Sugar Ray September 25, 2018 America Gardens Theater Orlando, FL

Despite their all but forgotten start as a nu metal band, Sugar Ray morphed into this pop phenom in the late 1990's with their mega-hit "Fly". They went on to score a handful of other hits into the 2000's, when it was virtually impossible to turn on the radio without hearing one (or more) of them. With less success on their more recent albums, Mark McGrath teamed up with similar bands to create successful 90's nostalgia tours (first "Summerland", then "Under The Sun"). 
This recording captures the third show from night two of their tenth year playing the International Food and Wine Festival at Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Epcot). This was forty minutes of absolute fun for all, including the band. I lost count of the times McGrath was in and out of the audience, pausing for selfies with countless fans. As if Sugar Ray didn't ooze enough 90's sentimentality, they decided to throw in a cover of Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" for good measure. Although officially fall, this was a hot Florida evening spent with family enjoying a trip down memory lane.

1. Words To Me
2. Every Morning
3. band intro
4. Someday
5. When It's Over
6. Tubthumping
7. Fly/What I Got

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Photo credit goes to Ryhan Wickerham
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Squeeze November 12, 2017 America Gardens Theater Orlando, Florida

Twenty eight years, almost to the day, from the first time I saw Squeeze, I took the opportunity
to see them at Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival. This was the first, and one of just a handful of US tour dates supporting their new release "The Knowledge", that I'm just now listening to for the first time as I type. Difford and Tilbrook both looked and sounded great,
and so did their band. Their back catalog is of course, amazing so choosing a handful of "hits"
to showcase must have been difficult, BUT how could they not play Footprints (end of rant). The
new songs sounded good, having no frame of reference at the time. I'd have preferred to been familiar with the new tunes, but I'll do that now (opera singing on Rough Ride just blasted my speakers). If you can catch one of the few US tour dates, based on this sampling, I'd go for it.

Set 1
1. Hourglass
2. Pulling Mussles (From The Shell)
3. Patchouli
4. Annie Get Your Gun
5. Albatross
6. Take Me I'm Yours
7. Innocence In Paradise
8. Tempted
9. Black Coffee In Bed

Set 2
1. Please Be Upstanding
2. Another Nail In My Heart
3. Hourglass
4. Cool For Cats
5. Innocence In Paradise
6. Goodbye Girl
7. Tempted
8. Black Coffee In Bed

Set 3
1. Slap and Tickle
2. Is That Love
3. Pulling Mussles (From The Shell)
4. Patchouli
5. Take Me I'm Yors
6. Cool For Cats
7. Tempted
8. Black Coffee In Bed

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10,000 Maniacs October 18, 2017 America Gardens Theater Orlando, Florida

So here you have night 1, set 3 from 10,000 Maniacs' three night stand at Walt Disney World for their 2017 International Food and Wine Festival from Epcot's superb America Gardens Theater. Can't say that I'm a huge fan of the band, but "In My Tribe" and "Our Time In Eden" have a permanent spot in my record collection. Lots of personnel changes over the years, including Natalie Merchant's solo career must have taken them off my radar. Here they are though, without Natalie Merchant, sounding really good. I thoroughly enjoyed this set (which they, too were recording) and wish I would have attended the first two sets that day.

1. Stockton Gala Days
2. Because The Night
3. Rainy Days
4. Just Like Heaven
5. These Are Days

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Everclear September 23, 2017 America Gardens Theater Orlando, Florida

90's rock icons Everclear played six sets over two days at the American Gardens Theater at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center as part of their Eat To The Beat concert series for the 2017 International Wine and Food Festival. Here you have all three sets from day 1 (September 23, 2017). For these Disney shows, you need to be prepared to take the good with the bad. The good includes stellar sound and an up-close-and-personal experience. The bad is leaving the venue every 35 minutes between sets, and listening to the "hits" multiple times. Although the makeup of the band has changes over the years, Art Alexakis, at 55 years old, can still handle the stage well, and his voice is as strong as ever. He was joined on stage by a much younger (looking) band which included Dave French on guitar, Freddy Herrera on bass and Jake Margolis on drums. The stop at Disney World was made on their way to Australia to kick off the 20 year anniversary tour for So Much For The Afterglow, there sophomore album on Capitol Records.

Catch these guys on tour, stock up on merchandise and pick up a bunch of their music!

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