String Cheese Incident
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The String Cheese Incident (SCI) is a band
from Crested Butte
and Telluride, Colorado
formed in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang
(acoustic/electric mandolin
, electric guitar, and violin
), Michael Travis
(drums
and percussion
), Bill Nershi
(acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar
, and electric slide guitar
), Kyle Hollingsworth
(piano
, organ
, Rhodes
, and accordion
), and Keith Moseley
(bass guitar
), and, in 2006, Jason Hann
, an auxiliary percussionist. The origin of the band's name is unknown.
Their music has elements of bluegrass
sounds, as well as rock
, electronica
, calypso
, country
, funk
, jazz
, Latin
, reggae
, and occasional psychedelia
. All members write original compositions and share vocal duties. Nershi has written the bulk of the group's original songs.
SCI Fidelity
, on which they released their first album, Born on the Wrong Planet
, an album split between originals and covers. The album featured melody
-driven music with room for improvisation
. Instrumental
s and covers constituted half of the album. Many songs from the first album are still frequently played by the band, including "Black Clouds," "Land's End," "Texas," and "Jellyfish."
Less than a year later, SCI released a compilation of ten songs, including "Land's End," on their self-titled live album A String Cheese Incident
, which chronicles a single concert from the Fox Theatre
in Boulder, Colorado
and adds pianist
Hollingsworth to the ensemble (he was not in the band during the recording of Born on the Wrong Planet). Despite spanning only one disc and containing only ten tracks, the album clocks in at 72 minutes even (thus, with an average track length of 7:12, displaying their propensity for extended jams), and is widely considered the best CD for new converts to listen to in order to become acquainted to the band's live sound.
'Round the Wheel
, released in 1998, refined the band's sound and displayed a marked increase in both musical and lyrical maturity, and added Paul McCandless
as a guest player on soprano
and tenor saxophone
and Tony Furtado
on Banjo, but did not earn them quite the level of notoriety that they would achieve in the next millennium
. From 1998 through 2001 SCI toured the country extensively and steadily, playing over 500 "Incidents" in hundreds of cities.
In 2001, with the help of guest producer and Los Lobos
member Steve Berlin
, they released their third studio effort, Outside Inside. This album marked a shift from the band's traditional bluegrass
leanings to a more standard rock
sound, thus making it the most accessible album to a mainstream
audience to that point. The band did not completely abandon its bluegrass roots, however, sneaking in the short three-minute track "Up the Canyon" at the end of the disc, which has become one of many live favorites along with "Rollover," "Close Your Eyes," and others.
for violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. After spending years fine-tuning SCI Ticketing's customer service and software, and rising the entertainment ranks to play large venues, the band wasn't about to settle for only selling 8% of their tickets, as existing contracts between Ticketmaster and nearly every major venue in the United States stipulated. Like Pearl Jam
, a band which unsuccessfully tried to convince the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation of Ticketmaster in the mid-90's, SCI Ticketing felt that Ticketmaster's service charges were too high and that it had monopolized the concert ticketing industry, using its immense market power to prevent competition for the sale of concert tickets.
SCI eventually settled the lawsuit. In August 2004, SCI Ticketing announced that it was rebranding itself as Baseline Ticketing, and continues to compete in the ticketing industry today.
In October 2003, SCI released their fourth studio album, Untying the Not
. UtN is indeed a strong deviation from their previous rock and bluegrass sounds and shows heavy influence from guest producer Martin "Youth" Glover
, formerly of the band the Killing Joke
. Untying the Not is much darker than the band's previous lighthearted studio releases, full of minor keys
and introspection
on topics such as death
, which are evident in the tracks "Elijah" and "Sirens." It also shows significant evidence of the band's recent habit of introducing electronic music
and trance
elements into the mix, such as on the track entitled "Valley of the Jig", which is a fusion of techno and bluegrass stylings.
In the summer of 2004, the band was invited to tour with the Lollapalooza
caravan by Jane's Addiction
bandleader Perry Farrell
, and would have received the distinction of being the first jam band
to travel on the Lollapalooza
bill. However, due to poor ticket sales and lack of enthusiasm, the festival was canceled and their summer tour was re-routed.
, containing thirteen original tracks with guest songwriting collaborations. In 2004, the band also welcomed percussionist Jason Hann
. The album was produced by Malcom Burn at a studio in Boulder, Colorado
, where the band is based. One Step Closer was a return to the more roots-based music of earlier String Cheese Incident fare, while still retaining some of the pop sensibility of previous studio albums.
Through Madison House Inc., the company that manages and books SCI, the band organized 'Big Summer Classic', a 2005 traveling festival tour across the United States
. Seven-person ensemble New Monsoon
opened the festival's shows, which included acts such as Umphrey's McGee
, Yonder Mountain String Band
, Michael Franti
& Spearhead, and Keller Williams
. The band played in medium-size outdoor venues, such as minor-league baseball parks.
