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64-515: The Starcaster was designed by Gene Fields to be a high quality instrument, although it was manufactured at a time when Fender's standards had lowered considerably. Unlike most semi-hollow guitars which had their necks set in the bodies in the traditional style, the Starcaster retained Fender's bolt-on neck design, which at the time, used a three-bolt joint. The Starcaster was in production from 1976 to 1982. However, an advertisement from 1977 states that

128-536: A humbucker in the bridge position. Bass guitars under the Starcaster name are rare; one is model no. 284800108, the Starcaster J-Bass guitar, based on the Fender Jazz Bass . The Precision Bass model is even rarer. The following steel-string acoustic/electric guitars have been seen under the Starcaster by Fender name: In late 2007 Fender introduced a low-priced amplifier and range of effect pedals under

192-417: A Bogner Shiva amp to his arsenal, which can still be seen on stage as recently as Summer Tour 2014, though has not been used much during that tour. Anastasio played three different acoustic guitars by Martin . The first is a D-45E which has East Indian Rosewood sides and back and a solid Sitka Spruce top. In 2005, Martin released a Trey Anastasio signature model acoustic guitar, with a dreadnought body with

256-492: A January 2019 GQ feature on sober musicians. " The Barn ", also known as "The Farmhouse", is the name given to Anastasio's rehearsal and recording facility in the countryside near Westford, Vermont in the state's Lamoille Valley region. It was reconstructed between 1996 and 1998 from an existing structure, the Alan Irish Barn. The Barn has been used by Phish and most of Anastasio's projects since 1999. The cover photo of

320-438: A Phish show, pianist Page McConnell joined Phish in the autumn of 1985. Anastasio, along with Jon Fishman, transferred to Goddard College . During this time he began a musical association and close friendship with composer Ernie Stires , who taught him composition, theory, and arranging. While at Goddard , he composed the song cycle The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday as his senior project. These songs became mainstays of

384-399: A Real McCoy Custom 3 by Geoffrey Teese), a Boomerang phrase sampler, Custom Audio Electronics Super Tremolo , Ibanez DM2000 delay, Alesis Microverb II (set to reverse), Whammy II pitch shifter, as well as a Leslie rotating speaker horn. In 2009, Anastasio added a Nova Repeater (delay). He controls these devices singularly or in batch with a Custom Audio Electronics RS-10 footpedal bank. In

448-838: A Starcaster live. As mentioned on the Roderick on the Line podcast , John Roderick of The Long Winters owned and played a Starcaster. Mark Hempe of the New Orleans–based funk quintet Earphunk played a starcaster at the 2016 Major Rager in Augusta, Ga. British rock band Royal Blood 's Mike Kerr is often seen using either a black or custom-made white Starcaster Bass in various music videos and tours. In 2022, Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge began using Starcasters upon his return to Blink-182, switching from Gibson . Like previous signature models, this guitar consists of

512-620: A Starcaster on stage. Sammy James, Jr., guitarist and front man of the Mooney Suzuki , uses a natural finished one and appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with it on June 21, 2007. The guitar can also be seen in the music video to Morrissey 's single " You Have Killed Me ". Dave Keuning of The Killers also started using one shortly before the release of the album Sam's Town . He could be seen playing his Starcaster during The Killers' headline slot at Glastonbury Festival 2007, on Later... with Jools Holland for " Read My Mind " and in

576-457: A Stires-influenced fugue instrumental section called "The Asse Festival" as a bridge between verses. In the early years of Phish, many of Anastasio's compositions were through-composed , intricate and detailed in conception (for example, "The Divided Sky", " You Enjoy Myself ", "The Asse Festival", "The Squirming Coil", "Reba", "Fluff's Travels"). Anastasio has used improvisation as the driving force behind simplified songwriting, particularly in

640-745: A collection of original songs written during the COVID-19 pandemic and recorded at his home studio in New York. The LP was mixed by Bryce Goggin and features lyrical collaborations with Tom Marshall and Scott Herman. Anastasio says the project reminded him of his pre-Phish 4-track home recordings. In October 2020, Anastasio performed an eight-week residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York. The eight concerts were performed without an audience and streamed live every Friday from October 9 to November 27 for free on Twitch . Anastasio raised $ 1.2 million of donations from

