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Former Phish Frontman Enters, Wins Most Bemused Mug Shot Ever Contest

12/15/06, 1:45 pm EST

Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio, or Ernest J. Anastasio, as he’s now known to the Whitehall, New York police department, was reportedly arrested early this morning, and busted for driving under the influence. Confirmation on what exactly was in Anastasio’s system is not yet available but some dare to speculate the collection of (someone else’s) hydrocodone, Percocet and Xanax bottles reportedly found in his car might have had something to do with it.

Anastasio was also reportedly driving with a suspended license, and has been charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and DWI.

Ooops.

[via Perez Hilton]


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NBonfig | 12/15/2006, 2:06 pm EST

Cool. Thats what trey gets for doing Coventry. Sucks for you, welcome to the real world. BTW, Bar 17 rocks!!!

J | 12/15/2006, 2:09 pm EST

Shoot. This could hurt the inevitable 2007 Phish Reunion Tour.

CurtMayfield | 12/15/2006, 2:16 pm EST

At least he practices what he preaches…

Anonymous | 12/15/2006, 2:18 pm EST

phishhook rulez!

Me | 12/15/2006, 2:33 pm EST

The list sounded like my roommate´s stash, dude!

b | 12/15/2006, 3:14 pm EST

Now that he is in custody he can officially be charged with making the worst horseshit music ever.

baba o riley | 12/15/2006, 3:41 pm EST

caption for the mug shot – “Wait, what?”

beedubs03 | 12/15/2006, 3:42 pm EST

This won’t hurt a Phish Reunion, Mike, Page and Jon are his partners in crime anyway…

You might think the music is horseshit, but he’s one of the most innovated, talented guitarists of our time.

LIKROPER.COM | 12/15/2006, 3:57 pm EST

is weed a drug?

billow | 12/15/2006, 3:57 pm EST

“At least he practices what he preaches…”
Yeah, totally brah. Tray tells teh fanzzz to eat pharmies for breakfast.

Anonymous | 12/15/2006, 4:00 pm EST

Ahh… the great American pastime, reveling in other people’s tragedies. What Rolling Stone doesn’t mention (because they’re too lazy to read real news reports, apparently) is that Trey told the Whitehall Police Chief that he’s got a prescription pill problem. The Police Chief said Trey told him he hopes this is a wakeup call that he needs help. As a long time fan, I certainly hope he gets help. Before he hurts himself, or more importantly, someone else.

Willis | 12/15/2006, 4:00 pm EST

It’s unfortunate that the police feel it necessary to tell the press what Trey said, how it happened, etc.

Christian | 12/15/2006, 4:03 pm EST

He’s got incredible talent, but his lack of self-control around drugs (which led to Phish’s hiatus and then break-up) is lame. He’s becoming washed up (his solo stuff is weak). Better get the band back together before people stop caring

billow | 12/15/2006, 4:08 pm EST

Yeah, Phish better get back together soon. No one will remember that shit in like a year…wait, maybe Trey should get sober so he isn’t dead in a year.

CWS | 12/15/2006, 4:47 pm EST

Ernest Goes to Jail!

Bummer, but you shouldn’t jeopardize others with your own problems- he obviously did something wrong to get pulled over.

Flemdog | 12/15/2006, 5:54 pm EST

It’s too bad what happened. It would be a waste if the incident repeats.
He is a very good person and has helped many others who have had substance problems and has done many beneift concerts for good causes.
He is human and unfortunately in the spot light because of his talent.
I hope he will right this ship but it will not be easy. Change only comes when you want to change, not when you are forced.
I wish him well in his next journey.

Anonymous | 12/15/2006, 7:19 pm EST

Mr.FLuffhead

RonnyDarkmeat | 12/15/2006, 8:51 pm EST

Sucks for Trey…he’s the man. Kinda surprised something like this didnt happen sooner. Looks like Brand Sands has a lot driving to do now.

msrigbee | 12/16/2006, 8:58 am EST

PHISH sucks and trey’s an asshole anyway

Ryan | 12/16/2006, 9:40 am EST

damn i have tickets to see him on the 29th. DON”T GO TO REHAB YET!!

AndyKaufman | 12/16/2006, 9:57 am EST

The Phish rots from the head. Trey was and is the big problem with the band. The rest of them were at the top of their game the last few times I saw them, but pillpopper Trey was all over the place, sloppy, disengaged, in general a pale shadow of his former talented self.

