Albert Flasher & Undun - The Guess Who | The Midnight Special

December 14, 1973
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[@leesagrrl]

Burton has one of the best voices in Rock.

[@rhlennon5869]

agreed! He's very underrated. I don't really know anything about him though.

[@blairrichardson9286]

You ain’t kidding 🎉 1:21

[@blairrichardson9286]

I was a work-shop-owner in a gulch for the people 1:21

[@mdarrenu]

very distinct voice. could write some great songs

[@markhernden9472]

When 3 of 5 band members are wearing hockey jerseys, you know they're Canadian.

[@johngore7744]

Yeah one is Drydens 29. Go Habs Go.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Yep ! I love hockey !

[@cbotten106]

Those Canucks really love that game.

[@dancurran8977]

What a voice!

[@lib556]

The pride of Winnipeg. What a great voice on Burton.

[@Branner]

Undun. What a song. It never ages. Like Whiter Shade of Pale and Reflections. Every time you hear them, they're "new."

[@Brew311]

How this band isn’t in the RROF is beyond me?

[@janeensizemore578]

I love The Guess Who❤❤❤❤❤

[@dwaynewladyka577]

An incredible performance, right here. Burton Cummings is one of our top Canadian vocalists and musicians. I saw Burton Cummings 4 times live, and met him.The Guess Who are an awesome band. May Kurt Winter rest in peace. Cheers! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️🇨🇦

[@davidaston5773]

You know what? I was thinking, when watching this and other Guess Who performances by Burton? He looks like he's GRUNGE before grunge? Grunge was returning to the simpleness of a great band and songwriting. No over reliance on electtrics. Almost MTV Unplugged a good 20 years before it existed? "The Guess Who" is one of those bands that demonstrate how SUPERB music, writing and performance can be when it's focused and experienced. David

[@MrSphinxster]

Not just Canada, Burton is one of the best rock vocalists of all time...anywhere. Absolutely inimitable.

[@troyhuffine2465]

One of the top vocalists of all times

[@Flash46201]

I met Burton as well, back in 2000 in Toronto at the Family Farm Benefit. He was a bit of a douche. Was more concerned with finding a place to have a smoke in a non smoking facility. I had a wonderful chat with Donnie McDougall. He was magnificent.

[@kenmartin6776]

He is one of the vocalists anywhere. ❤

[@macstark9853]

I saw him and Randy a few years back and this guy has never lost a step. A true icon

[@erictripton]

Burton voice a staple of 70's music for me. I could listen to 'No time' everyday.

[@ZackyDog]

How about the late 60s too?

[@artgreig7069]

One of the things I like about these broadcasts, no lip synch, least not with this video.

[@gregoryduncan3067]

TMS is spoiling me today. 2 Guess Who songs at the same time. Too much awesome at one time 😎.

[@StephanieJeanne]

Awesome! Always worth the watch! The Guess Who have been in my life since childhood. Love them, and Burton is amazing!🤩💜

[@joannedecola4558]

What a KZbin treat! Burton Cummings voice still blows me away. It doesn’t get better than this. Thank you Midnight Special!

[@xz-187]

Burton Cummings had rocked the grunge outfits 18 years prior to Nirvana's emergence.

[@marcfrankenfield4588]

This comment right here! Neil Young too... that Canadian grunge!

[@dlsmpsn]

He not only has a beautiful voice, he knows how to use it.

[@that70sgirl90]

That's some sweet piano playing 🎹 Happy Friday 🥳 Thank you for sharing! 💖

[@gaylasmith5279]

"Albert Flasher", "Undun" AND "Star Baby"? Thank you, Midnight Special!

[@charlottevictoria.hubbard7472]

This is 💯 times better than I was expecting. Fantastic singer.

[@steveker5084]

Lot of great music in the 60's and 70's. These guys played some of the best.

[@hegasin]

El vocalista de esta banda era multifacético.

[@Joeibovoni]

Delivered pizza in Encino in 1978 and there were gold records near the entrance. It was Burton's pizza! Told him that I really liked his Canadian band!