In 2005 the band returned to their roots: playing shows at the base of ski resorts, summer festivals, smaller venues, and touring throughout the U.S. Band members announced to their fans that the band would take a break from touring in early 2006. They recommenced in the summer of the same year to play several co-headlining shows with Bob Weir
's Ratdog
including a sold-out two-night run at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado
and a set at the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival in Minnesota with well-known acoustic artist Keller Williams.
During sets played with Keller Williams, they referred to themselves as the Keller Williams Incident. The band played at the annual Vegoose
festival during the 2006 Halloween
weekend. On November 3, 2006, it was announced on the band's website that after summer 2007, Billy Nershi would leave The String Cheese Incident to pursue other musical projects.
, and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival
as well as the 10,000 Lakes Festival
. The band concluded their reign among the jamband leadership circuit and rode out into the sunset with a series of shows at their favorite places (New York, San Francisco, Oregon) culminating with a last blowout at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
during August 9–12.
The band had re-recorded their song "Close Your Eyes" in Simlish
, the native language of The Sims
to be in the 5th Expansion Pack - Seasons.
in Rothbury, Michigan
, performing with their respective solo projects. The Kyle Hollingsworth Band and EOTO performed on Thursday, Panjea with Michael Kang
and Keller Williams
featuring Keith Moseley
performed on Friday, and the Emmitt-Nershi Band performed on Saturday. Rumors were circulating among the festival-goers that The String Cheese Incident would reunite and perform on Saturday night ... The rumored set wasn't performed. Also, at Yarmony grass festival All members except for Keith got together and played a Will it Go 'Round in Circles together.
in Denver on June 24.
In October 2009, Michael Travis told the Colorado Daily newspaper in Boulder: "We are going to be playing some shows next summer and fall. We're not sure about the dates, but we're definitely going to be playing. We're excited to put all we can into this incredible meeting of music, hearts and minds. It's going to be exciting to reunite for those shows."
in Hampton, Virginia
.
October 20, 2010 Billy Nershi announced that "[They're] also planning on doing something next summer at the Rothbury site. That will be a weekend festival with a lot of String Cheese sets. It’ll be different from Rothbury in that it will be more like our thing at Horning’s, where String Cheese plays every night, and it will include bands in [the] String Cheese family with art installations and that kind of thing"
which they called the "Winter Carnival 2011." The show featured live acrobatics and a costume contest for the attendees, as well as a Conscious Alliance
food drive which offered a special edition 3-panel poster to anyone who donated 25 cans of food.
In Summer 2011, String Cheese played the Which Stage at Bonnaroo Music Festival
in Manchester, TN on June 11.
Later that summer, String Cheese was featured as a headliner for three out of four nights (July 1-3) of the opening year for the Electric Forest Music Festival, an event which the band hosted in Rothbury, Michigan
.
On September 19, 2011 the band announced that they would be making a tour along America's East Coast (as well as two cities in the Midwest) entitled the Roots Run Deep 2011 Tour. Currently, over half of the shows have sold out and the other locations are continuing to sell out quickly.
and Halloween
(dubbed "Hulaween" due to the band's early connection to the modern hooping
movement). Themed events such as "Full Moon Dream Dance, Evolution", "Dancing Around the Wheel of Time", a "Subway Ride Through New York City", and a "Time Traveler's Ball" are some examples.
During the 2000s the band also established an annual summer event at Horning's Hideout in Oregon
, bringing Peak Experience out into the woods to add to the circular energy and rapport between the band and its audience. At the same time, as the band's popularity grew, so did the sizes of the crowds coming to see them; SCI headlined festivals such as Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits
and the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival
, and began playing in some larger venues to accommodate their growing fanbase.
SCI released live three-CD sets of all 19 shows that they played in April 2002 on their spring tour. In this regard, they are believed to have taken a cue from Phish
's Live Phish series and stepped up the formula a notch by releasing every show instead of just select concerts. Not stopping with the spring tour, SCI has released nearly every song from every concert from every tour through the present, barring those where technical difficulties or contractual guest artist complications are involved. Christening the series On the Road
, the shows are released on the SCI Fidelity label for fans who do not have the time or means to engage in active tape trading.
founded the acoustic trio, Zuvuya, with Jamie Janover and Xander Greene in 2001 and started the trance music
band Zilla
during 2003.
Bill Nershi
and his wife Jillian started a bluegrass/acoustic band called Honkytonk Homeslice
, which has toured across the US, especially in the West, and is scheduled to tour with Drew Emmitt
of Leftover Salmon
, Billed as The Emmitt-Nershi Band.
Kyle Hollingsworth
plays with various side projects around Colorado
including his own band, Kyle Hollingsworth
, that plays SCI songs Kyle has written over the years as well as some of his other original pieces. His band features members of the Boulder-based group, The Motet.
Michael Kang
plays occasionally with Pangaea
(African rooted band), and spends much of his off time travelling the world.
