Mike Gordon

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102 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Science Friday · Investigating ‘flow state’ with the bassist from Phish · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Thanks for having us.

It's a pleasure.

Huh.

Well, that's a good question because it's inherently hard to talk about.

It's intangible.

So we're already out of the gates with a problem.

And no, I don't think flow state...

would be the words and the band dialect.

But the band, well, first they would say, okay, we were really hooking up because the thought is that music is a communication and improvisation especially is all communicating between us and the audience, you know, riding on the energy.

But so hooking up is really important and it doesn't happen readily.

You have to cultivate it and train yourself to do it, to listen more than you're,

you know, like in a conversation, if you only listen to yourself, then it's going to be a very bad conversation.

But what we're talking about

is bigger than just communication for me.

We're talking about a religious experience, transcendence, self-actualization, whatever you want to call it that can't be put into words.

We don't attempt those grandiose words.

Instead, we'll say, that jam was amazing.

Yeah, we'll say we were so hooked up.

And it's incredible that we still love each other after 40 years and that we get to do this as a job.

All this will be said.

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