![]() ![]() You know, we’re fans of Camp Bisco as our fans are fans of Camp Bisco, so we would like to see it succeed as much as the fans do. We’re always trying to improve and do better. It was always about making the festival be as good as it can be and providing the best for the fans’ experience, whether it’s providing the acts that the fans want to see, or if it’s listening to the minutia of the things that we can make better. Like all good things, it took time, energy, the right people behind the scenes and on stage, listening to the fans in order to make the festival better-it wasn’t about making the festival bigger, we knew that that would eventually be an end result. It was like, “We can do this-why not?” And, like I said, there weren’t that many festivals out there and there weren’t as many bands doing their own festivals, so we decided to take a shot at it. We blocked the timeslots ourselves and handpicked the bands… So we created our own festival. So one year, we decided to do it ourselves. But this didn’t have the fluidity that it would as if it had been created by a producer. The Biscuits were starting to get on that circuit and we weren’t getting the timeslots we wanted or the billing we wanted… The festivals weren’t curated the way we wanted them to be, so we figured to get this guy and this band, so we could pool all the fans of each band in one place. Not like today where there are multiple festivals each weekend in every state. Way back in the late ’90s, as we were at the beginnings of our career, we started playing festivals and at that point in time, festivals were still kinda new. So I became a music major and then dropped out of school.Įach year you host Camp Bisco what gave you the idea to host something like that? Why don’t you just declare yourself a music major?” And finally I was like, “Yeah, I guess you’re right.” And then I dropped out. I was kind of experimenting around with all sorts of other majors and finally a friend kind of sat me down and said, “Dude, you eat, sleep, breathe music. So I declared music as my major very late in the game. ![]() Well, I actually went to school trying to find something that interested me as much as music and couldn’t. I mean, if you’re gonna drop out of school, it might as well be an Ivy League school. So he said, “How about Disco Biscuits?” And we were like, “Okay!” So that’s it! But the owner of the bar came out and was like, “So what are you called?” We didn’t know, so we told him to give us a name. Uhm… It was 1996 and we were students in college and we were playing at the local watering hole and we needed a name for the band so they could put it up on the chalkboard and we were outside. I’ll test your storytelling skills! False story, please. So, what do you want? The true version, or some completely made up version? So many re-inventions of the true and false versions of the story because the truth is probably much less fun than any sort of re-invented false version of that story. God, there’ve been so many different stories throughout the years. How did you guys pick out the name for the band? What better way to bring in the New Year than to wrap up 2015 with a wild concert? I was lucky enough to catch pianist and vocalist, Aron Magner, before rehearsals got to be too hectic to find out more about this upcoming spout of shows and what the Disco Biscuits have up their sleeves for the upcoming months. ![]() Now that these musicians have set the stage, they’re onto something a little more interesting: playing in NYC on New Year’s Eve-plus three other nights! Talk about a party. And to add to our appetites, the Disco Biscuits are entering their 15-year anniversary since launching the first-ever Camp Bisco, a music festival the members had created before any of that became mainstream. Smooth, jazzy guitar riffs blend with colorful piano chords and funky drum beats, creating an interesting and exciting blend-certainly more filling than any gravy on fries I’ve ever had. Instead, they offer a range of electric music, sending shockwaves through anyone’s system faster than those boring sugar rushes. No these Disco Biscuits are far better than any food. Most of us have heard of disco fries before-but disco biscuits? Granted, as addictive as those fries are, I would bet many would be interested in ordering some biscuits as a side dish.
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