The Mike Gordon Band’s first tour of 2011 has gotten off to a great start with five shows in five nights out west. Not only did Mike’s five-piece unveil new original material from Moss and his time with Leo Kottke, but the ensemble has also worked new covers into the repertoire including Ralph Stanley’s Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures and Beck’s Black Tambourine. Also, the MGB has teared up Mound at every other show.
Mike and his band start heading east with gigs in Flagstaff, Ariz. (Friday); Telluride, Colo. (Saturday); Aspen, Colo. (Sunday); Denver, Colo. (Monday) and Lawrence, Kans. (Tuesday) over the next five nights starting tomorrow. In less than two weeks, the MGB hit the Big Apple for two performances at Brooklyn Bowl on March 22 and 23. While these shows are sold out, we have two pairs of tickets to giveaway for each night.
To enter, simply leave a comment below telling us about your favorite lyric written by Mike Gordon. Also, let us know which night you can attend (22nd and/or 23rd) as we will have separate drawings for each night. All entries must be received by Thursday, March 17th, at 11:59PM EST. We’ll pick the winners randomly shortly thereafter.
A few rules…
- To enter the contest, leave a comment below telling us about your favorite lyric written by Mike Gordon and mentioning which show(s) you’d be able to attend
- Anybody found entering more than once will be disqualified, tarred and feathered
- Two winners for each night will be selected at random from all entries
- Each winner will receive a pair of tickets to see the Mike Gordon Band at Brooklyn Bowl on either March 22 or March 23
- Previously on HT: Interview – Mike Gordon Talks Shop
Head over to Phish.net’s new Mike Gordon setlist section for a look at what the Mike Gordon Band has played on this tour and all previous tours.
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Favorite lyric: “But I’m hooked up to a machine/It performs my daily functions/Through a tube in my wien” from Catapult, this song always crack me up due to Mike’s wonderfully odd sensibilities.
I would like to attend the March 23rd show.
“My clone is hard of hearing, so he taught me how to sign
And in silence I could see your eyes and know that you were mine”
either show works!
“Don’t be concerned if I’m caught off guard
My mind was trying to burrow like a groundhog”
March 23 Please. Thanks!
All the way home we felt we had a chance
To review the coulds before we were born
And to invite a new game of can’ts
Love the meaning & rhymes scheme of it! Oh, and the melody is classic Mike yet beautiful.
March 23rd please!
I forgot my problems, or so it seems
I was able to leave them in another dream
BUT I GOT MY FRIENDS AND WE’RE RUNNING HARD
A few feet beneath the fallen leaves, in the Andelman’s yard
love this track, and the fact that Mike plays EVERYTHING on it. I’ve been wearing it out on vinyl since it came out..AH!
either show! sorry for posting tweeece :/
All I ever wanted, since I was a kid
was to run out into the wilderness and live off the grid
March 23 Please!
For a broken old man and a world unkind
He buried all his memories of home
In an icy clump that lies beneath the ground
March 22 please!!!
Im just sittin back here Sharin the groove
“I punched him in the eye, for to fighting I am prone
And I almost heard of his saying he was me and I’m the clone”
march 22 please
“Ice is all he was made of
The bitter blue, and frozen through
He went over to the mound
Reclining down his final thoughts
Were drifting to the time this life had shined”
I would love to attend the show on March 23rd!
Lyric: “So we follow the scene and flowed up your steps
To a smooth wooden floor in a trance
The train whistle melody wove through the trees
And in through the door to signal the turns of a dance”
22nd works best for me.
‘For making fire from a stick
It can burn and you imagine it
When you start to loosen up your grip
First comes a song and then the burning stick’
This always gets stuck in my head and I love it!
Either the 22nd or 23rd work very well for me! This would make a most wonderful birthday present for my s/o. Thanks a bunch!
“I’d like to cut your head off so I can weight it – what do you say?”
Till she stopped the mule
And she kicked the rump
And the big old mule took a big old dump
I can go either night!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“id like to gather all your friends and squish them into a smalllll swimming pooool”
either night is good
If I pass out take me to the round church
Where echoes resound
And my spirit is found
And when I float high
Take my arm and I’ll fly you by
The outskirts of town, to a garden that’s round
22nd works best for me
“AND THE BIG OLD MULE TOOK A BIG OLD DUMP”
23rd – Thanks
” Cause when I get mad, I get red and then I start to steam
and this guitar is gonna FUCK YOUR FACE , cause it knows how to scream! ”
Either night would be super cool
Highway Bill’s on the rotary still and he can’t even feel the painOf a sun dried shoulder and a scar from a boulderthat cut him right across his veinNow he’s suckin’ cigar and he’s shovelin’ tarin the crater of a turnpike terrainHe’s got only one hope, and he wants to elope,’cuz Highway Jill is driving him insane.
