Mike Gordon

In 2003, after recording The Deep End, Volume 1 (2001) and Volume 2 (2002), Gov't Mule gathered several musicians that had worked on the Deep End sessions as well as a few other friends for a live concert. This was intended as the culmination of the Deep End project, which was a tribute to their late bassist Allen Woody, who died in 2000. Two CD plus DVD set recorded live at the historic Deepest End Concert in New Orleans, LA on May 3rd, 2003. DVD includes 15 minutes of behind the scenes footage plus a photo gallery. Starring Gov't Mule (Warren Haynes, Matt Abts, and Danny Louis). Featuring appearances by bass players Les Claypool, Mike Gordon, Jason Newsted, Victor Wooten, George Porter, Jr, Dave Schools, Greg Rzab, Rob Wasserman, and more. Also featuring appearances by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Fred Wesley, Karl Denson, Bernie Worrell, Bela Fleck, and many others.

SET 1: Everything's Right, Tube, Ether Edge > Reba, Taste, Ruby Waves, A Life Beyond The Dream, Character Zero SET 2: Down with Disease, Harpua[1] > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday[2] > The Lizards[2] > Punch You in the Eye > AC/DC Bag > Tela[2] > Llama > Wilson[3] > The Sloth[4] > Divided Sky[2] SET 3: McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Colonel Forbin's Ascent[5] > Fly Famous Mockingbird[6] > Auld Lang Syne > Split Open and Melt[2], You Enjoy Myself > Loving Cup > Possum ENCORE: Cavern > First Tube > Tweezer Reprise [1] Unfinished. [2] Off-stage backing chorus. [3] Jo Lampert on additional vocals. Off-stage backing chorus. [4] Lyrics changed to "I'm squeezing that Charmin. Thank you Mr. Whipple. I'm still squeezing that Charmin. Thank you Mr. Whipple." [5] Off-stage backing chorus. Lyrics changed to "weary body." [6] Annie Golden on additional vocals. Off-stage backing chorus.

"Move Me Brightly" is a film based around a musical gathering at Bob Weir's TRI Studios in San Rafael, California to mark what would have been Jerry Garcia's 70th birthday on 3rd August, 2012. The revolving line-up of performers included fellow Grateful Dead members along with many guest artists who joined together to celebrate Jerry Garcia's life and work. Grateful Dead bandmates and other musicians who played with or were inspired by him. It is fitting tribute to one of rock music's most creative and imaginative composers and performers. Features contributions from fellow Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart and Donna Jean Godchaux along with Garcia family members and guests including Carlos Santana, Furthur's Joe Russo & Jeff Chimenti, Phish's Mike Gordon, Black Crowes' Adam MacDougall, Vampire Weekend's Chris Tomson, Yellowbirds' Sam Cohen & Josh Kaufman and many more.

The Rev. Jeff Mosier (Blueground Undergrass) was contracted by Phish in the Fall of 1994, to help them learn Bluegrass. They flew him to Michigan and Mike Gordon picked him up in a limo, and they had their first lesson on 11/14/1994, same night as Grand Rapids.

SET 1: Punch You in the Eye > AC/DC Bag > The Moma Dance > Scent of a Mule, Burn That Bridge[1], Weigh > Ocelot, Beauty of My Dreams, Gone, Rock and Roll SET 2: Wilson > 46 Days, Sand, NICU > Down with Disease[2] > Ghost, You Enjoy Myself -> Manteca -> You Enjoy Myself SET 3: Meatstick[3], Auld Lang Syne[4], After Midnight, Backwards Down the Number Line > Piper > Free, Waste > Slave to the Traffic Light, Grind ENCORE: First Tube [1] Phish debut. [2] Unfinished. [3] Portions pre-recorded; Lyrics sung in multiple languages. [4] Sung with Meatstick singers while Trey played guitar.

SET 1: Possum, Wolfman's Brother, Lengthwise -> Maze, Theme From the Bottom, More, Divided Sky, No Men In No Man's Land, Most Events Aren't Planned > Fluffhead SET 2: Hey Stranger > Down with Disease[1] > Winterqueen, Tweezer -> Seven Below > Piper > Also Sprach Zarathustra, Everything's Right ENCORE: A Life Beyond The Dream, Harry Hood [1] Unfinished. Lengthwise was performed for the first time since July 9, 2019 (194 shows). At the end of Most Events Aren't Planned, Trey said "Thanks everybody, we'll be right back," then started Fluffhead instead of ending the set. Down with Disease was unfinished. During Harry Hood, Mike had an inflatable dreidel from the crowd on stage next to him and teased I Have a Little Dreidel.

