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HT Interview: Trey Anastasio, Part Two

Hidden Track Staff February 18, 2011 25 Comments

Guitarist Trey Anastasio kicks off a 12-show tour with his solo band tonight at the State Theater in Portland, ME. To preview the Phish front man’s latest TAB tour, we’ve dedicated a post a day to Anastasio as part of the first-ever Hidden Track “Trey Week.”

[Photos by Joe Ringus]

“Trey Week” concludes today with the second part of our wide-ranging e-mail interview in which the guitarist talks to us about TAB keyboardist Ray Paczkowski, his songwriting process, black shirts and much more…

Hidden Track: Ray Paczkowski has been the one constant in this band since 2001. Can you tell us what aspect of Ray’s playing makes him perfect for this band and these songs?

Trey Anastasio: Oh man, where do I start? , Ray.. Ray takes my breath away. Ray’s spirit, Ray’s playing… Indescribable. His playing is… “unhinged?” He’s capable of letting go in a way that I’ve rarely heard a musician let go.

The thing is, if you believed in the muse, or the spirit, or the concept of an artist being a channel, then you would know that there is nothing in music to fear except fear itself. The more you let go the more “right” everything would sound, you know what I mean? Ray has that fearlessness. I’ve been in the studio with engineers and producers, and I’ll say “turn up Ray,” and we’ll turn him up and up and up and you can’t turn him up too much, because it’s a selfless playing so it never seems to intrude on the overall sound. It’s an amazing thing. I just love playing with him so much. I can’t wait to get to do it again. I usually spend the whole night just staring at Ray.

Previously on Trey Week: HT Interview – Trey Anastasio Pt. 1, Trey Week Cover Wars, The Number Line – Trey Anastasio and The B List – 10 Things You Might Not Remember About ’99 Trey Tour

READ ON for more of our interview with Trey Anastasio…

Friday Mix Tape: Get sMashed Up

Kevin Smallwood February 18, 2011 2 Comments

First, I’d like to start by saying that aside from receiving Wu-Tang’s 36 Chambers for Christmas in the 8th grade, I’ve never been very interested in hip-hop or rap. Rap

Video: Jenny & Johnny – Big Wave

Jeffrey Greenblatt February 18, 2011 No Comments

It’s been a rather brutal winter for most of the country, so the first fleeting taste of spring we’ve had in New York City the last couple of days have

New Radiohead Album Available Now

Scott Bernstein February 18, 2011 2 Comments

Radiohead fans woke up to the exciting news that the band’s eighth album, The King of Limbs, is available for download now. For a taste of what to expect, the

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

Scott Bernstein February 18, 2011 No Comments

The Palladia premiere of MTV World Stage: Arcade Fire airs tonight at 9PM. Tune in to see this year’s Album of the Year Grammy winners in action. An AF show

B List: 10 Things You Might Not Remember About Trey Anastasio’s First Solo Tour

DaveO February 17, 2011 20 Comments

In May of 1999, Trey Anastasio hit the road for his first solo tour. For this 12-show tour, Trey kicked things off with an acoustic set before welcoming drummer Russ Lawton and bassist Tony Markellis for an electric second set. The debut TAB tour contained plenty of standout moments, but there are a few highlights that generally get forgotten about in Trio Tour discussions.

This week’s B List continues “Trey Week” by detailing 10 Things You Might Not Remember About Anastasio’s First Solo Tour. As the Phish front man sets off to embark on a tour tomorrow with the same number of shows and same format as the 1999 TAB tour, let’s take a look back at that initial run…

10) Type THAT into The Internet

“Golden Banter” as they say. It was 1999 and none of us were nearly as familiar with The Internet as we are now. After reading that his band had covered Voodoo Child when they had not Trey accurately pointed out, “There’s all this information but half of it is wrong!”. Then, there was also Trey’s reneged promise that the first person to type a song title into The Internet for his new acoustic ditty would have naming rights. Turns out that both the Internet’s pick of Minestrone and Trey’s pick of Purple Hugh didn’t stick and Page ultimately named the song The Inlaw Josie Wales. In this audio montage we hear all of this banter plus Trey’s hilarious take on his song’s “duologies.”

