I remember the first time I remember hearing Hot Tuna. I was about 14, around 1977. I was spending the night at my Grand Daddy's house in BFE, Alabama. The grand parents went to bed after dark. I sat in the old front porch swing with my radio playing real softly. I burned a pinner of Gold, and stared out over his small farm and wondered at the simple beauty of the stars. I started hearing a song that made me turn it up. I was air guitaring fiercely when Grandmother came out, asked me to turn it down. I kissed her goodnight and put it to my ear as I walked down to see the cows, chickens and pigs. A magical night for a young man.
I am a 63 yo guy from Wisconsin and have been a huge live music fan since my early teens. Been to hundreds of live shows. And with all of that being said I only knew of this band by name. Had never listened to them till today. This just popped up on my feed after listening to something else. All I can say is WOW!! I have really been missing out!! They are my new favorite band. Merry Christmas to me, it is Christmas Eve morning 2020. What a way to start the Christmas holiday. Happy Holidays to everyone. Stay safe everyone. The end is in sight.
Hello Bryan! I am very happy to listen to Hot Tuna again... Hesitation Blues and Death Don't have No Mercy belong to my twenty years when I was a student in Paris! However I am sure I have not your huge discothèque! I wish you a Happy and safe New Year!
Hot Tuna was my very first concert at the age of 15. My brothers took me, I danced and soared, young woman hugged me, the fellas passed me a doob. Great memorable experience. I was hooked on some of the best music in the world.
70 now didn't really get into music except fm music. Singing pretty woman heman hermits Monkees then came 1971airpane hot tuna marshall tucker all bros.beck Stuart who stones but my 2nd band. Led Zeppelin. Holi shitstains. Camping and hot tuna then zep dead. Friends are all dead now. Hav no one now. Yes fam. Never hung with my grandparents. Just lost. But hav 3dogs old house car. All mine. Can't take that away. MUSIC. LOV FKING MUSIC. BAD BAD LUCK OR WOULD HAV DRUMMED FOR SOMEONE. SO WEN EE DIE EVERYTHINGBIS BEAUTIFUL. WE WILL SEE JIMI JANIS JIM BRIAN JONES KEITH MOON BONZO. SEE EVERYONE IN HIPPY HEAVEN. SMILE LIFE DOESNT END. peace&lov hipsters
I somehow found this on my computer today. It was like going back in time. I love these guys! It actually brought tears remembering all the shows we have been to. It doesn't get any better than this.
Lovely concert. As a coffeehouse attendee in SF in the very early sixties, I chanced to meet Bill Graham while he was trying to find a sound system for his newly leased concert hall, the Fillmore. Being employed as a sound installer for background music systems helped a lot: I just liberated a dozen or more audio amps and about fifty high power wide-range 8" speakers, which I stuck on 4x8 ply wood sheets, eight to a sheet, generating a plane wave focused on the center of the dance floor. Worked pretty well, but Bill hired.a hotshot expensive sound engineering outfit with his new loot. I liked my system better -- you could stand right in front of the stage and not go deaf. Age of moderation. Did I mention my father was one of the first electronic technicians, way back in the Twenties. Now he'd be a hacker. He also worked for Electrovoice speakers, so I knew good sound before high fidelity was a thing. Dad also went to concerts in Chicago, all the big bands, blues, jazz. Worked in a concert hall parking lot, met many musicians. Went a few times to the Top of the Tangent in Palo Alto during Jorma's pure folkie stage, and used to sit in the front room and read Hermann Hesse while Jorma practiced, and practiced and practiced, sometimes ten hours straight. Perfect background. Jorma has a degree in Philosophy from Santa Clara U in San Jose. We have a mind in common. We talked many hours about pigs with wings and so on, often drug-enhanced.. Became friends with Jorma, lived in East Palo Alto with him and friends in a rented house on East University Ave. Big back yard, used to have a little dirt track w tore up with a Harley Topper. Had an Electrovoice "Voice of the Theatre" Klipschorn speaker in the front room, 18" woofer, horn midrange/tweeter. Good Days, beer and BBQ. Also put in a little doodad at the Matrix Club in the Marina that sent the sound round and round the room, speakers all over. Psychedelic, 'twas the mood...Signe Toly, Marty's sister, was singing jazz there. She sang with the Airplane for a while, but got pregnant, I think. We also did quite a bit of motorcycling, Sunday Morning Ride. I was riding a BMW twin, I think a R50S, and Jorma a big single, maybe a Matchless, maybe a BSA Gold Star. The Jefferson Airplane didn't like the prospect of Jorma crashing, but he's as exact a biker as he is a guitarist. Still at it, but sadly Harley-Davidson is his brand now. They're very social... We were born a month apart. I'm the older. Saw him in Spokane at a concert our underground newspaper arranged sub rosa. Very right wing town, noisy echoing school gym, Gonzaga I think. Crappy sound, good vibes.though. Also saw his Key West concert in '88, when he met his current wife, Vanessa. Our 3 year old boat-kid loved it. Thanks for listening to an old fart talk. Hope you have many good memories! Ormond Otvos Richmond CA ormond at mail com
The Quarantine Concerts with Jorma Kaukanon have been a savior during this past year. Saturday Nights and often times Jack Cassidy joins him. (Hot Tuna)
We are listening to the quarantine concerts daily what a treat Thanks Jorma and Jack for making being quarantined better.........Last time we saw you this year at Laxson Auditorium in Chico CA this year !
