2009

[Originally Published: May 13, 2008]

Moving on to this week, we’ve got ourselves another classic album from a different legendary songwriter (with an equally unique singing voice) and that’s Bob Dylan’s 1965 release Highway 61 Revisited. This album was Dylan’s fifth and his first recorded entirely with a full rock band.

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Like a Rolling Stone (Zero): This gentle rendition of perhaps the most popular tune on the album clocks in at 15 minutes. The entire track is full of the tasteful guitar work you would expect from Steve Kimock as well as some beautiful sax solos from Martin Fierro. Check out this great on-stage tape of the whole show on The Archive.

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As if the initial lineup for this year’s Mountain Jam festival wasn’t killer enough on its own, the promoters have added a slew of impressive acts including Umphrey’s McGee, Gomez,

Welcome to Coventry To Hampton, a five part series filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years or so. We’re starting with Mike and we’ll do one on each of the other three band members and cap it off on Friday with a summary of what the Phish organization has been up to. These will publish at 3pm every day this week.

Part Two = Coventry To Hampton – Page McConnell
Part Three = Coventry To Hampton – Trey Anastasio
Part Four = Coventry To Hampton – Jon Fishman

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A compilation of MOST of the Post-Phish Gordon compositions:

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Mike’s first show after Coventry was just a few weeks later at moe.down 5 in Turin, NY, where he first performed a full show with the Benevento/Russo Duo. This trio would perform their first string of shows later that year for a New Year’s Run in 2004. It was fitting that Mike, the only member of the band who voiced his disagreement with the bands decision to break up, brought a number of Phish originals to the stage the first night of the run including Lengthwise (Fishman), Foam (Anastasio) , Mike’s Song (Gordon) & Cars, Trucks Buses (McConnell).

READ ON for more about what Mike’s been up to over the past five years including a full list of shows that Mike played and much more audio & video…

VH1 Classic will air U2’s rockumentary Rattle and Hum on Wednesday at Noon and if you haven’t seen it recently, it’s worth a viewing. We catch a glimpse of the

The Disco Biscuits encored with a cover of Low by Florida-based rapper Flo Rida after three sets of madness on Saturday night at the Ogden Theater in Denver. Bassist Marc