Jason Hann
and Michael Travis
recently started a live looping project called EOTO
. One time throughout their 2008 tour they were joined by Kyle Hollingsworth
and Michael Kang
making it everyone from SCI except Bill Nershi
and Keith Moseley
. These four played together on August 6, 2011 at Yarmony Grass Music Festival 2011 in Rancho del Rio, CO under the moniker "The Trancident."
Keith Moseley
is currently touring with Keller Williams
in Keller's newly formed band: Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe (formerly the WMDs). He also performed with Keller as part of Grateful Grass, a project performing bluegrass covers of songs by The Grateful Dead and releasing a live album in support of the Rex Foundation
.
Band
- Clothing, jewelry, and accessories :* Bands , two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics and lawyers* Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt* Belt * Wedding ring or wedding band...
from Crested Butte
Crested Butte
Crested Butte is a mountain peak butte of the Elk Mountains in the U.S. State of Colorado. It is also a town with a population of about 2000 people. The greater area includes Crested Butte, Mt. Crested Butte, Riverland, Riverbend, and Crested Butte South....
and Telluride, Colorado
Telluride, Colorado
The town of Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains...
formed in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang
Michael Kang (musician)
Michael Kang, born in South Korea on May 13, 1971, is a multi-instrumentalist for the jam band The String Cheese Incident ....
(acoustic/electric mandolin
Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, electric guitar, and violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
), Michael Travis
Michael Travis
Michael Travis is an American musician.-Bio:Travis was born in southern California. He graduated from University of California at Santa Cruz with a degree in Environmental Science in 1989 and moved to Crested Butte Colorado....
(drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
and percussion
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
), Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi was a founding member and acoustic guitarist in The String Cheese Incident, a US jamband from Boulder, Colorado....
(acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar
Lap steel guitar
The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard....
, and electric slide guitar
Slide guitar
Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
), Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth is an american rock keyboard player best known for playing in The String Cheese Incident. Kyle sings and plays electric piano, Hammond organ, clavinet, synthesizer and accordion....
(piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, organ
Organ (music)
The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
, Rhodes
Rhodes piano
The Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the fifties and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS....
, and accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
), and Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley is an American musician and songwriter, who played bass guitar among other instruments for The String Cheese Incident, a jamband from Boulder, Colorado, of which he was a founding member....
(bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
), and, in 2006, Jason Hann
Jason Hann
Jason Hann is a American percussionist.-Early life:Hann grew up in Miami, Florida. He studied music in Ghana, Haiti, and Korea.-Career:Hann was a member of The String Cheese Incident, an American jamband. In 1999, Hann performed on the '2001' by Dr Dre....
, an auxiliary percussionist. The origin of the band's name is unknown.
Their music has elements of bluegrass
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
sounds, as well as rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
, electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
, calypso
Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song...
, country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
, funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, Latin
Latin American music
Latin American music, found within Central and South America, is a series of musical styles and genres that mixes influences from Spanish, African and indigenous sources, that has recently become very famous in the US.-Argentina:...
, reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, and occasional psychedelia
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
. All members write original compositions and share vocal duties. Nershi has written the bulk of the group's original songs.
Early years: 1996-2001
After a few years of playing local ski resorts and private functions, the band formed the independent record labelIndependent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
SCI Fidelity
SCI Fidelity
Formed in 1998, SCI Fidelity Records is an independent record label based in Boulder, Colorado. It is owned and managed by the jam band The String Cheese Incident....
, on which they released their first album, Born on the Wrong Planet
Born on the Wrong Planet
Born on the Wrong Planet is the 1996 debut album of The String Cheese Incident. It was re-released in 1998.-Track listing:#"Black Clouds" - 4:23#"Born On The Wrong Planet" - 4:57#"Land's End" - 5:19...
, an album split between originals and covers. The album featured melody
Melody
A melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity...
-driven music with room for improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
. Instrumental
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
s and covers constituted half of the album. Many songs from the first album are still frequently played by the band, including "Black Clouds," "Land's End," "Texas," and "Jellyfish."
Less than a year later, SCI released a compilation of ten songs, including "Land's End," on their self-titled live album A String Cheese Incident
A String Cheese Incident
A String Cheese Incident is the second release and first live album of Colorado-based Jam band, The String Cheese Incident. The album chronicles a single concert from the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado on February 27th, 1997 and is the first to feature pianist Kyle Hollingsworth as part of the...
, which chronicles a single concert from the Fox Theatre
Fox Theatre (Boulder)
The Fox Theatre, commonly called simply The Fox, in Boulder, Colorado. It is a popular Boulder music venue for both college students and Boulder locals.-Location:...
in Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...
and adds pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
Hollingsworth to the ensemble (he was not in the band during the recording of Born on the Wrong Planet). Despite spanning only one disc and containing only ten tracks, the album clocks in at 72 minutes even (thus, with an average track length of 7:12, displaying their propensity for extended jams), and is widely considered the best CD for new converts to listen to in order to become acquainted to the band's live sound.
