William Powell
(Don't Call Me) Ray
Disco
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Living In The Country
Banks Are Made Of Marble
The Collins Missile
The Grid
Twice
Standing In My Shoes
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Invisible
Ojo>
Too Fast>
Airproofing III
Corinna, Corinna
Cripple Creek
Eight Miles High
Foundation
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Vaseline Machine Gun

This was an OUTSTANDING show. The genius of acoustic guitar (Kottke) and former Phish bassist (Gordon) have clearly learned how to utterly mindmeld on stage, and the results offer unadulterated musical joy. The "Ray" tune featured some jaw-dropping, rapid interplay between the dynamic duo. Eyes were popping all around me. Crowd was smaller than last Variety show from this duo, but more about the playing and less about Phish nostalgia (nobody yelled for Phish songs or covers except for one guy's "Mike's Song" yell which was greeted by an audible groan. Gordon ripped that one up with The Benevento/Russo Duo in the same venue just weeks ago).

Leo told stories about his exertions of virtuosity on the cake pan, Esther Williams movies, Racoons stealing food out of his cabin in Costa Rica and how he wrote this great song many years ago, only to learn a few weeks later that it was in fact, "Cripple Creek." He is a character who can spin the yarn better than just about anybody in the business (excepting the "I'm Changing My Name To Chrysler" guy).

After playing Pete Seeger's "Livin' In The Country" (a song that moves from a plaintive ballad to a frenzied jazz excursion in the hands of this duo) he started talking about how he had learned a good deal of his "finger independence" from taking typing lessons. Apparently, around the same time, he heard Pete Seeger's version of "Banks Are Made of Marble" (written by Les Rice, "who was a Vermont farmer long before Mike was a Vermont bassist" Leo said) and it motivated/inspired him to learn how to play a 12 String guitar.

One of the revealing things about this band is that Mike Gordon's quirky, unbridled creativity had as much to do with the success of the improv rock giants Phish as did the jaw-dropping guitar talents and semi-orchestral compositional abilities of Trey Anastasio.

from a few days prior: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=18312