Either night is good!
“When everyone around’s using surface talk
And all the folks seem similar everywhere you walk
To cut beneath those layers like a glass shard
Come with me to my old streeet and we’ll run beneath
The Andelmans’ yard”
March 23rd would be the best for me, but obviously I’d go for either!
“If I pass out take me to the round church
Where echoes resound
And my spirit is found
And when I float high
Take my arm and I’ll fly you by
The outskirts of town, to a garden that’s round”
3/23 please
Thanks
PK
But the Collins missile broke before I got to use it.
I couldn’t find the fuse, and the dials wouldn’t turn.
It seemed to lack the features that made me want to choose it. The balls back in your court, though I tried to take a turn.
3/23 is best
“Scent of a mule, you better watch out where you go
Take your laser beams away” If you’re a lover of scent of mule and pick this lyric then I’d love to go on the 22nd. I can always do the 23rd too
I’m sittin’ back here, sharin’ in the groove.
either night works.
“Slow down & live before I’m gone & dead”
-from “Voices”
Great advice… Either night works for me 🙂
“The tires are the things on your car
That make contact with the road
The car is the thing on the road
That takes you back to your abode”
-Clicheish I know, but I love that line, and the song!
Any nite works for this New Yorker! Thanks!
“And this guitar is gonna fuck your face ’cause it knows how to scream!!”
Either night works for me.
Thanks
“we can deja vu backwards, baby, make it seem like a trip
that i could later take you on, like i might’ve before
and if they ask what you’re doing here, look over at me, baby
then they’re gonna know now what never happened for sure”
*either March 22 or 23rd. THANKS!
In honor of the Brooklyn Bowl’s fried chicken (best I’ve ever eaten) Soul Food Man:
But he isn’t gonna go to the show
Until he’s got a bucket of soulfood food to go
You’ve got to understand: he’s a soulfood man
Either night would be epic. Thank YOU!
These friends of mine, I can see right through!
These friends of mine, I can see right through! 23rd
Thx
This guitar is gonna fuck your face. 23rd of march. Thank you
“i forgot my problems or so it seems, i was able to leave them in another dream, but i got my friends & were running hard”
— march 22nd!!
“I am a prince I have it all, I hear her footsteps through the wall”
23rd please
My favourite Mike Lyric is:
“I walk through the hallways inside my mind” – Mike’s Song
I love this line because of the imagery that it evokes for me. I see my mind as a long and complex hallway with infinite turns and passageways and infinite doors that can be locked to bury secrets or opened to reveal memmories lost to time.
I would love to go to the show on the 23rd!(But the 22nd will also work) – Thanks! – Danielle
‘Dreaming if I’d fly high enough to see that it’s a dream, the gravity is working in my sleep. Falling back I hear a tiny voice that seems to scream, get out now you’re simply just too deep. Take me Out.’
March 23rd
Highway bill’s on the rotary still…
March 22
Access to your thoughts on the way that I should be. So I could start to change and maybe you could access me.
March 22nd
I forgot my problems or so it seems
I was able to leave them in another dream!
Help a brah get to see gordeaux, either night’ll do 🙂
She leapt like a frog
But got chased by the green sparrow
She bartered her being
Escaping the bird as an airborne scorpion
either day would work for me.
I’d like to cut your head off so I could weigh it, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six, pounds, seven pounds
22nd please.
“again”
I could attend either show!
Reclining down his final thoughts
Were drifting to the time this life had shined
22nd!
Here”s a glance of elegance
Here we shower ourselves in lightness
i’d like to cut your head off..so i can weigh it. whatta ya sayy?? 5 pounds? 6 pounds? 7 pounds?
to put it simply: my fav lyric by gordo bc its funny and i love the song! and gordos funny and i looove him!
tickets for the 22nd would be awesome!! i have mine for the 23rd but really wanna go both nights <3
-Jolly:)
with the right device you can make a pattern grow, or you can tune up your car—–train song. favorite cause its true.
I could go to either show.
No left turn unstoned
@Real_J3P0
“Well I’m sittin back here, sharin in the groove” !
22nd or 23rd please and thank you!
My favorite line is:
“These friends of mine, I can see right through”
A ticket for the 23rd would be perfect.
I’d Catapult downtown, to see my favorite fiancee in a lavender gown.
March 23 please
while she was driving she tried to watch the road
she was disappearing and it showed – Invisible
23rd, or whichever works best for you.
“Sharin’ in the groove” is my favorite Mike lyric. It is my mantra.
March 22nd
Thanks!
-Ross
the big ol’ mule took a big ol’ dump.
doesn’t get much more poetic than that 🙂
either night is good for me!
Fountain, Egg, Treason, Cave- Will
you dance on grave? – mock song
either date works.