704-575: A curved Venetian cutaway. The guitar also has an Italian alpine spruce top, mahogany sides and a three-piece back with "wings" of mahogany and a center wedge of flame-figured Hawaiian koa (similar to a D-35). The guitar is finished with a flamed koa headplate and snowflake fingerboard inlays. As of 2017+, a Martin 1943 D28 is main guitar for standard tuning, Martin 1934 00028 for finger-style/open tunings, 1968 D35 for Drop and slack key tunings. The history of Anastasio's guitars, rig and equipment has been meticulously documented by music writer Ryan Chiachiere on

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768-924: A documentary film directed by Steven Cantor about Anastasio's musical projects and Phish's 2018 New Year's Eve concert, was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019. Anastasio has employed the services of his friend, luthier and audio-technician Paul Languedoc (Phish's soundman from 1986 to 2004) throughout his career. The highly resonant hollow-body electric guitars built by Languedoc for Anastasio, his Ibanez Tube Screamers , and Ross Compressors are key to his signature tone. Anastasio has several custom Languedoc hollow-body electric guitars, which make use of set maple necks with 24-fret ebony fretboards and dual Seymour Duncan SH-1 '59 humbucker pickups. During Phish's 2018 Halloween "musical costume" set, Anastasio deviated from his Languedoc guitars and performed with

832-591: A field sobriety test, and was subsequently arrested for possession of heroin and other drugs, and driving while intoxicated . Anastasio pleaded guilty to a reduced felony drug charge and spent 14 months participating in daily meetings, drug testing , and performing community service in the Washington County, New York , drug court program. In June 2008, after completing all phases of the New York State drug court, Anastasio graduated in good standing. His conviction

896-579: A local band in Vermont fronted by Anastasio, on April 17 of that year at the opening week of the nightclub Higher Ground, co-owned by his brother-in-law. The band debuted a number of songs heard in Anastasio's live performances today, including "First Tube", "Last Tube", and "Mozambique". The Trio in 1999 was an evolution of Eight Foot Fluorescent Tubes. Anastasio's first solo tour was with the trio, which included himself, Russ Lawton , and Tony Markellis . Markellis

960-502: A lower-grade tremolo , were made, and the Starcaster was manufactured in Far Eastern countries such as China or Indonesia . The pickup cavity is routed to allow an H-S-H pickup configuration, which allows for flexibility in pickup arrangement. Although most models feature the classic Stratocaster configuration of three single-coil pickups, at least one uses the H-S-S pickup configuration with

1024-487: A novel control configuration consisting of a volume and tone control for each pickup as well as a master volume control, and Fender's traditional six-on-a-side tuning pegs. The Starcaster was commercially unsuccessful, perhaps because of a public notion that Fender was a "solid-body, single coil brand" and Gibson was the "semi-hollow, humbucker brand". As a result, Starcasters are very rare, but are worth less in today's vintage market than many other semi-hollow guitars from

1088-465: A single Seymour Duncan humbucker. The Starcaster has a unique headstock design, with a black bottom curve. No other production Fender guitar before or since had the same headstock, but some prototypes of the Fender Marauder , also designed by Fields, had a similar headstock design. It is also unusual for a semi-hollow guitar in having an asymmetrical ("offset") body, a maple fretboard, a bolt-on neck,

1152-726: A single humbucker in the bridge position (namely a Seymour Duncan SH-5 Custom pickup) and one volume knob. Fender announced Artist Series versions of DeLonge's custom Starcasters in April 2024. Starcaster by Fender Starcaster by Fender is a range of instruments and accessories aimed at students and beginners, marketed by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation from the early 2000s until at least 2011. As of April 2018, no products were being marketed under this brand. The electric guitars in this range were manufactured in East Asia , and typically sold as part of

1216-568: A starter package along with a Squier SP-10 practice amplifier (e.g. "Starcaster Strat Pack"). In 2006–2007 the Fender website identified them as being sold through Best Buy , Target , Sam's Club and Costco outlets. Different finishes were available exclusively at each outlet, for example, three-tone sunburst with rosewood fretboard from Best Buy, black with maple fingerboard from Target and metallic black with rosewood fingerboard and pearloid scratchplate (Model No. 0283001165) from Sam's Club. Although

1280-831: A surprise guest appearance in Saratoga Springs, New York during Dave Matthews Band 's performance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. He sat in and jammed with the band during " Lie in Our Graves ". In June 2008, Anastasio guested on the Robert Randolph Band's set, who opened for an Eric Clapton concert. On August 7, 2008, he played his first post-rehab electric show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York debuting: "Alaska" (electric version;