'Round the Wheel
'Round the Wheel
'Round the Wheel is the third release by Colorado-based jam band The String Cheese Incident, released in 1998. The album features guests Paul McCandless on soprano and tenor saxophone and Tony Furtado on banjo.- Track listing :...
, released in 1998, refined the band's sound and displayed a marked increase in both musical and lyrical maturity, and added Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless, Jr. is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is...
as a guest player on soprano
Soprano saxophone
The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
and tenor saxophone
Tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
and Tony Furtado
Tony Furtado
Tony Furtado is an American banjo player and slide guitar, and singer/songwriter.player of Portuguese and Italian heritage who was born in Oakland, California...
on Banjo, but did not earn them quite the level of notoriety that they would achieve in the next millennium
Millennium
A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....
. From 1998 through 2001 SCI toured the country extensively and steadily, playing over 500 "Incidents" in hundreds of cities.
In 2001, with the help of guest producer and Los Lobos
Los Lobos
Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...
member Steve Berlin
Steve Berlin
Steve Berlin is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs, The Blasters, and The Flesh Eaters...
, they released their third studio effort, Outside Inside. This album marked a shift from the band's traditional bluegrass
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
leanings to a more standard rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
sound, thus making it the most accessible album to a mainstream
Mainstream
Mainstream is, generally, the common current thought of the majority. However, the mainstream is far from cohesive; rather the concept is often considered a cultural construct....
audience to that point. The band did not completely abandon its bluegrass roots, however, sneaking in the short three-minute track "Up the Canyon" at the end of the disc, which has become one of many live favorites along with "Rollover," "Close Your Eyes," and others.
2003–2004
On August 6, 2003, the band's own ticketing agency, SCI Ticketing, filed a lawsuit against TicketmasterTicketmaster
Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an independent American ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, USA, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment...
for violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. After spending years fine-tuning SCI Ticketing's customer service and software, and rising the entertainment ranks to play large venues, the band wasn't about to settle for only selling 8% of their tickets, as existing contracts between Ticketmaster and nearly every major venue in the United States stipulated. Like Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
, a band which unsuccessfully tried to convince the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation of Ticketmaster in the mid-90's, SCI Ticketing felt that Ticketmaster's service charges were too high and that it had monopolized the concert ticketing industry, using its immense market power to prevent competition for the sale of concert tickets.
SCI eventually settled the lawsuit. In August 2004, SCI Ticketing announced that it was rebranding itself as Baseline Ticketing, and continues to compete in the ticketing industry today.
In October 2003, SCI released their fourth studio album, Untying the Not
Untying the Not
Untying the Not is the sixth release and fourth studio album of Colorado based Jam band, The String Cheese Incident. UtN is indeed a strong deviation from their previous rock and bluegrass sounds and shows heavy influence from guest producer Martin Glover...
. UtN is indeed a strong deviation from their previous rock and bluegrass sounds and shows heavy influence from guest producer Martin "Youth" Glover
Martin Glover
Martin Glover, also known as Youth, is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman along with Paul McCartney. Glover was born in Africa.-Early career:...
, formerly of the band the Killing Joke
Killing Joke
Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979.Related news articles: Founding members Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker have been the only constant members.A key influence on industrial rock,...
. Untying the Not is much darker than the band's previous lighthearted studio releases, full of minor keys
Minor scale
A minor scale in Western music theory includes any scale that contains, in its tonic triad, at least three essential scale degrees: 1) the tonic , 2) a minor-third, or an interval of a minor third above the tonic, and 3) a perfect-fifth, or an interval of a perfect fifth above the tonic, altogether...
and introspection
Introspection
Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a conscious and purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and, in more spiritual cases, one's soul...
on topics such as death
Death
Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....
, which are evident in the tracks "Elijah" and "Sirens." It also shows significant evidence of the band's recent habit of introducing electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
and trance
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
elements into the mix, such as on the track entitled "Valley of the Jig", which is a fusion of techno and bluegrass stylings.
In the summer of 2004, the band was invited to tour with the Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
caravan by Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...
bandleader Perry Farrell
Perry Farrell
Perry Farrell is the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. Farrell created the touring festival Lollapalooza as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction in 1991; it has since evolved into an annual destination festival. Farrell continues to produce Lollapalooza with partners William...
, and would have received the distinction of being the first jam band
Jam band
-Ambiguity:By the late 1990s use of the term jam band also became ambiguous. An editorial at jamband.com suggested that any band of which a primary band such as Phish has done a cover of be included as jam band. The example was including New York post-punk band Talking Heads after Phish performed...
to travel on the Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
bill. However, due to poor ticket sales and lack of enthusiasm, the festival was canceled and their summer tour was re-routed.
2005–2006
In June 2005, the band released their fifth studio album, titled One Step CloserOne Step Closer (The String Cheese Incident album)
One Step Closer is the seventh release and fifth studio album of Colorado-based jam band, The String Cheese Incident. Released in June 2005, and containing thirteen original tracks with guest songwriting collaborations, the album was produced by Malcolm Burn at a studio in Boulder, Colorado...
