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Formed December 1997 — the later scene, first chapter
Two campus bands, one jam band:The name, per Cummins, came from Bayliss's cousin Humphrey Magee — "but it's not possessive." The band moved at campus speed: a debut album, Greatest Hits Vol. III, within eight months in mid-1998, a first live album, Songs for Older Women, the same year, and by the end of 1998 — alongside peers Ali Baba's Tahini — standing among the most popular bands in the South Bend/Notre Dame area, inside a tape-and-trade live culture that carried the music outward. The reference record catalogs the band with its origin as South Bend, Indiana, and its later base as Chicago; the boundary is printed as the record gives it — formed by Notre Dame students on Notre Dame's ground, cataloged to this city, and based elsewhere in its working life. No album chart position is printed for the band in this entry: its Billboard 200 record was not verified first-hand, and the entry does not carry numbers it did not check. The band's formation date, membership, and South Bend formation-period standing are the documented size of its place in this record.
Sources:
- AllMusic biography of Umphrey's McGee (Jesse Jarnow) — the December 1997 formation by Notre Dame students Bayliss, Stasik, Cummins, and Mirro; the Tashi Station and Stomper Bob combination; the Humphrey Magee naming per Cummins; Greatest Hits Vol. III (mid-1998) and Songs for Older Women (1998); the band's standing among the area's most popular acts by the end of 1998; origin cataloged as South Bend, Indiana, later based in Chicago.