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UPDATE: The nice thing about online publishing is that we can do things like this. So after being reminded by my good friend Brett aka “This guy here in the front row is yelling” reminds me of another chapter in Instrumental Internet Namegate. So here is the audio from Asheville that didn’t make it into the above montage.

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READ ON for more of this week’s Trey Week B List…

Giveaway: Bustle In Your Hedgerow @ BB

Scott Bernstein February 17, 2011 26 Comments

Can you believe it’s been nearly eight years since Led Zeppelin tribute band Bustle In Your Hedgerow first performed at Rocks Off promoter Jake Szufnarowski’s 30th Birthday Party? Since the

In Memoriam: Garrie Vereen

Scott Bernstein February 17, 2011 7 Comments

We’re sad to report that a longtime member of the Widespread Panic crew, Garrie Vereen, passed away on Wednesday morning due to what a statement calls “unexpected complications from his

Review: Eric Lindell @ Sullivan Hall

Marc Millman February 17, 2011 2 Comments

Eric Lindell @ Sullivan Hall, February 11

If you were around Manhattan in the late ’80s and early ’90s seeing music night in and night out, you lived through a special time. Bars and clubs all over town were pumping out soulful sounds, bluesy stomps and rockin’ romps. Delta 88 over behind FIT, Manny’s Car Wash on the Upper East, Dan Lynch’s on the corner of 14th & 2nd, the Mondos in the West Village and of course Tramps on 21st or the Lonestar on 5th Avenue. On any given night, at any of these venues, one could walk through the door to hear Dr. John or Joey Miserable & the Worms, The Meters or Joan Osborne, Stevie Ray Vaughan or Blues Traveler, Chris Whitley or the Spin Doctors. And in almost every band there was a guitar slinger burning up the stage.

[All photos by Marc Millman]

If you missed those seedier days in the City, but you’ve been down to N’awlins, then you can appreciate this type of atmosphere. And Eric Lindell from NOLA by way of San Mateo, CA is the right man at the right time to help invoke that atmosphere. Lindell has been making albums since 1996. But he really hit his stride after signing to Alligator Records in 2006, where he recorded three albums. The first album, Change In The Weather (2006) was a compilation of his early albums and EPs. He followed that with Low On Cash, Rich In Love (2008) and Gulf Coast Highway (2009). He played a sampling from those albums as well as last year’s Between Motion and Rest and Cazadero (set to be released on March 22nd).

Lindell’s band has a great mix of a young rhythm section and some older “veterans.” Watching Will McMains (drums) & Myles Weeks (stand-up bass) play off of each other is a lot of fun. McMains looks like he could just be graduating from high school. And yet he plays with a subtle swinging touch that most of today’s rock drummers seem to lack as they pound on their kits. And Weeks really works that upright bass, forcing even Lindell to watch him and just smile as they jam. These two were augmented by another band regular, Derek Huston (ex-Iguanas) on saxophone along with Chris Fitzgerald (saxophone) and Arne Wendt (keys).

READ ON for more on Eric Lindell at Sullivan Hall…

3GM: SXSW Bands, Whats in a Name?

Three Grown Men February 17, 2011 1 Comment

With Three Grown Men’s coverage of next month’s South by Southwest Festival quickly approaching, we decided to peruse the list of the hundreds of bands being showcased to weed out the acts we want to catch while in Austin. The alphabetical list of featured bands on the festival’s website is more than slightly daunting. What we discovered is, about 90% of the featured acts are brand new to us and lots of the band names are completely off the wall and ridiculous. 3GM decided to do an experiment in which we tried to guess what some of these bands would sound like based solely on their moniker and then actually listened to them. Take a look…

Jonathan Kosakow

Band name: Butts

What I think they’ll sound like: The simple and immature absurdity of this band name speaks to me in a way that not many things speak to me. And, it doesn’t hurt that when the band’s biography contains this sentence: “What started as a joke soon turned into something bigger as Butts exploded all over the place.” I’m going to wager a guess and say that Butts isn’t much more than a drummer farting on his snare and a fat man in a tight t-shirt jiggling across a tiny stage.

What they actually sound like: Two chicks – at least I think they’re both chicks – singing about being out of toilet paper over distorted guitar. I’m going to give myself half a point on this one.

READ ON to see how 3GM did identifying the music of SXSW artists Cheeseburger, Yiddish Cowboys, Fat Pimp and more…

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