[@robmatlock7675]

Nice!

[@ronaldoruna2463]

What a Band!!!

[@davidkost418]

Never realized how good Burton Cummings is! Talented band here.

[@martinbrenner6664]

Me too, they’re so great and underrated.

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Exactly how are they underrated? The GW sold multi-millions of records, got endless airplay around the world, and played sold-out concerts for years. (Lazy and meaningless cliche comment, dude.)

[@martinbrenner6664]

@@chasbodaniels1744 Not really, you just took it out of context. They just aren’t talked about enough. Despite their success, they are underrated. They don’t get enough credit or airplay, in my opinion. I think that very few people will put them on their top ten list. But I think I could get them on mine. How about you? Where would you rank them? I’d say in the top three, if you were just ranking Canadian bands.

[@johngore7744]

It’s true as a 63 year old Montrealer I used too think they’re so so I was into the Stones Humble Pie and Mott the Hoople and Bowie. But now I know a lot more about music and they were incredible not only Burton but Randy’s guitar rock and jazzy. Too good really. Cheers from Montreal

[@ChrisLahay]

Wow. What a performance. And how did I not know that Burton Cummings played the flute?

[@ericmorgan8044]

One of the most Underrated Bands of their time.

[@hodgeelmwood8677]

Back in the day, it was about good vocals, actual musical talent and top songwriting, instead of how hard you can shake your ass. Miss the good music days!

[@mdarrenu]

Well now with technology musicians don't need to hassle with band members since they have a machine that can play the other parts. no one forms bands anymore. People like Jimmy Page, Brian May, Freddie Mercury would just do solo careers now days.

[@moondogaudiojones1146]

Excellent!!!

[@asimplehorseman4648]

Back when musicians were known for putting on a GREAT show!! Burt was one of the best.

[@matthewgiffin9305]

Wow, amazing tight performance by this great band. Underrated for sure.

[@garysheppard366]

Heard "Albert Flasher" on the radio for the first time in about 50 years the other day, and thought what a great song ... Just being a kid I didn't know it was by the Guess Who, and just now watching this, that the vocalist was Burton Cummings ... who also played the piano driving the song ... and that he played the flute! 😮 Wtf! What a gun! This is what I love so much about music: the discoveries ✌️ P.S. Star Baby's great, and I can't get "Tell Mama" by Savoy Brown out of my head - thx TMS 😅

[@mdarrenu]

took me 50 years until now to understand the lyrics and the title of the song, and yeah didnt know it was Guess Who.

[@salvadorcastro6061]

Y como toca el piano Burton, es un fenómeno este tipo, saludos desde Guatemala

[@KittyGrizGriz]

What a GREAT band!! Burtons VOICE!! Always loved these 🇨🇦 Canadian guys 🍁. There’s a fantastic vid on YT with Burton Cummings singing with Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band; along with Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren & Timothy B. Schmit among others.

[@ijustgottasay1281]

Truly a great band, and so under-rated nowadays (maybe not up there in Canada, but certainly down here in the good ol' USA). And lest we forget another of Burton C's many many talents -- excellent flute player; won't make me forget Ian Anderson, but good enough in his own right.

[@timhalloran8337]

As always thank you for this and there is far too little quality footage of the Guess Who live in the 70's so keep it going!!!

[@ernestoclaudodip9671]

The great Kurt Winter on guitar.

[@plantfeeder6677]

Saw them a year later in 1974 and they had no lead guitar...yet there was lead guitar being played?! It was kind of strange but they were still good. The band that opened for them got 3 encores though! Called themselves The Marshall Tucker Band😊

[@ernestoclaudodip9671]

@@plantfeeder6677 Good story , thank you.

[@toastertwo1602]

​@@plantfeeder6677They had two guitar players before June of 1974: Kurt Winter and Donnie Mcdougall. After they both left, Domenic Troiano from James Gang replaced them.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

❤ Great lil’ lead solo @1:47 ❤

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

​@@toastertwo1602Whose playing bass here?

[@BIGLON-cf1ul]

This is cooking!

