Dude of Life Band:
Dude of Life Band and their catalog of psychedelic cult classics deliver a nonstop party for any audience. Especially, those who still know how to have a good time! Steve Pollak, aka Dude of Life, has been writing songs with Phish’s Trey Anastasio since their high school days at the Taft School in Watertown, CT. Anastasio has often credited Dude of Life as being "the crowd before there was a crowd!" The Dude has cowritten some of Phish's most beloved songs, including "Fluffhead," "Run Like An Antelope," "Suzy Greenberg," "Sanity," "Slave To The Traffic Light," and "Dinner And A Movie." His debut LP, Crimes of the Mind, was released on Electra Records in 1994 and featured all 4 members of Phish backing him up. To date, the Dude of Life is the only artist who has made an album with Phish as their backing band! More recently, The Dude has developed a more refined classic rock sound, and an album's worth of new material currently being recorded by legendary producer Bryce Goggin. Dude of Life Band features Pollak on rhythm guitar and vocals, Charlie De Saint Phalle, on bass, Fred Scholl on lead guitar, Parker Reilly on keys and the newest member of the band, Chuck Black, aka "Friar Chuck" on drums.