Although the cross-over within the Venn Diagram of Phish Phans and Swifties is often fairly minimal, the unlikely streams crossed for a quick (okay, three-plus hour) second this summer season when Phish singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio‘s two grown daughters zoomed over to Europe to catch certainly one of Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour exhibits.
The Phish Phigurehead dropped into SiriusXM’s Phish Radio on Thursday morning (August 1) to inform the story of how his two grownup daughters, Isabella and Eliza, saved up their cash to see Swift in Dublin and ended up having a flashback to certainly one of their dad’s most iconic eras. As any Swiftie will know, seeing the Eras Tour in Europe is usually cheaper than catching it stateside, which is why the 2 girls hopped over the pond, in keeping with their dad.
“That’s why they went. It was the one place you possibly can get a ticket,” Anastasio mentioned. “My 27-year-old daughter needed to get a Taylor ticket for my 29-year-old daughter, so she went on-line and put in for the lottery for each present on Earth, as did one other buddy of hers. They usually each solely may solely get tickets in Dublin — her and certainly one of her greatest mates — impartial of one another.” So, the sisters met one another in Dublin on the present the place Swift famously received briefly caught on a platform mid-show.
“I mentioned, ‘is {that a} coincidence? That my daughters watched me on a platform, their dad, and Taylor?,” he questioned. Anastasio was referring, in fact, to a present in Dublin on June 29 throughout which a stage malfunction throughout “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” by which the elevated part Swift was standing on did not decrease when it was speculated to, leaving her momentarily stranded in air. Swift, a consummate skilled, shook it off and stored rolling.
Anastasio was additionally serious about the New 12 months’s Eve present in 2019 when every member of Phish carried out from a color-coded, elevated platform above the stage to make room for his or her color-coordinated dancers. As his bandmates have been lowered again to the principle stage, Anastasio’s platform received caught, so he simply stored jamming from the air earlier than drummer Jon Fishman’s platform was raised again up so the crew may rescue the frontman.
In a video from November 2020, Anastasio recalled that one of many chains holding up the platform broke and as an alternative of being harnessed into his rig, he simply had a rope that restricted his motion, so he couldn’t get too close to the top of the platform. “Then I assumed, ‘oh my God, if this tilts I’m going to be hanging by my belt!’
