They casually played improvisational jazz around Burlington, Vermont, for a few months, with the first of several shows at Last Elm Cafe.
The group recorded a four-track project during Phish's short hiatus in the summer of 1984. Bivouac Jaun in 1984 was a project featuring Anastasio, Phish lyricist Tom Marshall, and one-time Phish percussionist Marc Daubert.They reunited in March 2009 for a corresponding tour, released a reunion album Joy and have since resumed performing regularly. Phish performed together for over 20 years, releasing 10 studio albums, before taking a disbanding in August 2004. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 (with the current line up solidifying in 1985), the band includes bassist and vocalist Mike Gordon percussionist, vacuum player, and vocalist Jon Fishman and keyboardist and vocalist Page McConnell. Phish is noted for their musical improvisation, extended jams, exploration of a broad range of genres, and original live performances. He graduated from Goddard in 1988.Īnastasio is a founding member of the rock band Phish, serving as lead guitarist and vocalist since their inception. These songs became mainstays of the Phish catalog.
While at Goddard, he composed the song cycle The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday as his senior project. ĭuring this time he began a musical association and close friendship with composer Ernie Stires, who taught him composition, theory, and arranging. Anastasio, along with Jon Fishman, transferred to Goddard College. After seeing a Phish show, pianist Page McConnell joined Phish in the autumn of 1985. Anastasio met up with childhood friends Tom Marshall, his future writing partner, and Marc Daubert who would officially join Phish as percussionist from September 1984 to February 1985. While there, he reconnected with his childhood friend Tom Marshall, and the pair began a songwriting collaboration and recorded material that would appear on the Bivouac Jaun demo tape. While living at home for a semester he attended Mercer County Community College. At UVM, he hosted an early morning radio program, Ambient Alarm Clock. The band would not return to play but were still paid for the performance. After performing one set, Michael Jackson's Thriller album was put on by a party-goer to drown out the band. The band was very primitive at this time and used hockey sticks as mic stands. The setlist consisted of cover songs, including " Long Cool Woman" and " Proud Mary" which was performed twice. On Decemthe group played their first gig at a dance in the Harris-Millis Cafeteria at UVM. Trey enrolled at the University of Vermont (UVM) as a philosophy major, where he met original Phish bandmates Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, and Jeff Holdsworth. At Taft, he formed his first two bands, Red Tide and Space Antelope. He graduated from the Taft School along with Steven Pollak, better known as the Dude of Life, who later helped pen such Phish compositions as "Suzy Greenberg", "Fluffhead", "Run Like An Antelope", "Slave to the Traffic Light", and "Dinner and a Movie". Īnastasio attended Princeton public schools through the fourth grade, then transferred to Princeton Day School. His mother, Dina, was a children's book author and editor of Sesame Street Magazine. His father, Ernest Anastasio Jr., was an executive vice president at the Educational Testing Service. Trey's childhood home in Princeton, New Jersey.Īnastasio was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to Princeton, New Jersey, when he was three. In 2013, they were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score at the 67th Tony Awards, and were awarded the 2013 Dramatists Guild Frederick Loewe Award for best theatrical score composition. With Amanda Green, he wrote the score for the Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody. Trey has performed his own compositions with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and many others. In addition to his work with Phish, Anastasio has released 11 solo albums, and been part of several side projects including the Trey Anastasio Band, Oysterhead, Ghosts of the Forest, and Surrender to the Air. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 141 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole. Ernest Joseph " Trey" Anastasio III (born Septem ) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983.
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