🤘HeyNow ! ! ! ✊RightOn ! ! ! I Was Living In Hollywood California, In Them Days, Near Hollywood Blvd. & Western Ave. I Wish That I Would Of Seen Them ! ! ! ✌❤& Rock&Roll,,,DigsMySoul 😎
@@thaddeusk4230 I saw Jorma and Jack in a hole-in-the-wall that is now gone in Larchmont, NY that was called the Watercolor Cafe in 2016 or 17. Fantastic show.
@@alleneverhart4141 Over the course of 50+ years, as I've said, there's been that opportunity to see them in intimate confines from time to time, be it that small club way out East end of L.I. (Amagannsett) to Levon's place in Woodstock. Mine was at The Tabernacle, a small octagonal room (holding, maybe 150 at best) in a Methodist community in north Jersey (Mt. Tabor). I believe they released a recording capturing that evening. Throw in the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park which was a converted auto garage and was just a bit bigger than a shoebox. It's all been so good. And I'll leave you with this. HT was at my school each of the 4 years I was there (70-74) with the book end years being acoustic.
Use to watch them with Papa John at Chateau Liberte in Santa Cruz Mountains. Usually a Monday or Tuesday night. never a bad performance. Intimate setting.
just saw these guys a couple of weeks ago and I think they sound as good as ever. the entire audience was a bunch of old farts(like me) who really appreciate what a treasure this bad was (is). ran into friends I haven't seen in years. awesome show. thanks for posting.
I was there: front row table. I cried like a baby when Grace came out. Made sure to see the Airplane reunion the following year--- once at the Greek, once in Reno.
I saw him up close like that in small club in Alexandria VA. Sat in a folding chair just like that. But Jack C was not there. Just a Jorma concert. But he had full band and it was electric. I love seeing him. Then about 6 years ago electric Tuna played a small Jewish Temple in DC (6th and I). it rocked! The wife of the other guitarist came out to sing a couple of songs. She absolutely killed it on White Rabbit.
im a little jealous. ya see i was only 13 then.ive been lucky though.Im not a rich kid gone touring. but like you i have caught my lucky musical breaks! i hope this style lives on forever!
As the old saying goes. I might be old but I got to see all the great bands. And Jefferson Airplane was one of the best. I saw them perform half a dozen times with the first time in Hawaii with Lee Michaels opening for them. And my first date ever. Then the next day we cut school to see them play at the Waikiki Shell with a free concert where Ginger and I went backstage and while everyone was gushing over Grace and Marty and Paul we went to where Jack was sitting all by himself and I spoke with him for several minutes saying he had changed the way I played bass as I had never heard that kind of killer bass playing. He let me sit and play a few notes on his incredible Alembic..Serial number 001. Wish I had taken a camera and gotten my picture taken with him.
I saw Hot Tuna with Kantner and Papa John Creach in 1987 at The Ritz in NYC. They started at like 11pm and didn't finish until almost 4am. I was only 17 and my back was killing me! But it was an amazing show.....
Thank you for posting this beautiful set! I remember hearing the "Burgers" album at a party in 1972 - it blew me away and I have been a huge fan ever since. I am so thankful every time I hear them - there's simply nothing else like it in the world...
I saw this tour in NYC in December of 1987 and it was one of the longest shows I've ever seen (as well as one of the best). So happy to have seen Kantner and Papa John before they passed...........
Same here..ran across this today after watching some of the quarantine shows and this took me back. I see JK and JC as often as I can, when they come to Philly.
Thank you Jorma and Vanessa and crew etc. I maintain sanity from these broadcasts. Let’s me know yes 👍 I lived during the greatest era of music in AmeriKa and was fortunate to meet all of you seems like a lifetime ago, wait it was
Just saw this today. Great show. Was lucky enough to see Jorma and Hurl at the ranch this past year. It was the first quarantaine show with a live audience. Just 30 of us. Also just saw Jorma at the Beacon with Tedeschi Trucks. He came out and jammed with them on 2 songs, one of them was Key to the Highway. He still sounds great.
You sound like the guy who laid two tix to the son of a friend and touring buddy. Jack Jr. worked at a Shop Rite somewhere's along Rte. 9. I enjoyed the shit out of their going to FPR and talking with John H. and Jorma. They had themselves a 'time of it', and I have no doubt it was you, based on your handle. Good man Jay.
Such a great version of I know you rider. Thank you for posting. I spent the last two years of high school learning how to play these tunes on their first record, it a concert. And then I went to see them at the Fillmore many times. I met Jack at the Mubuhay Gardens once. I think X was headlining. What a hugh please to discover this treasure online. Thank you for posting.
