Still listening in 2024. Still still listening? Such wonderful, amazing, strange and beautiful music from an era I sometimes think could be described in similar terms. I am seventy-five years old now, a fair bit younger than Jorma and Jack, but still old enough to ache, and this music still stirs me. I love it.
I was fortunate enough to be in Jorma's 1st guitar camp 20 years ago(amazingly). You couldn't find more decent guys and excellent hands-on instructors.
Watching the eye contact between the band members, especially between Jorma and Jack, it was no wonder that they made such great music. I remember catching them at Winterland (New Riders opened the show) and I was just knocked out of my seat. As a bassist, I always saw Jack as a pure monster, but Papa John was from another planet and Sammy was constantly underrated, just because the strength of the rest of the band! That this was all created by just four people is still beyond belief.
Joni Mitchell's line "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you have till it's gone" came to mind as l listened to this immensely enjoyable group & read many of the comments. lt's so strange to realize that I took the unparalleled music of the 60s & 70s for granted. Looking back l realize that I believed that great music and talent like this would just always continue to be created. Then it disappeared,seemingly now, almost overnight. It was SO GREAT & WIDESPREAD it never occurred to me that it was destined to fade away. If there was one thing that would continue indefinitely during those times of swift and endless changes, it was the music that we loved as much as life itself. And luckily still can bathe in it. It will live on but can never be duplicated or replaced.
Papa John creach! Love it so much the memories are flooding back from my high school years the best time of my life. I'm 55 now and I spent pretty much every minute either awake or sleep trying to retain that adolescent vibe and never lose that guy. I didn't want to grow old to become some old cranky dude. And I never have and it's just that much more clear to me when I see this and listen to it all week as I have. Hoppkorv blue my mind all week I brought those memories flooding back. Long live Jorma Jack Cassidy Papa John Creech
I was at this show! it was for in concert, the line up was The New Riders,Jerry Lee Lewis, Gladi Knight & the Pips, Hot Tuna.. and The Dead closed the show, started at 6 pm, dont know what time i got out , but the sun was up.... AMAZING!!! needless to say i didnt make class the next day... ( oh by the way, the Venue was called Bananafish Gardens at the time.... Useless Trivia)
I was at the Stony Brook U show, 5 days earlier. Then again, they visited campus 4 years (2 years they were acoustic) not to mention their opening up for the Airplane for a free outdoor concert.
I attended a few produced for TV concerts in the 70’s, most notably The Midnight Special that was mostly filmed in my back yard, they were so much fun, the best band I saw was The Kinks! That Psychedelic Cowboy show would have topped my list!
don't know where you got this precious piece of film. It is pure joy for those of us like me who remember the purity and joy of those days. thank you sooooo much !!
Yeah, this is the Hot Tuna I remember. In fact - I just realized, looking at my old concert poster, that I saw them 12 days earlier at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds - my 2nd concert after seeing the Dead at Maples Pavilion, Stanford, a month earlier. Good times... Thanks, Jam and Psych, for this most excellent vid!
Santa Clara County Fairgrounds...that was my first concert ever. Unforgettable. So that was March 10? I've never found evidence of that show, do you know of any?I think it was with Commander Cody.
@@RoyalJelly Yep, Saturday, 3/10/73. Search Google Images for "hot tuna concert poster santa clara county fairgrounds" and you'll see my silver poster with the turquoise ring that I still have somewhere in the garage. Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen opened for the Elvin Bishop Band and then Hot Tuna. 'Twas a fantabulous concert and what a great one for your 1st and my 2nd!
@@rogerdudra178 Hah! I don't remember much from that show, except a clear memory of it being fantastic - all 3 bands. It was an outdoors day concert in early Spring. You couldn't ask for better times. And I recall smoking some particularly tasty and strong hash as we sat on an open cotton sleeping bag, spread on the asphalt ground - temple ball or elephant ear or Nepalese finger or some other above average variety. Awesome times!
Hot Tuna was my first concert freshman year of college, September 1971. Same lineup as here. Loudest concert ever! Fantastic. Unforgettable. Thanks for posting this!
I believe that was Jerry Garcia dancing in the crowd! What a a night! And morning! The good old days. Sometimes you forget how great Hot Tuna can play! I feel lucky. I was invited by Jack to the recording studio. They where remixing the album Burgers. A night I will never forget!!! Sunrise and Joey gave me a ride home. It was the classic car on the album cover. I wish I could turn into God. And give Hot Tuna 50 more years of music! Thank You! Hot Tuna!
Such great music!! WOW. Jorma is an acoustic guitar master and what he brings to the electric guitar is pure innovation! Jack Cassidy and Papa John Creech…. One of a kind sound…
Just LOVE seeing Jorma close his eyes and smile in bliss while playing Water Song! One of my favorite songs ever -- I could just listen to it on repeat for hours. Very soothing, healing music!
Bobby Fells. And felt like thunder. Shook the floor, walls and roof of some venues. These guys were blessed with so much talent & incredible love of music.
I was at this show. They played 2 shows that night. I was at the late show, probably started around midnight. When we walked out of the theatre dawn was breaking and we went for breakfast. Papa John had a jug of wine on stage and you could see the sunshine tabs floating around in it (there were a lot) and his eyes rolling around in his head. Jorma finished a bottle of Jack Daniels (probably needed it to take the edge off all the acid). I was sitting right up front, knew the promoter. Best of many HT shows I saw.