Drugs a problem in the backstage scene? Show some willpower. Remember why you’re there in the first place, to make art.

Whiteboy | 12/16/2006, 12:12 pm EST

Trey is a weiner. He was exactly 1/4 of Phish and that’s all he’ll ever be. Get the boys back together Trey.

brain | 12/16/2006, 1:01 pm EST

How about instead of wasting your time reading and writing about some washed up pill popping hippie you tree huggers put down your vegy burito and get a job. And no… selling grill cheeses to “support the band” (ie:buy pot)is not a job and neither is trying to save the rain forrest. Dont concern yourself so much with someone who is too xanied up to recognize his own mom. GET A HOBBIE OR MAYBEE EVEN A GIRLFRIEND. ALL OF YOUSE NEED TO GET A LIFE

jackaroses | 12/16/2006, 3:28 pm EST

ya well sooner or later we all get popped. ernest was always wishy wahsy. come on if it was not for the grateful dead and pill poppen kids who like to fight there dogs.and care more about the lot than the show. phish would never have existed. search for the sound and the rest will come.as for trey he is not the first and he won’t be the last.maby if we were true to the scene the scene would be true to us. THE GRATEFUL DEAD IS AN WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREATEST BAND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the jack

Whiteboy | 12/16/2006, 4:51 pm EST

Hey Brain, suck it. I’m a biochemist you judgemental horses ass. If you don’t like the music, piss off and head over to some Justin Timberlake postings.

porch | 12/16/2006, 4:57 pm EST

hey white boy. First off thats a very clever name. Like a any blacks listen to hippie music. I agree with brain and highly doubt that you have any job at all, maybee you steal scales and jars from real biochemist labs to weigh your bud and than put it in the jars. Nice try tree hugger

Whiteboy | 12/16/2006, 5:04 pm EST

Nice Porch. You’re just as stupid as Brain.

porch | 12/16/2006, 5:16 pm EST

as a biochemist you dont have much of a comeback for the whole stealing Paraphernalia thing. is this because youve been stealing beakers to make bongs since the age of 12?

Whiteboy | 12/16/2006, 5:40 pm EST

Do you even know what a beaker is dipshit? Now, go put on your Gwen Stefani CD and enjoy yourself idiot.

joshb | 12/16/2006, 5:59 pm EST

You damn right Whiteboy!

Ryan | 12/16/2006, 7:02 pm EST

porch is an asswipe
i’m in the honors program at villanova and i get stoned daily and listen to phish and thats not stopping me from getting a job no scratch that a better job than yours.

brad sands | 12/17/2006, 2:20 am EST

trey’s a fucking tool…i quit!

Helvis | 12/17/2006, 9:53 am EST

I think Rip Torn’s mug shot is more bemused than Ernie’s. Weren’t they both stopped by the same NY state trooper in the same county?

frog | 12/17/2006, 12:41 pm EST

villanova is a university, but not one to brag about you nerd

Ham | 12/17/2006, 2:59 pm EST

Ryan do you realize how much of a tool you sound like.

Brain (but not that one) | 12/17/2006, 8:52 pm EST

Look, you wanna smoke up? I don’t care. Gave it up, myself, but that’s just me. I think drungs, of any kind, for long enough, make you fat and stupid, if they don’t kill you. Consider… All kinds of empty pill bottles, no lisence, speeding through an area known for not going the lightest on drug offenders? Can’t tell the size from the mug, but he’s got the stupid part down cold. So does anyone who argues anything by saying, “I get stoned everyday.”

Rock on, all crappy jam bands!!! Guitar masturbation rules!!!

Wankers.

LIKROPER.COM | 12/17/2006, 9:15 pm EST

weed is nothing more than a medicinal drug wankers take because they are sickened by people like Brain (but not that one)…

Brain (but not that one) | 12/17/2006, 10:19 pm EST

Medicinal? Honestly, Heroin was medicinal. So was blow. Hell, LSD was the prozac of the 50’s.

It’s curious to me that, somewhere along the way, the way to handle someone with an opinion you didn’t share was to call them an idiot. What the hell ever happened to pluralism? I’m just saying Anastasio, Snoop, ANYONE nailed for drugs in their car has done an incredibly stupid (notice I don’t say wrong) thing and deserves some measure of crap for it. Wanne “legalize it?” Cool. But do it before you act like it’s already done.