SET 1: Plasma, Evolve, Ghost, Divided Sky, Shade, hey stranger, Character Zero SET 2: Oblivion > Down with Disease, Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1 -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Light > Ether Edge > Piper, First Tube ENCORE: More > Slave to the Traffic Light

Set 1: Farmhouse, Undermind, Ocelot, Back on the Train, Ether Edge > Llama, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Taste, Julius Set 2: Frankenstein, Kill Devil Falls, Ruby Waves, Meatstick, My Friend, My Friend > A Life Beyond The Dream, Character Zero Encore: Wading in the Velvet Sea, Fluffhead

SET 1: Mike's Song -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood > Train Song, Billy Breathes, Frankenstein > Izabella SET 2: Halley's Comet > Tweezer > Black-Eyed Katy > Piper > Run Like an Antelope[1] ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer Reprise [1] Lyric changed to "Michael Esquandolas." Mike's Song and Tweezer both contained BEK teases, with the ones in Tweezer taking place well before the segue into BEK. Fans of stage banter will want to seek out the second set for Trey’s humorous response to the crowd’s Destiny Unbound chant before Halley’s. The "Marco Esquandolas" lyric in Antelope was changed to "Michael Esquandolas." This show was released as part of the Hampton/Winston-Salem '97 box set.

SET 1: Everything's Right > Tube, 555 > Back on the Train, Army of One, Axilla (Part II) > Bathtub Gin > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. SET 2: Set Your Soul Free > Light > Fuego > What's the Use? > Backwards Down the Number Line SET 3: Free, A Wave of Hope, Waves > Sand, Split Open and Melt ENCORE: It's Ice

Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered on the titular band, presented in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap."

Why is it that Billy Bob Thornton, Dave Matthews, Peter Buck, Derek Trucks, Phish, Widespread Panic, and Blues Traveler are all huge fans of Colonel Bruce Hampton, but you've never heard of him? Bruce began his career with an unprecedented six figure record deal in 1970. The Hampton Grease Band's first album went on to be the worst selling album in the history of Columbia Records. He made a brave decision and continued his musical career, devoting himself to creating pure art rather than attempt any commercial success. The result has been an amazing, influential 50 year catalog of music and philosophy. Dubbed the father of the Jam Band music scene, he is a guru to many a celeb. Why is he still a secret?

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SET 1: Tweezer, Halley's Comet -> Set Your Soul Free > Rift, Cavern > Tweezer > Shade, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove SET 2: Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Kill Devil Falls, Mercury > Light -> Waste, Drift While You're Sleeping, Backwards Down the Number Line SET 3: Ghost[1] > Bohemian Rhapsody[2] > Ghost -> Jungle Boogie[3] > Wilson[4] > Auld Lang Syne[3] > Carini[5] > Theme from New York, New York[6] > Tweezer > Prince Caspian > Crosseyed and Painless > Piper, A Life Beyond The Dream, First Tube ENCORE: Show of Life > Tweezer Reprise[7]

SET 1: Everything's Right, Back on the Train, Wolfman's Brother, Maze, Leaves, Life Saving Gun, Dirt, Carini SET 2: Sand > Tweezer -> My Friend, My Friend > Mike's Song > Lifeboy, Weekapaug Groove, Blaze On > Fluffhead ENCORE: Farmhouse[1], Run Like an Antelope [1] Began and ended with Trey on acoustic guitar.

SET 1: Set Your Soul Free, Tube, Stash, Pillow Jets, Steam, Mountains in the Mist, Taste, 46 Days SET 2: Sigma Oasis > Fuego > Golden Age -> Twist, I Am Hydrogen > Chalk Dust Torture > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. ENCORE: A Life Beyond The Dream, Tweezer Reprise

SET 1: The Moma Dance, Stray Dog, 555, Sand, Lawn Boy, Steam > Chalk Dust Torture > What's the Use? > Play by Play, Waste, Ass Handed, Run Like an Antelope SET 2: Down with Disease[1] > Farmhouse > Seven Below > Twist > Harry Hood > Passing Through, Harry Hood SET 3: Mercury[1] > Auld Lang Syne, Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S., Simple > Saw It Again > Limb By Limb > Rock and Roll > Suzy Greenberg ENCORE: The Lizards, Character Zero [1] Unfinished.

