Trey Anastasio

Ernest Giuseppe "Trey" Anastasio III, born September 30, 1964, is an American guitarist, composer and vocalist most noted for his work with the jam band, Phish, between 1983 and 2004. Among music criti

Ernest Giuseppe "Trey" Anastasio III, born September 30, 1964, is an American guitarist, composer and vocalist most noted for his work with the jam band, Phish, between 1983 and 2004. Among music critics and historians, Anastasio is considered to be one of the most accomplished guitarists and composers alive today, rated as number 73 on Rolling Stone's List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He is credited by name on 152 Phish originals, 140 of them as a solo credit, in addition to the 41 attrbuted to "Phish" in the generic [].

He began playing the drums as a youth, turning to guitar while a teenager. He attended Princeton Day School for junior high school, where he began to write music with some of his classmates. Some of these songs (e.g. "Guelah Papyrus" and "Runaway Jim") would find their ways into the Phish repertoire, and many other Anastasio compositions refer to these early experiences. For senior high school, Anastasio attended Taft Preparatory, where he founded his first two bands, Red Tide and Space Antelope, respectively.