Mike Gordon

I mean, look-

Then Mike Gordon would come and do a solo.

I mean, look-

Like remember when, when you played for our wedding? So they, they played-- we invited Phish to our wedding, uh, in 1995.

We know you have a show.

Could you play Divided Sky for us during, during the, the show?" And sure enough, they played Divided Sky for us, so.

And this is our 30th wedding anniversary, so that might be a good reason to reach out and see if Mike Gordon wants to play a little solo set at Tumbleroot.

You know what? Ain't nothing wrong with asking.

So good.

You may also know Bob from playing with Mike Gordon, but there's this side of him that I also love.

He's been a huge part of the Hug Your Farmer benefit concert series that brings together amazing musicians and has raised a lot of money and support for local farmers and agriculture.

So fun fact, Bob was actually studying to become a therapist before music fully took over, which honestly makes a ton of sense because he is really, really easy to talk to.

Yeah, yeah.

Funk in 3-4 or 6-8.

You don't get that every day, which is... which was actually kind of Mike, Mike Gordon.

I think that's the reason, one of the reasons he really wanted to play that one because he's like, you know, it's got this funky thing, but it's, it's in three.

is.

Apparently, their bassist, Mike Gordon, has teased it live a couple of times during David Bowie, I guess, most of the time.

yeah the theme song

yeah where they'll just like during a live show like bust it out once in a while there's a couple examples like from

So that's how it started.

I met this guy, Mike.

He had been my dad's partner in this product.

And he helped me kind of get this project off and running.

My dad died in a car crash when I was born.

So I was starting to picture my dad in this different way as a 25-year-old.

never having known him and starting to finally be able to relate to him, not because I could understand the technical side of things, but I'm standing with Mike and we're looking at a schematic and he's asking me to read some numbers off of it while he tinkers and tests some stuff and And I'm just thinking like, oh man, my dad was in the same kind of spot, working with him in the same kind of situation.

And it made him real for the first time.

I got to see Page a lot just walking around.

Mike Gordon a lot, too, because they live right there.

You know, it was neat because you got to go see them at little small clubs at their, with their little side projects and Vida Blue and Mike Gordon Band and stuff like that.

So I was really worried when we moved down here in 2016.

I was like, "Uh, I don't know what the music scene's gonna be like," not knowing that all these bands got their start [laughs] here.

Banks of the Deep End came about when we were embarking on the Deep End sessions with all the different bass players after Alan Woody passed away.

Our friend Mike Gordon from Phish... had volunteered to film a documentary of the process.

And I was doing a lot of writing with specific bass players in mind, and I was trying to do some co-writing as well.

So Mike and I got together and worked on Banks of the Deep End.

So in October of 1996, they released the album Billy Breathes.

Phish was formed in Burlington, Vermont in 1983 by guitarist Trey Anastasio, guitarist Jeff Holdsworth, bassist Mike Gordon, and drummer John Fishman.

Paige McConnell, the keyboardist, joined in 85.

Jeff Holdsworth left, and then it just became basically that foursome of Anastasio, Gordon, Fishman, and McConnell.

But it's a song called Simple.

I think it was a Mike Gordon song that he was just kind of messing around with and something that they had been fiddling with, and it kind of became a song.

It's one of my favorite songs from the band now, years later, as time has gone on.

Chris, give us your thoughts on second set opener, Simple.

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Mike Gordon, AKA McGee-

Mm-hmm

... um, you know, there's a certain, uh, people are being excited by the possibilities that technology allows them in the way of, you know, exploring ideas or conveying sounds or whatever it is.