I have been a huge Hot Tuna fan since I saw them live at the Academy of Music in NYC in 1973.My favorite band. Jorma's guitar work this evening maybe the best that I have ever seen him play! He was really in the "zone"! He is an incredible guitarist and this show is truly a great classic which I am thrilled to have on video! Thank you so much for the posting of this show! I view it in part, very often! It appeared that Grace Slick was extremely impressed and unaware how talented Jorma had become. Definitely one of the best performances of his career!🎸😇
@Kerrgal I have been a die-hard fan since I saw Hot Tuna at The Academy of Music in NYC in 1973! My favorite musician. Love not only his acoustic playing ,but have seen several amazing electric shows.🎸
@@brianht1434 You know what's so great about them IMHO... It's hard to tell where Jorma ends and Jack begins or vice versa...they are so in tune with each other... I just think about Sunny Day Strut (which Jorma has just recently said was just a jam session!!) and Water Song...OMG
Was at this performance. Was forced to stand in the back for the entire duration of the show. My aching legs wouldn't let me enjoy this concert. And to this day, that is all I remember. Grew bored and restless and couldn't wait for the show to be over. Thanks for uploading this so I can now appreciate what I couldn't back then.
I've listened to Hot Tuna since the early or mid 70's. Very soothing an it reminds me of what it would be like to sit in the underground taverns during the prohibition times. Love it!
I was at this show. Considering the size of the Fillmore, it was really special with the guests. BTW, Paul played the entire show, Grace a few songs. Papa John introduced Will Scarlett, the harmonica player who occasionally played with Tuna.
Another attendee here. I'd already seen Jack join Jorma's show at the GAMH shortly before (with brother Peter opening, and even joining them), so it was no surprise to see Hot Tuna officially back in action ... with Paul Kantner? Then Grace? Then Papa John? Hilariously, old Papa John was least content with the sit-down vibe of the evening & promptly kicks into his own uptempo song. Jorma looked highly amused. Grace was Grace. A special night indeed.
Appeared that Paul smoked weed all show.Couldn't have been too strong if he never felt like stoping.I think Paul felt outplayed by Jorma, attempting to sing along to Tuna songs to appear noticed. Kaukonen was incredible this show!!
Awesome! Love me some Tuna. I've been lucky enough to catch both electric and acoustic shows. Saw Steve Earle open for them during their Steady as She Goes tour and saw them with GE Smith too on that tour and the tour before that one. The Hot Tuna Blues tour was also good if you dig old blues songs. Recently saw Jorma and Barry last year also. One of my favorite acts to see. You cannot have a bad time!
I was there for both the early and late show. One of the most memorable shows of my late teens. I did not have a ticket for the late show but got in line anyway. The kind gentleman in front of me, struck up conversation. Not sure if he saw me exit after the first show or saw me looking for a ticket in the street, because he asked if I had a ticket. I said "no". We talked some more, only a few words. He than offered me one. If your out here in cyber space and see this, Thank you kind sir.
San Francisco was the place for music in the day. I’m so happy I could be there for part of it. I’d like to see Dan Hicks’ 70th birthday bash again. So many greats showed up...
I worked at the Golden Bear in H.Bch and Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks played there a time or two. Enjoyed his style.Seems like a lifetime ago. Oh yeah it was.😊
Luv me some Hot Tuna; in ALL their incarnations. This was an essential regrouping of several Airplane / Starship members; Esp. Papa John! In 1967, Creach met and befriended drummer Joey Covington. When Covington joined the Jefferson Airplane in 1970, he introduced Creach to them, and they invited him to join Hot Tuna. Though regarded as a session musician, he remained with the band for four years, before leaving in 1974 to join Jefferson Starship and record on their first album, Dragon Fly. Creach toured with Jefferson Starship and played on the band's hit album Red Octopus in 1975. Around 1976, Creach left to pursue a solo career. Despite this, he was a guest musician on the spring 1978 Jefferson Starship tour. A year later, Creach renewed his working relationship with Covington as a member of the San Francisco All-Stars, as well as with Covington's Airplane predecessor, Spencer Dryden, as a member of The Dinosaurs. He also continued occasional guest appearances with Hot Tuna, and was on stage at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1988 when Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna reunited with Paul Kantner and Grace Slick for the first time since Jefferson Airplane disbanded. In 1992, he became one of the original members of Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation and performed with them until he succumbed to congestive heart failure on February 22, 1994. A heart condition had been causing bouts of neumonia from continual fluid build-up in his lungs. He was 76. RIP Papa John Miss you good friend.Peace, Luv & Eternal Harmonie, Blues Cat Keef w~^~_~^~ROCK'N'BLUZCATZBAND~^~_~^~W
I lived across the street (Geary) from the Fillmore at UoP Dentistry student housing from 1987-1990. KFOG radio did a simulcast of this concert, and I taped it (4 tapes) and eventually transferred it to digital. One of my best tapes...so cool to now see and listen to this again!
I saw hot tuna 2x in the late 70's. I fell asleep each time around the 4th hour only to wake up in the 5th hour to a rocking 6 hour concert. WOW!!!!!!!! KEEP ROCKIN.
Nice to happen upon this. Saw Electric Hot Tuna in Chicago around 1978ish. I ran out of steam around 3.5 hrs. in and had to go home and get sleep before work. I got to do sound for them around 1990. I was told it would be an acoustic show but the electric band showed up. I had a woefully inadequate PA for them but it was a small venue (250) and a good time was still had by all. I did another acoustic duo show with them in 2006. One of my favs in 28 yrs. as an engineer. Clean and simple but having plenty of funk and finesse. Got to do a show with the Starship in the late '90s too. Wish I'd gotten to see the Airplane.
