Day 4: GBS sailaway show

As is often said, a GBS show is not merely something you hear, it’s something you do.

The Monday night show was excellent, but many of us agreed that the sailaway show is the best GBS show.

The setting: It’s a beautiful afternoon, we’re out on the sun deck overlooking Grand Cayman, and a large crowd is participating in a most excellent concert. The boys are always energetic, but they were most definitely On even more than usual for this show. I could tell that recognized that this crowd would have more people who hadn't heard them before, and adjusted the set list accordingly. They played more cover songs and dance songs than normal.

All of them came on stage wearing their bathrobes, in homage to Monday’s barenaked photo. There was a momentary “They are wearing something under there, aren’t they? It kinda windy out here...we don’t want any wardrobe malfunctions” but we could see that Murray at least had jeans on.

This showed started out with Captain Kidd, followed by End of the World as We Know It (yes the REM song, but faster), so we’re well into 90 minutes of vertical movement. (Some of the banter later is to tell us that the captain assures them that the ship can handle the jumping around). By now the robes are coming off to reveal that Alan and Sean are garbed in coordinating swim trunks. We proceed through the expected favorites and a couple new songs before breaking into the ‘80s song singalong that they sometimes do. Having seen Ed’s cameos the day before, I was expecting him to show up for this part. I was not, however, expecting what he was wearing. Or not, as more accurately describes the situation…