Gordon Stone Trio
Gathering of the Vibes
Crete Memorial Park
Plattsburgh, NY
1998-06-21

Source:   AKG 481 > MV-100 > DA-P1  by Tom Reizes
Transfer: MDAT > Fostex D-15 > Tascam DA-3000 > WAV @ 16/48
Master:   Wavelab 10 (tracking, fix glitches) > FLAC 1648

Thanks Tom Tom Reizes for the DAT!

01. Monkey Wrench
02. banter
03. Southwind
04. Even With The Odds
05. unknown
06. Sunday Driver
07. The Medley
08. unknown
09. song for a hot Irish day
10. band intros
11. Caravan

Josh Stacey - guitar
Russ Loughton - drums
Andy Cotton - bass
Gordon Stone - banjo

A cassette version of this performance circulates, as does another DAT audience with an unknown/incomplete lineage.  This one sounds pretty damn good, other than some wind noise from time to time.  

Who was Gordon Stone?  

In 1992, Gordon Stone got a call from Mike Gordon, requesting banjo lessons. Mike had seen him play bluegrass at clubs around Burlington. This began a collaberation that turned into a call from Mike inviting him play banjo and pedal steel guitar on “Poor Heart” and later pedal steel on “Fast Enough for You,” and a series of performances with Phish starting in November of 1992, when Stone joined Phish on stage at St. Michael’s College, where he added some pedal steel to “Fast Enough for You.”  He would again join them in 1993 in Stowe, VT with his banjo on “Paul and Silas,” “TMWSIY” and “Rocky Top.” Mike sat in with Stone’s bands on 3/5/95, 10/1/96 and 10/3/96; Fishman did so on 10/3/96, 1/20/97, 1/25/97 and 5/24/01. Mike, Stone, Scott Murawski and Greg DeGuglielmo performed as “The Drop Caps” on 1/25/97 at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. On 5/3/00, Mike, Stone, Lawton, Vassar Clements, and Doug Perkins collaborated for a bluegrass jam session at Middlebury College. And on 5/31/03, Stone sat in with Grappa Boom, Mike’s trio with Masefield and Perkins.

But this is just his set from Gathering of the Vibes.  Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2021-09-13