First heard them live at the Bath Blues Festival, held at Shepton Mallet ,Somerset , England in 1970 before a crowd of more than 300,000. Was simply an amazing mind blowing concert !
katner. the guitar player on the left. They all used to be in an experimental rock and roll band many years ago. You could look it up. They were pretty good.
HEADSUPBERKELEY +I got to play with Will Scarlett for a couple of great days the last time I was in Berkeley and Oakland.Our mutual friend who was there with us was the late departed singer/guitarist James Waldman.Do you know Will Scarlett?Is he living?If you see Will,please tell him "high" from Thom Magee.I will always consider Will Scarlett a good friend of mine.
I saw these folks, with a few of their friends, in Chicago, at a free concert they put on in the Grant Park bandshell, when I was about 19 years old, the year after the Chicago Police had rioted on kids in the streets outside the Democratic Party Convention. Thank you for this recording. I love it.
It was an incredibly great concert and time. Exceptionally well done, great tunes, wonderful additions all. Including, in the 2nd set, when Jorma hears the hissing of a nitrous tank and asks from the stage: "Where's the gas?" It was right next to us in the back corner downstairs...
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This old hippie wants to thank you for this excellent presentation.
This is why I never get anything done. Spend my time listening to/watching some of the best music of my life. Thanks!
Your not the only one!🎸
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I remember the first time I remember hearing Hot Tuna. I was about 14, around 1977. I was spending the night at my Grand Daddy's house in BFE, Alabama. The grand parents went to bed after dark. I sat in the old front porch swing with my radio playing real softly. I burned a pinner of Gold, and stared out over his small farm and wondered at the simple beauty of the stars. I started hearing a song that made me turn it up. I was air guitaring fiercely when Grandmother came out, asked me to turn it down. I kissed her goodnight and put it to my ear as I walked down to see the cows, chickens and pigs. A magical night for a young man.
That sounds so magical!
Well said, it does sound magical.
Certain tunes are time stamps of our lives ....they are like smells .... bring us right back. Atleast for me 👍
Jenny...I think we should go back to:....ALABAMA!
@@johniorio7951 I may not be a smart man, but I know what good music is.
Paul Kantner was a fantastic musician. I love his Guild 12 string guitar he is playing.
RIP Paul Kantner
RIP Papa John Creach
Paul wished he could play guitar as well as Jorma! May he R.I.P. 🎸😇
I am a 63 yo guy from Wisconsin and have been a huge live music fan since my early teens. Been to hundreds of live shows. And with all of that being said I only knew of this band by name. Had never listened to them till today. This just popped up on my feed after listening to something else. All I can say is WOW!! I have really been missing out!! They are my new favorite band. Merry Christmas to me, it is Christmas Eve morning 2020. What a way to start the Christmas holiday. Happy Holidays to everyone. Stay safe everyone. The end is in sight.
check out the videos section of ruclips.net/user/furpeaceranch for lots of solo jorma along with Q&A
welcome
Hello Bryan! I am very happy to listen to Hot Tuna again... Hesitation Blues and Death Don't have No Mercy belong to my twenty years when I was a student in Paris! However I am sure I have not your huge discothèque! I wish you a Happy and safe New Year!
Was supposed to see them summer 2020, hopefully 2021
Hot Tuna can play. Good find for you
Hot Tuna was my very first concert at the age of 15. My brothers took me, I danced and soared, young woman hugged me, the fellas passed me a doob. Great memorable experience. I was hooked on some of the best music in the world.
70 now didn't really get into music except fm music. Singing pretty woman heman hermits Monkees then came 1971airpane hot tuna marshall tucker all bros.beck Stuart who stones but my 2nd band. Led Zeppelin. Holi shitstains. Camping and hot tuna then zep dead. Friends are all dead now. Hav no one now. Yes fam. Never hung with my grandparents. Just lost. But hav 3dogs old house car. All mine. Can't take that away. MUSIC. LOV FKING MUSIC. BAD BAD LUCK OR WOULD HAV DRUMMED FOR SOMEONE. SO WEN EE DIE EVERYTHINGBIS BEAUTIFUL. WE WILL SEE JIMI JANIS JIM BRIAN JONES KEITH MOON BONZO. SEE EVERYONE IN HIPPY HEAVEN. SMILE LIFE DOESNT END. peace&lov hipsters
What a beautiful time with this players. I love this band.
This is PURE GOLD! I've been at the bottom of the barrel lately, but this takes me to a whole nother dimension. Nice job kids. Bless you.
Climb up that barrel, man. There’s sunshine awaiting.
Pure Gold is so true. Rock and roll blues. Dig it. Peacelov
Could not hav said it bettr
Peacelov my hippy friend
I somehow found this on my computer today. It was like going back in time. I love these guys! It actually brought tears remembering all the shows we have been to. It doesn't get any better than this.
stop lying, there were no tears
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@@jamespage1341 Your right it did not bring tears I was to busy dancing !
indeed
Maybe no tears, James! So what, just making the point she became emotional. You think everyone who types lol actually does? You people need to chill!
