Ice Nyne was a rock group started at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia in 1981. The group was comprised of 5 guys and a girl from the Augusta area. The name Ice Nyne came from one of the founding members, Jeff Wells. Jeff had read Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" and changed the spelling of ice 9 to make it "cool"...This first version of Ice Nyne played the clubs and frat houses around Statesville for a year or so. The hightlight was probably there very memorable show at the Claxton, GA "Rattlesnake Roundup". After many equipment issues their set was not very well recieved. The event organizers thought they had hired a country-southern rock band and were quite pissed when Ice Nyne took the stage and proceeded to play Hard Rock. The climax came when the band was threatened that