Acetate

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There are more than 2 artists under the alias "Acetate". 1) Tom Francis' Acetate was an active project in the UK drum and bass scene, primarily between 1998 and 2002, which released on labels like Flex Records. 2) Take three prolific musicians with impressive credentials, throw in a longtime friendship, add a dose of opportunity and you get Acetate. That's the result of what's basically a side project for three Athens musicians who just can't help but make as much music as they can. What you end up with is a rock 'n' roll band that's a throwback to the good old days when rock was fun and nothing mattered but the music. Acetate is Dave Schools, Kevin Sweeney and Ben Mize, a local supergroup of sorts. Schools is the bass player for Widespread Panic. Sweeney is best known as the wailing guitar player with Hayride and has his hands in numerous musical projects. And Mize spent the better part of the last decade behind the drum kit for the Counting Crows. When Mize left the Counting Crows more than a year ago, he returned to Athens and started jamming with his old friends in Schools' basement. Schools, who was on a break between Panic tours, says, ''Ben started coming over and we just started playing. ... And the next thing we knew, there were three original songs that just sort of happened.'' The end product is ''This Band Makes Me Feel,'' a self-produced CD featuring 12 songs that personify power pop and rock and is a do-it-yourself lesson on how to record. Though the band isn't