Lovely concert. As a coffeehouse attendee in SF in the very early sixties, I chanced to meet Bill Graham while he was trying to find a sound system for his newly leased concert hall, the Fillmore. Being employed as a sound installer for background music systems helped a lot: I just liberated a dozen or more audio amps and about fifty high power wide-range 8" speakers, which I stuck on 4x8 ply wood sheets, eight to a sheet, generating a plane wave focused on the center of the dance floor. Worked pretty well, but Bill hired.a hotshot expensive sound engineering outfit with his new loot. I liked my system better -- you could stand right in front of the stage and not go deaf. Age of moderation.
Did I mention my father was one of the first electronic technicians, way back in the Twenties. Now he'd be a hacker. He also worked for Electrovoice speakers, so I knew good sound before high fidelity was a thing. Dad also went to concerts in Chicago, all the big bands, blues, jazz. Worked in a concert hall parking lot, met many musicians.
Went a few times to the Top of the Tangent in Palo Alto during Jorma's pure folkie stage, and used to sit in the front room and read Hermann Hesse while Jorma practiced, and practiced and practiced, sometimes ten hours straight. Perfect background.
Jorma has a degree in Philosophy from Santa Clara U in San Jose. We have a mind in common. We talked many hours about pigs with wings and so on, often drug-enhanced..
Became friends with Jorma, lived in East Palo Alto with him and friends in a rented house on East University Ave. Big back yard, used to have a little dirt track w tore up with a Harley Topper. Had an Electrovoice "Voice of the Theatre" Klipschorn speaker in the front room, 18" woofer, horn midrange/tweeter. Good Days, beer and BBQ.
Also put in a little doodad at the Matrix Club in the Marina that sent the sound round and round the room, speakers all over. Psychedelic, 'twas the mood...Signe Toly, Marty's sister, was singing jazz there. She sang with the Airplane for a while, but got pregnant, I think.
We also did quite a bit of motorcycling, Sunday Morning Ride. I was riding a BMW twin, I think a R50S, and Jorma a big single, maybe a Matchless, maybe a BSA Gold Star. The Jefferson Airplane didn't like the prospect of Jorma crashing, but he's as exact a biker as he is a guitarist. Still at it, but sadly Harley-Davidson is his brand now. They're very social...
We were born a month apart. I'm the older. Saw him in Spokane at a concert our underground newspaper arranged sub rosa. Very right wing town, noisy echoing school gym, Gonzaga I think. Crappy sound, good vibes.though. Also saw his Key West concert in '88, when he met his current wife, Vanessa. Our 3 year old boat-kid loved it.
Thanks for listening to an old fart talk. Hope you have many good memories!
Ormond Otvos Richmond CA ormond at mail com
great reading buddy--did u ever by chance know a woman Marty went with for a while named Sindona? she was my gf mother--thanks again for the story
If I could give this 15 thumbs up, i would. This is freakin' priceless.
The Quarantine Concerts with Jorma Kaukanon have been a savior during this past year. Saturday Nights and often times Jack Cassidy joins him. (Hot Tuna)
Amen!
Absolutely the greatest boost !
Great, great, show. So glad this has been preserved.
Saw Hot Tuna so many times in their heyday... wonderful memories!❤️
@@raygunner2437 Hahaha!!! You are correct, I’ve seen more recent videos. I have been duly castigated
@@raygunner2437 Oh yeah?? Thanks.. I’ll watch it!!
It seems like I can never get enough of Hot Tuna
Going to see Acoustic Hot Tuna in Clearwater, FL this weekend. Listened to them since I was a kid in the 70's. ✌
This is one of the all time great shows - Jorma and Jack at their best and a taste of the others- truly amazing -thanks for posting.
Loving Jorma now with his quarantine concerts from Fur Peace !
We are listening to the quarantine concerts daily what a treat Thanks Jorma and Jack for making being quarantined better.........Last time we saw you this year at Laxson Auditorium in Chico CA this year !
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Isn't that too cool of Jorma and Vanessa !!!
@@pennybertsch3353 Jim
I was lucky to see Hot Tuna play in a small Hollywood Bar back in the 80s
They do play a lot of small joints, even today.
🤘HeyNow ! ! ! ✊RightOn ! ! ! I Was Living In Hollywood California, In Them Days, Near Hollywood Blvd. & Western Ave. I Wish That I Would Of Seen Them ! ! ! ✌❤& Rock&Roll,,,DigsMySoul 😎
@@thaddeusk4230 I saw Jorma and Jack in a hole-in-the-wall that is now gone in Larchmont, NY that was called the Watercolor Cafe in 2016 or 17. Fantastic show.
@@alleneverhart4141 Over the course of 50+ years, as I've said, there's been that opportunity to see them in intimate confines from time to time, be it that small club way out East end of L.I. (Amagannsett) to Levon's place in Woodstock. Mine was at The Tabernacle, a small octagonal room (holding, maybe 150 at best) in a Methodist community in north Jersey (Mt. Tabor). I believe they released a recording capturing that evening. Throw in the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park which was a converted auto garage and was just a bit bigger than a shoebox.
It's all been so good. And I'll leave you with this. HT was at my school each of the 4 years I was there (70-74) with the book end years being acoustic.
Use to watch them with Papa John at Chateau Liberte in Santa Cruz Mountains. Usually a Monday or Tuesday night. never a bad performance. Intimate setting.
