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String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident, formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993, originally playing local gigs at ski resorts in exchange for free lift tickets, included members Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin 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). On October 31, 2004, Jason Hann, an auxiliary percussionist was introduced in the band a sixth member. The band's name has been adopted from the unfortunate album The Spaghetti Incident? by the rock band Guns N' Roses; Kang has said in numerous interviews that he thought the album's failure symbolized all the dangers of excess which he and his bandmembers were wary of when starting out as rock musicians.

After a few years of playing local ski resorts and private functions, the band took a step further and formed the independent record label SCI Fidelity, on which they released their first album, Born on the Wrong Planet. During this crucial period, the band displayed the spur to play strong, melody-rich music. Instrumentals and covers constituted half of the album, allowing much room to display musical skill and even in the lyrics. Many time-tested fan favorites that were spawned from this disc are still in the band's regular live rotation, including "Black Clouds," "Land's End," "Texas," and "Jellyfish."

Later, SCI released a compilation of ten songs, including "Land's End," on their self-titled live album A String Cheese Incident, which records 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). The album clocks is of 72 minutes and is widely considered the best CD for new converts to listen to in order to become acquainted to the band's live sound.

released in 1998'Round the Wheel, polished the band's sound and with improvised version music and lyrics , and added Paul McCandless as a guest player on soprano and tenor saxophone and Tony Furtado on Banjo, but did not earn them much fame. On August 6th, 2003, the band's own ticketing agency, SCI Ticketing, filed a grievance against Ticketmaster 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. SCI Ticketing felt that Ticketmaster's service charges were too high and that it had hogged the concert ticketing industry, using its immense market power to prevent competition for the sale of concert tickets. The outcome was constructive enough for SCI to stay in the ticketing industry, though their company name was eventually changed to Baseline Ticketing, and the band occasionally attempts to avoid booking "incidents" with Live Nation, previously Clear Channel Communications.

In October 2003, SCI released their fourth studio album, Untying the Not. UtN, which is way different than their typical previous rock and bluegrass sounds and demonstrates 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 most clearly evidenced in the tracks "Elijah" and "Mountain Girl." It also shows significant evidence of the band's recent habit of introducing techno and trance elements into the mix, such as on the track entitled "Valley of the Jig", which is a successful fusion of techno and bluegrass stylings.

In June 2005, the band released their fifth studio album, entitled One Step Closer, with thirteen original tracks plus guest songwriting collaborations. The album was produced by Malcom Burn at a studio in Boulder, Colorado, where the band is based. In 2005 String Cheese Incident returned to their origin; performances at the base of ski resorts, summer festivals, smaller venues, and touring throughout the United States. Band members announced to their fans that the band would take a break from touring in early 2006. They announced 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.

The band has announced a few shows for 2007, including their annual Winter Carninval (sans 2006), which stops in Denver and Vail Colorado, and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. While it's doubtful that SCI will continue with their current line-up, the remaining members will likely continue to work together in future projects.