, containing thirteen original tracks with guest songwriting collaborations. In 2004, the band also welcomed percussionist Jason Hann
Jason Hann
Jason Hann is a American percussionist.-Early life:Hann grew up in Miami, Florida. He studied music in Ghana, Haiti, and Korea.-Career:Hann was a member of The String Cheese Incident, an American jamband. In 1999, Hann performed on the '2001' by Dr Dre....
. The album was produced by Malcom Burn at a studio in Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...
, where the band is based. One Step Closer was a return to the more roots-based music of earlier String Cheese Incident fare, while still retaining some of the pop sensibility of previous studio albums.
Through Madison House Inc., the company that manages and books SCI, the band organized 'Big Summer Classic', a 2005 traveling festival tour across the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Seven-person ensemble New Monsoon
New Monsoon
New Monsoon is at its core a rock jam band that is based in the San Francisco, CA area that was founded in 1998 by Penn State classmates Bo Carper and Jeff Miller.-History:...
opened the festival's shows, which included acts such as Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock jam band based in Chicago whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation", or "improg" ....
, Yonder Mountain String Band
Yonder Mountain String Band
The Yonder Mountain String Band is an American progressive bluegrass group from Nederland, Colorado. Composed of Dave Johnston, Jeff Austin, Ben Kaufmann, and Adam Aijala, the band has released five studio albums and several live recordings to date.- History :The band's history stretches back to...
, Michael Franti
Michael Franti
Michael Franti is an American poet, musician, and composer. He is the creator and lead vocalist of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock...
& Spearhead, and Keller Williams
Keller Williams
Keller Williams is an American musician from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who began performing in the early 1990s. He is also known by the names K-Dub or just Keller, when performing. Williams' music combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and...
. The band played in medium-size outdoor venues, such as minor-league baseball parks.
In 2005 the band returned to their roots: playing shows at the base of ski resorts, summer festivals, smaller venues, and touring throughout the U.S. Band members announced to their fans that the band would take a break from touring in early 2006. They recommenced in the summer of the same year to play several co-headlining shows with Bob Weir
Bob Weir
Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
's Ratdog
Ratdog
RatDog , is an American rock band. The group began as a side project for Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and bassist Rob Wasserman. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in December 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia on August 9, 1995, RatDog became Bob Weir's primary band...
including a sold-out two-night run at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado
Morrison, Colorado
The historic Town of Morrison is a Home Rule Municipality in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The population was 430 at the 2000 census...
and a set at the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival in Minnesota with well-known acoustic artist Keller Williams.
During sets played with Keller Williams, they referred to themselves as the Keller Williams Incident. The band played at the annual Vegoose
Vegoose
Vegoose was an annual Halloween music and arts festival that took place in 2005, 2006, and 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Unlike the Bonnaroo Music Festival — put on by the same organizers, Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment — Vegoose does not offer on-site camping...
festival during the 2006 Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
weekend. On November 3, 2006, it was announced on the band's website that after summer 2007, Billy Nershi would leave The String Cheese Incident to pursue other musical projects.
2007
The band announced a few shows for 2007, including their annual Winter Carnival (sans 2006), which stopped in Denver and Vail ColoradoColorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival
Bonnaroo Music Festival
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four day music festival created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, held at Great Stage Park on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. It hosted its tenth annual event June 9–12, 2011...
as well as the 10,000 Lakes Festival
10,000 Lakes Festival
The 10,000 Lakes Festival was an annual four-day music festival in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, at the Soo Pass Ranch that was held since 2003. 10KLF is currently on hiatus due to financial losses and was not held in 2010. Its name refers to Minnesota's nickname, "The Land of 10,000 Lakes"...
. The band concluded their reign among the jamband leadership circuit and rode out into the sunset with a series of shows at their favorite places (New York, San Francisco, Oregon) culminating with a last blowout at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure near Morrison, Colorado, where concerts are given in the open-air amphitheatre. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a...
during August 9–12.
The band had re-recorded their song "Close Your Eyes" in Simlish
Simlish
Simlish is a fictional language featured in EA Games' Sim series of games. It debuted in SimCopter, and has been especially prominent in The Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. The Sims development team created the unique Simlish language by experimenting with fractured Ukrainian, French, Latin,...
, the native language of The Sims
The Sims
The Sims is a strategic life-simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. Its development was led by game designer Will Wright, also known for developing SimCity...
to be in the 5th Expansion Pack - Seasons.
2008
All members were present at the Rothbury Music FestivalRothbury Music Festival
The Rothbury Festival is a four-day jam band music festival in Rothbury, Michigan at the Double JJ Resort. The festival first occurred in 2008 during the Independence Day holiday weekend. In addition to music and arts, the festival is intended to promote sustainability and promote overall...
in Rothbury, Michigan
Rothbury, Michigan
Rothbury is a village in Grant Township, Oceana County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 416 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...