Fabuleux concert, merci
This show is timeless.
just saw these guys a couple of weeks ago and I think they sound as good as ever. the entire audience was a bunch of old farts(like me) who really appreciate what a treasure this bad was (is). ran into friends I haven't seen in years. awesome show. thanks for posting.
I was there: front row table.
I cried like a baby when Grace came out.
Made sure to see the Airplane reunion the following year--- once at the Greek, once in Reno.
I saw him up close like that in small club in Alexandria VA. Sat in a folding chair just like that. But Jack C was not there. Just a Jorma concert. But he had full band and it was electric. I love seeing him. Then about 6 years ago electric Tuna played a small Jewish Temple in DC (6th and I). it rocked! The wife of the other guitarist came out to sing a couple of songs. She absolutely killed it on White Rabbit.
Wrong tab dude
im a little jealous. ya see i was only 13 then.ive been lucky though.Im not a rich kid gone touring. but like you i have caught my lucky musical breaks! i hope this style lives on forever!
Lucky you..If I could do things over seeing more concerts would be one of them.
I was at the reunion at the Greek in Berkeley. What a wonderful show. So grateful to be there.
As the old saying goes.
I might be old but I got to see all the great bands. And Jefferson Airplane was one of the best.
I saw them perform half a dozen times with the first time in Hawaii with Lee Michaels opening for them. And my first date ever. Then the next day we cut school to see them play at the Waikiki Shell with a free concert where Ginger and I went backstage and while everyone was gushing over Grace and Marty and Paul we went to where Jack was sitting all by himself and I spoke with him for several minutes saying he had changed the way I played bass as I had never heard that kind of killer bass playing. He let me sit and play a few notes on his incredible Alembic..Serial number 001. Wish I had taken a camera and gotten my picture taken with him.
Wow !
It's nice to hear tales like that. The higher power laid a blessing on you, indeed.
Wow!!! I love that kind of story!! So cool
Lee Michaels... what a great performer. Saw him in '71, one of best concerts I've seen... people were standing on their seats.
Great story!
Always loved Hot Tuna....
I've watched this video 1000 times. It gets better every time. EXCELLENT!!!
I saw Hot Tuna with Kantner and Papa John Creach in 1987 at The Ritz in NYC. They started at like 11pm and didn't finish until almost 4am. I was only 17 and my back was killing me! But it was an amazing show.....
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Hesitation blues was one of the very first songs i learnt to play on guitar. I was a broke teen and was dreaming of having a gibson like Jorma had...
Did you get the Gibson Guitar ?
These two great musicians have been joined at the hip since the early sixties. And listening to them never fails to highlight that fact
Hot freakin Tuna FOREVER!!!
Thank you for posting this beautiful set! I remember hearing the "Burgers" album at a party in 1972 - it blew me away and I have been a huge fan ever since. I am so thankful every time I hear them - there's simply nothing else like it in the world...
Crazy good, just crazy good. Never to be forgotten or outdone...EVER!
Love hearing the old strings come alive in a concert again. Always an interesting band. A Lotta great blues surfaces.
I saw them in S.F, Winter Land, 1975, and there other half, Starship n 74, tuna was best!
I saw this tour in NYC in December of 1987 and it was one of the longest shows I've ever seen (as well as one of the best). So happy to have seen Kantner and Papa John before they passed...........
I was there? What an amazing show! Grace Paul Jack Yorma even Papa John....
The whole crew was always making great music and great times. Words could not do it justice. Rip all that we've lost. Rock on Tuna..........
You can't. It's impossible. I don't try.
HOW CAN 27 PEOPLE NOT LIKE THIS.
WoW. Boggles My Mind.
Saw the main trio in Eureka bout a week before this gig. This is an amazing show, thanks so much. Stumbled upon this and it’s wonderful
Such talent and soul!
2020 has been one long twilight zone episode! Thank goodness my buddy sent me this..
I have also sent it to a couple of buddies, awesome show!🎸
Same here..ran across this today after watching some of the quarantine shows and this took me back. I see JK and JC as often as I can, when they come to Philly.
Psychedelic soul
Thank you Jorma and Vanessa and crew etc. I maintain sanity from these broadcasts. Let’s me know yes 👍 I lived during the greatest era of music in AmeriKa and was fortunate to meet all of you seems like a lifetime ago, wait it was
Just saw this today. Great show. Was lucky enough to see Jorma and Hurl at the ranch this past year. It was the first quarantaine show with a live audience. Just 30 of us. Also just saw Jorma at the Beacon with Tedeschi Trucks. He came out and jammed with them on 2 songs, one of them was Key to the Highway. He still sounds great.
You sound like the guy who laid two tix to the son of a friend and touring buddy. Jack Jr. worked at a Shop Rite somewhere's along Rte. 9. I enjoyed the shit out of their going to FPR and talking with John H. and Jorma. They had themselves a 'time of it', and I have no doubt it was you, based on your handle.
Good man Jay.
Such a great version of I know you rider. Thank you for posting. I spent the last two years of high school learning how to play these tunes on their first record, it a concert. And then I went to see them at the Fillmore many times. I met Jack at the Mubuhay Gardens once. I think X was headlining. What a hugh please to discover this treasure online. Thank you for posting.
