ABOUT MIKE GORDON
 www.mike-gordon.com
Born 1965, Boston, MA.
Currently resides in Vermont.
Gordon was a college freshman when Phish was formed in 1983. Over the course of thirteen albums and thousands of concerts, the band earned a reputation for musical imagination, instrumental chops and improvisation. By the mid-1990s Phish had become one of the top concert draws in the country. In 1994, Gordon directed the rock video, DOWN WITH DISEASE, and a short film, TRACKING, to accompany the release of Phish's "Hoist" album. In 1996, he began directing his first feature, OUTSIDE OUT, an "experimental narrative" which went on to win an Audience Award at SXSW 2000. After completing RISING LOW, a documentary about the sessions that produced the Gov't Mule album "The Deep End", Gordon collaborated with legendary guitarist, Leo Kottke, to record a duet album, "Clone," and eventually the two released, "Sixty Six Steps." Mike also reworked the music from OUTSIDE OUT in order to produce a soundtrack CD, aptly titled, "Inside In." In 2008, he released another compact disc, "The Green Sparrow."
Movies Directed
Phish 20th Anniversary Video, 2003 (with Jared Slomoff)
Rising Low, 2001 (feature film documentary about bass players) which won "Joe Jarvis Award" for "Best Documentary" in 2002 at The Newport International Film Festival.
Outside Out, 2000 (First feature film, an "experimental narrative". Won the "Midnight Film Audience Award" at the South By Southwest Film Festival.
Goodwood, 1997 (Montage of Phish music screened at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.)
Tracking, 1994 (the making Phish's Hoist album)
Down With Disease, 1994 (MTV video for Phish)
TVF, 1987 (student film)
Stewart, 1986 (student)
Selected discography (not including Phish)
2008 The Green Sparrow, Mike Gordon
2005 Sixty Six Steps, Mike Gordon & Leo Kottke
2003 Inside In, Mike Gordon
2003 Bane, Joey Arkenstat (Mike Gordon Producer)
2002 Clone, Mike Gordon & Leo Kottke
Also appears on:
Little Feat, Join The Band
Adrienne Young, Room To Grow
Gordon Stone, Touch and Go
The Chieftains, Once More Down The Old Plank Road
The Meters, Get You a Healin'
Gov't Mule, The Deep End, The Deepest End
Also appears on:
Gordon Stone, Touch and Go
The Chieftains, Once More Down The Old Plank Road
The Meters, Get You a HealinÕ
Gov't Mule, The Deep End, The Deepest End
Toured With
Phish, Mike Gordon Band, Leo Kottke, Grappa Boom
Appeared on stage with: The Allman Brothers, The Dead, Santana, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, BB King, Jay Z, Kid Rock, Les Claypool, George Clinton, Ozomotli, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Tim O'Brien
Other Projects
Wrote and illustrated Mike's Corner, a book of short stories, published by Bulfinch, a division of Little, Brown & Co.
Soundtracks for films: First Surface and Ricochet: Herd/Swale/Mosque; A Site Specific Sculpture
Education
Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School
Emerson College
The University of Vermont, grad. 1987 - Self designed Communications/Film major.
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