, performing with their respective solo projects. The Kyle Hollingsworth Band and EOTO performed on Thursday, Panjea with Michael Kang
Michael Kang
Michael Kang may refer to:*Michael Kang , director of the 2006 independent film The Motel*Michael Kang , member of the String Cheese Incident...
and Keller Williams
Keller Williams
Keller Williams is an American musician from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who began performing in the early 1990s. He is also known by the names K-Dub or just Keller, when performing. Williams' music combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and...
featuring Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley is an American musician and songwriter, who played bass guitar among other instruments for The String Cheese Incident, a jamband from Boulder, Colorado, of which he was a founding member....
performed on Friday, and the Emmitt-Nershi Band performed on Saturday. Rumors were circulating among the festival-goers that The String Cheese Incident would reunite and perform on Saturday night ... The rumored set wasn't performed. Also, at Yarmony grass festival All members except for Keith got together and played a Will it Go 'Round in Circles together.
2009
March 16, 2009 it was announced that the String Cheese Incident would reunite for the second annual Rothbury Festival. This was to be their only show of 2009. The band played an unannounced, invitation-only, "soundcheck" show at the Ogden TheaterOgden Theater
The Odgen Theater is a music venue and former movie theater in Denver, Colorado, United States. Located at 935 E. Colfax Avenue in the neighborhood of Capitol Hill, it was built in 1917 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.- History :...
in Denver on June 24.
In October 2009, Michael Travis told the Colorado Daily newspaper in Boulder: "We are going to be playing some shows next summer and fall. We're not sure about the dates, but we're definitely going to be playing. We're excited to put all we can into this incredible meeting of music, hearts and minds. It's going to be exciting to reunite for those shows."
2010
February 2, 2010 it was announced that String Cheese Incident would reunite for seven shows in the summer - the first three being a weekend concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater, then a four-night "Incident" at Horning's Hideout. The final stop on their 2010 calendar: a "Hulaween" weekend of Incidents on Friday, October 29, with The Disco Biscuits, and a three set night on October 30 at the Hampton ColiseumHampton Coliseum
The Hampton Coliseum is a multi-use cultural, entertainment and sports arena in Hampton, Virginia. Construction on the arena began on May 24, 1968 and the venue opened in 1970 as the first large multi-purpose arena in the Hampton Roads region and the state of Virginia, opening a year prior to...
in Hampton, Virginia
Hampton, Virginia
Hampton is an independent city that is not part of any county in Southeast Virginia. Its population is 137,436. As one of the seven major cities that compose the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, it is on the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula. Located on the Hampton Roads Beltway, it hosts...
.
October 20, 2010 Billy Nershi announced that "[They're] also planning on doing something next summer at the Rothbury site. That will be a weekend festival with a lot of String Cheese sets. It’ll be different from Rothbury in that it will be more like our thing at Horning’s, where String Cheese plays every night, and it will include bands in [the] String Cheese family with art installations and that kind of thing"
2011
In Spring 2011, String Cheese Incident played a three-night run March 10-12 at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, ColoradoBroomfield, Colorado
The City and County of Broomfield is a prominent suburb and tier of the Denver metropolitan area in the State of Colorado of the United States. Broomfield has a consolidated city and county government which operates under Article XX, Sections 10-13 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado. The...
which they called the "Winter Carnival 2011." The show featured live acrobatics and a costume contest for the attendees, as well as a Conscious Alliance
Conscious alliance
Conscious Alliance is a United States organization founded in 2002 to collect and distribute food to people in need.The national 501 non-profit organization operates through ongoing, grassroots food collection and hunger awareness programs throughout the United States, primarily by organizing food...
food drive which offered a special edition 3-panel poster to anyone who donated 25 cans of food.
In Summer 2011, String Cheese played the Which Stage at Bonnaroo Music Festival
Bonnaroo Music Festival
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four day music festival created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, held at Great Stage Park on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. It hosted its tenth annual event June 9–12, 2011...
in Manchester, TN on June 11.
Later that summer, String Cheese was featured as a headliner for three out of four nights (July 1-3) of the opening year for the Electric Forest Music Festival, an event which the band hosted in Rothbury, Michigan
Rothbury, Michigan
Rothbury is a village in Grant Township, Oceana County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 416 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...
.
On September 19, 2011 the band announced that they would be making a tour along America's East Coast (as well as two cities in the Midwest) entitled the Roots Run Deep 2011 Tour. Currently, over half of the shows have sold out and the other locations are continuing to sell out quickly.
Stage productions and effects
As the band's popularity grew, so did the stage show and spectacle elements of many of their live shows. An organization called Peak Experience Productions was hired to add various eye and mind psychedelia, and audience participatory activities, to larger "Incidents" such as New Year's EveNew Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...
and Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
(dubbed "Hulaween" due to the band's early connection to the modern hooping
Hooping
Hooping generally refers to artistic movement and dancing with a hoop used as a prop or dance partner. Hoops can be made of metal, wood or plastic. Hooping combines technical moves and tricks with freestyle or technical dancing, and is typically accompanied by music...
movement). Themed events such as "Full Moon Dream Dance, Evolution", "Dancing Around the Wheel of Time", a "Subway Ride Through New York City", and a "Time Traveler's Ball" are some examples.