[@heathwirt8919]

Sounds as amazing today as it did then, just incredible.

[@scottkane3776]

Think this use to be on AM radio 📻 best music from the 60/70s

[@coryrybuck4608]

And he’s still got it! Saw him perform NYE 2022 for his birthday at The Burt :)

[@007MrMISHI]

Balls to the wall incredible !!!

[@DrummingMan1]

Multi instrumentalist, great frontman Burton Cummings! 70s drumming, cracks me up! Got enough mutes on the drum kit boys? Lol! Bring on the beanbags!

[@kruizen]

Awesome flute work in Undun.

[@sejrec56]

Great singer oh and great piano player

[@Flash46201]

Awesome to find this video. I just love anything with Kurt in it. He was the forgotten member, who did so much great work after Randy. I dedicated my 90's Guess Who website to him, and still think he is the greatest.

[@user-uh8cw1vx3i]

They sound great.

[@bettyparker3317]

Albert Flasher is one of my top fav songs of this decade, maybe longer. But this performance of Undun is primo👏👏👏💯💯💯

[@craigiecubsfan71]

The best Guess Who lineup. Burton should be in the HOF just for his skills as a flautist.

[@mundicojr]

How I love this band! Thanks for sharing ans cheers from Brazil.

[@giseles4224]

Smooooth!

[@Ibrian8888]

Thank you Burt! 🤗🙏🍺cheers

[@petedazer3381]

I always wondered what the lyrics to Albert Flasher meant. Fantastic band.

[@roryhake5735]

In memory of Kurt Winter 1946-1997

[@flicewatter]

Awesome ❤️

[@carlubambi5541]

Just incredible

[@tallboy2234]

Undun! I love it! 😀👌

[@redbarchetta8782]

Burt just belts it better than anyone else in the day.

[@justiceforus5358]

Phenomenal. Excellence. Timeless.

[@mdarrenu]

The dude could write songs!

[@bellerive7018]

unbelievably talented

[@nickbalkissoon6311]

Winnipeg represent

[@davidlisowski5245]

Apparently sometime after Albert Flasher was released the band learned that there was an actual person with that name and they met him and his family.

[@user-lr8qr1or8d]

THE GUESS WHO ROCKS FOR SURE!!! M.O'B

[@Karenmb]

Burton was really handsome ☺️

[@SuperStrik9]

The Guess Who - Live At The Paramount is a great live album.

[@martinmiller7623]

Great Derek lol.

[@phoarey]

Two songs here that far exceed the best work of the lauded Taylor Shit!

[@johnwhelan5332]

Burton Cummings with a proper haircut! Gee, imagine that! ;-)

[@terrydon6263]

As good as any band in 1973…💥

[@DHudelson]

On this show, they also did "Straighten Out," from the not-yet released Road Food LP, but I've yet to see that performance surface. At the time, that song actually caught my attention moreso than "Star Baby."

[@LLS710]

My musical memory kicks in just after this band faded out, unfortunately. I have no firsthand memory of The Guess Who.

[@chrisdaugherty8265]

Burton looks very modern here, from the haircut, beard, jeans, and shirt.

[@TheGlobalfrog12]

Cummings is so underrated as vocalist ... people lumped him in as a Plant wannabe but that simply misses the talent ... Amazing!!!

[@cbotten106]

Plant apparently thought Cummings was a great singer, so there is that. I don't think Cummings is underrated, but some people simply don't have ears to hear.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

"Albert Flasher" and "Life in the Bloodstream" are two of my favourite Guess Who songs that reflect Burton's love of '50s rock 'n' roll and really let him showcase his great vocal style...

[@user-gn5xl2jc5g]

THREE MORE DAYS SHare the land cd. Np charge

[@iamcanadian7559]

🤟😎👍

[@michelleexley1]

My God he was HOT!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@stuartmarsh5119]

Gotta love their outfit choices, too! Couldn't get much more Canadian!

[@moorlock2003]

Their clothes are awful.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Anybody know who “Albert Flasher” is?

