Disco Biscuits

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The Disco Biscuits
Members from 2005 to present
Country	Philadelphia, PA, USA
Genres	trance-fusion, jam band,electronica, [[]]
Labels	SCI Fidelity,Diamond Riggs
Members	Jon Gutwillig Marc Brownstein Allen Aucion Aaron Magner
Past members	Sam Altman Ben Hayflick

The Disco Biscuits are a band from Philadelphia. The band is comprised of Jon Gutwillig (guitar), Marc Brownstein, (bass), Allen Aucoin (drums), Aron Magner (keyboards). Former drummer Sam Altman left in 2005. Magner replaced original keyboardist Ben Hayflick in 1995.

They differ from many jam bands in that they infuse electronic beats and jams into their music. This style is referred to generally as trance-fusion.

1 History
2 Style
3 Discography
4 External links

[edit] History

All of the original members of the Disco Biscuits met as undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, eventually dropping out to pursue the band full time. Gutwillig and Altman had become friends and had started to play music together and once Brownstein joined them, they began to play at college parties and bars throughout Pennsylvania. The called themselves different names at every show, until they settled on the Disco Biscuits.^{[citation needed]} They played numerous covers of Phish, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana, interwoven with originals.

In 1999, the first Camp Bisco is held in Pennsylvania, which would grow to be their flagship festival, with the most recent being Camp Bisco V in Hunter, New York. In early 2000, Brownstein left the band. On July 12, 2000 at the Crowbar in State College, PA the band announced that Brownstien was back in the band simplying saying that "There is no Disco Biscuits without Marc Brownstein".

The band then relocated to Santa Cruz, CA. Their 2002 album Señor Boombox charted on two Billboard Magazine entries; Top Electronic Albums at #13 and Top Independent Albums at #46.

In 2005 at Camp Bisco IV in Van Etten, NY, Altman left the band to attend medical school with Allen Aucoin replacing him.

The band has toured nationally as well as played at major music festivals such as Jam on the River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee, All Good Music Festival in Morgantown, West Virginia and the 2006 Lollapalooza. They are set to play a New Years Eve show, supported by Keller Williams at the Tweeter Center in Camden, New Jersey.

[edit] Style

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The Disco Biscuits often run long sets together, sometimes playing their songs backwards, which they call "inverted" and "dyslexic" versions.

The band also has two rock operas as part of their catalog: the Hot Air Balloon (written by Gutwillig) and the Chemical Warfare Brigade (written by Brownstein).