Trey and Genesis
Posted: February 23, 2010 Filed under: Artists | Tags: Genesis, Trey Anastasio 2 Comments »I wonder what’s up with this:
Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio is inducting rock group Genesis into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month.
Is Trey a Genesis fan? I guess we’ll find out. Maybe he was the one who put the “Lamb” on the Festival 8 countdown list.
Folks These Days Got It Easy
Posted: February 15, 2010 Filed under: Concerts, Listening | Tags: Trey Anastasio Leave a comment »Thanks to YEMBlog, I found the 2/9 Trey show for download, which someone (thank you!) has posted up on SendSpace. I paid $3 for a SendSpace day pass, and now the show is in my collection. That process still amazes me, perhaps because I grew up listening to hissy, who-knows-what generation-of-copying bootlegs on cassette.
Right now, I’m giving the show a listen. Outstanding. Love the big riff at the end of “Valentine.”
You’ve Been Posted!
Posted: February 12, 2010 Filed under: Artists, Concerts, Deep | Tags: Carl Sagan, deep thoughts, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Trey Anastasio, Washington Post 2 Comments »I found plenty of bloggable stuff out there on the Internet today. Here are a couple of bits and pieces.
- Peter Gabriel. According to AP, he’s bailing on Genesis’s induction next month into the rock hall of fame, citing his upcoming European tour. Sort of harsh, no? Maybe they do some sort of video link.
- Carl Sagan. NPR quotes the scientist on the view of Earth from 4 billion miles away.
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
When I was little, I watched “Cosmos” on public television – that show kind of blew my mind. I might have to Netflix that action.
- Click Track. The Washington Post music blog reviews half of the 2/9 Trey show at 930 club.
“As a bonus you’ve been probably bobbing your head all along and not just because you might have a contact high,” says Click Track.
Ha ha ha! Stoners getting high at the Trey show! Ha! Only I didn’t see or smell pot or any other drugs (besides booze) once when I was there. Maybe the blogger did, but he didn’t elaborate. Then, from hackneyed to casual racism: “The two forays into light-reggae were about as successful as you’d expect from a band of seven white folks led by a dude from Vermont.” Yeeeucthh.
Reminds me of this:
Notes on Trey Gig at 930 Club
Posted: February 10, 2010 Filed under: Concerts | Tags: 930 Club, Trey Anastasio 2 Comments »It was hairy to get to this show. When I set out at 8pm for the club, snow was falling heavily, and there was an ominous feel out there on the streets of DC. Not much traffic out on the slick roads. I got a cab pretty quickly, though, and we set out slowly on our way.
We hadn’t gone more than a few stoplights when I realized that I had forgotten my motherf’n tickets at home. The cab driver was understanding, and he took me back, even waiting for me with the meter running on M Street while I scurried to grab my tickets.
Anyway, I thought the harsh conditions were going to thin the herd over at 930. Wrong. Place was packed! As full as I remember it being the last time I saw Trey there (in 2006).
The band had already started when I arrived – they were playing “Gotta Jibboo.” The mood for that song was the pretty much what was evident throughout the rest of the gig (at least the part that I stayed for; I ducked out about midway through the second set). I would call it “relaxed tight.” Trey was energetic but not hopping all over the stage. He directed the band ably, and they held things down very steadily. Musically, I found it a much different vibe than a Phish show, where the four band members are collaborating pretty much as co-equals.
I’m looking forward to downloading this show someplace. Here’s a video snippet.
Forecast Calls for Snow Again
Posted: February 8, 2010 Filed under: Concerts | Tags: Snow, Trey Anastasio 2 Comments »
I hate to blog the weather too much around here, but seriously, it’s weird how snow and my music plans have been linked up recently. At the moment, the forecast calls for six to 10 inches of snow tomorrow.
