Whatever Happened To Mark McGrath?
With the help of Art Alexakis, of Everclear, McGrath created a 90s summer tour. The Summerland Tour had an impressive bill with Sugar Ray, Everclear, Lit, Gin Blossoms and Marcy Playground all ready to bring back 90s rock.
"The 90s nostalgia factor is kinda coming into play now," McGrath told Rolling Stone a year after the tour. "It's great to be at the point where we're at the receiving end of it. The idea was to go out and play a show that was top-to-bottom hits. I mean, literally, in the first five minutes of sitting in your seat, Marcy Playground are playing 'Sex and Candy.' That's arguably one of the most psychotic hits of the era."
"It was great, and it proved to me there's a market for this kind of thing. We weren't reinventing the wheel. Every decade has their tours. There's the 60s, the 70s, the 80s... But nobody had done the 90s yet, so Art Alexakis and I kinda got together and did it."
Alexakis and McGrath didn't exactly see eye to eye though. McGrath told Rolling Stone, "Unfortunately, Art and I have different ideas about what the tour is about. He's doing his own thing now, and I put together a tour called Under the Sun."
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