Green Mountain Daily and Rolling Stone magazine announced at a joint press conference today that GMD founder and front-pager John Odum has signed on as the new drummer for the band Phish.

John “Breaking” Odum and groupie Ms. Snarkie Galore

Spokesbloggers for GMD said that the announcement did not come as a surprise, that they had been expecting something along these lines ever since the recent unearthing of certain photographic evidence of Odum’s passion for the drums, and the lifestyle of being a major rock drumming superstar.

“When you can sport a mullet that sweet-looking, there’s just no keeping you from your true calling.” said GMD’s GreenVTster, himself a recovering 80’s punk rocker. “We all knew it was just a matter of time once we saw how JO could roll in that environment.”

GMD scribe and former Blondie backup singer Maggie Gundersen also had an inkling about the move. “You could just tell he had the chops, even in his writing it came through.”

Caoimhin Laochdha, who migrated to GMD after a short but notable career as a body double in a series of  Violent Femmes videos, said he could always see a certain rock and roll swagger in Odum’s walk as he approached political figures with notebook or tape recorder in hand.

In adding Odum to their lineup, Phish follows the lead of bands that have used two drummers, like the Dead and the Allman Brothers. In their own Phish fashion though, the band also announced that they’ll occasionally move to a two bass player lineup, keeping Mike Gordon and adding JO. “We concluded that the rhythm section could really use more bottom, and the extra bass was just what we had in mind,” a Phish spokesman observed. “That, and more cowbell, of course.”

In a separate presser with CNBC later in the day, Odum also unveiled a major sponsorship deal with Milwaukee’s Best Beer. Stocks were up in the beverages sector on the news.