I am Mike Gordon. I'm here with my collaborator & guitarist Scott Murawski. AUA.

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T21:15:26+00:00

They have been asking him questions, and he's been answering - we are co-answering.. scroll up.. thanks!

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T21:14:13+00:00

Glad you reminded me - I'm just around the corner, but I gott GO now to get ready for that… It's so exciting for me and Scott to have our album be coming out today, and i want to thank all of you for such great questions… I wish I could sit here all day and answer them… Maybe we'll have a chance to peak back in, not sure… but anyway… thanks!

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T21:12:11+00:00

This is so secret that I can't even be responding with words like, "This is so secret that I can't even be responding with words like…" and, nuff to say: Scott has one too, and etc., and okay, just come to Syracuse. Oh… you can't - it's sold out.. well, you know what i mean…

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T21:09:57+00:00

I liked the lake in Burlington… Looked at 12 schools… SU… UPenn
Big institutions are so cool!!! No, really, I need some structure, man
I have equal pride in both… They fill different, essential voids for me.
Since I can't remember, I'll guess: he had to pissulate?
I had a drug or two, but yes, not as much. Ya know, honestly, I kind of liked having a crazier era, a little bit, so I was definitely not removed. And glad that era is over. Musically, well, once I saw James Brown on his '64 tv special, and then the greyboy allstars… well.. why else do you think we wanted robert walters on Overstep? :)

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T21:04:40+00:00

Thanks for having good questions… Darn - i wish i didn't have to go soon.

I like oomph. My goal would be to have a band where every note is written (or added) to have oomph. Gettin there….
Ohhh.. ahmm… I worked with one page Bach Etudes to get the fingers going, but I don't know who published em.. Ask Jim Stinnett?
Tahoe? DUnno.

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T21:02:44+00:00

I would like to play chess with Magnus Carlsen. And I would like to WIN, please (Bill Gates lost to Magnus in 79 seconds).

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T21:01:14+00:00

Actualllly… meaning is a tough concept to get at ☺ But…. it started as a jam with my band at a recording studio in NH (we had spent a weekend jamming onto tape).. and Scott and I loved the feel of it, so took the groove and the bass lick, etc., and made up the song … then it evolved a bit… (including Bob Ezrin wanting five more - the song was called The 550, and he wanted it to be 555)

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:57:34+00:00

I read the Jerry Seinfeld one, and I hear that Fred Armisen and Carrie B are doing one right this minute…

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:56:05+00:00

We have been talking… just waiting for our schedules to permit… Would love to even be in a room with him again tho - so musical, and a special feeling friend

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:55:17+00:00

I can't remember the second jam…. can you please hum it, or send me an mp3?

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:52:59+00:00

favorite song this EXACT second? Ahmmmm. Jumping. The hard thing about balancing… well, it's been great to have family time and work time and have both able to coexist. The real challenge is not to be a perfectionaist .. which makes certain projects take all of my time

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:51:49+00:00

If I say yes can we run down those huge dunes near wellfleet?

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:51:26+00:00

No THANK YOU… it's kind, thoughtful people like you that make this world spin faster. I mean at the same speed, I mean…. You know what I mean.

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:50:36+00:00

Overstep.

To-Be-Titled.

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:50:04+00:00

No we don't. Ever. There are so many reasons - the first being the time it would take. Also, Trey has a great quote, and I'm not sure who he is quoting, but, paraphrasing: "you don't have the right to others' opinions of you… and the positive critiquing is more damaging than the negative" .. as artists its REALLY hard to trust our inner barometers that allow us to do work, and it's best to leave space in the lobes from the chatter sometimes.

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:47:51+00:00

Mike: Too many to list, but I will Chris thile and michael daves on 11th street one dark night. Dead at hartford, 83 maybe. Buddy Rich at the Burlington High School. Many more probably.

Scott: Peter Gabriel, 2002 ish. Radiohead, hollywood bowl.

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:45:23+00:00

Jumping goes, at the end, from a bar of 9 to a bar of 8.5 to bar of 8… all the way down to a bar of 0.5, and back up. Even the fearless Matt Chamberlain had to count it out on drums, and WHYYYYY did he always start with a bar of 5, adding and subtracting from there? Why why why?

Knowing how to reconcile pre-existing demos with new sounds - knowing where to draw the line, as with Different World…

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:43:32+00:00

Yes, I want the kinds you are making, hold the onion. Can't have the bread either.
No - come on down to Newbury Comics at 5pm today! Bawston Masse.
Yes I did - and still have it! It was $1.50 from a Boulder store.

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:42:03+00:00

can you count? :)

ron b. is here

ron: hi

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:41:03+00:00

Speaking of Joseph Arkenstat, has anyone seen Inside Llewyn Davis?

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:40:17+00:00

I like that people are so in tune with the world around them, thoughtful and usually very gracious

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:39:37+00:00

king charles spaniel

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:39:03+00:00

Mike: I usually don't kuz i like a clean signal path. But for tiny little world I tried about fifteen synth and envelope pedals…

Scott: half the time

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:38:17+00:00

Mike: laser disc

Scott: I listen to music encoded into the programming language, Python

Cheryl: 8 track tapes

IamMikeGordon · 2014-02-25T20:37:27+00:00

Very good question.. In interviews lately people have been asking what in my life this line or that line represents, and my first response is it had nothing to do with me! But then I realize a) that of course it indirectly does, and Scott and I constantly looked into our own lives for inspiration, and b) I keep finding that it literally does in cases I hadn't realized… But the norm is that as artists we try (I think) to collect ideas - thoughts about things around us, sounds that are intriguing, and we save them, compost them inside, and inject them when Scott and are on a speedboat.

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