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Sirius XM’s Phish Radio has officially released the first segment from the Summer Sessions with Trey Anastasio series, which pairs the legendary frontman with host Ari Fink for musings down memory lane to run through the band’s jam-packed season. In this first release of the series focused on exclusive stories and inside accounts of his performance, the artist speaks to his daughters witnessing a Taylor Swift stage malfunction in Dublin–which paralleled a memorable mishap of his own–and how his experience performing with an orchestra has affected his craft.
Recorded prior to the outset of Phish’s summer tour, which began on July 19 with a series at Mansfield, Mass.’s Xfinity Center, the first of Anastasio’s accounts vividly details his daughters’ Irish encounter with Swift’s Eras Tour. “My daughters, 27 and 29, saved all their money and went to Dublin to see Taylor [Swift],” the artist shares. “And met another friend and had an Irish adventure. They just got back last night.” Like so many fans stateside, Trey’s daughters found that European tickets were considerably easier and cheaper to procure than those at home, “And they both only could get tickets in Dublin. Her and one of her best friends, independent of each other, so they ended up meeting there, both my two daughters. And Taylor got stuck on a platform, they had to rescue her.”
This vignette recalls Swift’s June 29 performance at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, where the singer was momentarily stranded in the air when an elevated portion of the stage failed to descend as planned during a treatment of “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.” “I said, ‘Is that a coincidence that my daughters watched me on a platform, their dad, and Taylor?’,” Anastasio muses, recalling the incident that momentarily interrupted Phish’s 2019 New Year’s Eve set at Madison Square Garden, when the frontman’s color-coded platform did not fall in tandem with his bandmates. Anastasio, like Swift, took the error in stride, jamming away seamlessly to prove that the show must go on.
Later in the interview, Anastasio remarks on his June 29 concert with the Boston Pops at Tanglewood in Lenox/Stockbridge, Mass., as well as the broader experience of his signature orchestral concerts that have gone on to widespread acclaim since 2000. “It’s a very steep learning curve playing with an orchestra,” he shares on the process. “And you know, you find out the way the person in the first, the woman who was in the first chair at Tanglewood was a great, great player, and she earned that chair… They lead the orchestra. But you have to earn that.” After concurring with Fink that the Boston Pops’ first chair was something like the Michael Jordon of the symphony, Trey illustrates that, “you’ll hear her play phrases that, you know, are phrases that I wrote, or that I normally play. Like we trade off on the ‘Do, do, do, do, do,‘ and by listening to this masterful musician phrase the thing, you learn a lot about music. So then when you kind of come back to Phish, I think it’s a positive for Phish.”
The two brief clips from Anastasio’s appearance with Fink on SiriusXM’s Phish Radio are available below. and find more information on the conversation and the broader fan-favorite program, visit siriusxm.com.
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