1344-590: A ten-piece band with the addition of Peter Apfelbaum on barritone sax and percussion, and Cyro Baptista on percussion. On August 10, 2008, Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB played a set at the All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. They opened with "Sand" and played a few other classic Anastasio/Markellis/Lawton compositions (songs that were also later recorded by Phish) including "Gotta Jibboo" and " Heavy Things ". On

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1408-551: A white Ed O'Brien model Fender Stratocaster . Anastasio's electric guitar technique is largely conventional; he does not typically make use of tapping techniques and does not usually play slide guitar (an example of when he does is in the Oysterhead section of Les Claypool 's 5 Gallons of Diesel ) but is known to be competent at both techniques. He normally uses a 2.0mm Adamas graphite guitar pick , but does not always do so. Melodically, he often incorporates modes , notably

1472-469: The 67th Tony Awards , and were awarded the 2013 Dramatists Guild Frederick Loewe Award for best theatrical score composition. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Anastasio at number 53 on their list of the 250 greatest guitarists of all time. Anastasio was born in Fort Worth, Texas , and moved to Princeton, New Jersey , when he was three. His father, Ernest Anastasio Jr., was an executive vice president at

1536-546: The Educational Testing Service . His mother, Dina, was a children's book author and editor of Sesame Street Magazine . He grew up with his sister Kristy. In 1967, Trey was the inspiration for the lead character in the children's book What Does The Cloud Do? , which was written and illustrated by his grandparents, Jean and Cle Kinney. Anastasio attended Princeton public schools through the fourth grade, then transferred to Princeton Day School . He graduated from

1600-797: The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville Tennessee. The east coast premier of " Time Turns Elastic " was performed on May 21, 2009, with conductor Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Maryland. The performance also included the debut of the orchestral version of Anastasio's "First Tube". On September 12, 2009, Anastasio performed "An Evening with Trey Anastasio and

1664-701: The Taft School along with Steven Pollak, better known as the Dude of Life , who later helped pen such Phish compositions as "Suzy Greenberg", "Fluffhead", "Run Like An Antelope", "Slave to the Traffic Light", and "Dinner and a Movie". At Taft, he formed his first two bands, Red Tide and Space Antelope. He enrolled at the University of Vermont (UVM) as a philosophy major, where he met original Phish bandmates Jon Fishman , Mike Gordon , and Jeff Holdsworth . On December 2, 1983,

1728-464: The UK these were sold by Tesco and Argos . An electronic "table-top" drum kit TT-1, model no. 0887004001, was introduced to the range in 2009, featuring seven touch-response pads, two pedals and MIDI input and output. Trey Anastasio Ernest Joseph " Trey " Anastasio III (born September 30, 1964 ) is an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of

1792-519: The dorian , mixolydian , and locrian , as well as pentatonic scales . In addition to scales, Anastasio makes abundant use of arpeggios while improvising as well as in his compositional material. Anastasio's guitar influences include Robert Fripp , John McLaughlin , Jerry Garcia , Pat Metheny , Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix . Effects processors play a crucial role in achieving Anastasio's guitar tone. He uses effects such as two Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamers (with Analogman's Silver Mod) in sequence,

1856-765: The Air . He has performed his own compositions with the New York Philharmonic , the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra , the National Symphony Orchestra , and many others. With Amanda Green, he wrote the score for the Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody . In 2013, they were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score at

1920-520: The Beacon Jams for his Divided Sky Foundation, which used those funds were used to purchase a property in Ludlow, Vermont to act as a drug rehabilitation center. On March 11, 2022, Anastasio released his first all-acoustic solo album, Mercy . The nine-song album was produced by Bryce Goggin and Robert Stevenson, and mixed by Mike Fahey. It was intended as a follow-up to Lonely Trip , with Anastasio saying

1984-566: The Best Sound Design in a Musical category. Anastasio co-wrote the music for Hands on a Hardbody (along with Amanda Green) for a Broadway opening in March 2013. After only 56 performances, the show closed on April 13, making it the "fastest closing new musical of the season." On March 15, 2010, Anastasio inducted one of his favorite bands, Genesis , into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , claiming it

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2048-619: The Dove , has been commercially released, and many of the songs included on this release were reincarnated into Phish's 1998 album The Story of the Ghost . Anastasio also writes a number of his own lyrics, including all of the lyrics on his first release with Columbia Records , 2005's Shine . One of Anastasio's signature compositional techniques is the use of episodic (or organic) form. "Fluff's Travels" and "You Enjoy Myself" are good examples of through-composed pieces which evolve from one musical idea to

