Along with bass guitar, Gordon is an accomplished banjo player, and is adept at piano, and guitar. He’s also a filmmaker (Rising Low, Outdoor Out) and writer (Mike’s Corner). He’s released four solo studio albums.
Like Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, Gordon used to play custom made bass guitars constructed by Paul Languedoc. Gordon played two Languedoc bass guitars, including a “dragon” bass guitar. These bass guitars used custom wound pickups from Mrch guitars of Denmark. Gordon started experimenting having a Modulus Quantum 5 bass guitar on stage with Phish as early as October 31, 1994. He made the swap to the instrument as his principal bass guitar at Phish’s March 1, 1997, show at Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany into a Quantum 5 with two EMG DC pick-ups. He afterwards obtained a TBX model that will be the throughneck edition of the exact same guitar. This instrument is famous for deep tones and a “futuristic” sound, mainly attributable to an original building including a neck which is made completely of a lightweight, exceptionally strong carbon-graphite compound, not dissimilar to some substance chosen by NASA for use on the Space Shuttle.