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X-WR-CALNAME:Umphrey's McGee
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UID:144392022-07-10
DTSTART:20220710T230000Z
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LOCATION:31806 Lake View Drive\nSelbyville DE 19975
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SUMMARY:Umphrey's McGee
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DESCRIPTION:Singer-guitarist Brendan Bayliss had just landed in Los Angeles
  after\na flight from Chicago\, expecting to start a West Coast tour with\
 nUmphrey's McGee\, when he found a text on his phone. It basically said\,\
 n\"You're going home.\" Keyboard player Joel Cummins\, who lives in L.A.\,
 \nwas in San Diego\, squeezing in some golf before the shows when his\npho
 ne lit up. And guitarist Jake Cinninger was at his home studio in\nNiles\,
  Michigan — across the state line from the University of Notre\nDame in 
 South Bend\, Indiana\, the birthplace of Umphrey's McGee\n— about to le
 ave for the airport when he got the news. It was March\n2020 — the first
  shock and whiplash of pandemic lockdown. After 22\nyears on the road and 
 a dozen ambitious and eclectic studio albums\,\nincluding the 2004 breakth
 rough Anchor Drops\, 2009's prog-rock trip\nMantis and 2015's The London S
 ession\, recorded in a single day at\nAbbey Road\, Umphrey's McGee — Bay
 liss\, Cummins\, Cinninger\, bassist\nRyan Stasik\, drummer Kris Myers and
  percussionist Andy Farag — were\ngrounded until further notice. \"I rem
 ember almost vibrating\, like an\nanxiety attack\,\" Cinninger says now. \
 "We were always in motion\, going\nforward. It's weird when that stops on 
 a dime.\" Cummins sat in his\nhouse\, \"just beside myself\,\" he says\, \
 "because I didn't know when I\nwould play music with my friends again.\" \
 "Everyone was guilty of\ntaking a couple of weeks\, just staring at the sk
 y\,\" Bayliss says.\n\"Then you run out of excuses to not do anything.\" E
 mails flew back and\nforth \"with ideas and chord progressions\" as Baylis
 s\, stuck at home\,\nworked on lyrics for a pair of songs already underway
 : \"Always\nOctober\,\" an anxious meditation with a jolting chorus\, star
 ted at a\nNashville session in the fall of 2019\; and the helplessness in 
 \"I\nDon't Know What I Want\,\" a combined reflection on solitary confinem
 ent\nand heavy\, personal loss. In June 2019\, Bayliss' friend Jeff Austin
 \,\nthe former mandolinist in Yonder Mountain String Band\, died\nunexpect
 edly. \"I'm only looking for an antidote\,\" Bayliss wrote in the\nsong. \
 "What if I'm only asking for a friend?\" \"I was thinking about a\nfriend 
 that I couldn't help\,\" he admits\, adding\, \"There's something to\nbe s
 aid for speaking your mind. If it's a true emotion\, it's something\nevery
 one can feel: 'Why is this happening to me?'\" Venue: Freeman Arts\nPavili
 on. Presenter: Joshua M. Freeman Foundation.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Singer-guitarist Brendan Bayliss had just land
 ed in Los Angeles after a flight from Chicago\, expecting to start a West 
 Coast tour with Umphrey's McGee\, when he found a text on his phone. It ba
 sically said\, \"You're going home.\" Keyboard player Joel Cummins\, who l
 ives in L.A.\, was in San Diego\, squeezing in some golf before the shows 
 when his phone lit up. And guitarist Jake Cinninger was at his home studio
  in Niles\, Michigan — across the state line from the University of Notr
 e Dame in South Bend\, Indiana\, the birthplace of Umphrey's McGee — ab
 out to leave for the airport when he got the news. It was March 2020 — t
 he first shock and whiplash of pandemic lockdown. After 22 years on the ro
 ad and a dozen ambitious and eclectic studio albums\, including the 2004 b
 reakthrough Anchor Drops\, 2009's prog-rock trip Mantis and 2015's The Lon
 don Session\, recorded in a single day at Abbey Road\, Umphrey's McGee —
  Bayliss\, Cummins\, Cinninger\, bassist Ryan Stasik\, drummer Kris Myers 
 and percussionist Andy Farag — were grounded until further notice. \"I r
 emember almost vibrating\, like an anxiety attack\,\" Cinninger says now. 
 \"We were always in motion\, going forward. It's weird when that stops on 
 a dime.\" Cummins sat in his house\, \"just beside myself\,\" he says\, \"
 because I didn't know when I would play music with my friends again.\" \"E
 veryone was guilty of taking a couple of weeks\, just staring at the sky\,
 \" Bayliss says. \"Then you run out of excuses to not do anything.\" Email
 s flew back and forth \"with ideas and chord progressions\" as Bayliss\, s
 tuck at home\, worked on lyrics for a pair of songs already underway: \"Al
 ways October\,\" an anxious meditation with a jolting chorus\, started at 
 a Nashville session in the fall of 2019\; and the helplessness in \"I Don'
 t Know What I Want\,\" a combined reflection on solitary confinement and h
 eavy\, personal loss. In June 2019\, Bayliss' friend Jeff Austin\, the for
 mer mandolinist in Yonder Mountain String Band\, died unexpectedly. \"I'm 
 only looking for an antidote\,\" Bayliss wrote in the song. \"What if I'm 
 only asking for a friend?\" \"I was thinking about a friend that I couldn'
 t help\,\" he admits\, adding\, \"There's something to be said for speakin
 g your mind. If it's a true emotion\, it's something everyone can feel: 'W
 hy is this happening to me?'\" Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion. Presenter: Jo
 shua M. Freeman Foundation.
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