The Smoking Gun reports that Phish singer Trey Anastasio was arrested this morning in upstate New York for driving while intoxicated, and for carrying controlled substances– Xanax, Percocet, and Hydrocodone–without a prescription.
Anastasio’s booking lasted seven hours, and included three bass solos, a cover of the Move’s entire Message To The Country album, and a flying hamburger bus.
Trey Anastasio Busted [The Smoking Gun]
ernest, eh? well, what do you know…
Ernest goes to jail……
Bela Fleck is somewhere laughing.
They should have arrested him years ago for fucking up the soundtrack to my college years. Liking phish is the yardstick to use when judging a douchebag.
I now think Trey is cool. he’s kinda like taking over where Jerry Garcia left off but for the new pharma-fanbase.
He should be given lots of any drug that prevents him from going on tour again to noodle out 18-minute boring-ass fake-jazz guitar solos to cheering frat boys experimenting with LSD and trying to score some chicken-dancing hippie chick ass.
Boring knee-jerk responses are a pretty good yardstick too, champ.
The recorded output is shoddy, the lyrics are shit, and yet catching them on the right night was a holy experience. I’ve never seen a better show, more varied or ambitious or consistent, ever. That’s the most earnest thing I’ve ever said in these here comments, and I’ll stick by it.
Hate away, amigo.
12/15/04
Whitehall, NY
Ford Expedition
Set 1: Blue Flashing Lights -> Hello Mr. Office, Walk the Line*, Falling -> Staying Down -> Cuffed -> Puke -> Jailhouse Rock, Hello Old Friend … Rehab^
NO SET 2
NO ENCORE
* Puke tease
^ NOT First Time Played
“holy experience”?
whew. careful with that overstatement, eugene.
I’d like to, at least in part, agree with Senior Loblaw: There was nothing like an well performed, and well supplemented Phish show. I liked college.
His mugshot is not as cute as Nicole Richie’s.
Q: What does a Deadhead say when he runs out of drugs?
A: Oh, man, this music sucks!
Sadly, I got that joke from an old Herb Caen column.
Still, it has got to be depressing that the adopted junkie daughter of the guy who sung “Dancing on the Ceiling” topped you by driving the wrong way on a freeway. Gotta set goals, Ernest.
Trey also could be concise on that post-”Alive Again” tour. That big band was really really tight.
What might be worth discussing is why Phish fans never seemed all that disappointed in an “off night.” You paid how much for a ticket and now you admit that it was lousy? And you weren’t disappointed? I only saw two Phish shows (to get what my friends were all on about) and one was meandering, meaningless and limp. The other was punchy, energized and inspiring. I think it’s interesting that people stuck with Dylan and Van Morrisson and others who would have six off nights to one on at some point in the career.
That risk factor: where do you draw the line?
Xanax, Percs et al? Whither the weed, Trey? (I mean Ernest…hee)
It’s a bummer when hippie kings go pharma. Just plain lazy.
Kudos to Bob Loblaw’s law blog and Tippy for keeping the faith.
seriously… no marijuana? i’ll be damned.
At first I thought they arrested him for looking like Chuck Klosterman.
What might be worth discussing is why Phish fans never seemed all that disappointed in an “off night.”
i could introduce you to many, many, many phish fans who are living counterexamples.
phish put on a hell of a live show back in their prime, but when your m.o. is improvisation and spontaneity there’s bound to be the occasional clunker. it’s the nature of the beast, but i thought they were still way more consistent than the dead ever were.