Mike Gordon

the b-ssist who also served as a songwriter and singer for the legendary jam band phish from the mid 80’s to 8/15/04 at the coventry festival where phish played their last show. he is famous for his sick slap b-ss technique, legendary b-ss tone, and compositions like mike’s song.
mike gordon and the benevento/russo duo played a nearly hour long jam of “foam” in athens, ga, recently.
a talented b-ssist, composer, and writer, most famous for his career as b-ssist for the excellent and celebrated band phish. after the band’s breakup in 2004, mike entered into a collaboration with guitar legend leo kottke, resulting in their exploratory alb-m, clone, and a limited tour. mike also appeared several times with the benevento-russo duo. in 2005, he rebanded with leo to produce a second alb-m, sixty six steps, and the two again toured.

mike’s phish-era solo work includes the psycho-n-lytic inside in, which he produced during the hiatus. he was also the author of mike’s corner, a column which appeared regularly in the band’s publication, the doniac-schvice, and also on the phish website through july of 2003. the column was adapted into a book of short stories of the same name, with ill-strations by mike’s then-fiancee, priscilla foster. a film maker all his life, mike has produced an independent film, outside out, among others; he also directed phish’s one and only music video, down with disease.

mike gordon, now in his early forties, lives in vermont.

see also cactus, phish, and mike’s groove
mike gordon is amazing!
popular in portland or. famous techno star that was popularized by only singing songs about how great he is. he only released one alb-m t-tled: mike gordon:electronic superstar. this alb-m was released in 2006 under electric lighthouse records. song t-tles included: feast or famine, world’s greatest lover, one bad mo’fo, and ballad of the bean eating man.
mike gordon…world’s greatest lover. (actual song lyrics, no joke)