Saddening for us all: The String Cheese Incident breaks up

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November 6, 2006
For Immediate Release

AFTER 13 YEARS TOGETHER,
THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT ANNOUNCES AN END.

The String Cheese Incident posted an announcement on their website on Friday,
November 3, 2006. The post reads:

After summer 2007, Billy Nershi is leaving The String Cheese Incident to pursue other musical projects. There will be only a limited number of Incidents between now and then. Current plans include Thanksgiving in Atlanta, a New Years Eve blowout in San Francisco, Winter Carnival in Colorado, and a return to Red Rocks. Presently, there are no plans for The String Cheese Incident beyond summer of 2007.

The band would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our friends and fans for all your support.

The band, and their management, are not saying anything more right now. Stay tuned to www.stringcheeseincident.com as more details are released.

Fans can look forward to the band's upcoming holiday shows: Thanksgiving weekend at Atlanta's legendary Fox Theatre and their always epic "Sea of Dreams" appearance in San Francisco. Winter Carnival and Red Rocks dates to be announced. Confirmed show details are as follows:

Friday, November 24th and Saturday, November 25th @ 8:00pm (Doors @ 7:00pm)
The Fabulous Fox Theatre
660 Peachtree Street, Atlanta
Tickets $27.50-$35.00 / All Ages Welcome
For more information please contact 404-817-8700

Saturday, December 30th and Sunday, December 31st
Sea of Dreams
San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th Street (@ Brannan), San Francisco
Tickets: Sat. 12/30 - $50.00, Sun.12/31 - $75.00, Two Night Pass - $120.00
Ages 18+ Welcome
For more information please visit www.seaofdreamsnye.com

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Publicity Contact:
Madison House Publicity
Carrie Lombardi

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

There will be only a limited number of Incidents between now and then.

GUH

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

My roommate jammed with them on "jam cruise".

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, does this mean we will never hear the untold story about the actual string cheese incident?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

THANK GOD THIS HAPPENED

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly, i have spent too much time in new england and the greater mountain west to NOT hate these fuckers and all their jerkoff fans

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

NYPost: STRING CHEESE 'PULLED APART' BY DIFFERENCES

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

They're a perennial favorite in the Jam Band Game (great way to kill a long drive, you keep going around the car and everyone has to name a jam band, if you can't think of one then yr out).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

gbx otm

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The line nza quoted makes me want to cry while pulling the flesh off my bones.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

They were, I think, the first show I saw in my freshman year of college and the only show I ever saw at The Wetlands. I was driven there in a green 60s VW Bus, bead curtains and all, whose owner really, honestly referred to it as "The Shaggin Wagon." I had gone to a mostly black high school. I had not been aware that there were still hippies at all, and seeing tripped-out String Cheese fans doing that dance where you kind of waddle around in a circle and wave your arms in front of your face was quite a culture shock.

On the way back, the VW owner was too stoned to drive but no one else knew how to drive stick. We went about 30 miles per hour the whole way home and nonetheless nearly crashed into a concrete median barrier.

I suppose, for this memory alone, although for no other reason musical or otherwise, they will always have a place in my heart.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember seeing a show where they opened for Medeski, Martin and Wood. It was very entertaining watching MMW completely, totally, utterly embarrass them.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

MMW have found a way to cleverly fool String Cheese fans into listening to good music.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Were you guys always String Cheese Incident? Did you have a different name at any point?
I think for maybe a month we were the Bluestring Experience, or something like that. But we very quickly became the String Cheese Incident.
Where does that name come from?

You know, it’s kind of secret actually. We don’t talk about it much. But it is based on an incident and the idea that every show is a new incident. That’s kind of the thing that’s made it stick. Every time we get together and play music, it’s an incident. You never know what’s going to happen. The relationship between the band and the crowd is important and dynamic. We thought that it all kind of worked with the incident (idea).

― gear (gear), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

THANK GOD THIS HAPPENED

-- gbx

qft

― gear (gear), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The downside is that with Jerry dead, Phish split-up, and now these guys, the homeless population is going to explode.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

roffle

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

testing

― that dance where you kind of waddle around in a circle and wave your arms in fro, Monday, 6 November 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread kind of makes me sad because it made me realize it's been at least 2 years since I last saw MMW.

― that dance where you kind of waddle around in a circle and wave your arms i (nic, Monday, 6 November 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Damnit Settings, why u braek awesome new screne name?

― that dance where you kind of waddle around in a circle and wave your arms i (nic, Monday, 6 November 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

as long as widespread panic/widespread/"the spread" are still going, they'll have a home

http://www.widespreadpanic.com/cms_files/images/cms_image_9393.jpg

― gear (gear), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"STRING CHEESE SPLIT. BEEN TRYING TO FOLLOW THE INTERPOL. NO LUCK SCORING WEED. PEOPLE UNFRIENDLY. COLD. HUNGRY. PLEASE WIRE MONEY. SKYLARK."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The show I really wanted to see that, as far as I know, never happened, was The Grassy Knoll/MMW/GOD.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

why wasn't this a headline on pitchfork?

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

13 years and I never heard a note of their music.

So sad.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that photo above Widespread Panic?

I never realized their name was so literal.

― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, that was my exact thought when I saw the photo - "widespread indeed!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

WP makes SCI sound like MMW. I hates me some Panic.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god, you've made me think of the worst mashup ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

So ... Phish broke up, and now SCI broke up. Now, if Phil Lesh shares the stage with Bill Nershi and Trey Anastasio with Kuroda doing lights, THE BRAHPHECY WILL BE FULFILLED.

― Jamesy (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Even the drummer of the mediocre jamband String Cheese Incident feels empowered to air his classically anti-Semitic views these days. pic.twitter.com/23TrvBDqkT
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) August 23, 2017

― na (NA), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link

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