Mike Gordon
Seattle, Wa
Tractor Tavern
8-22-08

New Album:  The Green Sparrow

If you don’t know who Mike Gordon is, you could pretty much ask anyone who does and get, more or less, the exact same response, “He was in Phish.  He was the bass player“.  A similar answer would be yielded when asked about any of the other 3 members of PHISH and, although each of these musicians have continued to venture on with new, often critically acclaimed, projects in their own right, it is unlikely that they will ever be aptly described if not in connection with their former band.  The members of PHISH are caught in a double edged sword of recognition that I like to refer to as the “Seinfeld Theory” and, historically, it seems as if there are but few methods that have been utilized to hop off this backsliding treadmill of fame and successfully move forward. Read the rest of this entry →