Happy Birthday Page McConnell: Watch the Phish Keyboardist Play with The Meter Men
Today marks 53 years of the Chairman of the Boards, Page McConnell. While Page is most fondly one-fourth of Phish, he has also carved out his own reputation in the musical world including a stunning collaboration with The Meter Men.
McConnell and George Porter Jr. spoke to Relix about the collaboration. As he explains it, Page got the call from Leo Nocentelli and the rest was history. “Now, I am close with these guys and it is such an honor to have a personal part in their music, but nothing like that had ever happened to me before. People always say, “Oh, Phish is so heavily influenced by the Dead,” or some say by the Allman Brothers or [Frank] Zappa. I think The Meters are as important as any of those bands when it comes to the way we play.”
Watch the band’s full set from Jazz Fest 2013.