For Phish bassist Mike Gordon, making music is about a process of 'letting go'
by Dan Hyman, Chicago Tribune
Jan 20, 2020
3 minutes
Much in the way his best-known and monolithic band Phish has been known to get all dreamlike and downright mesmerizing in the midst of their notoriously epic jams, Mike Gordon takes a similarly Zen-like approach to his musical craft.
"Sometimes it's about surrendering," the bassist said of what serves as a principal inspiration to him after more than three decades in music. Phish fans say "'Surrender to the flow' and that's big," he said, "but there's a kind of a surrender to the emotion. To
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