Trey Anastasio was fantastic, but lets not kid ourselves here. This was a serious exercise in nerdery. The 9:1 dude to girl ratio illustrates my point. While Phish is awesome...and I love Trey. Face it, hardcore Phish fans provide a roadmap for anyone eager to repel pussy.
The bass, drum, keyboard section was the best rhythm section I've seen since last summer. Thankfully, this wasn't a showcase for Trey to jizz his load on his compositions and guitar playing ability--this was really a showcase of the current NY based music scene. And this is the result when you allow an art community to flourish. NYC attracts and produces more talent than any other city on the planet. Quite frankly, the backing band out shined the star of the show. While they lacked the charisma of a pop act, this performance fit perfectly into Trey's style of music--because with him it's more of a study of sound and style than an expression of any sort of deep narrative. Shit, I've heard many of these songs hundreds of times, and I still can't tell you what they mean.
That being said...Colin Malloy -- while you are certainly a tremendous talent...you can go f-yourself. You obviously don't get it.
-to tired to comment: Sultans of swing. He didn't play the '
in between' notes in the 1st section (bummer)...but he surprised us by having his horn section play the big Mark Knopfler riff.
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