''On the Road'' is the name given to The String Cheese Incident's taping project that exhaustively documents almost all of their live concerts and presents a refined version of each show's soundboard matrix mix in a three-disc set (also occasionally two or four, depending on a show's length). Starting with their spring 2002 tour, the band has released nearly every concert they have played through their independent record label,

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. At first, the

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were encased in cardboard folding cases. Starting with the summer 2003 tour, the band switched to multiple-capacity jewel cases, and after a brief run in

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in early 2004, all shows thereafter have been released exclusively online in both MP3 and

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formats, with only a few shows per tour being chosen for release on

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. The band's live output and sales are both so prolific among loyal fans that they recently created a

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to separate the sales of online-only shows from shows still available on disc.

External links

SCI On the Road

Live Cheese
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