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After two months of touring in support of the album, however, the band began to lost it focus and its passion. In recent interview, Anastasio said that they often found themselves playing their new songs because they were on the new album, and not because they felt inspired to play them. It got so bad, Anastasio said, that at a show in San Francisco in late May, he was so frustrated that during one song, he wanted to smash his guitar to pieces (certainly a horrid thought to Paul Languedoc, the band's sound engineer who built the guitar...
Last Friday's show was clear evidence that the band is once again on the up. They wasted no time getting started, opening the first night's show with a ripping "Llama" which featured an exhilarating solo by guitarist Trey Anastasio. The band slowly broke the jam down into the cacophonous sirens and vacuum cleaner sounds of N2O." As the noise subsided, Anastasio began to narrate the story of Colonel Forbin, the protagonist of the "Gamehenge" saga that continued throughout the first...
...days, Franklin Roosevelt could say (or so it is said) of Anastasio Somoza, "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." No longer. With the end of the great ideological wars, we could stop propping up our sons of bitches: our Somozas, our Trujillos, our Nguyen Cao Kys. We could subordinate foreign policy to morality, something Americans have hungered to do since Woodrow Wilson suggested the idea to an incredulous world almost a century...
Last year, I went to a Phish concert in the Boston Garden. In the middle of the show, Trey Anastasio, Phish's lead guitarist and lead singer said that as a boy, he had always dreamed of playing for the Bruins. Now he realized that this was probably as close as he would get to playing in the Garden...
...that a financial downturn has arrived, cabbies are feeling the backlash of that period of prosperity. "When the recession finally hit it really took a bite out of the industry," Anastasio says...