Earlier this month, Mike Gordon provided some insight into his solo band rehearsals in Burlington prior to the group’s winter tour kickoff with a live stream of them learning and working out a new rendition of “Destiny Unbound,” and now Gordon has made the full video available on YouTube.

Despite the dreaded vertical-phone-filming, the video is a pretty interesting look into Gordon’s band-leading approach, as he converses with his bandmates—guitarist Scott Murawski, drummer John Morgan Kimock, keyboardist Robert Walter and percussionist Craig Myers—to figure out the way he wants the song to sound and feel.

“It sounds too flowy to me,” Gordon says to Kimock at one point, following it up with, “It needs to me more syncopated, whatever that means—and I don’t know what that means.” I assume Gordon actually does in fact know what syncopated means, but the sentiment is more that he’s trying to convey a feeling as opposed to a specific word. Hence this gem a bit later: “I don’t think it wants to be soft—I think it just wants to be non-normal.”

While Gordon’s solo band was trying out the tune for the first time (the group ended up debuting it at Florida’s Sunshine Music Festival), Phish first played “Destiny Unbound” back in 1990 and ’91 before dropping it for years and picking it back up again starting with the 2/28/03 show at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. 

Below, watch Gordon and company try out “Destiny Unbound,” along with a video of the band’s debut of the song at Sunshine Music Fest.