SET 1: The Moma Dance > Possum, Wolfman's Brother, Birds of a Feather, I Didn't Know, Happy Birthday to You[1], Martian Monster, Reba, Walls of the Cave SET 2: The Wedge > Wilson > A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, Yarmouth Road, Kill Devil Falls[2] > Piper > Twist SET 3: No Men In No Man's Land > Auld Lang Syne > Blaze On > Carini > David Bowie, The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Backwards Down the Number Line ENCORE: Tube > Cavern [1] Sung by Fish and the crowd for his daughter Ella. [2] Unfinished.

SET 1: Free, The Moma Dance, Axilla (Part II), mercy, Bathtub Gin, Theme From the Bottom > Split Open and Melt SET 2: A Wave of Hope, What's the Use? > Ruby Waves, Lonely Trip, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing -> Prince Caspian, You Enjoy Myself ENCORE: Wading in the Velvet Sea, Harry Hood

SET 1: Carini > Suzy Greenberg > My Friend, My Friend, Fluffhead, Reba, Poor Heart > 46 Days > Maze > Character Zero SET 2: Possum > Fuego > Gotta Jibboo > Golgi Apparatus > What's the Use? > You Enjoy Myself SET 3: Soul Planet[1] > Auld Lang Syne > Free, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > The Moma Dance > Prince Caspian > Wading in the Velvet Sea > First Tube ENCORE: Loving Cup

Features live clips and 16 artists performances from Bonnaroo 2009 in Manchester, TN. Performances by Amadou & Mariam, Andrew Bird, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and Relentless 7, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Cage The Elephant, Coheed and Cambria, The Del McCoury Band, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, Passion Pit, Phish, Raphael Saadiq, Santigold, Snoop Dogg, The Decemberists, Zac Brown Band

SET 1: Martian Monster > Buried Alive > AC/DC Bag > Halley's Comet > Prince Caspian > Sparkle > Axilla[1], Maze > Fluffhead > Rise/Come Together SET 2: Punch You in the Eye > Wolfman's Brother > Light > Twist > Soul Planet > Mercury > Possum SET 3: Send in the Clowns[2], First Tube[3], Auld Lang Syne[3], Sand[3], Drift While You're Sleeping[3], What's the Use?[3], You Enjoy Myself[3] ENCORE: Tweezer Reprise[3], Rescue Squad[4] [1] Contained Axilla II ending. [2] Phish debut; with lyrics changed to "Send in the clones" and performed a cappella. [3] Clone dancers on additional vocals. [4] Debut; only Trey.

This show marked the beginning of Phish's Baker's Dozen run at Madison Square Garden and consisted of a Coconut donut theme. Coconut donuts were given to fans arriving at the venue and the show featured the Phish debuts of Shake Your Coconuts and Coconut. The lyrics of Shake Your Coconuts were changed to reference the Baker's Dozen. Reba did not have whistling. Walls of the Cave contained a Streets of Cairo tease by Trey. This show was webcast via Live Phish.

Based on the life and death of Gov't Mule bassist Allen Woody, and the making of a double-disc tribute album (Gov't Mule's The Deep End , Volumes 1 & 2) featuring a host of legendary bass players. Throughout the film, director Mike Gordon (of Phish, who also plays on the album) interviews Woody's family and bandmates and also discusses the philosophy and technique of bass playing with a number of the instrument's legends, including Chris Squire, Les Claypool, John Entwistle, Flea, Bootsy Collins, Mike Watt, Roger Glover and others.

SET 1: Mike's Song > Bouncing Around the Room > Weekapaug Groove, Stash, Evolve, Llama, Split Open and Melt, Backwards Down the Number Line > Carini, The Squirming Coil SET 2: Sigma Oasis > My Friend, My Friend > Sand, Golden Age > What's the Use? > Taste, Golgi Apparatus, First Tube SET 3: Character Zero, Pillow Jets > Auld Lang Syne > What's Going Through Your Mind -> Chalk Dust Torture > Slave to the Traffic Light, Life Saving Gun > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. ENCORE: Grind, Icculus, Tweezer Reprise

On August 14th and 15th, 2010 Phish played their 12th and 13th shows at Alpine Valley Music Theater - all 2-night stands since 2003. "Alpine" as it is affectionately known, is a steeply-sloping amphitheater with a big lawn and raucous crowd perpetually bursting with energy right in the band's faces due to the angles of the place. The angles all aligned on Saturday August 14th - the focus of the Alpine Valley DVD.

