Happy Birthday — Mike Gordon
One of the most exciting bassist on the planet, Mike turns 44 today. After answering a flyer for a bassist role in a band at The University Of Vermont in 1983, he joined the band and sealed his fate. His soul shaking bass bombs are currently on display nightly on Phish’s summer tour. Happy birthday Cactus! Click here to download his 6/30/08 show.
Ya Mar from 4/5/98:
Possum from 4/29/90:
Mike’s Song from 6/13/94:
“Take Me Out To The Ballgame”
Being a big fan of America’s pastime, I thought I’d post the full song. Written by Jack Norworth, who had never attended a baseball game, in 1908 on the subway in NYC. Norworth didn’t actually attend a game until 1940!
Here are the full lyrics:
Katie Casey was base ball mad.
Had the fever and had it bad;
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev’ry sou Katie blew.
On a Saturday, he young beau
Called to see if she’d like to go,
To see a show but Miss Kate said,
“No, I’ll tell you what you can do.”
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names;
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song:
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, your out,
At the old ball game.”
26 Years ago today…
Jim Gordon (drummer for Derek and The Dominoes, Delaney & Bonnie, Zappa, Joe Cocker, Dave Mason, etc., composer of the piano outro in “Layla” and the man Clapton called the best drummer he ever worked with) brutally killed his mother with a claw hammer. Gordon had been hearing voices in his head since the mid-70′s, which his doctor attributed to alcoholism and treated him accordingly. Obviously a mis-diagnosis, Gordon continued a tortured existence, which ineveitably led to him bludgeoning his mother. Gordon was sentenced to 16 to life and is serving his sentence at the Atascero State Hospital in San Luis Obispo.
Funny Wednesday — Total Eclipse Of Awesome
This is hilarious! This will definitely put a smile on your face.
