Trey Anastasio doesn’t look like a rock star. With his thick rimless glasses and flop of sandy red hair, you might say he resembles John Sebastian, but really, he looks like a mashup of Mike White and Jon Cryer and the filmmaker Chris Smith. He’s an appealingly ordinary shaggy-geek dude, like some guy you might share an office with in Portland.
Yet Trey Anastasio has sustained his career as (yes) a rock star in ways that defy all expectation. The band he leads, Phish, came together in 1983, and that takes them back to the formative moment of indie rock — R.E.M., U2, and so on. Phish, of course, picked up the long-jam, psychedelic-minstrel mantle of the Grateful Dead, and it’s worth noting that Jerry Garcia didn’t look like a rock star either — he was the grinning, pie-faced hippie Muppet of rock ‘n’ roll. But that...
Yet Trey Anastasio has sustained his career as (yes) a rock star in ways that defy all expectation. The band he leads, Phish, came together in 1983, and that takes them back to the formative moment of indie rock — R.E.M., U2, and so on. Phish, of course, picked up the long-jam, psychedelic-minstrel mantle of the Grateful Dead, and it’s worth noting that Jerry Garcia didn’t look like a rock star either — he was the grinning, pie-faced hippie Muppet of rock ‘n’ roll. But that...
- 7/18/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Fans of Trey Anastasio were surprised last December when the guitarist posted a teaser for a mysterious new project, Ghosts of the Forest. The Phish member hadn’t put together a new band in a decade — and despite only about a minute of music being available, the group’s eight-date tour sold out immediately.
In this interview, Anastasio reveals all about the band — including the news that they will also release a new album on April 12th. The project is very personal: Anastasio wrote it for his lifelong friend Chris Cottrell,...
In this interview, Anastasio reveals all about the band — including the news that they will also release a new album on April 12th. The project is very personal: Anastasio wrote it for his lifelong friend Chris Cottrell,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
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