2112-669: The New York Philharmonic" at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan with the New York Philharmonic , playing various compositions including "Divided Sky"," You Enjoy Myself ", and "Time Turns Elastic". This concert was a benefit for his sister, through the Kristy Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund and the New York Philharmonic. While not touring with Phish, Anastasio performs tours with both TAB and acoustic solo concerts. On July 30, 2020, Anastasio released Lonely Trip ,

2176-550: The Phish album Farmhouse is of the outhouse located right next to The Barn. Other artists who have recorded or performed at The Barn include Gordon Stone Band, Herbie Hancock , Béla Fleck , Swampadelica, John Patitucci , DJ Logic , Toots & the Maytals , Tony Levin , The Slip , RAQ , John Medeski , Jerry Douglas , Nicholas Cassarino, Van Ghost and Addison Groove Project, Karina Rykman , among others. Beginning in 2006, The Barn

2240-459: The Phish catalog. He graduated from Goddard in 1988. Anastasio is a founding member of the rock band Phish , serving as lead guitarist and vocalist since their inception. Phish is noted for their musical improvisation , extended jams , exploration of a broad range of genres, and original live performances. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 (with the current line up solidifying in 1985),

2304-427: The Starcaster by Fender name. These included a blue distortion pedal, a green-yellow chorus pedal, an orange flanger pedal and the "Starcaster 15G" 15W amplifier. Fender also marketed a drum set under the Starcaster by Fender name. Its shells are made of hardwood. The set features a floor tom, two rack toms, a kick drum, snare, hi-hat and crash cymbals, stands, pedals, a drum chair, tuning key and drumsticks. In

2368-545: The Starcaster's first creation was in 1975. The Starcaster name was revived for a range of "value-priced" Starcaster by Fender guitars, basses, and drums unrelated to the Starcaster of the 1970s. The guitars were usually the same shape as Fender's Stratocaster and the bass the same shape as the Fender Jazz Bass . This line was discontinued by 2014. In September 2013 Fender reissued the Starcaster in continuation of its 2011 "Modern Player" series. The new version, offered in black, natural or aged cherryburst, closely resembles

2432-479: The Vermont Youth Orchestra. On September 27, 2008, Anastasio and Orchestra Nashville premiered a new work titled Time Turns Elastic , an original long-form piece that was orchestrated by composer and arranger Don Hart, and featured Anastasio on lead guitar and vocals. Anastasio previously collaborated with Hart and Orchestra Nashville in his orchestral performance of "Guyute" at Bonnaroo 2004. He performed

2496-512: The band includes bassist and vocalist Mike Gordon ; percussionist, vacuum player, and vocalist Jon Fishman ; and keyboardist and vocalist Page McConnell . Phish performed together for over 20 years, releasing 10 studio albums, disbanding in August 2004. They reunited in March 2009 for a corresponding tour, released a reunion album Joy and have since resumed performing regularly. Trey Anastasio Band debuted in 1998 as Eight Foot Fluorescent Tubes, as

2560-530: The blog Trey's Guitar Rig. Anastasio has been married to Susan Statesir, his college girlfriend, since August 13, 1994. They live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and have two daughters, Eliza and Isabella. His sister, Kristy Manning, died of cancer in April 2009. Anastasio is Catholic . On December 15, 2006, Anastasio was stopped by police in Whitehall, New York , on a traffic violation. He failed

2624-462: The early 1990s, Anastasio employed a custom 2x12 speaker cabinet powered by either a 100W Mesa/Boogie Mark III head or, later, a Custom Audio Electronics 3-channel preamp and Groove Tubes power amp. In mid-1997, he switched to a pair of modified 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb amps, one serving as a backup. When Phish returned in 2009, Anastasio was back to using the Mesa Boogie MKIII. In 2013 he added

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2688-542: The famous Univibe clone the Black Cat Vibe, and a Ross compressor. He switched to Analogman's Bicompressor around 1998, dropped the compressor from his rig in 2002, and resumed use of the Ross Compressor in 2008 when a group of fans who desired the return of Anastasio's "signature" Ross compressor sound pooled their resources to obtain a vintage Ross Compressor and sent it to Anastasio in an attempt to compel him to return

