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Mike Gordon Quotes
A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Actually Fish and I had this side band that played a lot of Dead covers and stuff, called the Dangerous Grapes. Also Allmans, typical blues stuff. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Actually, its great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions. - Mike Gordon Quotes
As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, theres a good chance that the record deal wont change anything. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Elektra has no control over the live show, at least. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isnt really what I would want to go for. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I built all the speaker cabinets myself. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I dont really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, Im not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am-I dont listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I feel like I want to write some songs and I dont know how to go about doing it. Usually its the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I havent written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. Ive only written a handful. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably whats unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where Ill play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I dont usually know whats going to happen, I dont have a plan. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I think one thing that helped the sound change, its a real subtle thing; its just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it. - Mike Gordon Quotes
I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since hes the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, its a little harder for me to hook up with him. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Im always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe Ill have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I dont really think thats the direction I would want to go. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Im not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Im not really satisfied with anything I have written to date. - Mike Gordon Quotes
If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But thats not really how we picked the songs. - Mike Gordon Quotes
It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Its not often that we learn cover songs. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Its really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and Id play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because its just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone whos so creative on the drums, and lately its been really good, especially during sound checks. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Surrender to the flow. - Mike Gordon Quotes
The way that we imitate each others riffs is something that other bands dont do as much. If were jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. - Mike Gordon Quotes
The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player. - Mike Gordon Quotes
Theres no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves. - Mike Gordon Quotes
This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. Its definitely a beautiful instrument. - Mike Gordon Quotes
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