Video from this show was featured on Episode 12 of ‘Dinner And A Movie - An Archival Video Series.’ SET 1: Theme From the Bottom > Poor Heart, AC/DC Bag > Tela, Punch You in the Eye, Reba, Strange Design, Rift > Cavern > Run Like an Antelope SET 2: Simple > David Bowie, The Mango Song, Loving Cup, Sparkle > You Enjoy Myself, Acoustic Army, Possum ENCORE: A Day in the Life Trey teased Call to the Post in Reba and Mind Left Body Jam in Bowie.

SET 1: Sample in a Jar, The Wedge, 555, Heavy Things, Wolfman's Brother, Halfway to the Moon, Bouncing Around the Room, Kill Devil Falls, Train Song, Waiting All Night, Axilla, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing SET 2: Birds of a Feather, Ghost > Theme From the Bottom -> Cities > Chalk Dust Torture, Martian Monster SET 3: Dem Bones[1] > Auld Lang Syne > The Dogs > Tweezer > Simple > Limb By Limb, Bug > Backwards Down the Number Line, The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Julius ENCORE: Golgi Apparatus > Tweezer Reprise [1] Phish debut; Fish on vacuum.

Phish: Live in Vegas is a video of a complete live performance from rock band Phish recorded on September 30, 2000. It includes many rarities and songs that were brought out of "retirement" after long periods of inactivity. The performance was originally a live Internet webcast that came just days after Phish officially announced an indefinite hiatus from recording and touring. Anastasio used this opportunity to officially announce the hiatus to audiences across the globe via the Internet. Set 1: Walfredo, The Curtain With, Maze, Roggae, I Didn't Know, Mike's Song > Simple > Saw It Again, Esther > Weekapaug Groove Set 2: Timber (Jerry), AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Twist > Sand > A Day in the Life Encore: Emotional Rescue Bonus Tracks: Piper, Camel Walk (10.1.00 Phoenix, AZ

"It" is a two-disc DVD set chronicling Phish's two-day summer festival in Limestone, Maine on August 2 & 3, 2003. The first disc contains a full-length documentary originally aired on PBS in 2004 featuring interviews with the band, song excerpts, and images from the concert grounds and festival events. This was the sixth of eight major outdoor summer festivals held by Phish. The second disc contains a selection of complete live songs performed over the weekend. The DVD set, which clocks in at over four hours, was certified platinum in 2005.

Set 1: Frankenstein, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Ghost -> Spooky > Divided Sky, Roses Are Free > Funky Bitch, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Stash, Character Zero Set 2: Fat Man in the Bathtub, All That You Dream, Oh Atlanta, Old Folks Boogie, Time Loves a Hero -> Day or Night, Mercenary Territory, Spanish Moon, Dixie Chicken -> Tripe Face Boogie, Rocket in My Pocket, Willin', Don't Bogart That Joint, A Apolitical Blues, Sailin' Shoes, Feats Don't Fail Me Now Set 3: Down with Disease > Back on the Train > Gotta Jibboo > Camel Walk, Suzy Greenberg > Wilson > Harry Hood > The Horse > Silent in the Morning > You Enjoy Myself Encore: Julius

On July 22, 1997, Phish performed the second show of their US summer tour at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in Raleigh, NC. During the show, a thunderstorm of biblical proportions passed by, letting loose a torrential downpour with thunder and lightning that accentuated the electricity of the event. This DVD documents the collision between a force as imaginative and powerful as Phish and the supreme forces of Creation, and it contains the complete concert, uncut.

BITTERSWEET MOTEL takes a look at the iconoclastic musicians of Phish, one of rock and roll's most successful touring bands, a group Rolling Stone Magazine has called "the most important band of the '90s." This 84-minute documentary tracks the band over the course of a year — on and off stages across the United States and Europe and at home in Vermont. The film wraps with an extensive section devoted to one of Phish's grand festivals, "The Great Went," where 70,000 fans descend on the tiny village of Limestone, Maine, for a spectacular multi-day musical event. Director Todd Phillips, best known for his groundbreaking films, Hated (The GG Allin Story) and Sundance Award-winner Frat House as well as the blockbuster comedy Road Trip, reveals the fascinating phenomenon of the band — its music, loyal fans and spectacular live shows. Phillips presents a compelling film that every music fan will find fascinating.