2752-515: The group played their first gig at a dance in the Harris-Millis Cafeteria at UVM. The setlist consisted of cover songs, including " Long Cool Woman " and " Proud Mary " which was performed twice. The band was very primitive at this time and used hockey sticks as mic stands. After performing one set, Michael Jackson 's Thriller album was put on by a party-goer to drown out the band. The band would not return to play but were still paid for

2816-525: The music he has written for his touring and recording projects apart from Phish. Tom Marshall , a New Jersey computer systems professional and friend of Anastasio since his Princeton childhood, has been his primary songwriting collaborator, acting as lyricist. Anastasio has often pulled lyrics for his music from large notebooks of poems and prose kept by Marshall, and the pair have taken working retreats during which they wrote and/or recorded demos of new material. One such demo, Trampled By Lambs and Pecked by

2880-400: The music originally performed by the sextet was later seen on his 2002 release, Trey Anastasio . A year later they evolved into The Octet which added Ray Paczkowski on keyboards and Russell Remington on tenor sax and flute; and The Dectet in 2002 through 2004 explored complex arrangements and changes of some songs included on Trey Anastasio , and was an evolved version of the octet, now

2944-403: The original guitar but lacks some key features including the master volume control, string-through-body bridge, string tree for four strings, bullet truss rod adjuster and three-bolt neck attachment. Unlike the original from the 1970s, the new guitar features a tune-o-matic bridge with a stop tailpiece and bound f-holes. Fender has also released a bass version of the Starcaster, an instrument that

3008-551: The other, never returning to a previous musical statement. This technique had been used in a rock music setting by relatively few before Phish ( Frank Zappa and the Grateful Dead are two such examples). Anastasio employs modal improvisation, first made popular by Miles Davis in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Anastasio has also demonstrated skill at composing chamber music and music for orchestra, most notably on Seis De Mayo , his second solo album, and in his collaborations with

3072-561: The performance. At UVM, he hosted an early morning radio program , Ambient Alarm Clock . While living at home for a semester he attended Mercer County Community College . While there, he reconnected with his childhood friend Tom Marshall , and the pair began a songwriting collaboration and recorded material that would appear on the Bivouac Jaun demo tape. Anastasio met up with childhood friends Tom Marshall , his future writing partner, and early collaborator Marc Daubert . After seeing

3136-466: The range was withdrawn from the Fender website in 2007, it continued to be developed and was sold through a variety of other outlets, such as BJ's Wholesale Club , Amazon.com and Buy.com . Most of these guitars were Stratocasters , but some early versions (sometimes called S1) had an arrow-shaped headstock similar to that of the Fender Swinger . The typical Starcaster Strat Pack solid-body electric

3200-547: The rock band Phish , which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish original songs, 141 of them as a solo credit, in addition to 41 credits attributed to the band as a whole. In addition to his work with Phish, Anastasio has released 11 solo albums, and been part of several side projects including the Trey Anastasio Band , Oysterhead , Ghosts of the Forest, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Surrender to

3264-572: The same composition at Carnegie Hall with the Vermont Youth Orchestra on September 14, 2004, and with the New York Philharmonic on September 12, 2009. Anastasio played the Walt Disney Concert Hall accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on March 10, 2012. Anastasio's 2012 album Traveler was a collaboration with producer Peter Katis, whose longtime band The Philistines Jr. opened for Phish at UVM early in their career. He

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3328-449: The same period to collectors because of their unpopularity and lack of name endorsers at their time of manufacture. The most prominent player to use the original 1970s Starcaster was Leo Nocentelli of The Meters . Claydes Charles Smith of Kool and the Gang can be seen using one in the video for " Celebration ". Jonny Greenwood , guitarist of Radiohead , can frequently be seen playing

3392-477: The song "Sweet and Dandy". In September 2004, he performed with the Vermont Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall . In 2006, Anastasio toured with Mike Gordon and the Benevento/Russo Duo. The project, known unofficially as G.R.A.B. played a number of shows with Phil Lesh. In July 2007, he released another instrumental album, The Horseshoe Curve , via his own Rubber Jungle Records . On August 14, he made

3456-491: The song was debuted acoustic at Rothbury), "Peggy", "Gone", "Backwards Down the Number Line" (electric version; the song was debuted acoustic at Rothbury), "Valentine", "Greyhound Rising", and "Light". Four of these seven songs have found their way into the Phish live repertoire and on official studio releases. On September 27, 2008, Anastasio debuted Time Turns Elastic , an orchestral epic co-created with composer Don Hart, at

