Phish bassist Mike Gordon was always in awe of Bob Weir , from seeing him perform onstage as a kid to decades later staying at his home in Hawaii with Bob’s family. As the youngest member of his own band, Gordon often felt a kinship with Weir, “the Kid” in the Grateful Dead . He spoke to Rolling Stone while in Woodstock preparing for his spring solo tour, and recalls their time together at TRI Studios working on flow-state experiments , the time he almost joined Dead & Company, and Bob sitting