Trey Anastasio

Anastasio began playing the drums at a young age and turned to guitar while a teenager. While a freshman at UVM[?] he founded Phish with bandmates Mike Gordon[?], Jon Fishman[?] and Page McConnell[?]. His influences include Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Frank Zappa and Jerry Garcia. He was also heavily influenced by VT teacher and composer Ernie Stires[?], who taught him techniques for composition and arrangement.

He plays a custom-made hollow-body electric quitar, built by Paul Languedoc[?]. His set-up includes a wah wah[?] pedal, a phase shifter, a volume pedal, celestain speakers, and two TS-9 Ibanez Tube Screamers.

Trey's other projects include the Trey Anastasio Band, a swing/jazz ensemble with a five-piece horn section that is highly influenced by the work of Duke Ellington; Surrender To The Air, a free jazz project with mandolin-player Jamie Masefield and Kozmic Krew member Michael Ray; and Oysterhead, a rock trio with former Police drummer Stewart Copeland[?] and Primus bassist and bandmaster Les Claypool.

Married to Susan Stateser since 1993, he has two daughters and lives in Essex Junction[?], Vermont.

Discography

• Surrender to The Air, 1996
• One Man's Trash, 1998
• Trampled By Lambs and Pecked By the Dove, 2000
• Trey Anastasio, 2002