Jon | 12/17/2006, 11:15 pm EST

Trey is the man

trey rules all you niggers | 12/17/2006, 11:49 pm EST

and Brain…i hope an extremely “unfortunate” accident leads to your horrible death, your just a fucking nazi. go shoot up and die, you’ll realize that no one cares.

El Doctor | 12/18/2006, 1:42 am EST

I wish i could get a hold of my mug shots when i was arrested after bonnaroo several years ago… They were sick… I saw them and they wouldnt give me a copy… They did feed me though…. They need a new cook there…. And its not like in grade school where you get a choice of milk or OJ… What a strange place

Trey fan | 12/18/2006, 11:02 am EST

Anyone who shits on Trey’s music has no appreciation for art. Whether you like him or not u can’t deny that he has been one of the most innovative musicians ever. He is human and he is a GOOD PERSON. I wish him all the best.

BTW if you hate phish and Trey then u must not have a life if you spent time reading this and then commemting on something you dislike. Concentrate on positive energy please.

Trey fan | 12/18/2006, 11:06 am EST

And another thing, Treys music has always been about positive energy, something few musicians ever do. In the world we live in today anything that brings people together in a peaceful way is a blessing

LIKROPER.COM | 12/18/2006, 11:28 am EST

i didn’t call you an idiot, i called you a ‘people’(?) – the word idiot came out of your Brain, not Mine…does Brain (not the other one) know something we don’t? – perhaps he has some behavioral issues to work out…hmmm…

LIKROPER.COM | 12/18/2006, 11:40 am EST

ONE MORE THING, Brain (not the other one – see postings below) – you said: “Wanne ‘legalize it?’ Cool. But do it before you act like it’s already done.” – well well well – as far as i know we DID legalize weed, but because of a MASSIVE obstruction of democracy on the part of the federal government, democracy here in america has not yet been fully realized…is it legal or is it not?…many people are simply not going to wait until the feds pull their heads from their asses and stop ignoring the will of the people…in other words; get with the program!…do you not see this purple paint on my finger!?…

To Brain: | 12/18/2006, 11:45 am EST

Do you post comments like this whenever a “celebrity” gets a DUI? And for the record Ive got a job and have never sold veggie burritos. And Trey at his peak was one of the best american guitar players ever.

phishkidhater | 12/18/2006, 12:48 pm EST

trey is a cum burper. and all you phish heads can sit around & cry about it.i guess that will teach him to break into old ladies houses & steal their pills.ernest is phuck & they should through away the key so we dont have to listen to him anymore.

......... | 12/18/2006, 2:57 pm EST

You know the guy is a badass when people who “hate” him (for no reason) take the time to post about him. The guy is a badass, he is in a rock band..and used drugs..whooah, no. Never heard of that happening before.

Deez Nuts | 12/18/2006, 3:12 pm EST

The fact that he is a badass guitar player/musician is not even debatable…if you think it is then you shouldnt be listening to music.

Maybe this will be a wakeup call for him to clean up his act and get phish back together for a 2007 Summer run!!

wordson | 12/18/2006, 3:22 pm EST

Rock on trey. But maybe you should drop the pills, get back to some freebasing, bring phish back together, and be the king once again.

friend of phishkidhater' | 12/18/2006, 3:33 pm EST

I am glad to see Trey has something to do with no Phish reunion in sight. After all, I’d rather see Trey go to court than a bunch of wanna-be hippie boys come roll through my town. Maybe he can get together with Eddie Murphy and pickup a transvestite along the way to pick up his next fix.

WCB | 12/18/2006, 6:51 pm EST

I don’t care, I just want my emails from rolling stone to make sense again. I can’t even find half of the information I am looking for when I click the link!!

friend of treys | 12/19/2006, 1:13 am EST

alright here is the real story. we went to a little town in upstate new york to see a guy that trey went out with off and on for about five years. he had some buddys that he had got shit off of before in that town. so we stopped by there on our way out.we sat around and smoked some hash with them .then we headed back to vermont.on our way back trey was all pharmed out and about hit a three year old little girl when blew a stop sighn.so those people called the cops and gave them our plate#.so me trey & his boyfriend all went to jail because trey had to have his pills.trey finaly told the cops who he got them from for a lesser charge.they were just a couple of phish kids they didnt care because it was for trey.well there it is.

Andrew | 12/22/2006, 3:04 am EST

Trey shape your ass up. Pharmies are the new age drug that are more addictive than herion,and easier to get and consume. And getting pilled out and driving what are you trying to prove. Just so you know ROCKSTARTS CAN DIE TOO. I really hope he can kick this habit and PHISH make a Bonnaroo 2007 headline dream come true.

