String Cheese Incident

Sadly, all I know about them is that their fans are dirty enough to attract the attention of the Center for Disease Control. However, I get the feeling that Pitchfork aren't fans.

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From Pitchfork
Traveling String Cheese Incident Fans Spread...Er, "Share" Hepatitis
[Posted Wednesday, October 8th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Ashford Tucker reports:
According to the Houston Chronicle, Washington Times and KindWeb.com, loads of silly jerks who follow the reprehensible shitgrass band The String Cheese Incident from town to town are spreading (ummm...we, like, prefer "sharing" to "spreading," dude) the hepatitis A virus at an alarming rate. Though not quite a full blown social epidemic just yet, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta states that it will focus on vaccinating "kids who travel with the band."

Vaccinations were given for free at the band's recent Oakland, CA concert. Hepatitis A causes nausea and vomiting for approximately a week or two. It's not usually life-threatening, though, unlike its bad motherfucking older brother hepatitis B. And hepatitis C, you remember, is what Pam and Tommy gave each other and then tried to play off as the result of a tattooing accident.

The A strain of hepatitis, in fact, is not generally found in nations with developed sanitation systems. It's not so much a needles-and-sex-virus as it is a wipe-ass-with-hand-while-drinking-from-the-Ganges-virus. So, moms and dads, tell little Billy to take a freakin' bath every week or so while on "tour." Or don't-- I mean, if Billy liked listening to you, he probably wouldn't be an acid-devouring gypsy wasting away the most productive years of his life running away from you and sleeping in friends' Vanagons.

In closing, we here at Pitchfork would like to beg all of the simple fucks involved to begin a rigorous regimen of warshing before they resurrect the bubonic plague and plunge us back into the dark ages. I'm not sure the Arab world would bail us all out again.

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Yet again SCI and Phish get mentioned in the same breath.. so I'm thinking there must BE something here...

Been quietly getting into Phish in a moderately big way over the last few months (4 albums so far - A Live One being the only disappointment, possibly owing mainly to the muddy sound). Plus I'm a Dead fan of some 30 years standing.

So - where does anyone suggest I start with SCI?

Jim

Saw the SCI on Sunday at Glastonbury - very very wrecked from the night before (Love, etc, sunrise). From what I can remember while trying to stay awake, they were pretty damn good. I wanted to dance but couldn't.

I then contracted heat stroke (a mild version of - not pleasant) during the afternoon, so SCI were probably during the part of the day that I had the most energy...

I'd like to see them again in slightly less run-down conditions

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