Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB @ Roseland Ballroom – Live Setlist and Review

Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB
October 16, 2008
Roseland Ballroom
New York, NY

I: [8:27PM] Sand, Cayman Review, Let Me Lie, Gotta Jibboo, Dragonfly, First Tube [9:27PM]

II: [9:54PM] Alaska, Last Tube, Sweet Dreams Melinda, Valentine, Drifting, Brian and Robert*, Chalkdust Torture*, The Way I Feel, Spin [11:13PM]

E: [11:17PM] Heavy Things, Burlap Sack and Pumps [11:34PM]

* Solo acoustic

6 PM: The back of the venue is blocked off as John McCain will be entering the Ed Sullivan Theater across from the back entrance of Roseland for a taping of The Late Show w/ David Letterman. As of now there are only about ten people on line waiting for the show and a slew of folks both shady and wookie selling extras. This could be the easiest Trey ticket in quite some time.

W. 53rd closed for John McCain, but I could faintly make out Alaska from Trey’s soundcheck

Police trucks and secret service line the street behind the venue

A group of Trey lovers await their hero

A group of McCain lovers await their hero

A group of photographers capture McCain’s entrance


8PM:: The crowd fills in at a medium pace

Roseland

8:27PM: Show starts. Sand.

8:34PM: The floor is jam packed with bodies using every inch of space to dance.

8:36PM: Trey builds the crowd into a frenzy with a ferocious solo

8:40PM: Cayman Review

8:48PM: Let Me Lie

8:56PM: Gotta Jibboo

9:01PM: The ears of everyone around perk up as Trey starts the Jibboo solo with a dirty dirty wah’d out tone.

9:03PM: All of a sudden, Trey kicks off the Wah for a deliciously crunchy tone to start the second segment of the jam

9:12PM: Dragonfly

9:20PM: I still dislike Dragonfly. Backup vocals hurting.

9:21PM: First Tube

9:27PM: End set.

9:54PM: Alaska

9:59PM: Last Tube

10:08PM: The floor looks so packed that most folks aren’t even dancing or moving.

10:13PM: Sweet Dreams Melinda

10:22PM: Valentine

Side-shot:

Sideshot

10:30PM: Drifting

10:33PM: Can’t find a place with good sound. Not loud enough.

10:39PM: Trey solo Acoustic. Brian & Robert

10:42PM: First set much more rockin’

10:42PM: Chalkdust. Solo.

10:48PM: The Way I Feel

10:52PM: Trey offers some inspired blues riffing

10:56PM: Band brings jam down to near silence…ley’s Ray solo on organ

11:03PM: Spin

11:05PM: The Way I Feel highlight of the set thus far. Silky jam. Nice interplay by all four members

11:06PM: Post-Spin jam

11:13PM: End set

11:17PM: Heavy Things

11:25PM: Burlap Sack and Pumps

11:34PM: End show.

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51 Responses

  1. I still have a small bit of caca that I haven’t fully nibbled out leftover from this morning under the finger nail on my right middle finger.

  2. Wonder how the 15-16 minute Jiboo sounded? I am currently listening to a version from the 9:30 club in DC back from 5/11/99 and it is SICK!!!!!!!!

    Can’t wait for the Electric Factory next Friday!

    GO PHILLIES!!!!!

  3. Phanatic ………………..yeah…the compression helped trey get his tone, but it was his fender twin that really did the trick…
    Change your name to People for Original Trey Sound

  4. It will be interesting to see how much these shows vary setlis-wise. I hope I don’t get the same set 2 tomorrow night – JEEEEEZ!

  5. See you tuesday and thursday- can’t even wait!

    I’d love an accoustic back on the train, and some night speaks to a woman!!! =)

  6. How can people not at the show claim a set is bombing? I was at the show, on the train back now, and I have to say that tonight was amazing. Great jams, good phish covers and the band was surprisingly tight. Sound could have been a little better but it wasn’t too bad. The acoustic stuff was solid
    And he made me laugh when he was playing a
    Phish song on acoustic and claimed he had to play it for practice. Can’t wait foe Hampton. Great to have u back trey!

  7. just getting back now. I thought the brooklyn show was a lot hotter than tonight. jiboo was the hilite of set 1. set 2 was pretty decent from Valentine on. But as a whole, show was pretty mediocore…and I loved brooklyn.

  8. who wants my hampton extras? $45,000 cash only! you get 6 tickets….hell, at $45,000 for 6..thats a steal! Way to book a venue that only holds 12,500 per night when there are 190,000 lottery requests. What have they been smoking? So many people will be shut out just so all the sclapers can grab their blocks to sell on ebay for $45,000.

  9. trey has played there a few other times too (as a guest).. jammys ’02 (the infamous ‘we did too many drugs’ at bonaroo acceptance speech)…. with vida blue NYE ’01

    decent show.. not as good as brooklyn though.

  10. That comment about the sound not being loud enough was right on. I had the same problem, but thought the show was solid otherwise. I actually really enjoyed the acoustic songs, but I’m also a huge B&R fan. The Roseland is still a joke, but it wasn’t quite as crowded as I expected.

  11. Look at these haters, ripping the Phish lottery system on a Trey article and review. Way to go, asshole. Phish is huge, there’s no place big enough for them to satisfy tickets for every single fan that wants to see their first shows back. Their festivals are absolutely sick and CAN accommodate the fans, chill out and wait for the spring/summer/whatever it may be. Stop crying and be happy that the boys will be back AND RIPPING STRONG fairly shortly!
    Anyway- The sound is always kinda quiet at Roseland, no surprise there, I’m hoping tonight in Wallingford he spices things up a bit.

  12. Phish Love the Phamily, they are back for US and they joy of what moves through them-us, we are inseperable. If phish didn’t care about their fans they be back charging 250.00 a ticket, they’d still sell-out every venue.

    i for one am happier than ive been in some time, its gonna be a long 6 month wait, but ill be as ready as one can be march 6th 8pm for LIGHTS OUT, boy oh boy, its gonna be a throwdawn!!!!!

    NAMASTE

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