Andrew | 12/22/2006, 3:06 am EST

Another thing have you never heard of a limo, what a cheap ass, iam starting to have my doughts about you trey.

some-kid | 12/24/2006, 11:36 am EST

im from whitehall (where trey got busted) and believe me the cops around here are pricks and its not hard to get busted in this town believe me haha and the wierd part is i was gettin fucked up on the same shit he had all that weekend

Aimhouse | 12/27/2006, 11:19 pm EST

Just get help Trey! You are brilliant
Why are you on tour again?

Steve-O the Lawnboy | 12/31/2006, 5:30 am EST

To whoever posted this story:

alright here is the real story. we went to a little town in upstate new york to see a guy that trey went out with off and on for about five years. he had some buddys that he had got shit off of before in that town. so we stopped by there on our way out.we sat around and smoked some hash with them .then we headed back to vermont.on our way back trey was all pharmed out and about hit a three year old little girl when blew a stop sighn.so those people called the cops and gave them our plate#.so me trey & his boyfriend all went to jail because trey had to have his pills.trey finaly told the cops who he got them from for a lesser charge.they were just a couple of phish kids they didnt care because it was for trey.well there it is.

If you had sources for that story, you could go as an anonymous source to a newspaper , where you might get some money, instead of some blog.

Cactus | 1/5/2007, 1:40 pm EST

That’s why I like playing with tyrant Mickey Hart and wifebeater Billy K. They don not, nor never have done any drugs.

Me, no, I’m no nice guy.

riak | 2/8/2007, 7:24 pm EST

phishkidhater knows so little…
scram!

Rod | 2/8/2007, 10:19 pm EST

OK, so Trey did a stupid, idiot, irresponsible thing involving drugs and automobiles. I realize this is an absolute FIRST among rock stars, but c’mon.

The guy needs help. What happened in Whitehall is no reflection on Phish or their music or (for God’s sake) Trey’s abilities as a guitar player. It just means he needs to get his chit together.

It sounds like drugs had totally taken over Phish by the time they decided to quit for good, and one can take Trey’s slurred speech and sloppy playing at Coventry as Exhibit A (the “Sloth” from that show is an audio train wreck).

I just hope Trey can sort out whatever problems he’s having in his personal life and get back to doing what he was put on this Earth to do.

Grateful Dan | 2/11/2007, 2:36 pm EST

Seen Phish a number of times in
Maine.Great shows ,no comparison
to the Greatful Dead . Been clean&sober for 13 yrs. Life takes
on new meaning ,Go for it Trey it`s
yours if you want it The Great Went
Lemmonwheel&Portland shows top notch

shakedown814 | 2/13/2007, 8:03 pm EST

Ron, i agree Trey was playing sloppy post hiatus, but i must ask what are you on? Sloth wasnt played at Coventry. The last Sloth was played 07-31-03 in Camden.

TREYOWNS | 2/23/2007, 2:48 pm EST

Why dont you all find something better to do than sit around and bash some of the most acomplished musicians. Go listen to your favorate phish show and forget about the behind the scenes madness. Rock stars have been fighting drugs since the begining. If i were a rock star i would probobly have a drug addiction myself. Leave trey alone, go to his shows, support his music, buy his cd’s, and keep hopes high for a wonderful phish reunion.

bathtub meth | 2/28/2007, 6:32 pm EST

you guys should phind something better to do than bash great musicians.COME ON WHO EVER SAID ERNEST WAS A GREAT MUSICIAN?all you little FISH heads can go phuk off with your cry baby chit about how great FISH is and the reunion. yea they will have a reunion tour so you all can pay for phuk heads phuk up.

Once loved PHISH | 3/1/2007, 12:58 pm EST

Let it go Phish fans…

And don’t compare the Dead to Phish. That’s embarrassing. U look dumb.

Mike | 3/13/2007, 11:46 pm EST

This one is for Bathtub Meth, which I must admit is a funny name. Anyway, you are a fool if you’re trying to say Trey is not a great musician. It seems like you have anger and hatred toward Trey and/or Phish fans. Thats why you are a fool. You know nothing and I laugh at you.

reba | 4/5/2007, 10:20 am EST

i toured with phish for years and i dont think trey is a great musician maybe good not great.

tom | 6/5/2007, 8:17 pm EST

what ever happen to that pedophile drummer of his? wonder if his balls are still intact.

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