Recorded live on August 11, 1998 at Star Lake Amphitheatre in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. The Star Lake 98 show was the 20th of summer to display the loose, experimental vibe of a tour that began in Europe and jumped to the United States enroute to the summer’s ending Lemonwheel festival.

The Clifford Ball was an absolutely phenomenal, unequivocally religious, amazing event at the former Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, New York, in August 1996. Phish performed three sets and an encore on each of the two show days of a Friday-to-Sunday event, where some 70-80,000 fans camped on site for three days.

SET 1: Buried Alive > Ghost > Crazy Sometimes > Free, More, Halley's Comet > Ocelot > Theme From the Bottom > First Tube SET 2: Turtle in the Clouds[1], Stray Dog[1], Everything is Hollow[1], We Are Come to Outlive Our Brains[1], Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.[1], The Final Hurrah[1], Play by Play[1], Death Don't Hurt Very Long[1], Cool Amber and Mercury[1], Passing Through[1] SET 3: Set Your Soul Free > Tweezer > A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Backwards Down the Number Line > Meatstick, Bug > Run Like an Antelope ENCORE: Loving Cup > Tweezer Reprise

SET 1: Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, Wombat, Yarmouth Road, 46 Days, Lawn Boy, Heavy Things, Punch You in the Eye > Sample in a Jar, Gotta Jibboo SET 2: Chalk Dust Torture[1] > Mike's Song > Devotion To a Dream, Ghost -> Weekapaug Groove > Simple > Harry Hood > Cavern > First Tube ENCORE: Slave to the Traffic Light [1] Unfinished. Shave and a Haircut was performed after Bathtub Gin. During Lawn Boy, Page walked over to Mike and stood by him as he played to the side and front of the stage. Fish came out and took a bow and Page called Mike "Michael Gordleone." Chalk Dust was unfinished. Page teased Fuego and The Line in Simple.

Live In Utica was recorded on October 20, 2010 by the rock band Phish. This was their first ever performance at the Utica Memorial Auditorium in New York. With a capacity of only 5,500, Utica was the smallest venue on Phish's fall tour and the atmosphere was charged with electricity. The 2 DVD set presents three hours of Phish in an intimate venue with an inspired audience that returned the energy at every turn.

The film revolves around the life of confused teenager Rick, who begins taking guitar lessons from Hampton. Hampton's unorthodox style of teaching infuriates Rick's parents, who insists he attend military school. Rick later meets the guitarist of country music group "Ramble Dove", and the true bizarreness of the film begins to take shape.

Specimens of Beauty is a documentary about the rock band Phish recording their 2004 album Undermind. Directed by famed photographer Danny Clinch, the film shows the techniques used by the band and album producer Tchad Blake, as Phish records what was to be their final album. Recorded at Trey Anastasio's recording studio, The Barn, outside Burlington, Vermont, the documentary features Phish in numerous takes of the Undermind track "Crowd Control." Specimens of Beauty was included with early copies of Undermind on a bonus DVD.

On November 2nd, 1996, Phish performed at Coral Sky Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, FL; the only outdoor shed show of the Fall Tour. The show combined the residual energy of Halloween with a tropical feel that could only have happened in South Florida in November. Amidst swaying palms and soft breezes, the band played a deeply experimental show. They were joined by percussionist Karl Perazzo (Santana), whose contribution helped extend and build upon the magic of Halloween, adding polyrhythms that explored new space within Phish's music.Set 1: Ya Mar[1], Julius[1], Fee[2] -> Taste[1], Cavern[1] > Stash[1], The Lizards[1], Free[1], Johnny B. Goode[1]Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless[3] -> Run Like an Antelope[4], Waste[1], Harry Hood[1] > A Day in the Life[1], Sweet AdelineEncore: Funky Bitch[5]

Tracking (1994) is a documentary about the band Phish and the recording of the album Hoist. It is directed by the band's bass player, Mike Gordon, who wrote, for the VHS packaging: While in the studio recording the album 'Hoister' (sic) I sported a video camera. Sometimes I pushed the record button. Others, the stop. Alas, I edited. Using machines small yet sweet, I assembled Tracking. This isn't about railroad tracks or stuffing things up the tender nostril. It's about 48 tracks of sound, adjacent on strips of plastic. Like mixing lilac petals, coriander, chunks of butter, and fennel into a soup. Tracking is the recording of different sounds, adjacent on strips of plastic. . . . Many of the musicians on the album, Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck, and actor Jonathan Frakes, are shown recording tracks that eventually wound up on the album. The documentary is approximately 25 minutes long and was produced by Cactus Films.