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Awesome documentary, very personal and beautifully shot. Gets straight to the point in telling the story of the power of music to not just connect us to each other as human beings but also to tether one's own personal soul to the Earth. Any fan of Phish/Trey or someone who's felt music ever saved their life in one way or another will find this doc essential viewing.

Made me laugh, tear up, and get up and dance. Drove home and picked up my guitar. A very heartfelt movie of a guy , his band, family, and Phriends ! HIGHLY Recommend this !! 💚🐠💛

Great doc for Phish phans and likely an enjoyable doc for anyone interested in seeing a rare example of a well adjusted middle-aged rock star. It's full of joy, friends, family, and gaining from loss. Not your usual rock biopic. There's a hint of tragedy narrowly averted, but mostly solid upper middle class privilege, Protestant work ethic, and Vermont maple-flavored jam band success. I laughed, I cried, I love Trey even more than I did before.

This documentary gives an unprecedented and current look into Trey Anastasio - family man, musical savant, creative genius, friend and human being. This documentary does a great job examining this interesting year in Trey's life and the access we are given to his family, band members, friends and inside information into his process is something that every Trey / Phish fan has been waiting for. You get to watch a musical genius pull music out of the ether, question himself, his process and then lay down amazing track after track. The fans wanted an inside look into his music writing process and we are so fortunate to have this documented.

The documentary was well made and there is so much humor, heart, sadness and joy pulled together in a short amount of time. There are only a few movies I am going back to the theater to watch for a second time, and this is one of them. A+ documentary and required viewing for those Trey / Phish fans even on the table considering not watching this. It's Bitersweet Motel reprise at a more mature time in Trey's life and I am so thankful this was made. Thanks to all his family and the band for participating too and that made the experience complete.

Going to see this documentary was on my mind for weeks when I saw announcements of it being In theaters. I can't express how much I admire Trey, Fish, Page and Gordo for their passion and drive in the music world. They really are the definition of hard work and persistence. This documentary has so much heart, many life lessons at its core and proof that every musician's life goes more deeper then you could imagine. Trey seems like he is all heart and it shows with his every interaction throughout this doc. I highly recommend that people see this if any opportunity rolls by. Beautiful from start to finish. Blaze on my phriends!

Frankly I was a bit disappointed with this film, despite it being beautifully shot and edited. I found the biographical aspect of it spotty and strangely incomplete - zero mention of his mentor Ernie Stires, Tom Marshall: his lyricist/co-writer on over 100 Phish songs, his time at Goddard college, his early music projects pre-Phish, or even how/at what age he started playing guitar and writing songs! In place of these crucial components of his backstory we're treated to intimate and sometimes awkward conversations between Trey and his parents, children, spouse, and of course his brethren in Phish, and while these allow us to better know him as a father, friend and human, they do little to shed light on who he is as an artist and how he managed to arrive at the place where someone would make a doc on him in the first place. As far as this film being billed as an inside look at his creative process, we do get to see him working out some new material with various band members and there is one cool scene of him layering in various parts himself on a demo...but I personally was hoping for more insight into things like how he warms up before a show, what some of his written music on paper looks like, maybe a look into how he's crafted the handful of orchestral works to his name, which get zero mention. Lastly, despite the intimate glimpse into his personal life (including the passing of a close friend) by the end we don't really know anymore than when we started about any of Trey's spiritual beliefs, what drives his often Dharma-like, peace and love inflected lyrics, and what transformation if any, he underwent in dealing with and beating his substance addiction. As a longtime Phan and a musician for whom Trey was a significant influence, I was still able to enjoy this film for what it was as I'm sure many will, but at best it is two hours of skimming the surface of one of the deepest, most interesting and influential guitarist/composers of his generation.