August 16th, 2007
Mariaville, New York
Indian Lookout Country Club
All photographs © 2007 Jason Kaczorowski
We flew into New York with as much gear as our weight restrictions would permit and I had my old friend from the days of catching Phish shows named Monsta pick us up at JFK airport. After a 6am flight, a 3 hour drive and a quick stop for last minute food and supplies, we finally rolled into Mariaville around 2:30 in the afternoon and set up camp just in time to hear the first act opening on the main stage just a few hundred feet away from our VIP campsite.
Our tent was the envy of everyone in our immediate vicinity. After recently traveling to the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival in Minnesota and staying aboard a 27 foot R.V., I wanted to camp in luxury and not stumble around our old, narrow tent with low ceilings. We settled on a new 15'X15' tent with closet organization, cup holders, an overhead loft for extra storage, dual-entry doors and enough room to inflate a queen size air mattress, yet still position a few chairs inside, walk around and even change clothes without feeling too constricted. The only thing we regretted not bringing was heavier blankets as the weather got down into the low 40’s throughout the cold, rainy weekend. Thankfully a local vendor had Guatemalan blankets for sale and we quickly snapped up two to keep ourselves warm during the frigid mornings.
Caveman, the continuously evolving live experience combining elements of interplanetary rock, psycho-blues and kamikaze jazz, officially opened Camp Bisco 6, Thursday, August 16th, with their exciting performance from 5:45-6:30. Shortly following, Chicago's own Umphrey's McGee rode the storm that blew in during the beginning of their set that lasted from 7pm until nearly 9. Festival namesakes The Disco Biscuits performed an amazing set from 9:15 until 10:45 and Israeli trance band Infected Mushroom kept the party going and the audience pumped up until the early morning hours on the main stage.
The Disco Biscuits set featured "Bernstein And Chasnoff", "Boom Shanker" into "The Great Abyss" and an epic, set-closing musical journey floating aboard the "Hot Air Balloon".
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