In 2000, while roommates in room no. 717 at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, drummer Nigel Sifantus, guitarist Aaron Dugan, and bassist Reid Taylor began playing as an improvisational based trio reacting against their “Jazz school” creative confinements. The result was a musical explotion: part noise, part math rock, part theater, all energy. Their first show at the now defunct legendary lower east side club “Baby Jupiter” in November of 2000 became legendary among the downtown “jazz/not jazz” underground. Thus a new band was formed and sevenseventeen seemed the most appropriate name being that was where the fire was originally ignited. 2001 produced their self-titled studio debut and the band performed regularly around the NYC area as well as up and down the east coast, hitting what ever dive bar/hole in the wall they could exploit.