Running Back to Saskatoon, followed by the rollicking Albert Flasher . “It’s good to be home,” declared Burton, attired from head to toe in black and sporting a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt under his open shirt. Flexing their versatile hit making muscle, Randy then took over lead vocal duties and belted out his BTO smash You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Randy was in strong voice, and looked positively svelte (he’d lost a good 150 pounds). His voice was a bit thin when he occasionally took on the lines of former BTO vocalist Fred Turner, but strong harmonies from their tight 5 piece back up band, and his scorching lead guitar solo’s more than made up for it. Burton then had the audience clapping in time to the 1974 Guess Who hit dedicated to the late great DJ - Wolfman Jack - Clap for the Wolfman. Bachman then exited while Cummings covered the title track from his latest CD entitled Above the Ground and Randy followed suit with a cut from his latest solo CD Jazz Thing II. Then it was back to the hits, with a song Randy noted, “prevented them from wearing the tag One Hit Wonders,” – their 1969 top 10 Guess Who hit Laughing. The guys did a great job of making Winnipeg feel special. Bachman announced that they’d thrown away the set list in honour of playing at home. Winnipeg was fortunate to hear many songs that had not been used on the tour thus far. These included My Own Backyard (Cummings at his rockin’ best hammering on his piano like a young Jerry Lee Lewis), Timeless Love (which Burton dedicated to his mother who was in the audience - both these songs were from Burton Cummings’ solo career), and The Guess Who’s Glamour Boy as well as their first US top 10 hit These Eyes which Cummings claimed they had only played sporadically on the tour because “he could no longer sing it like he could when he was 20.” Cummings has one of the most distinctive voices in the business. His pipes have weathered remarkably well and he can still belt out throat tearing high notes such as the ending notes of Bachman’s pop/jazz masterpiece Undun with incredible power. After Burton finished nailing These Eyes, Randy joked, “Ladies and gentlemen a 20 year old Burton Cummings – I guess that makes me 24.” Burton’s 62 and Randy’s 66. Bachman and Cummings rocked with authority for nearly 2 and ½ hours and could easily have given many young twenty-something bands a hard run for their money. Throughout the night, they shared many entertaining stories about how they wrote some of their hits songs. Randy told an amusing tale from his BTO days about confronting a trucker, “who was as big as a Volkswagen with a head screwed on top” who had deliberately boxed in the band’s van with the help of 2 other truckers for a practical joke. Instead of tearing Randy’s head off, the trucker simply said, “let it ride, son” that resulted in Randy penning BTO’s 1974 breakout hit “Let It Ride.” Randy showed off his finesse and diversity moving from his jazz flavoured songs such as Looking Out for No 1 to the hard rocking BTO hits like “Hey You” which Cummings introduced with a smirk as being “ a song that Randy wrote when he didn’t like me.” Although performing a few well-received tunes from individual solo albums (mostly Burton’s) such as Bachman’s Prairie Town and Cummings My Own Way to Rock, the boys primarily stuck with the tried and true Guess Who/BTO classic rock hits. The spotlight rotated back and forth between Burton and Randy as they rotated between Guess Who tracks like No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature, BTO’s Let It Roll and then partnering to do what they each do best on smash hits like American Woman which had the entire crowd on their feet, punching their fists in the air. They boys brought the night home with a tip of the hat to former Guess Who band mate, the late Kurt Winter, performing his ode to the working man – Bus Rider and finished the set with a searing version of their US Billboard top 5 hit - No Time. After a lengthy well deserved standing ovation, they returned to finish the night with The Guess Who’s 1970 peace anthem Share the Land and closed with Randy’s BTO party hearty rock classic, Taking Care of Business – something Bachman and Cummings proved they could do extremely well.
