Trey's new musical

Non-Phish Phish Band Members
#18

Not digging it either.

Trey’s writing style has changed several times over the years, and honestly he’s not written a lot that I’ve been crazy about in the last 20 years. The stuff before that is like my favorite stuff ever, but the last couple decades have been just okay. Now? Now he’s starting to write things I just flat dislike.

I thought Undermind was kinda bad at the time. Now by contrast it’s starting to look like a damn Beatles album.

To be fair though, I don’t like musicals.

And, I like KISS, so they should probably revoke my Internet Opinion card.

#19

^Yes, I agree.

Sadly, I’m almost to the point where anything Trey does outside of the band is no longer a consideration for me. (I can’t believe I actually just typed that) :confused:

In no way am I saying the recent music he has put out is bad…it’s just not my cup of tea.

It needs some edge.

I’ve had enough of the pigtails, bicycles, hop-scotch, playground themes. :laughing:

It’s like someone took my favorite guitarist from my favorite band and brainwashed him to write and play stuff that my mom listens to on lite hits 98.7

#20

When I read Trey was doing a musical called “Hands on a Hardbody” I immediately thought “holy shit something controversial”

but no

and I agree that these lyrics are kind of weird. Some of them I can relate to, for instance, the song architect basically calmed me the fuck down because it directly pertained to something going on in my life that requires I look at it from the big point of view and not from every little thing that happens.

[i]Find your treasures
Where you will
Don’t you stop until you’ve had your fill
Wherever you may go
Look around, take it slow
There might be more to this than we all know

And if we have the chance to see the rough draft
I bet the early plans would make us laugh
And it never seems to help when we try to intervene
Some things are better left unseen

Reconvene, reconnect
Raise a glass to the Architect
'Cause it turned out better
So much better
Than we ever did expect[/i]

I will say that these are super basic. It’s not really “poetry” in the sense that there are multiple ways of looking at it or wormholes or anything like that, but it grabbed me.

#21


::Waits for Tony Awards to roll in::

#22

I have not heard any of the songs, but I have many of the same feelings of disappointment with Trey’s songwriting as others discussed in this thread so I am very wary of this project. However, the concept of the story is funny and different. I would see it without going too much out of my way if the opportunity arose.

Quotes I enjoyed while reading this thread:

#23

::Came in for info on Hands on a Hard Boner, heads over to “Meat” thread for the real scoop::

#24

#25

I wonder how much of a discount the people in the apartments behind the billboards get?

#26

+20% for getting to enjoy them.

#27

New York Times Review …

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/theater/trey-anastasio-and-the-musical-hands-on-a-hardbody.html?smid=tw-nytimesTheater&seid=auto&_r=1&

#28

So it is about the lame ass contests where you keep you hand on a truck?

This just got lamer.

I thought it was about sexin’.

#29

What’s next, film, radio, possibly a book? Maybe Trey is out to replace Howard as King of All Media?

#30

The reviews sound pretty “blah”. Oh well…

#31

^I’m assuming this isn’t a huge shock to most people. I think it’s the most ridiculous idea for a musical and his writing has definitely gone to quantity over quality in the past few years. I have high hopes for the next Phish album though. Surely the 3 other exceptionally talented guys will step up and put him on restriction until he writes something decent. What are the chances Trey’s already peaked as a songwriter? That’s a very sad thought indeed and I hope that’s not the case. Wrong thread for this question, I suppose.

#32

^Listen to Hotbox! :thumbup:

#33

…and it closes.

artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/ … s-weekend/

#34

^ Well, that was a good three years of crap song writing down the drain.

#35

At least when a shitty album comes out, people will still be able to buy it.

Did anyone actually think the story was worth making into a musical? I mean did anyone on here read about this when it first came out and think “wow what a cool idea!” or did anyone not think it was about male strippers?

I mean, shit, with all these fantasy stories that everyone’s drooling about these days, wouldn’t a Gamehenge-themed story have worked better?

#36

^I thought I was the only person who thought it was a completely ridiculous topic.

And gamehendge would be perfect for so many things but according to the phish biography, Trey refuses to make any sort of profit off of it.

#37

Tony Nominee, Trey Anastasio, Ladies & Gentleman…
relix.com/news/2013/04/30/tr … nomination