4. Goodbye Head
Trey Anastasio Band – Goodbye Head
If you were at Trey’s Webster Hall shows in 2006, you heard a string quintet conducted by Don Hart back the guitarist for my favorite of the songs he wrote during the breakup – Goodbye Head. Those Webster Hall takes of the tune rank as the best in this writer’s opinion and showed the potential for a full orchestra version.
3. Mozambique
Trey Anastasio Band – Mozambique
If Trey’s 2009 orchestral performances taught us anything, it’s that the guitarist doesn’t fear working out a simple rock vamp for a symphony. The way the Baltimore Symphony blasted through First Tube makes me want to hear an orchestral take on another vamp and I think Mozambique is up for the task.
2. Walls of the Cave
This multi-part epic first played by Phish at their “comeback” show on December 31, 2002 is ripe for an orchestra’s interpretation. In my head, I hear a clarinet playing the melody of the instrumental section that begins Walls and can hear a cacophonous roar from each section of the symphony leading back to the “listen to the silent trees” finale.
1. Slave to the Traffic Light
Phish – Slave to the Traffic Light
One of the most gorgeous songs in the Phish repertoire, I’ve always dreamed of watching Trey and dozens of incredibly talented musicians interpret all of the tune’s nuances – the “Wall of Sound” approach. Can you imagine the crescendos that would be reached during the jam section?
I’ve shown you mine, now you show me yours. Let us know what song you’d like to see Trey bust out on his first-ever orchestral tour.
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slave for certain, also curtain with and fluffhead
Fast Enough for You!
excellent, well thought out list! Some I wouldn’t have thought of that would be great!
While I must say that HiddenTrack is the best music blahg on these here interwebs, this particular list is a travesty. I would have ONLY accepted this list as the option.
10. Harry Hood
9. Harry Hood
8. Harry Hood
7. Harry Hood
6. Harry Hood
5. Harry Hood
4. Harry Hood
3. Harry Hood
2. Harry Hood
1. Harry Hood
Difference between my list and your list:
Your list: No Harry Hood
My list: All Harry Hood
@Miner – Thank you!
@The Sturge – For me it was between Slave and Hood (didn’t want to be greedy) and I think Slave would benefit more from the orchestra than Hood. I think so much of Hood’s beauty is based on the interplay between Trey, Mike and Fish; I just don’t know how you’d recreate that with an orchestra. Hope Trey shows me wrong!
Great list…. Mines
10 curtain with
9 yem – please
8 hood
7 Esther – think it would be perfect
6 car ini – just cause I think it’s impossible
5 div sky
4 goodbye head
3 big ball jam – how cool would that be
2 pebbles and marbles (it style)
1 slave
Great List Scotty. Trey should bring Chapeau Mauvais, Sidewalks of San Fran, and Olivia back to TAB.
Stash, but not with a string section but rather a brass section. Strings other than Trey’s sounds odd to me for whatever the reason, so I wonder what Trey would sound like backed by the symphony horns.
Great list everytime I thought of a song the next one was that song. Waves maybe. pepples and marbles they have done i think. slave would be nuts, hood would be nuts. Even though its not an original Peaches en Regalia would be nice and the inlaw Josie wales
I would love to see an epic orchestral rendition of the Inlaw Josie Wales – but I agree with all the songs you chose. I think Slave would be an amazing song to play. I agree with you – its definitely one of the most or maybe the most emotionally charged song that Phish consistently plays.
Wolfman’s brother, stash, and divided sky were stellar at Princeton!!!
Taste
The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
I’d love to hear Trey and the Orchestra bust out a bluegrass medley. Sort of a Boston Pops Sleigh Bells meets Big Red mashup.
I can also seeing him resurrecting the one and done cover ‘Aeroplane Under the Sea’. Slo
So are you saying we won’t be able to get the live cd from trey with AOS on the 9 of feb
‘complete’ gamehenge
or maybe just Tela…mmm