I have been a huge Hot Tuna fan since I saw them live at the Academy of Music in NYC in 1973.My favorite band. Jorma's guitar work this evening maybe the best that I have ever seen him play! He was really in the "zone"! He is an incredible guitarist and this show is truly a great classic which I am thrilled to have on video! Thank you so much for the posting of this show! I view it in part, very often! It appeared that Grace Slick was extremely impressed and unaware how talented Jorma had become. Definitely one of the best performances of his career!🎸😇
OMG. I think I was at that show!
@Kerrgal It was an amazing show, many guest appearances. If you were at this show, it would be hard not to remember! How high were you?
@@brianht1434 I was at a Hot Tuna show at the Academy, I’m not sure if it was 72, 73 or 74. I was only a kid, and it was my second rock concert.
@Kerrgal I have been a die-hard fan since I saw Hot Tuna at The Academy of Music in NYC in 1973! My favorite musician. Love not only his acoustic playing ,but have seen several amazing electric shows.🎸
@@brianht1434 You know what's so great about them IMHO... It's hard to tell where Jorma ends and Jack begins or vice versa...they are so in tune with each other... I just think about Sunny Day Strut (which Jorma has just recently said was just a jam session!!) and Water Song...OMG
Was at this performance. Was forced to stand in the back for the entire duration of the show. My aching legs wouldn't let me enjoy this concert. And to this day, that is all I remember. Grew bored and restless and couldn't wait for the show to be over. Thanks for uploading this so I can now appreciate what I couldn't back then.
I'd be happy to stand to see them!
How can anyone get bored and restless at a show this great? I would have been up jamming and dancing had I been there! Hot Fuckin' Tuna Rules!
I've listened to Hot Tuna since the early or mid 70's. Very soothing an it reminds me of what it would be like to sit in the underground taverns during the prohibition times. Love it!
Thanks for sharing I see you posted many west Coast shows I've attended or work love the memories
How could you not smile listening to Papa John?
I was at this show. Considering the size of the Fillmore, it was really special with the guests. BTW, Paul played the entire show, Grace a few songs. Papa John introduced Will Scarlett, the harmonica player who occasionally played with Tuna.
Another attendee here. I'd already seen Jack join Jorma's show at the GAMH shortly before (with brother Peter opening, and even joining them), so it was no surprise to see Hot Tuna officially back in action ... with Paul Kantner? Then Grace? Then Papa John? Hilariously, old Papa John was least content with the sit-down vibe of the evening & promptly kicks into his own uptempo song. Jorma looked highly amused. Grace was Grace. A special night indeed.
Appeared that Paul smoked weed all show.Couldn't have been too strong if he never felt like stoping.I think Paul felt outplayed by Jorma, attempting to sing along to Tuna songs to appear noticed. Kaukonen was incredible this show!!
@@brianht1434 you would think Paul was used to being outplayed by Jorma. :)
Awesome! Love me some Tuna. I've been lucky enough to catch both electric and acoustic shows. Saw Steve Earle open for them during their Steady as She Goes tour and saw them with GE Smith too on that tour and the tour before that one. The Hot Tuna Blues tour was also good if you dig old blues songs. Recently saw Jorma and Barry last year also. One of my favorite acts to see. You cannot have a bad time!
I was there for both the early and late show. One of the most memorable shows of my late teens. I did not have a ticket for the late show but got in line anyway. The kind gentleman in front of me, struck up conversation. Not sure if he saw me exit after the first show or saw me looking for a ticket in the street, because he asked if I had a ticket. I said "no". We talked some more, only a few words. He than offered me one. If your out here in cyber space and see this, Thank you kind sir.
San Francisco was the place for music in the day. I’m so happy I could be there for part of it.
I’d like to see Dan Hicks’ 70th birthday bash again. So many greats showed up...
I worked at the Golden Bear in H.Bch and Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks played there a time or two. Enjoyed his style.Seems like a lifetime ago. Oh yeah it was.😊
Was a GREAT show..was a great time to catch these guys . . .
Back to Hot Tuna...Just a dream😎
Luv me some Hot Tuna; in ALL their incarnations. This was an essential regrouping of several Airplane / Starship members; Esp. Papa John! In 1967, Creach met and befriended drummer Joey Covington. When Covington joined the Jefferson Airplane in 1970, he introduced Creach to them, and they invited him to join Hot Tuna. Though regarded as a session musician, he remained with the band for four years, before leaving in 1974 to join Jefferson Starship and record on their first album, Dragon Fly. Creach toured with Jefferson Starship and played on the band's hit album Red Octopus in 1975. Around 1976, Creach left to pursue a solo career. Despite this, he was a guest musician on the spring 1978 Jefferson Starship tour.
A year later, Creach renewed his working relationship with Covington as a member of the San Francisco All-Stars, as well as with Covington's Airplane predecessor, Spencer Dryden, as a member of The Dinosaurs. He also continued occasional guest appearances with Hot Tuna, and was on stage at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1988 when Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna reunited with Paul Kantner and Grace Slick for the first time since Jefferson Airplane disbanded.
In 1992, he became one of the original members of Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation and performed with them until he succumbed to congestive heart failure on February 22, 1994. A heart condition had been causing bouts of neumonia from continual fluid build-up in his lungs.
He was 76. RIP Papa John
Miss you good friend.Peace, Luv & Eternal Harmonie, Blues Cat Keef
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That was a nice tribute to your fiend.
