Story about Trey on Capitol Hill

[Undermind]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/trey-anastasio-phish-fron_n_198865.html

[mopper_smurf]

What? No tie-dye tie?



The really big news:

He spent 14 months in the drug court system, he says, scrubbing toilets and cleaning fairgrounds. "I've been sober for two-and-a-half years," he says to applause. "My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour. And in September I'll play a solo concert at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic." That last part really impressed the Hill crowd.

[blatboom]

I love that dude is SER about his sobriety.

[McGrupp]

Yeah, trey!

[sls.stormyrider]

Yeah, trey!

[PhishPhan]

Hot find, +k.

So there's someone who works on Capital Hill who is a phan?

[sls.stormyrider]

lots of Deadheads up there, I would be surprised if there weren't any phans

[shoreline99]

Hot find, +k.

[gah]

I love that dude is SER about his sobriety.

2 and half a years is no joke. I am very impressed, and proud of everyone around him that has helped in the process.  Going through that alone, even though in a sense you have to, in your mind, is not easy.

Oh, and good find!

[rowjimmy]

Thank you, Trey, for stepping up.



And, yeah, there's plenty of Phish Fans in DC.

[Phunkaddict]

 

[Play_It_Leo]

Hot find, +k.

[GBL]

its cool that hes there, but i really enjoyed the information below about the drug courts v. prison..

[StCarl]

It's all real, man.

And right on, Trey.

[sunrisevt]

[sb]

I got a speeding ticket in Essex Co., NY summer of '07--about an hour from Whitehall--and when I showed up in the town courthouse to plead  a few months later, most of the other defendants there were drug court cases. It was cool--DA and judge both were still serious, but respectful in a way I haven't seen when dealing w/ those accused of property & violent crimes.

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