Pork Tornado

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| name = Pork Tornado

| image = Pork_inside_200.jpg

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| genre = Blues, country music, rock

| years_active = 1997-2002

| label = Elektra Records

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| past_members = Jon Fishman
Dan Archer
Joe Moore
Aaron Hersey
Phil Abair

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Pork Tornado is a band co- founded in 1997 by Phish drummer Jon Fishman and record producer/engineer Dan Archer including Fishman (drums, vocals), Archer (guitars, vocals), Joe Moore (saxophone, vocals), Aaron Hersey (bass, vocals), and Phil Abair (keyboards, vocals).{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pork-tornado-mn0000298633/biography|title='Pork Tornado Biography|work=Allmusic}} Retrieved 2016-9-17

The band played a number of country-western and rock originals as well as a number of standard covers. The group was an occasional side project for Fishman until Phish's hiatus in 2000. By 2002, Pork Tornado was Fishman's main priority. The band released an album in October of that year titled Pork Tornado.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/pork-tornado-mw0000226055|title=Album-Pork Tornado|work=Allmusic}} Retrieved 2016-9-18 They then embarked on their largest tour of the United States shortly thereafter.{{Cite web|url=http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/pork-tornado-73d61291.html|title=Pork Tornado Concert Setlists|website=setlist.fm|access-date=2016-09-18}} The tour was followed by a period of inactivity.

As of February 2013, Pork Tornado reunited, for at least one reunion show in South Burlington, Vermont.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jambands.com/news/2013/01/18/jon-fishman-s-pork-tornado-returns|title=Jon Fishman's Pork Tornado Returns|website=www.jambands.com|date=18 January 2013 |access-date=2016-09-18}}

Joe Moore died in 2024 at the age of 75.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/lifestories-joseph-joe-moore-jr-was-the-tornado-41062406|title=Life Stories: Joseph 'Joe' Moore Jr. 'Was the Tornado'|website=www.sevendaysvt.com|date=5 June 2024 |access-date=2025-02-10}}