Phish frontman Trey Anastasio breaks down the band's new album, 'Evolve,' and reveals the song he wants to play at the end of their final concert.
will celebrate his 60th birthday. That’s a heavy moment for some people, but Anastasio says he couldn’t be happier about it.
At the same time, it’s a learned skill, and you can figure out how to live with it. And once you do, you’re fine. You don’t see it as a real thing, and you can just enjoy meeting people, and all that. And now you’re back to the good part of it. The good part is that I meet really great people sometimes, randomly, who tell me stories about coming to shows, or they brought their mother, that kind of thing. It’s cool. It makes you feel really good.
So it wasn’t really rocket science, to me. It was a pleasure to learn the Larry Carlton solo. I like the way his brain works. It was a joy. Not to mention the fact that the band at the Hall of Fame was a top band, so they played it right. I wanted to do it, like, six more times. “Can we do it again?” It was so fun.First off, there was a lot of writing initially, and then there was an experimentation with live versions of some of these songs, and this was a conscious choice.
So there was an enormous amount of prep work on the material, particularly the vocals, background vocals, songwriting, and song structure. And then the final piece is that I like old-fashioned albums where people did takes. So, Aretha Franklin, the Band, they always did takes. They set up in a circle. The best Beatles albums were like that. “We used take seven.” They played together. And that’s our greatest strength as Phish. So this whole album was recorded in about two days.
Ed O’Brien from Radiohead came to one of our shows, and gave me one of the greatest compliments in between sets. He watched the show from the audience, and then he came backstage and he said, “I spent a lot of the night facing backwards. I was watching the last row of the arena, in the way back, all the way at the top. Every single person in the room was completely involved in the concert.
Sure. But when you guys were young in the Nineties, a lot of weird alt-rock bands had these fluke hits. We now get to sing his songs. Everybody gets to sing his songs. I was honored to be there and pay tribute to this incredible musician who I was lucky to see play many, many times. But other than that, it’s pretty much just nostalgia. Sorry. But it is.
But then by definition, people in your orbit have something to gain by being attached to that. And they’re not bad people, they just … suddenly they have something to gain. So maybe you’re in the entourage, and you get to stay at the Four Seasons. Or maybe you’ve always wanted this, but it was never going to happen for yourself, but by attaching yourself to it you get your backstage pass, and there’s people cheering. And you get to go to the party. It gets very hard to say no to people.
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