Trey Anastasio returns to the road tonight to kick off his first real tour since 2006. We’ll be on the scene with live updates from the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, so keep checking back early and often.

While we wait for the setlist/photos/commentary to start coming in, perhaps you’d like to click around on these old setlists.

Prior Trey/Phish appearances: 3-14-1992 (Phish), 2-5-1993 (Phish), 2-6-1993 (Phish), 5-23-2000 (Phish), 2-23-2001 (The Sextet), 11-13-2001 (Oysterhead), 11-14-2001 (Oysterhead), 2-10-2005 (Tsunami Benefit w/moe.), 11-8-2005 (70 Volt Parade)

READ ON for Hidden Track’s Trey @ Roseland live setlist and blog…

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.