Following on the heels of snowpocalypse, this is definitely not what DC needs. My street is still a mess, with snow piled high and a downed tree on one end of the block. No mail. My office was half empty today. Inventory at grocery stores is getting pinched. Sure, it’s a long way from Katrina (and a really long way from Haiti), but dude, another six inches of snowfall is troublesome.
On the music front, worst case scenario is that Trey gets canceled. Best case scenario is that the show goes on, but the snow and pain-in-the-ass factor of getting to the club thins the crowds at 930 Club tomorrow. Trey gig at 930 back in 2006 was utterly packed.
Dog Gone on #Trey and Open Tuning
Posted: February 7, 2010 Filed under: Artists, Concerts | Tags: Dog Gone Blog, Trey Anastasio Leave a comment »Not much in the hopper this evening, except something I meant to link to a few days ago. The Dog Gone Blog has a nice post up on Trey’s use of open tuning:
“Time Turns Elastic” is the next step in this compositional technique. Pushing forward in new directions, Trey landed on a very obscure tuning in which to compose his newest masterpiece. “TTE” is written in ‘open C6′ tuning (C-G-C-E-A-C), which sounds exactly as complex as it is. Without going into the specifics, this tuning allows for a wide variety of chord arrangements, using open strings. These interesting chord voicings can be heard all throughout the song, especially in the solo acoustic version (click here to watch the video). But, few realize how challenging, and how forward-thinking this new composition is, and have dismissed it for whatever reason.
I’d certainly like to see Trey run through TTE on Tuesday, although I think it’s unlikely to happen.
A Case of Ice and Snow
Posted: February 5, 2010 Filed under: Listening | Tags: Les Claypool, Oysterhead, Snow, Trey Anastasio, Washington Leave a comment »
I’m about to head out for a quick jaunt in the blizzard, which I saw referred to today (on Twitter) as snowpocalypse, snomageddon, and snOMG. According to Weather Channel, it could all turn to freezing rain shortly, which would be a bummer.
Snow is supposed to return on Tuesday, the night of Trey at 930 Club. A Galactic gig was canceled at 930 tonight. I hope Trey gig doesn’t get hosed too.
In the spirit of all this, I tried to dig up Trey Anastasio’s “A Case of Ice and Snow” on Grooveshark. No dice. I did find this undated live Oysterhead recording, where Les Claypool pulls out references to “Jerry was a Race Car Driver” and “Reba.”
Fedex Delivers Some Joy
Posted: February 1, 2010 Filed under: Concerts | Tags: Trey Anastasio 1 Comment »I am excited to go see live music next week.
Got #Trey Tickets to 930
Posted: January 30, 2010 Filed under: Concerts | Tags: Trey Anastasio Leave a comment »I recently noted, all disappointed, that I thought tickets to Trey’s sold out Feb. 9 gig at 930 Club were too richly priced on the secondary market at $90 (or $40 over face value). Well, today I saw that the prices on secondary market had eased 28 percent to $65. I bought two tickets.
That’s a steep night out, for sure, but what the heck. Tickets to see Yes at the Warner Theater on Feb. 6 are going for as much as $75.
#Trey Tickets Too Rich at $90 a Pop
Posted: January 19, 2010 Filed under: Concerts | Tags: 930 Club, bullshit, Trey Anastasio Leave a comment »On my recent travels, I only had one moment where I was glued to a computer (not including the iPhone): January 14, when tickets for Trey Anastasio’s February 9 gig at the 930 Club went on sale to the general public. At around 9:55am, five minutes before the on sale time, I logged on to the 930 Club’s ticket vendor. I manically refreshed until, shortly after 10am, the screen popped up where you could enter your information to buy tickets.
But no dice. Either the show sold out in like six seconds, or it was all bullshit, and there were never any tickets available for the public to begin with.
Either way, the secondary market offers no comfort at the moment. Over at StubHub, prices start at $90 presently. I’m a fan of both Trey’s solo stuff and the 930 Club, but I wouldn’t pay much more than $50 for that show.