During the 2000s the band also established an annual summer event at Horning's Hideout in Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
, bringing Peak Experience out into the woods to add to the circular energy and rapport between the band and its audience. At the same time, as the band's popularity grew, so did the sizes of the crowds coming to see them; SCI headlined festivals such as Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas by Public Broadcasting Service Public television member station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States...
and the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival
Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival
Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival is a four-day music festival held in early June at Mulberry Mountain near Ozark, Arkansas. The festival has been held annually since 2004....
, and began playing in some larger venues to accommodate their growing fanbase.
SCI released live three-CD sets of all 19 shows that they played in April 2002 on their spring tour. In this regard, they are believed to have taken a cue from Phish
Phish
Phish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...
's Live Phish series and stepped up the formula a notch by releasing every show instead of just select concerts. Not stopping with the spring tour, SCI has released nearly every song from every concert from every tour through the present, barring those where technical difficulties or contractual guest artist complications are involved. Christening the series On the Road
On the Road (String Cheese Incident)
On the Road is the name given to The String Cheese Incident's taping project that exhaustively documents almost all of their live concerts and presents a refined version of each show's soundboard matrix mix in a three-disc set...
, the shows are released on the SCI Fidelity label for fans who do not have the time or means to engage in active tape trading.
Side projects
Michael TravisMichael Travis
Michael Travis is an American musician.-Bio:Travis was born in southern California. He graduated from University of California at Santa Cruz with a degree in Environmental Science in 1989 and moved to Crested Butte Colorado....
founded the acoustic trio, Zuvuya, with Jamie Janover and Xander Greene in 2001 and started the trance music
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
band Zilla
Zilla (band)
Zilla is a livetronica band based in Boulder, CO. It consists of Jamie Janover, Michael Travis and Aaron Holstein. The group began as a side project for Travis in his time away from the more popular String Cheese Incident. However, since SCI's hiatus in 2007 Zilla and EOTO have become Travis'...
during 2003.
Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi was a founding member and acoustic guitarist in The String Cheese Incident, a US jamband from Boulder, Colorado....
and his wife Jillian started a bluegrass/acoustic band called Honkytonk Homeslice
Honkytonk Homeslice
Honkytonk Homeslice is a band created by The String Cheese Incident frontman Bill Nershi. The band consists of Bill Nershi, his wife Jilian Nershi, and singer-songwriter, Scott Law...
, which has toured across the US, especially in the West, and is scheduled to tour with Drew Emmitt
Drew Emmitt
Drew Emmitt is a mandolinist, guitarist, fiddle player, occasional flutist and singer best known for being one of the founding members of Leftover Salmon, as well as being the frontman of the Left Hand String Band, Drew Emmitt Band, and the Emmitt-Nershi Band....
of Leftover Salmon
Leftover Salmon
Leftover Salmon is a jam band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 1989. Their unique blend of bluegrass, rock, country, and Cajun/Zydeco, which the band calls "Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass", has found favor with the jam band scene...
, Billed as The Emmitt-Nershi Band.
Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth is an american rock keyboard player best known for playing in The String Cheese Incident. Kyle sings and plays electric piano, Hammond organ, clavinet, synthesizer and accordion....
plays with various side projects around Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
including his own band, Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth is an american rock keyboard player best known for playing in The String Cheese Incident. Kyle sings and plays electric piano, Hammond organ, clavinet, synthesizer and accordion....
, that plays SCI songs Kyle has written over the years as well as some of his other original pieces. His band features members of the Boulder-based group, The Motet.
Michael Kang
Michael Kang
Michael Kang may refer to:*Michael Kang , director of the 2006 independent film The Motel*Michael Kang , member of the String Cheese Incident...
plays occasionally with Pangaea
Pangaea
Pangaea, Pangæa, or Pangea is hypothesized as a supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated into their current configuration....
(African rooted band), and spends much of his off time travelling the world.
Jason Hann
Jason Hann
Jason Hann is a American percussionist.-Early life:Hann grew up in Miami, Florida. He studied music in Ghana, Haiti, and Korea.-Career:Hann was a member of The String Cheese Incident, an American jamband. In 1999, Hann performed on the '2001' by Dr Dre....
and Michael Travis
Michael Travis
Michael Travis is an American musician.-Bio:Travis was born in southern California. He graduated from University of California at Santa Cruz with a degree in Environmental Science in 1989 and moved to Crested Butte Colorado....
recently started a live looping project called EOTO
EOTO
-Description:The band's music is created live and without prerecorded loops.The band formed in 2006 as a side project of The String Cheese Incident incorporating looper pedals, like Echoplex and the DJ program Ableton. According to one reviewer, the duo sets their live instruments free and take on...
