Push On 'Til the Day

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Originally Performed By	Trey Anastasio
Appears On
Music/Lyrics	Anastasio
Vocals	Trey
Historian	Hal Stern (studiozero)
Last Update	2025-10-13

History

Debuted early in the third year of Trey’s solo band on a night stacked with debuts and later nestled early in 2002’s Trey Anastasio among other TAB songs that became foundational to the band’s next two decades of touring, “Push On Til The Day” relates tales from the Phish road in the TAB horn and funk style.

"Push on Til the Day" - Trey Anastasio Band live on Late Night with Conan O’ Brien - 2/23/2001

Each couplet relates some incident from the shoulder time before or after a show, starting backstage with “Seacot” – C. Cottrell, Trey’s long-time friend to whom Ghosts of the Forest was dedicated.

At the Mayo Arts Center acoustic show on February 8, 2018, Trey shared the backstory of “Push On.” Each line references some story from the 1990 tour, capturing the excitement of “staying up for 3 nights in a row.” As Trey related: “Pete threw a bomb and he rang the pole” comes from an outdoor show in Los Angeles where monitor mixer Pete Schall was tossing a football with one of the local crew. After going further and further out for successive tosses from Pete, the receiver ran headlong into a telephone ball as the ball arrived.

Pete Schall Football Toss Story - 2/8/18. Video by LazyLightning55a

Last significant update: 10/13/25

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