Yeah, i cant believe he let that bass go. The first Alembic ever! Some lucky person has it in their collection. I cant imagine It was only supposed to be a prototype with a few hunks of wood and became a piece of art
@@reginaldfitzpatrick8681 It seems like that bass was, unfortunately stollen. It fortunately has been recovered as of a couple of years ago and I believe it is back in Jack's possession.
@@jackbailey5304 oh really ? Holy crap i hadent heard that. I saw on the alembic forum he sold it , and belonged to someone who bought it a while back and belonged to the forum but wanted to remain anonymous.
My favorite Hot Tuna album is Burgers, and I'm a big fan of Long John Silver and Thirty Seconds over Winterland. And I love this. Papa John Creach added so much to the Airplane's sound and Hot Tuna's when he was with them. His eerie tone made their acid rock sound that much edgy and psychedelic, plus he got an A+ when it came to playing the blues.
I was lucky enough to see electric Hot Tuna many at the Chateau Liberte in Los Gatos Ca. It was a HA hangout in the redwood mountains. Place was crowded with 200 people so band and crowd were up close and personal. Keep Those Lamps Trimmed and Burning 👍
Me too brother those were the days weren't they! Saw him in New York City they did two shows a lot! From 8 I believe till 12 or so and then it went all night long till Dawn I remember getting out of the show and it was light out. And I think a few times I left and they were still playing. They must have been speeding or tripping or something along with everyone else in there LOL
This sounds so great, wish i was there, saw them in New Paltz the same tour. This just sounds so great. The show at N.P. went on for 4 hours and Journey OPEN FOR HOT TUNA. Jorma started playing a lot more with a pick after this tour (not that that's a bad thing)but this stuff just kicked ass. The tone of electric finger picking (I LOVE THAT SOUND&nobody else does it, maybe Chris Smither), jazz violin with a monster rhythm section was too much fun for words. We left the building after the second encore (a 20 minute encore)came back and they were still playing playing THE SAME SONG.holy sht, what a party.
I looked at Rolling Stone list. Top 50 bass players. I did not see Jacks name! Maybe you can find his name. How about a list. Top 50 baseball players. And you dont see Micky Mantle.
@@dougpotosky4102 RS has many issues stating what an awesome player Jack Casady is - also, Jimi Hendrix considered him one of the best he ever heard and played with him
@@dougpotosky4102 ya the same rolling stone that didn't think Glen Campbell worthy of a top 100 guitarist pick either. This same rag bagged on Rush for crediting Ayn Rand on their album 2112. They're leftist tools and haven't been relevant for decades. Only the gullible read into that trash peace.
The show was recorded for a tv , In concert series on Friday nights.Just as tuna came on stage a small fire started in balcony. It was put out quickly. The fire department showed up and tuna started playing. The firefighters stood in the back and watched first couple songs.
I was at this show at the old Loews 46th St Movie theater in Brooklyn after they converted it to The Rock Palace. That was 49 years ago when I was 18 !!! Hot Fuk'n Tuna !!!
@@mikeshapiro4298 The drummer is Joey Covington. Trust me. This is the Burgers period so you would think that it would be Sammy P. Maybe they were taking turns in rehab. L.O.L!!
The Owsley Stanley Foundation presents its third chapter: Bear’s Sonic Journals: Before We Were Them, Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady, Veterans Memorial Building, June 28, 1969, available now on CD. This live concert recording features recently discovered and previously unreleased music from Jefferson Airplane’s fabled guitar and bass players before they became known as Hot Tuna. This live concert recording features recently discovered and previously unreleased music from Jefferson Airplane s fabled guitar and bass players before they became known as Hot Tuna. Jorma and Jack are joined by Joey Covington on drums, and this intense, hard-driving muscle trio creates a sonic landscape to rival Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
ray frazier such a great series of recordings Bear had. Grateful it was made available. Purchased all 4 now available, Doc & Merle Watson , Dawn of NRPS, BWWT & ABB Fillmore East! Al pure listening joy!
I came into this with the idea in mind that it might suck and I’m so glad to discover that couldn’t be further from the case. Solid stuff and a little different.
I saw this tour at the Academy Of Music in NYC, with the Climax Blues Band as the openers. Back then, the Academy (later The Palladium) had 8pm & 11:30pm shows. The 8pm show was killer, but we heard rumors of special guests for the late show, so we stayed on. By the time we left that 11:30 show, it was 6am. I only hope that today's kids can have that kind of happy happenstance, because is was so spontaneous that even thinking about it today blows my mind.
Remember always looking up at a big clock just across from the Academy, that was our 'official time' for the concert...was at the last Academy show, another 6:00 am ending...
Finally...the real deal. My first concert was Tuna in '73, at Stony Brook Gymnasium. It was exactly like this, and I have been a huge fan, ever since. That show was incredible. The only bummer was, that Cat Stevens opened for them, and the LI crowd was so rowdy for Tuna, that CS played two songs and left. We had to just sit there for an hour or two, lights up, waiting for HT to show. Loved those shows!!!
Thanks for posting this...I am sure I was at this show...they did a few there (Bananafish Gardens) for the In Concert TV series on PBS....FOR FREE!!! Thanks again!
So my phone broke was in the shop for a week and I pulled out my older phone that had a lot of music loaded on it like an iPod. I had 7 albums of Hot Tuna and when I spotted it I got so excited cuz I forgot it was there! Cut to a week later and I've listened did nothing but Hot Tuna and Lightnin Hopkins all week. Not that playing together of course but just fill in my soul with this basic simplistic genius. Limited technology limited instruments just heartsoul and mood. Love you Jorma love you Jack Cassidy