. One time throughout their 2008 tour they were joined by Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth
Kyle Hollingsworth is an american rock keyboard player best known for playing in The String Cheese Incident. Kyle sings and plays electric piano, Hammond organ, clavinet, synthesizer and accordion....
and Michael Kang
Michael Kang
Michael Kang may refer to:*Michael Kang , director of the 2006 independent film The Motel*Michael Kang , member of the String Cheese Incident...
making it everyone from SCI except Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi
Bill Nershi was a founding member and acoustic guitarist in The String Cheese Incident, a US jamband from Boulder, Colorado....
and Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley is an American musician and songwriter, who played bass guitar among other instruments for The String Cheese Incident, a jamband from Boulder, Colorado, of which he was a founding member....
. These four played together on August 6, 2011 at Yarmony Grass Music Festival 2011 in Rancho del Rio, CO under the moniker "The Trancident."
Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley
Keith Moseley is an American musician and songwriter, who played bass guitar among other instruments for The String Cheese Incident, a jamband from Boulder, Colorado, of which he was a founding member....
is currently touring with Keller Williams
Keller Williams
Keller Williams is an American musician from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who began performing in the early 1990s. He is also known by the names K-Dub or just Keller, when performing. Williams' music combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and...
in Keller's newly formed band: Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe (formerly the WMDs). He also performed with Keller as part of Grateful Grass, a project performing bluegrass covers of songs by The Grateful Dead and releasing a live album in support of the Rex Foundation
Rex Foundation
The Rex Foundation was created by "members of the Grateful Dead and Friends" in 1983 as a charitable non-profit organization to "proactively provide extensive community support to creative endeavors in the arts, sciences, and education." The organization is named after Rex Jackson, a Grateful Dead...
.
Albums
- Born on the Wrong PlanetBorn on the Wrong PlanetBorn on the Wrong Planet is the 1996 debut album of The String Cheese Incident. It was re-released in 1998.-Track listing:#"Black Clouds" - 4:23#"Born On The Wrong Planet" - 4:57#"Land's End" - 5:19...
, (1997) - A String Cheese IncidentA String Cheese IncidentA String Cheese Incident is the second release and first live album of Colorado-based Jam band, The String Cheese Incident. The album chronicles a single concert from the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado on February 27th, 1997 and is the first to feature pianist Kyle Hollingsworth as part of the...
, (1997) - 'Round the Wheel'Round the Wheel'Round the Wheel is the third release by Colorado-based jam band The String Cheese Incident, released in 1998. The album features guests Paul McCandless on soprano and tenor saxophone and Tony Furtado on banjo.- Track listing :...
, (1998) - Breathe, with Keller WilliamsKeller WilliamsKeller Williams is an American musician from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who began performing in the early 1990s. He is also known by the names K-Dub or just Keller, when performing. Williams' music combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and...
, (1999) - Carnival '99Carnival '99Carnival '99 is the fourth release and second live album of Colorado-based jam band, The String Cheese Incident. This double album was taken from various live performances throughout 1999.-Track listing:#"Shenandoah Breakdown" - 3:28...
, (1999) - Outside InsideOutside Inside (The String Cheese Incident album)Outside Inside is the fifth release and third studio album of Colorado-based Jam band, The String Cheese Incident. Released in 2001, this album marked a shift from the band's traditional bluegrass leanings to a more standard rock sound, thus making it the most accessible album to a mainstream...
, (2001) - Untying the NotUntying the NotUntying the Not is the sixth release and fourth studio album of Colorado based Jam band, The String Cheese Incident. UtN is indeed a strong deviation from their previous rock and bluegrass sounds and shows heavy influence from guest producer Martin Glover...
, (2003) - One Step CloserOne Step Closer (The String Cheese Incident album)One Step Closer is the seventh release and fifth studio album of Colorado-based jam band, The String Cheese Incident. Released in June 2005, and containing thirteen original tracks with guest songwriting collaborations, the album was produced by Malcolm Burn at a studio in Boulder, Colorado...
, (June 28, 2005) - Trick Or Treat: Best Of The String Cheese Incident, (2009)
- Rhythm of the Road: Volume One - Incident in Atlanta - 11.17.00 (2010)
Videos
- Pura Vida (2001, VHSVHSThe Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
) - Evolution (2001, VHS & DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
) - Bonnaroo Live (2002, DVD)
- Waiting For the Snow to Fall (2003, DVD)
- Live at the Fillmore Auditorium, Denver: March 23, 2002 (2003, two-disc DVD)
- The Big Compromise (2005 bonus DVD, the making of "One Step Closer," 30 minute preview)
- Live from Austin, Texas (2006, DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
) - Live from Rothbury Music Festival 2009 (2009, [live stream])
Other contributions
- 107.1 KGSR Radio Austin - Broadcasts Vol.10 (2002) - "Up the Canyon"
External links
- Official website - contains individual biographies, sample MP3MP3MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
s, tour dates, and details on SCI's various charitable causes (known as Gouda Causes, in keeping with the band's cheeseCheeseCheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms....
theme). - Kyle Hollingsworth' Sense of Adventure - KyndMusic/RightAction, June 25, 2006