[@Oklahoma-Dreaming]

“What do you do?” “I’m a singer for ‘The Guess Who.’” “Um, I don’t know. The Rolling Stones?” “No, the Guess Who.” “I already guessed! I don’t know! The Scorpions?!” “No! The Guess Who! What’s wrong with you?!”

[@kc0lif]

burt Cummings looks different with short hair. undun my favourite song.

[@johngore7744]

Ken Dryden jersey. Go Habs Go.

[@Oklahoma-Dreaming]

I’m not exactly familiar with The Guess Who. But the piano player reminds me a bit of Jerry Lee Lewis, is I believe the guy. Sadly though, I think this gentleman didn’t get along nearly as well with his cousins. Something about a rift in the family I believe.

[@frankcamacho7222]

Ken Dryden on drums

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Kurt Winter...✔️

[@johnking6252]

A Canadian Bob Seger ? kinda , maybe 🇨🇦

[@derhandtrommler]

Not long after this, Kurt Winter and Donnie McDougall were relieved of their duties for being drunks. I saw them that fall pared down to a quartet again with the late Domenic Troiano on guitar. Troiano so impressed me that I named my new son Domenic in his honor. But Burton grew frustrated with this version of the band and pulled the plug on the GW in 1976. It's disgraceful that Garry Peterson trots out a fake GW to this day to make money off of Cummings and Bachman's songs.

[@patrickjamesmurphy]

you should parse out Undun from this. people want to hear the second one not the first one.

[@joelark2007]

Cklw....the big 8

[@phoarey]

Two songs here that far exceed the best work of the chick favourite over lauded Taylor Sh it.

[@sandyhanson6082]

No Randy Bachman, no Guess Who. Just not the same.

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Kurt Winter wrote, along with Burton, several Guess Who hit songs. Rain Dance, Albert Flasher, Clap for the Wolfman, Sour Suite, Running Back to Saskatoon, Star Baby...

[@rocketburnz2297]

where is randy bachman??

[@kc0lif]

with bto by then.

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Kurt Winter, the guitarist on stage here, actually co-wrote a number of Guess Who hits with Burton Cummings.

[@ElChupacabra77B]

The Guess Who isn’t the Guess Who without Randy Bachman, and while it’s distinctively Burton Cummings taking on the vocals and the keys and flute as usual, he looks kinda weird in this 70s setting with the beard and cropped haircut there.

[@spooley]

Google the band name, a former lesser member who weaseled the copyright to the name has a different group of musicians out there billed as the Guess Who. Just this week Burton said he eschewed his royalties to the music to make them stop the misrepresentation. Hopefully it works out for the best.

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Kurt Winter, on stage here, co-wrote many, many songs after Randy left. Sour Suite, Rain Dance, Running Back to Saskatoon, Clap for the Wolfman, Albert Flasher, Heartbroken Bopper,

[@007MrMISHI]

Underrated ? Nope - not in MY book !

[@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi]

Saw them in the Summer before this. His hair was past his shoulders and drenched in sweat. When he flung his head around playing the piano, we got hit with the sweat. The chicks loved it. It was gross to me.

[@user-gn5xl2jc5g]

Straighten out Give me a break If you can If you can If you can One street way road to hell. All Hashed Out

[@Bluzian74]

To this day, Im still convinced Burton is saying "Work Shy Boner" .

[@ClintonWatrin-sv8lm]

It's workshop owner

[@Bluzian74]

@@ClintonWatrin-sv8lm LOL maybe... but I'll be damned if it isn't "work shy boner". (just look at his lips... Work.Shy.BO-Nur."

[@cbotten106]

I find that a hard on to believe.

[@Bluzian74]

@@cbotten106 LOL Freudian Slip?

[@antonioeustaquioamaral3421]

Burt Cummings, que Voz raríssima, absurda... Freddie Mercury.???

[@cbotten106]

Definitely a special voice and talent, for sure.

[@RwalterMI]

Were quite lame after Bachman left the band.

[@DidYouReadEULA]

Garry on those drums is an artist at work!! My bad, master artist!