Full Run Audio: Listen To All Three Trey Anastasio Solo Acoustic Performances
By Scott Bernstein Mar 13, 2017 • 2:16 pm PDT
Photo by Patrick Jordan via Trey Anastasio Instagram
This past Saturday night, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio played his third and final show of a brief solo acoustic run. Anastasio presented material from throughout his career as well as a few choice covers during his first ever series of fully unplugged performances. Audience recordings of all three shows have now surfaced.
Anastasio kicked off the run on Wednesday at the Academy Of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts (FULL RECAP). The guitarist continued the jaunt on Friday night at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York (FULL RECAP) ahead of the closer on Saturday at Portsmouth Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (FULL RECAP). Trey played a total of 65 different songs over the course of the run. He performed “More” at all three shows, while “Steam,” “Backwards Down The Number Line,” “Summer Of ’89,” “Wilson” and “Bouncing Around The Room” were the only tunes repeated at two of the three solo acoustic concerts.
In addition to treating each of the capacity crowds to songs from throughout his career, Anastasio was in full storyteller mode each night. He told many tales each night and honored a number of notable figures with his stories including unheralded collaborator Scott Herman and late Santana percussionist Raul Rekow. Trey used a new Martin guitar for the concerts. Our friends at Trey’s Guitar Rig go into full detail about Anastasio’s solo acoustic rig. Stream and/or download recordings of all three shows below.
3/8 – Northampton, Massachusetts @ Academy Of Music
Setlist (via Phish.net)
Set: Discern [1], Farmhouse [2], Brian and Robert [2], Theme From the Bottom [2], The Horse [2] > Silent in the Morning [2], Frost [2], Anything But Me [2], Limb By Limb [2], Walfredo [1], Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan [2], All of These Dreams [1], Winterqueen [1], Steam [1], Heavy Things [2], Summer of ’89 [2], Miss You [1], Architect [2], Tree [3], Water in the Sky [2], Cavern [2] > Backwards Down the Number Line [2], More [1]
Encore: Sample in a Jar [2], Wilson [2], Bouncing Around the Room [2]
- [1] Trey solo acoustic; first acoustic performance by Trey.
- [2] Trey solo acoustic.
- [3] Debut; Trey solo acoustic.
This entire show was performed by Trey solo acoustic. This show featured the debut of “Tree” and the first Trey acoustic performances of “Discern,” “Walfredo,” “All of These Dreams,” “Winterqueen,” “Steam,” “Miss You,” and “More.” “Walfredo” was dedicated to Raul Rekow and “Summer of ’89” was dedicated to Trey’s wife, Sue.
3/10 – Troy, New York @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Setlist (via Phish.net)
Set: Strange Design [1], Blaze On [1], Mountains in the Mist [1], The Wedge [1], Shade [2], Backwards Down the Number Line [1], Twenty Years Later [1], Tide Turns [2], Rubberneck Lions [2], The Inlaw Josie Wales [1], Free [1], Kill Devil Falls [1], Wolfman’s Brother [1], The Line [1], The Lizards [2], Guelah Papyrus [1], Wading in the Velvet Sea [1], Lawn Boy [1], Summer of ’89 [1], Carini [1] > Chalk Dust Torture [1]
Encore: Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide [2], More [1]
- [1] Trey solo acoustic.
- [2] Trey solo acoustic; first acoustic performance by Trey.
This entire show was performed by Trey solo acoustic and featured the first acoustic performances of “Shade,” “Tide Turns,” Rubberneck Lions,” “The Lizards,” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide.” Rubberneck Lions” had not been played by any member of Phish since Trey’s performance in Oysterhead on June 16, 2006. Trey dedicated “Wading” to Tom Marshall and “Summer of ’89” to his wife Sue, both of who were in the audience.
3/11 – Portsmouth, New Hampshire @ The Music Hall
Setlist (via Phish.net)
Set: Wingsuit [1], Fee [1], NICU [2], Steam [2], Breath and Burning [1], Back on the Train [2], Dog Faced Boy [2], My Friend, My Friend [2], Dirt [2], 46 Days [1], American Tune [1], Sleep Again [2], Two Versions of Me [2], Sleeping Monkey [1], Bathtub Gin [2], Maze [1], Gumbo [2], Ghost [2], Joy [2], Shine a Light [2]
Encore: Bouncing Around the Room [2], Wilson [2]
Encore 2: More [2]
- [1] Trey solo acoustic; first acoustic performance by Trey.
- [2] Trey solo acoustic.
This entire show was performed by Trey solo acoustic and featured the first acoustic performances of “Wingsuit,” “Fee,” “Breath and Burning,” “46 Days,” “American Tune,” “Sleeping Monkey,” and Maze.” “American Tune” had not been performed by any member of Phish since Trey’s performance with Dave Matthews & Friends on January 16, 2004.
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