In a video announcing the tour and posted (where else?) on YouTube, Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath and Everclear’s Art Alexakis make the announcement.  

“Art called me about a year ago,” McGrath begins, “And said, ‘Mark, what do you think about getting some of the best bands of the 90s together, playing under the stars in the summer skies, and playing all the hits that everybody out there enjoys?’ I said, ‘What a great idea.’

“And then Art said, ‘What do you think of the Gin Blossoms?’ I said, ‘What a good idea.’ He goes, ‘How about Lit?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Marcy Playground?’ I said, ‘I’m in.’ And of course his band Everclear and my band, Sugar Ray. What is that, 1,000 hits? For $40? You kidding me?”

And so it begins though one wonders where the heck Third Eye Blind, Better Than Ezra and Semisonic are in this scheme… not too busy, surely. Anyway, things kick off June 28 in Saratoga, California. Cool. Check out the tour announcement video below and, if you dare, trip down memory lane with hits from all five bands.

But remember, it wasn’t all rosy back in the 90s. Cell phones were uncommon and Facebook and texting didn’t exist. And people still wore flannel as a fashion statement… (shudder) though The Simpsons was still funny. Oh well.