![]() So I spent a lot of time learning Phish songs and Trey licks during that time. In college and for some years afterward, I played in a jam band based in Charlottesville called Cannonball Coming that was heavily influenced by the jam band community, and particularly by Phish. RC: My dad is a huge audiophile and stereo gearhead, so I come by it naturally. JamBase: What’s your history as a musician and gearhead? So there’s a great crowdsourcing element to it, and I think that’s reflective of the great community Phish has built over so many years. So I’ll post a thread on or the Phantasy Tour forum and get all this incredible feedback from people who’ve seen a photo of this or that. I also have the advantage of being able to tap in to Phish’s amazing online community, where there are lots of smart, curious, and dedicated folks who are also interested in figuring out how this stuff works. ![]() I’d obviously love to speak to Trey’s tech, Brian Brown, at some point and soak up as much information as possible from him. I’m learning more about Trey’s current and prior rigs every day, and a lot of what I’m doing is making educated guesses about what’s happening on stage, since there aren’t that many definitive answers about this stuff out there. The site will always be a work-in-progress. In terms of looking back at older tours, I’m relying heavily on the HD videos and photos available during 3.0, and it’s hard to find such good quality photography of pre-3.0 shows. I’ll be at all three Colorado shows this weekend, so I’ll be live-tweeting updates and posting an update to the site with any changes I see. And of course I’ll do all tours and big events going forward. To the extent possible, I’ll go back as far as I can. JamBase: Do you plan to continue to profile older tours? Ultimately, I’d like to add audio clips, too, so that folks who aren’t as familiar with the amps and effects can get an idea of what each one is doing to influence the overall sound. I created the site I wish had existed in the weeks after that first show I saw at the Garden when I was 16. But I thought it would be valuable and interesting to show how the rig evolved tour-by-tour and to provide a single, illustrated, one-stop-shop clearinghouse for all the information you’d need if you were curious about Trey’s guitar rig. There were a lot of chat room and forum discussions and snapshots of the rig here or there. Eventually, I had accumulated a lot of information about the rig, and I figured there’d be a lot of folks out there who might be curious about it. ![]() Over time, I got to know the rig really well and would bore my musician friends (or anyone who would listen) to death yammering on about the addition of the vintage Shin-Ei Univibe or the switch from the Fulltone Tape Delay to the Supa-Puss Analog Delay. So for the last few years I would flip through the band’s photos and videos and see if I could spot changes in Trey’s rig. In the 3.0 era, Phish started releasing a lot more high-definition photography of the band, including, most importantly for me, HD live streams of the shows. Over time, some great sites popped up providing a good amount of information, but they were mostly static shots of the rig at one particular moment in time. It was relatively early in the internet era, and I remember surfing around a very slow internet connection in the following weeks, months, and years scooping up any lit bit of information I could find about the rig. ![]() I could also tell there was more there than met the eye the Whammy effects, the delays – there was enough to keep my curiosity piqued. As a budding young guitar player, all I wanted was to replicate it. It could be vocal, clear, and cutting, and remain unbelievably articulate even when he was in “full scream” with all gain-stages firing, but it also had at turns this wonderfully ethereal and ambient quality. RC: My big brother took me to my first Phish concert (Octoat Madison Square Garden) and I remember the whole time thinking “how did the guitarist possibly make that sound?” The tone was – and is – so unique for a rock guitar player, and it really spoke to me. ![]() JamBase: When did you come up with the idea for the site? Ryan Chiachiere: The site is only a few months old, but I’ve had the idea in my head for a long, long time, and I’ve been compiling research for a while. We chatted with Ryan about his site, the recent changes to Trey’s rig and other topics on the eve of Phish’s Dick’s ’16 run: Trey’s Guitar Rig is run by Colorado-based attorney, musician, gearhead and Phish fan Ryan Chiachiere. ![]()
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