doodledee

Well, this was the first time I've seen Trey since he decided to break-up the band so he could hang out with Dave Matthews and try and be a radio star and it was pretty much what I expected. Nutshell: 1/3 melt-your-face-off mint, 1/3 good, and 1/3 good-god-when-will-this-be-over. The newer stuff wasn't super familiar to me but for the most part I didn't find it as horrible as people are saying it is (some of it was, just not all of it). Maybe the album will sound like crap, who knows. The older stuff has clearly matured and grown - 'Push On' has been reworked into some crazy big band type of arrangement, for example - but I think a lot of it has gotten even better with age (Mr. C, Money Love). And even though he stumbled through them, the all-Phish acoustic mini set he played mid-show was fan-effing-tastic from where I stood.

I kept my expectations low and they were more or less exceeded. Can't argue with that.

Trey Anastasio - 11/2/05 [phantasytour]