3520-483: The songs were inspired by further time spent in isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic: "[ Mercy ] is like a bookend. It's two years since we went into hiding. This is still going on, and it's an even lonelier trip." Upon the album's release, Anastasio described songwriting as one of his greatest joys. In college, Anastasio studied composition under composer and arranger Ernie Stires. "Guelah Papyrus", featured on Phish's major label debut A Picture of Nectar , includes

3584-838: The twentieth anniversary of the original Eight Foot Fluorescent Tubes show, April 17, 2018, Anastasio, Markellis and Lawton embarked on a tour featuring performances of Anastasio songs previously performed by Phish, such as "No Men In No Man's Land", "Camel Walk" and "Party Time" (written by Jon Fishman). Anastasio was featured on the album True Love by Toots and the Maytals , which won the Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Reggae Album, and showcased many notable musicians including Willie Nelson , Eric Clapton , Jeff Beck , Gwen Stefani / No Doubt , Ben Harper , Bonnie Raitt , Manu Chao , The Roots , Ryan Adams , Keith Richards , Toots Hibbert , Paul Douglas , Jackie Jackson, Ken Boothe , and The Skatalites . Anastasio can be heard playing guitar on

3648-492: The videos for " For Reasons Unknown " and " Human ". Scott McMicken of Dr. Dog employs the Starcaster as one of his main guitars, along with an Epiphone Sheraton II and a Gibson ES-335. Trey Anastasio of Phish plays a custom Languedoc guitar based on the Starcaster. Arctic Monkeys guitarist Jamie Cook can be seen playing one at the 2009 Reading Festival and in the video for the 2009 single "Crying Lightning". Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie has occasionally used

3712-402: The vintage effect pedal to his rig. Anastasio responded through friend and longtime collaborator Tom Marshall 's website explaining that he had lost his original Ross Compressor and that he was so touched that people cared about his effects and guitar tone that he would add the gift to his rig in the original configuration where it has remained ever since. He also uses a wah wah pedal (usually

3776-670: Was "impossible to overstate what impact this band and musical philosophy had on me as a young musician. I'm forever in their debt." In addition to Anastasio's speech, Phish appeared and performed two Genesis songs, " Watcher of the Skies " and " No Reply At All ". Genesis did not perform. In June 2010, Anastasio appeared as a surprise musical guest on Conan O'Brien 's " The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour " stop at Tower Theater in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania , where he performed "Alaska." Between Me and My Mind ,

3840-566: Was an early influence on Anastasio and seeing the bassist perform with the Unknown Blues Band was a major reason he decided to attend UVM. The trio reunited in late 2008 (along with keyboardist Ray Packowski) for a tour of the Northeast United States. The band expanded to a sextet in 2000 with three horn players added to the band (Dave Grippo on alto sax, Jennifer Hartswick on trumpet and tuba, and Andy Moroz on trombone). Some of

3904-477: Was fitted with three single-coil pickups, a five-way selector switch and a floating tremolo bridge. The neck on models up to 2011 features the large CBS headstock and may have 21 or 22 frets, depending on the model. Some models have the headstock painted to match the guitar body. Later Starcaster models feature the smaller Fender headstock. The body may be basswood or agathis depending on model and year of manufacture. To bring down cost, other minor changes, such as

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3968-438: Was never released, although at least three prototypes were created in the mid 1970s. The name "Starcaster Bass" is purely speculative as the existing prototypes have only the name Fender on the headstock, a feature which the new version retains. Currently, Fender offers Classic Vibe, Affinity & Contemporary versions of the model under their Squier brand. Fender has also released a Tom DeLonge signature model in 2024 featuring

4032-598: Was nominated for a 2013 Best Original score Tony Award, an Outstanding New Score Drama Desk Award, and Outstanding Music and Outstanding Orchestrations Outer Critics Circle Awards for the musical Hands on a Hardbody . That year, he also received the Frederick Loewe Award from the Dramatists Guild of America, which recognizes achievement in a theatrical score. Hands on a Hardbody received nine 2012–2013 Drama Desk Awards, tying for most nominations, and winning in

4096-532: Was reduced to a misdemeanor . He has publicly thanked the officer who arrested him for turning his life around. Following this experience, he became an active participant in the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), sharing his story on Capitol Hill, and working to help raise awareness and money, for a National Drug Court . Anastasio has maintained sobriety since January 2007, and detailed his opiate addiction, arrest and rehabilitation in

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