Trey at the Y: An Audience of His Peers

The most talked about event in New York City last night involved Andy Samberg joining Justin Timberlake on the Madison Square Garden stage for a live rendition of the duo’s smash hit Dick in a Box. But 60 blocks north and over to the east, the headiest of the heady crammed into the 92st Street Y to watch a live Anthony DeCurtis interview with former 70 Volt Parade frontman Trey Anastasio.

We love Big Red and all (to a fault, really), but what does it say about the state of his music when more people pay to hear him speak than play?

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By all accounts the event appeared both cathartic for him and extremely candid, Trey delivering snappy, honest answers to all interviewer and audience questions. Red mentioned that there’s probably still a ways to go before the popular rock band Phish ever re-forms, which is fine by us seeing as the party line of this here blog has been 08/08/08 since Day One. But he’ll be H&H when it happens.

As all singers do, Trey also sprinkled in some acoustic numbers to the chat as well, playing Pebbles and Marbles, A Case of Ice and Snow, and Wherever You Find It. The venue seemed to be strict on tapers and photographers, even confiscating cell phones and cameras, but a PT user named syntaxera recorded the interview for everyone — here are a couple of sendspace sources from which to grab it:

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  1. really enjoyed last night’s event. before trey came out, anthony read a part of an interview he did with ernest just before one of the brooklyn shows in ’04. trey summed up his understanding of why he feels music is one of the greatest forms of communication and how it brings him happiness in his daily life. it was some “heady” shit.

    the acoustic stuff was beautiful. very intimate. definitely listen to these recording. thanks for the upload.

  2. This was a great event, sadly this report on it is of the worst quality.

    Forgetting that the 1/3 of the article is a non-sequiter and not very funny intro, the rest of the piece lacks any substance save for the fact that trey appeared at the Y and played 3 songs.

    Typically this website publishes informative articles, sadly after an event that surely resonates with and interests many readers of the site, the best Glide gives us is an uninformed article full of inside messageboard jokes, inane ramblings and a picture of the village people.

  3. I think you are forgetting the part where we link the actual audio from the event so that you can judge the interview for yourself.

  4. What kind of substance are you looking for here, Josh? Isn’t this the most unbelievably played out story and completely polarizing figure most of us have ever known? What’s there to go on and on about? The post was mere playful set-up for what I hope most non-attendees will be doing, which is listening to it for themselves and making up their own minds on where Trey stands on his life. You rather have someone preach to Trey and Trey’s audience about lifestyle choices and parsing his words like he’s the Fed chairman? I’d much rather crack a few jokes and provide the mp3, and if you disagree with that, then this particular site probably ain’t for you. And that’s just how the Internet goes…

  5. Besides the fact that this isn’t an “article,” it is a blog…posted in typical blog-style.

    Thanks for providing these links…this really was a fascinating interview. Listening to it at work doesn’t do it justice, I need to sit down and really take a good listen.

  6. Josh – I’m sure if you give it a day or two, jambands.com will have a 2 million word piece full of insightful phish lot references presented eloquently in the 1st person by a kid who started seeing phish in ’99 and thinks Particle is the greatest band on earth, so just hold tight.

    HT – thanks for the audio links. 🙂

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