To round off a year in which they celebrated their 25th anniversary, jam band Umphrey’s McGee played a three-date residency at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago on the last three nights of December. With regular drummer Kris Myers recuperating from a shoulder injury and unable to perform at all three shows, the band took the opportunity to invite some guest musicians onstage.
The fill-in drummers included Rory Dolan from power trio lespecial and Ben Atkind, who recently left jam band Goose after nine years, but the biggest name to join the party was Mike Portnoy, whose return to Dream Theater was announced in October.
