The String Cheese Incident - Trick or Treat [Box] *

Artist:

String Cheese Incident (The)

UPC:

662102112731

See Also:

DJ Harry - The String Cheese Remix Project

Description:

Personnel: Bill Nershi (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Michael King (vocals, mandolin, violin); Kyle Holligsworth (vocals, accordion, keyboards); Michael Travis (vocals, drums, percussion); Keith Mosley (vocals); Jason Hann (percussion).
Audio Mixer: James Tuttle .
Liner Note Authors: Michael King; Kyle Hollingsworth; Bill Nershi; Keith Moseley; Michael Travis.
Photographers: David Gray; Jeremy Stein; Todd Radunsky; Larry Fox; Jeffrey Smiith; Justin Halgren; Scott Yobp; Scott Bacon.
With String Cheese Incident either a done deal or on an extended hiatus -- no one was really saying anything definitive one way or the other -- the group`s members decided to release both a massive, limited-edition, nine-CD box (seven complete sets) and pared-down two-disc collection culled from its annual Halloween shows. While hardcore Cheeseheads will likely want to spring for the full set, the less-fully committed will suffice with this tidy best-of. SCI habitually used their October 31 gigs to spring an assortment of choice, unpredictable cover tunes on their open-minded audience, and that`s what comprises nearly all of the package. That they also took many liberties with those covers should come as no surprise, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn`t. These gigs were intended to be loose and fun, and anyone who went to one looking for musical perfection on a night when the jam band randomly chose to have their way with tunes by everyone from KC & the Sunshine Band and Black Sabbath to Cat Stevens and the Clash was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two Beatles tunes populate the first disc, a relatively straightforward "Come Together" and a trippy "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," the latter preceded by a spacy intro that hints where it`s going long before it actually gets there. Keller Williams` "Freeker by the Speaker" is given a quasi-bluegrass spin, and the Police`s "Walking on the Moon" is a ringer for the original. Fellow jammers Phish are saluted with "The Wedge" and the aforementioned Sabbath with "War Pigs," giving SCI all the reason they required to show just how much of a metallic stomp they could create when they wanted to. Disc two is no less kooky, running from a tight, fusiony workout on Miles Davis` "So What" to Bob Marley`s "Exodus," a churning "L.A. Woman" (the Doors), "Under African Skies" (Paul Simon), "Rockin` the Casbah" (the Clash), and "Peace Train" (Stevens). Not all of the collection relies on cover material though: keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth`s "`Round the Wheel" and guitarist Bill Nershi`s "Restless Wind" provide a reminder, at the tail-end of the two-fer, that when they weren`t sampling from their iPods, these guys could write original material on par with some of those covers they enjoyed playing so much. ~ Jeff Tamarkin

Track Listing:

DISC 1: OCTOBER 31, 1998 - VARIETY PLAYHOUSE, ATLANTA, GA:

1. Texas
2. Mouna Bowa
3. Another Night
4. Galactic, The
5. Rhythm of the Road
6. `Round the Wheel
7. I Know You Rider

DISC 2: OCTOBER 31, 1998 - VARIETY PLAYHOUSE, ATLANTA, GA/ELECTRIC FACTORY - PHILADELPHIA, PA:

1. Elvis` Wild Ride
2. Jellyfish
3. On the Road
4. Remington Ride
5. Lester Poem
6. Exodus
7. Lester
8. Octopus`s Garden
9. Lester
10. Under African Skies
11. Lester
12. Down Under
13. Lester
14. Pirates

DISC 3: OCTOBER 31, 1999 - ELECTRIC FACTORY - PHILADELPHIA, PA:

1. Land`s End
2. Best Feeling
3. Jellyfish
4. Land`s End
5. Big Halloween Jam
6. Glory Chords
7. Restless Wind

DISC 4: OCTOBER 31, 2000 - STATE THEATRE - PORTLAND, ME:

1. Land`s End
2. Walking on the Moon
3. Come Together
4. Wedge, The
5. Get Down Tonight
6. Turn This Around
7. Lost
8. Jam
9. Come as You Are

DISC 5: OCTOBER 31, 2001 - NEW YORK, NY:

1. Train
2. Sweet Georgia Brown
3. Train
4. Instant Karma
5. Train
6. New York, New York
7. Train
8. So What
9. Train
10. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
11. Shakedown Street
12. Howard

DISC 6: OCTOBER 31, 2001 - NEW YORK, NY:

1. `Round the Wheel
2. Good Times Around the Band
3. Joyful Sound
4. Land`s End
5. Big Apple Jam
6. Glory Chords
7. Texas

DISC 7: OCTOBER 31, 2002 - SHRINE AUDITORIUM - LOS ANGELES, CA:

1. Rod Roddy
2. LA Woman
3. Rod Roddy
4. Tightrope
5. Rod Roddy
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. Rod Roddy
8. Fire/Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
9. Rod Roddy
10. We Are The Champions
11. My Way
12. Orange Blossom Special
13. Dirk
14. Miss Brown`s Teahouse

DISC 8: OCTOBER 31, 2003 - COZ PAVILLION - LAS VEGAS, NV:

1. Freakshow
2. Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
3. Hot in Herre
4. War Pigs
5. Jam
6. Money
7. Freeker by the Speaker

DISC 9: OCTOBER 31, 2004 - EXHIBITION CENTER AT ALLIANT ENERGY CENTER MADISON, WI:

1. Peace Train
2. Rock the Casbah
3. I Feel Like Fixin` to Die Rag
4. Rockin` in the Free World
5. Revolution
6. Jam
7. Howard Jam
8. Rockin` in the Free World (Reprise)
9. Hey Pocky Way
10. Thriller

DISC 10:

1. Land`s End
2. Walking On the Moon
3. Come Together
4. Wedge, The
5. Get Down Tonight
6. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
7. Hot in Herre
8. War Pigs
9. Freeker By the Speaker

DISC 11:

1. Exodus
2. Under African Skies
3. Tightrope
4. LA Woman
5. Peace Train
6. Rock the Casbah
7. So What
8. `Round the Wheel
9. Restless Wind

Album Information

Release Date:

11/24/2009

Type:

Boxed Set

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Bluegrass

Label:

SCI Fidelity Records

Catalog Number:

11273

Original Release Year:

2009

# of Discs:

11

Studio/Live:

Live

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

771 : 23

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