re: What popular bands still tour with little or no original members?

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Burton Cummings has cranked up the volume in his ongoing and long-standing dispute with some former bandmates over the licensing of songs made famous by the Guess Who. Cummings, the former frontman of the legendary rock band originally formed in Winnipeg in 1965, spoke at length about the feud with the current incarnation of the Guess Who, or as he calls it, "the fake band," in a Thursday interview with CBC Manitoba's Up To Speed. "I want people to realize that Randy Bachman, Kurt Winter, Bill Wallace, all the people that wrote the songs … we're the ones that made the records. I don't want the history of the band to be tied up with these fakes," he told host Faith Fundal. "The cover band has used my songs and Randy's songs over the years to draw people to their fake shows. It's not the band on the records that is showing up to the gigs and this is what we're going to stop." Cummings recently terminated agreements with performing-rights organizations for every Guess Who song he wrote and published, which means fans of hits like American Woman or These Eyes can't hear them played live in concert unless he allows it to happen.

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