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Burton's fastball may have lost some of its heat, but those old guys in the band played their asses off. Players, them.

Shame about it all. I mean, didn't they take the drugs so they'd drown in their own vomit and die before we had to see them doing this?

And besides, it needs more cowbell.

Awww, bless their hearts, they probably need the money.

But yes...definitely needs more cowbell.

Dammit, Og -- I was gonna use the 'More cowbell' line!
I remember when that song first came out -- SO hot! He looks pretty wasted in the first clip. I went and saw "Spirit" and Peter Frampton at another of those rehash park gigs a few years ago -- very sad. Unfortunately the Swingin' Medallions don't seem to get this far west in their touring any more ... sigh

Why is Randy Bachman hiding in the back in the first video? He then left to form Bachman-Turner Overweight. As fat as Cummings has become, he would fit right in. Sad, really sad. Some old rockers still have it, like Aerosmith. Ted Nugent. Regretfully, most don't.

Damn, that song never gets old. Like Free's "All Right Now." But don't it look like not his voice coming outta him?

I'd never heard of the Swingin' Medallions. I don't think they get this far north, either. One good thing about living in the dairy state, tho: no shortage of cowbell.

But Damn...Randy Bachman's still got it.

and its pretty obvious why the world had BTO and the Guess Who sort of drifted into oblivion

I stuck with the earlier version and came away happy.

Damn! The '03 version sucks. And what a change from the band I saw in the summer of '01. They played to a crowd of 1500 in Catskill, NY that year and were fantastic. Cummings was about 40 lbs lighter and his chops were golden. What a disappointment to see him sink so fast.

i also saw the band in sept,01 they played erie, pa civic center for almost 3 hrs,were great.
aside to denny;first video was not randy,was kurt winter who replaced bachman,in july of 1970

For an interesting songology check out Randy Bachman's "Every Song Tells a Story". 13 hit songs and their stories.

There's a 2006 or 2007 performance of them floating around there and it's alot better than the 03. As a singer, I can tell you have your good days and bad. Plus it's just plain hard to maintain that "growling" voice after 35 years of performing. All and all not bad considering, and definitely an A for effort.

Eric

Sure, Burton has a lost a bit of his "growl"/top end, like most singers do after 30+ yrs... he won't do Stand Tall anymore & admits it's because of the difficulty of hitting the notes... his voice now is deeper & lends itself better to the crooner-type stuff he has dabbled in... but, I've seen him since 2003 & he sounded stronger than this, as Eric says. If you don't focus so much on exact voice tone & just take it for what it is - a great band performance (luv the solo) with an "ok" vocal by the original singer of one of the greatest Cdn bands of all time, playing before 500,000 people in 35 degrees Celcius (110 F?), & the last time they played as the real Guess Who - hey, it's pretty good! I'm glad they performed that day & that it's been captured on DVD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJITBjmzmE