UM's Pair of aces: Jake Cinninger (left) and Brendan Bayliss
An Umphrey’s McGee show requires a great deal of stamina, and Saturday night’s two sets at Ft. Lauderdale club Revolution were definitely no exception. The Chicago sextet turned on the energy the moment they stepped onto the stage in the venue’s outdoor courtyard, opening with “In the Kitchen,†a catchy pop-prog number that won them Song of the Year at the 2005 Jammy Awards. From there, the energy only continued to increase, the band feeding off the crowd’s enthusiasm with a casual take on aggressive progressive rock, adding measures of jazz, funk, reggae, metal and electronica for flavor.
This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2006.