What a treat! Made my Friday night.
Thank you.
I lived across the street (Geary) from the Fillmore at UoP Dentistry student housing from 1987-1990. KFOG radio did a simulcast of this concert, and I taped it (4 tapes) and eventually transferred it to digital. One of my best tapes...so cool to now see and listen to this again!
I saw hot tuna 2x in the late 70's.
I fell asleep each time around the 4th hour only to wake up in the 5th hour to a rocking 6 hour concert. WOW!!!!!!!!
KEEP ROCKIN.
Had them mean ol sleeping blues
Watt a treat. Fantastic
Wow this is a great copy of this show. I've never seen or or heard it so clear...Thanks
This video is a classic treasure. So thrilled that it was posted!
Beautiful sound from those acoustic guitars. And a touching back ground of violin with Papa John and a Harmonica played by will Scarlett. 🎻. 🎸🎸🎸. ⌨️
Jorma's the best, truly amazing!
What a treat to find this. Many thanks.
Grace singing with Jorma on Chelsea is fabulous to see and hear.
Incredible audio for a fantastic concert
thanks for the timestamps dude... they are helpful 😊
Nice to happen upon this. Saw Electric Hot Tuna in Chicago around 1978ish. I ran out of steam around 3.5 hrs. in and had to go home and get sleep before work. I got to do sound for them around 1990. I was told it would be an acoustic show but the electric band showed up. I had a woefully inadequate PA for them but it was a small venue (250) and a good time was still had by all. I did another acoustic duo show with them in 2006. One of my favs in 28 yrs. as an engineer. Clean and simple but having plenty of funk and finesse. Got to do a show with the Starship in the late '90s too. Wish I'd gotten to see the Airplane.
Great concert befitting of The Filmore!
Hot Tuna Concert 1988. Bonne écoute! Wow re Wow
So much thanks to you, in Italy I lose H. T. concert in my Campus days.
Great Talent. Those days will never be Repeated. Its Robots and Drones everything is done for you. Old School fadding away.
Une pure merveille !
Oui, indeed!
First heard them live at the Bath Blues Festival, held at Shepton Mallet ,Somerset , England in 1970 before a crowd of more than 300,000. Was simply an amazing mind blowing concert !
I was there too! Fantastic set.
@@trevecchi1766 ,NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN BY THOSE WHO ATTENDED. IF ONLY MY GRANCHILDREN'S GENERATION HAD SUCH AN OPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE WHAT WE HAD.
That good ol feeling, from the good ol days, is coming in like a purple haze.
Yeah and i wish i had some of that purple
That "purple haze" caused people to appear to be wearing green halos(for me anyway)!
jorma kauonen is 1 helluva guitar player
That's for sure!!🎸😇
Came across this vid today. Just amazing performance. Really miss these guys!
Amazing how a set like this from Icons of social consciousness still so relevant even more so 2023-2024..."May God Bless" Ill quotte the big Red here.
Nice show bruthas.......Like freakin YOW! Thanks 30+ years afta. Love and Goodness to everybody involved
Paul, peace for you! Singing and worshiping God with guitars.
katner. the guitar player on the left. They all used to be in an experimental rock and roll band many years ago. You could look it up. They were pretty good.
Meravigliose le band di San Francisco.abbiamo sognato con loro un mondo diverso.ci siamo illusi ma è stato fantastico!Grazie Jefferson e hot tuna
Loving listening to you all those years. Thank you.
Papa John with all the right licks in the middle of Chelsea...brings me to tears....
Thanks for posting I was looking for a friend with Will Scarlett on Harmonica YIPPEE
HEADSUPBERKELEY +I got to play with Will Scarlett for a couple of great days the last time I was in Berkeley and Oakland.Our mutual friend who was there with us was the late departed singer/guitarist James Waldman.Do you know Will Scarlett?Is he living?If you see Will,please tell him "high" from Thom Magee.I will always consider Will Scarlett a good friend of mine.
I saw these folks, with a few of their friends, in Chicago, at a free concert they put on in the Grant Park bandshell, when I was about 19 years old, the year after the Chicago Police had rioted on kids in the streets outside the Democratic Party Convention. Thank you for this recording. I love it.
SAW THEM MULTIPUL TIMES ALWAYS A GREAT SHOW
well ...i played some Jormas songs and look where I'm ended now !!!!!!!!! Thank You Guys !!!!
I saw these guys at a festival several years ago - it was fantastic !
Incredible! Oh, you guys!
Nothing better.
Excellent show. Thanks for posting
It was an incredibly great concert and time. Exceptionally well done, great tunes, wonderful additions all. Including, in the 2nd set, when Jorma hears the hissing of a nitrous tank and asks from the stage: "Where's the gas?" It was right next to us in the back corner downstairs...
Haven'd listened to Hot Tuna in years forgot how good the sound
WELL THANKS NEEDED SOMTHING TO MAKE ME SMILE AFTER 2020 KEEP ROCKIN BILL ROCK;;;;;;;;;
Gran bel concerto. Da fare vedere ai figli .
Thank You for Sharing.. Great Show!
I love this show.
I remember watching Hot Tuna at uncle willies I remember watching hot tuna at the watering trough Iam a Woodstock boy don’t remember too much more😎
Tuna + Airplane = a great concert