It’s been nearly every week since Kendrick Lamar’s masterful Tremendous Bowl halftime present, and lots of are nonetheless singing its praises, like Trey Anastasio, who raved concerning the efficiency in a brand new interview this week.
“Once I noticed Kendrick the opposite evening, I used to be dropping my thoughts,” Anastasio advised GQ. “I assumed, ‘That is the deepest factor I’ve ever seen at a Tremendous Bowl.’”
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The remark got here within the context of Anastasio describing his personal band, Phish, as “not a really floor band,” which typically requires listeners to dig into the fabric a bit bit earlier than they begin to perceive the magic. Caveating that he makes “this comparability with out even a drop of high quality comparability,” Anastasio likened it to Kendrick’s efficiency.
“I watched it 3 times, and I nonetheless couldn’t decide up on all of the messages he was conveying,” he stated. “It was a chunk of artwork. Nevertheless it wasn’t all on the floor. It wasn’t McHalfTime Present. You needed to dig in a bit bit, and anybody who did dig in was rewarded. I like issues like that.”
Anastasio additionally expressed a little bit of bafflement on the blended opinions the halftime present obtained. Impressed with the efficiency and content material, he “simply assumed everybody thought that, till I talked to Patrick [Jordan, Phish’s manager] the subsequent day. I don’t actually take a look at the Web, however he stated, ‘Lots of people didn’t actually prefer it.’ How may you not like that?”
In different Anastasio information, Phish was not too long ago nominated for the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. If the band will get inducted, Anastasio stated he can be “honored” to have Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend introduce them. “He’s so articulate and good and from New York and a beautiful man, and I believe he will get it. It could be good if somebody may do it who wasn’t a star that was simply assigned, somebody who doesn’t perceive Phish,” he defined to GQ.
Subsequent month, Anastasio will hit the highway for a solo acoustic tour stopping in Boston, New Orleans, Nashville, Washington DC, and extra cities. Phish themselves will then embark on a tour this spring.
As for Lamar, he’ll proceed his ongoing victory lap — which included some main Grammy wins earlier this month — with a stadium tour with SZA, kicking off in April. Get tickets right here.