Rock and Roll HoF Nomination for Phish

Phish is a 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2025 nominee. Vote here

excerpt from GQ's Grayson Haver Currin's interview with Trey Anastasio after Phish was nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

As you know, I saw my first New Year’s Eve Phish show this year, and that’s what was so moving about the techno encore—that you guys were trying to blow minds, not just sending a banner year for Phish off with a hit.

We’re 41 years in, and we played two brand new songs, which are now deeply folded into this thing. “What’s Going Through Your Mind” is arguably the biggest song in the Phish repertoire right now. It was written in March. It came out after our last album, in our 41st year. That just doesn’t happen. But the amount of work that goes into something like that, the hidden work? Like, I definitely also believe “Never let ’em see you sweat,” and there’s a lot of sweat. You gotta debut 20 new songs to get a song like that. You have to work on all of them and write all of them and wait for the muse to tell you this is the one.

And then you’ve got to develop it and nurture it and play it and improve it and change the key, and then we have that whole thing on New Year’s. If you were a fan for 40 years and saw that, it’s meaningful. Like, this band still cares. That goes back to what I was trying to say: The reason that this acknowledgement is so touching and moving is that 41 years of care and love went into this nod.

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I've been a fan for 31 years and the December 31, 2024 concert blew my socks off