Trey Anastasio Band wrapped up a brief run of spring 2022 shows with a performance at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO on Sunday.

Both the Red Rocks show and the preceding evening in Vail reminded Trey and his faithful fans about Colorado’s frivolous weather patterns as the late-May temperatures hovered around a brisk 40 degrees. On Saturday, some snowfall in Vail had even obligated Trey to recount the story told in Phish rarity “Walfredo” (“Those were times I’ll never forget / The snow fell in Vail Colorado / When Fish played the vacuum and ruined your set”), though even such an on-the-nose lyrical coincidence couldn’t summon that particular white whale with TAB.

After a series of lineup changes and last-minute substitutions in 2021, the full-time lineup of Trey, keyboardist Ray Paczkowski, drummer Russ Lawton, percussionist Cyro Baptista, bassist Dezron Douglas, trumpeter/vocalist Jennifer Hartswick, trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman, and saxophonist/vocalist James Casey has notably jelled in its first full outing as a unit.

Over the course of this spring Trey Anastasio Band run—which included a headlining slot at SweetWater 420 Fest, a two-night run in Boston, and this past weekend’s gigs in Colorado—the octet has approached all angles of Anastasio’s expansive catalog with renewed creative intention.

At Red Rocks, Trey and company squeezed every drop of emotion out of moody TAB favorites like “Dark and Down”, “Alive Again”, and “Quantegy” while radiating celebratory heat out to the chilly crowd with upbeat numbers like “Love Is What We Are”, “Money, Love and Change”, “Night Speaks To A Woman”, “Ether Sunday”, and “A Life Beyond The Dream”.

On TAB-turned-Phish-turned-both staples like “Sand”, “Gotta Jibboo”, and “First Tube”, the last of which closed the show in typically grandiose fashion, Dezron Douglas’s athletic approach to the low end added a nimble new sense of urgency. On newer TAB songs like “Roll Like A River”, which made just its second appearance at Red Rocks after its debut earlier this month, fans got a taste of the soulful direction in which the band is heading thanks to the harmonious embrace of the reunited Hartswick/Cressman/Casey choir.

Continuing a solo-Trey trend dating back to 2020’s Beacon Jams, the band seemed to shine brightest on songs best known via Phish—not only because of the inherent excitement of the “crossover” but because of the enthralling ways in which this outfit renders them. The funky “Camel Walk” during set one on Sunday was a far cry from any version ever issued by Trey’s “other” band. The massive, 30-minute “Everything’s Right” > “No Men In No Man’s Land” segment to open set two reads like a Phish set on paper but sounded like something new entirely on the Rocks—the fruits of a new-look band finally able to lock in and put in the labor.

Check out a selection of fan-shot vides from Sunday night’s Trey Anastasio Band performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre below. Scroll down to view a gallery of photos from the show via Andrew Rios.

Next up for Trey Anastasio is a brief spring tour with Phish. The outing is due to kick off this weekend (5/27, 5/28, 5/29) at The Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach, AL. From there, Phish will head to Credit One Stadium in Charleston, SC for two nights (5/31, 6/1) and the venue formerly known as Deer Creek in Noblesville, IN for three nights (6/3, 6/4, 6/5). For a full list of upcoming Phish dates, head here.

Trey Anastasio Band – “Money, Love and Change”, “Sand” … “Gotta Jibboo” – 5/22/21

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Trey Anastasio Band – “Everything’s Right” – 5/22/21

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Setlist [via phish.net]: Trey Anastasio Band | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | Morrison, CO | 5/22/22

Set One: Set Your Soul Free, Olivia, Camel Walk, Love Is What We Are, The Moma Dance, Dark and Down, Alive Again, Money, Love and Change, Sand

Set Two: Everything’s Right, No Men In No Man’s Land > Liquid Time > Roll Like a River > Quantegy > Simple Twist Up Dave, Night Speaks to a Woman, Ether Sunday, Gotta Jibboo

Encore: A Life Beyond The Dream, First Tube

A full soundboard recording of the show is available to stream via LivePhish.