TGT tour has the ladies in mind!

The R&B super group of Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank aim to bump up the swoon factor.


IF there's a concert tour with a more appropriate title than TGT's forthcoming "The Shirts Off Tour," we haven't heard it. A meeting of the minds (and glistening abs and chiseled jawlines) of R&B pinups Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank, the trio recently joined forces as a super group with a single mission — to please all the ladies, all the time.

"It's going to be the ultimate female experience," an obviously giddy Tyrese Gibson said about the group's fall tour. "It's going to be an escape for women, an escape from their everyday lives."

The three singers have been friends and fellow cads for a decade (Gibson was best man at Ginuwine's wedding), but they only collaborated for the first time on a remix of Tank's pleading new single "Please Don't Go." With 13 albums and a slew of hit singles among them, TGT is something of a Traveling Wilburys of R&B, if Bob Dylan had V-muscles to stop traffic.

They've even cribbed a bit from the R. Kelly manual of fantastically loony concept albums, as the lyrics to their "Please Don't Go" remix are ripe for plot twists on future singles.

"You're listening to us having a conversation about what we did for the girls in our lives to make them want to stop messing with us," Gibson said. "It's set up to have sequels."

A short list of producers for a full-length album is being bandied about, and their tour will feature a mix of solo material from each member and new TGT cuts. Supergroups are always dicey propositions, but TGT is admirably on-message in their intentions for the tour.

"There's going to be a lot of female emotions [at the shows]," Gibson said. "They're going to be horny, happy and screaming. We're going to shut down a whole floor of hotel rooms."