Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio ( born September 30, 1964 in Fort Worth, Texas; native: . Ernest Joseph Anastasio III) is an American guitarist.

He became famous with the band Phish in which he is also a singer and main composer. Anastasio was chosen by Rolling Stone magazine on the 73rd place of the "100 Greatest Guitarists ".

Career

Anastasio, whose name derives from the Greek word for resurrection, first began playing drums as a teenager and moved to guitar. His mother Dina, with whom he wrote songs as a child, was the author of Sesame Street Magazine. On the secondary school he began to write music with classmates. Some of these songs were later in the Phish repertoire (eg: Golgi Apparatus).

In 1983 he went to the University of Vermont to study philosophy. Here he met Jon Fishman (born 1965 ), Mike Gordon (born 1965 ) and Jeff Holdsworth ( b. 1963 ), the Phish was founded in 1983. Shortly after keyboardist Page McConnell ( b. 1963 ) became in 1985 a member of Phish, Holdsworth left the band.

Parallel Anastasio began a long collaboration with composer Ernie Stires (1925-2008), who taught him in composition and arrangement. Anastasio 1988 acquired a degree in Creative Writing.

In 2000, Anastasio the short-lived band Oysterhead with The Police drummer Stewart Copeland and Primus bassist Les Claypool.

Private

Anastasio married in 1994 Susan Eliza Statesir. They have two daughters.

Discography (selection)

Studio albums

  • One Man's Trash (1998)
  • Trampled By Lambs and Pecked by the Dove with Tom Marshall ( 2000)
  • Trey Anastasio (2002)
  • Seis De Mayo (2004)
  • Shine ( 2005)
  • Bar 17 (2006)
  • The Horseshoe Curve ( 2007)
  • Time Turns Elastic ( 2009)
  • Traveler ( 2012)

Live albums

  • Plasma (2003)
  • Original Boardwalk Style ( 2008)
  • Trey Anastasio with Special Guests Carlos Santana, live in San Francisco ( 2004)
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