The Trey Anastasio Takeover Continues!
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Phish’s Trey Anastasio is back again on this week’s extra-special episode of Wong Notes. The expansive conversation goes from the mundane to the massive: Trey shares the meaningful gift he bought himself for his 60th birthday, reflects on his most meaningful song, dissects boredom and nostalgia in the streaming era, and names the young bands impressing him most these days.
Then, Trey and Cory dig deep into the songwriting process, and Trey reflects on how his songwriting has (and hasn’t) changed over his length career: “Maybe it’s some kind of human nature, that you’re kind of fighting against who you actually, really are,” he offers. He then opens up the files and plays few unreleased (and vintage) demos! At this stage in his career, what is Trey Anastasio hoping to accomplish, and has his approach to making music changed? Tune in to find out.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I am walking through the airport right now in Shenzhen. Just got off the plane. This is, I was thinking, I was on my way here. The 23 in me says that this is the closest I have been to where my grandma and grandpa Wong were born and grew up. |
| 0:26.0 | I've got to do a little fact checking, but it's pretty cool to be here. |
| 0:30.6 | It's just had a long travel day from New York City. |
| 0:33.6 | I had a 12-show residency at the Blue Note. |
| 0:36.1 | It was so dope. |
| 0:38.0 | Seriously, I did six shows with Joshua Redmond as a special guest. |
| 0:42.4 | Absolutely killing. Two shows with Kenny Garrett. |
| 0:46.4 | Oh my gosh. What a party. |
| 0:49.4 | And four shows with Mark LaTerry. It was absolutely ripping. |
| 0:53.5 | Guitar Knights, indeed. It was fun. If you missed it, |
| 0:57.0 | you missed out. But hopefully I'll be able to do some more stuff like that soon. It was really |
| 1:02.7 | fun to just have a handful of shows with a different configuration. I love doing shows to my big |
| 1:08.6 | 10-piece band, but it's also fun to do stuff with this other configuration. |
| 1:12.5 | It was really special. |
| 1:14.3 | They were awesome shows. |
| 1:15.8 | Today on the show, it's Part 2 with Trey. |
| 1:18.3 | If you miss last week's episode, go check it out because there's a lot of really great stuff in there. |
| 1:25.8 | And it was so much fun. |
| 1:27.1 | We got to nerd out about |
| 1:28.2 | gear and whatnot but this episode i'm very stoked for you to hear because he gives us a little |
| 1:33.6 | sneak peek into some demos he opens up the drop box it's pretty fun guess what i got to get my |
| 1:40.9 | luggage and i got to go to sleep i have not slept in the last day or so |
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