Fiction Family is the name taken by two musicians from other bands Sean Watkins of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, and Jon Foreman of the alternative-rock band Switchfoot.
Schmidheiny, who has said he was exposed to the mineral while working in his early 20s hauling sacks as a shift foreman at Eternit in Brazil, began moving his group away from asbestos long before it was a banned substance.