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I'll never forget the first time I heard SCI. My good friend from college played "Little Hands" and I think I fell in love :) I had to hear it all after that and went on a mission to see them live. I had the privelege of taking a few of my closest friends to their first Cheese show as well and introducing countless others to the one band I can never get enough of. I wish I had discovered them a long time ago, but my story begins in 2001, my freshman year in college. The first show for me was actually originally planned for Portsmouth, Va until Hurricane Isabel came through the area (where I live and where the show was supposed to be) and the roof of the pavilion was ripped away. The show was rescheduled for the NorVa in Norfolk, Va....a very small and initmate venue. I had a blast and wanted more!!! I too have had the opportunity to travel all around and meet sooooo many beautiful people. When I got clean I
took almost a year off from going to shows. I was scared and not sure how to handle it all. My boyfriend (another Cheese fan!!!) reminded me of the Jellyfish and it all came back to me. Not too long before I got clean I was in Asheville, NC...a trip I don't really remember much from (I actually had to look up the set list when I returned back to school that week,....lol)...the one thing I do remember was seeing the Jellyfish table and asking my friend "Who in the world would want to stay clean/sober during a show?!? Those guys have no idea what they're missing!!!" I laugh at that today :) I'm not missing a thing, and the shows have been greater than ever. I am so so so so so grateful that I had the opportunity to return to Asheville this past year and work the Table both nights, as well as in Roanoke, Va. I am so grateful for all the good times with Cheese and all of the beautiful people I have met along the way...set break
meetings...dancing like crazy...and just being there. So many memories to carry with me today, and I could never truly express all of the gratitude I have. So keep dancin...there's always good times around the bend!
Kristina R.
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mikobro@... wrote:
Today is the 9th anniversary of my first Cheese show at Saint Andrews Music Hall in Detroit. My friend Dan had turned me onto them after seeing them in Fort Collins on a ski trip. He said they were the next band. I had listened to a String Cheese Incident before seeing the band and was obsessed with Land's End>Glory Chord's Lands End, Dudley's Kitchen and Little Hands. GOD if I only knew what this band would bring to me in such a short time.I was immediately hooked and bought a hat, poster and tee shirt (with Bussy) on it. I would wear that hat to so many shows (it left me last summer) and still have and wear the shirt. I met Travis that night and told him I had never seen a drummer before that could pull it all off. I play hand drums and was mesmerized how he could master kit and hand drums simultaneously. The band took me and I knew that in spite of years of touring with the Dead and Phish, I was destined to follow yet another band. And boy did I get to go some places. Just with Cheese: Oregon, California, Nevada, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland (mine and Kyle's home state), New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Many, many cities, highway and byways. With the band always touring in October, I have seen 2 shows on my actual birthday (10-10) and several very close to it. The best was my 40th at the Opheum in '03.The best is all the friends I made. I was with the Jellyfish from basically its inception. I can recall a setbreak meeting at the Michigan Theatre in '99 with me, Nadia and one other. By the spring the next year, I was regularly working tables and would meet Widespread Patrick, who would be my dear friend to this day. It would not be much longer afterwards (New Years Run '00) that I would meet the rest of the cast of characters that make this all happened.It is not just the Jellyfish that had become phamily, the cadre of friends out there that grabbed the band like I did and toured as much as they could. We all go to know each other and still dance hard when we see each other. Megan and Stefan come to mind, along with Janet Planet and Tracy. I am not purposely omitting anyone. I am just smiling thinking of all the beautiful peopleSo CHEESE, on this day, you all gave me so much more than I bargained for. You guys extended the ride at a time when I thought it was going to end. As I progress to my middle 40's, I cannot believe that between 27 years of seeing the Dead, Phish and SCI I have been danced in almost thirty states, driven probably close to 100,000 miles, and tasted more in one tour than some folks could in a life time. Maybe it is time for me to write a book. LOLThanks CHEESE for these past 9 years. Thanks for allowing me to continue to dance.Love . . . .ONE INCIDENT AT A TIME
Yours in humble service,
Miko
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