Cactus: Mike Gordon w/ Marco Benevento Trio 10/21/2011 Green Onions, Twin Killers [VQ: A-, AQ: B]
Cactus: Video – Mike Gordon Sits In with Jackie Greene For Sugaree [Hidden Track]
Interviews: Phish Bassist Mike Gordon Talks About Another Side of In [New England Post]
Cactus: Mike Gordon Sits In With Warren Haynes Band [Hidden Track]
On the eve of Phish’s first performance in Vermont since Coventry, bassist Mike Gordon stopped by Higher Ground in South Burlington to sit in with the Warren Haynes Band. Mike played a four-string fender bass for covers of On Your Way Down by Allen Toussaint and Little Milton’s That’s What Love Will Make You Do. Both tunes may be better known to jam fans for the Little Feat and Jerry Garcia Band versions respectively.
Interviews: Phish To Play Benefit Concert For Flood Relief [Burlington Free Press]
“We wanted to get involved in the community that birthed us,” Gordon said Tuesday night, home after a summer tour that ended Sunday in Denver. (And after a Tuesday evening stop at Dobra Tea Room in Burlington).
Page McConnell: Vida Blue 07/13/2002 DAUD New Source (w/ Cactus) Los Angeles, LA
Mike’s Hotline: Mike Gordon Addresses Jamming Style [Hidden Track]
“Why doesn’t Phish do extended jams anymore? I don’t understand the question because I thought there were a lot of long jams and I was always surprised about how long they were going. And I kept writing in my journal even saying, ‘wow, what’s great about these jams is how long they are.’ Now, of course anyone that wants Phish to be Phish in ’93, Phish in ’94 is just deluted because that year is gone forever in the history of mankind”
Social Networks: Mike Gordon Shares a Behind The Scenes Look at Life on Phish Tour via Twitter [Hidden Track]
Clarkston: Sing Happy Birthday to Mike Gordon [Facebook Event]
As many of you know, the show on June 3rd in Clarkston, Michigan is on Cactus’s birthday, the first show to fall on that date since the 80′s. It is our duty as fans to wish everyone’s favorite funkmaster happy birthday. I will be handing out flyers at the show, and will also upload the template here for anyone else who wishes to help. The plan is to sing it before the first set when the band walks out on stage. I hope to sneak in an airhorn to signal when, but if that gets confiscated, the singing should begin after the initial round of cheering when the band walks out, but before they start to play. This should set a great tone for the rest of the show.
Reviews: Mike Gordon Band @ Brooklyn Bowl w/ Photos [Hidden Track]
[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]
On a spring evening that saw hail, freezing rain, thunder and lightning envelop New York City, the Mike Gordon Band played their second of two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Bowl. The Phish bassist’s current five-piece “solo” band first started performing together in 2008 and the payoff of having five lengthy tours under their belts is paying major dividends in terms of tightness and the size of the repertoire. The MGB’s second Brooklyn Bowl show, while not mind-blowing, displayed a high level of engagement, creativity and the willingness to take risks that Phish fans love.