Trey Anastasio continued his fall solo acoustic tour on Friday night at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Phish frontman offered the debut of his tune “Set Your Soul Free,” along with plenty of fan favorites and between-song crowd banter and stories behind some of the songs.

After an opening of “Secret Smile,” Anastasio played “Set Your Soul Free,” a tune he debuted with his solo band just last year, solo for the first time. The night also featured other newer TAB/Phish songs like “Everything’s Right” and “Rise/Come Together,” plus more classic staples like “Limb By Limb,” “Prince Caspian” and “Wolfman’s Brother.”

The last of those, “Wolfman’s,” was preceded by Anastasio telling the story behind the cover for Phish’s 1994 studio album Hoist. According to the guitarist, the music on the record made the band think of levitation, which led them to attempt to get a picture of a horse, “the most grounded of creatures,” being lifted up. Laughing, Anastasio explains that the end product—which came about with help from the band’s friend Amy (of Amy’s Farm fame)—was really “nothing like what we’d conceived of at all, a horse in a horrible contraption.” The musician also notes that, inspired by the band’s photo featuring drummer Jon Fishman holding up a dumbell in a (rather revealing) old-timey swimsuit, he suggested that the album’s title be Hung Like a Horse.

Anastasio later wrapped up his set with a closing run of “Blaze On” into “Bathtub Gin,” then returned to the stage for a three-song encore of “Waste,” the recently debuted Halloween Kasvot Växt tune “Say It to Me S.A.N.T.O.S.” and “More.”

See last night’s setlist below, along with some fan-shot video from the evening. Anastasio continues his tour tonight at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA.

Trey Anastasio
Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA
Solo acoustic

Secret Smile , Set Your Soul Free*, Brian and Robert, The Inlaw Josie Wales, Mountains in the Mist, Free, Two Versions of Me, Summer of ’89, Everything’s Right, If I Could, Limb By Limb, Prince Caspian, Till We Meet Again, Mexican Cousin, Mercury, Rise/Come Together, Talk, Wolfman’s Brother, The Wedge, Blaze On > Bathtub Gin

Encore: Waste, Say it to Me S.A.N.T.O.S., More

Notes: *Debut

Source: Phish.net