

Mike Gordon: Tue, Mar 15, 2011
The Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS
Set 1: Can’t Stand Still, Flashback, Just a Rose, Access Me, What Things Seem, Nobody’s Home, She Said She Said, Swamp Music[1], Babylon Baby
Set 2: Traveled Too Far, Couch Lady, Meat > The Walls of Time, Cruel World, Skin It Back, Middle of the Road, Hand in My Pocket > Sugar Shack, Idea
Encore: Takin’ It to the Streets
[1] One verse of “Possum.”
Notes: “Swamp Music” contained one verse of “Possum.”
MGB > TAB ![]()
^I figured that was understood by all… ![]()
Ok, Judson, where’s my setlist from St. Louis. FULL setlist. Mike’s website only lists song titles. I wanna hear all the funky details!
Mike Gordon: Thu, Mar 17, 2011
The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
Set: Andelmans’ Yard, Sound, The Walls of Time, Babylon Baby, Cities, Crumblin’ Bones, Mound, Hand in My Pocket > Sugar Shack, Dig Further Down
Notes: After “Andelman’s Yard,” Mike wished everyone a “Happy SPD.” After “Walls of Time,” Mike gave a fan a Kaossilator to test out. This show was streamed live at iclips.
This show was awesome!!!
Mike is fucking hilarious!
I haven’t heard much of Mike’s solo stuff…does he use a Kaos pad in some of his tunes?? ![]()
Mike Gordon, Friday, 03/18/2011
Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
Set 1: Horizon Line, Jaded > Funky Bitch > Suskind Hotel > Heavy Metal[1] > Funky Bitch, Got Away, It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry[2], Can’t Stand Still
Set 2: Radar Blip, I’m Deranged, Spiral, Soulfood Man, Flashback > Meat > Jones > Hap-Nappy, I Miss My Mind, Voices
Encore: Idea
[1] Debut.
[2] Mike Gordon debut, one verse only.
Notes: This gig featured the debut of the Craig Myers-penned “Heavy Metal” and the Mike Gordon debut of Bob Dylan’s “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.”
Mike Gordon, Saturday, 03/19/2011
Center Stage Theater, Atlanta, GA
Set 1: Another Door, The Void -> Heavy Metal -> Fixin’ to Die[1] > The Void > Rhymes, Exit Wound, She Said She Said, Be Good and You’ll Be Lonely, Cities
Set 2: Balloon, Only A Dream -> God Put a Smile Upon Your Face, Just a Rose > Pretend, Nobody’s Home, The Beltless Buckler, Traveled Too Far, Mound
Encore: Down To the Nightclub
[1] Col. Bruce Hampton on vocals.
Notes: After “Another Door” Tom Cleary performed a mini “song” on the Kaossilator that he had written backstage before the show about that evening’s Supermoon. Mike introduced “The Void” as a “song about the feeling the first person that ever walked on the moon had when he took that first… step.” Atlanta-fixture Col. Bruce Hampton provided vocals for “Fixin’ to Die.”
Mike Gordon, Sunday, 03/20/2011
The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
Set 1: Morphing Again, What Things Seem, 15 Step, The Grid > Makisupa Policeman, Fire From a Stick, I Miss My Mind, River Niger, Flashback, Babylon Baby
Set 2: Andelmans’ Yard, Easy To Slip > The Field, Access Me, Time (The Revelator), Spiral, No One Receiving > Weekly Time > Suskind Hotel
Encore: Mound
This tour looks like it has been rediculus. Any of the AUDs worth mentioning?
This tour was fire.
Mike Gordon: Tue, Mar 22, 2011
Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY
Set 1: Idea, The Walls of Time, Sugar Shack, Cities, Can’t Stand Still, Heavy Metal > The Spiritual Jam, Crumblin’ Bones, Black Tambourine, Hap-Nappy
Set 2: Horizon Line, The Void[1], Cruel World, Got Away, Middle of the Road, Suskind Hotel > La La La > Suskind Hotel
Encore: Meat
[1] Dance contest.
Notes: “The Void” included a dance “contest” with audience members.
I got all the Auds that have been put up and 03-12 Colorado is my favorite so far…They are all really good, but that show is really special…
bt.etree.org/index.php?cat=204&page=0 All of Mike’s AUD’s
I don’t see the 12th anywhere. ![]()

^ Mike made several references to Bowling during the show last night. Some were amidst mumbles & before they played Mound to end the first set he ‘charaded’ the bowling motion several times
Mike Gordon: Wed, Mar 23, 2011
Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY
Set 1:
Andelmans’ Yard, Sound, I’m Deranged > Willow Tree, River Niger, Balloon, Be Good and You’ll Be Lonely, You’re No Good[1], Mound
Set 2:
Traveled Too Far, Flashback > Funky Bitch, Pretend, What Things Seem, Hand in My Pocket, Couch Lady
Encore: Takin’ It to the Streets
[1] Mike Gordon debut; Dude of Life on vocals.
So far the show posters have had a ‘Poker Card’ theme: Tues was the ‘Queen’ and last night featured the ‘King.’ I have a feeling for Friday’s show it’ll be the ‘Ace’ and perhaps the ‘Joker’ for Higher Ground. Probably wrong though xD. Sorry I did not take pics.
Was I’m Deranged the David Bowie/Trent Reznor song from Lost Highway??? I’m totally slacking on my Mike titles, but I don’t recall that one.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aepBpZ3kXek[/youtube]
^ Yea it’s the same tune. Here is the version from 11/26/10 Thanksgiving weekend up at Portland, ME (the one where Fishman sat in for most of the show, though not for this song ).
Dang, that is pretty sweet.
Mike Gordon, Saturday, 03/26/2011
Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT
Set 1: Suskind Hotel, Flashback > Just a Rose, Black Tambourine, I Miss My Mind, River Niger[1], Down in the Flood[2], Weekly Time[1], Mound
Set 2: Babylon Baby, Hap-Nappy, Cities, Heavy Metal > The Spiritual Jam, Got Away, Down to the Nightclub, Crumblin’ Bones, Can’t Stand Still, Hand in My Pocket, Idea
Encore: Skin It Back
[1] Bob Wagner on second guitar
[2] Mike Gordon debut; Bob Wagner on second guitar
Notes: “River Niger” through “Weekly Time” featured Bob Wagner on second guitar. This show marked the Mike Gordon debut of Bob Dylan’s “Down in the Flood.” During setbreak, front of house engineer and bass tech Rachel Bischoff was proposed to on stage (she accepted).
Mike Gordon, Friday, 03/25/2011
State Theatre, Falls Church, VA
Set 1: Spiral, Soulfood Man[1] > Jones > Ain’t Love Funny > Kryermaten > Ain’t Love Funny, Heavy Metal > The Spiritual Jam, Fire From a Stick, Sugar Shack
Set 2: Mount Philo, The Time For Loving Is Now, Nobody’s Home, Easy To Slip, Jaded > On a Bad Day, Emotional Railroad -> Lit O Bit, Meat, Idea
Encore: Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
[1] “Smoke on the Water” tease.
Notes: “Soulfood Man” contained a “Smoke on the Water” tease.