Q&A: Phish's Trey Anastasio on playing the Sphere, and keeping the creativity going after 40 years

Phish is performing four unique shows inside the $2.3 billion Sphere in Las Vegas, becoming the first band to perform at the glitzy concert venue since U2 ended a 40-show residency in March. The band’s co-founder Trey Anastasio promises no repeated songs and new visuals each night — plus a theme for fans to figure out. He sat down with the AP’s Josh Cornfield to talk about how how the shows came together, pushing forward creatively — and what’s next for the group.

“I love getting up in the morning and creatively thinking of another cool thing to blow people’s minds,” Anastasio says. ANASTASIO: It’s extremely unique to any venue that we’ve played before. One of the things that we’ve tried to do is sculpt our show so that we can be the band that we always are and play to our strengths while simultaneously using the technology to kind of expand the elements of the show — like the adventure and the breaking free of boundaries.

ANASTASIO: Constantly. Daily. Yesterday. We dropped some things yesterday. It’s a constant process of waking up in the morning and looking for areas that we can improve. Everyone on the team is incredible, but the level of communication and proactive teamwork is hard to describe. And that’s what it takes to get something like this mounted. But yeah, there were ideas on what the thematic narrative that was going to run through the four nights that went on for a month. Then we landed on one.

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