Damn straight - Jack (dang hippie!) ain't to bad on the lower registers either. "Hot Tuna" doesn't sound good in theory, or as a casserole, but it continues to sound amazing to this day
I have been a Tuna fan for almost 50 years! Seen numerous acoustic and electric shows! I must say Jorma was really in top form this show! Incredible guitarist, for sure!🎸😇
This is priceless. So grateful to have this treasure preserved. To this day Hot Tuna continue to thrill me. More and more all the time. First heard them open for It's A Beautiful Day and The Airplane in Anaheim, early 70's? 2nd time was with Leon Russell and Pink Floyd at UCSD Athletic Field. Same period. Still get chills at this literally timeless music. Especially ACOUSTIC.
Quand en 76 j'ai écouté l'album blues du Hot Tuna de Jorma Kaukonen & friends enregistré 6 ans plus tôt, ce fut comme une révélation ; je sus alors que le blues ne me quitterait plus jamais... 🎸😎 Et merci pour le clin d'œil final du Jefferson Airplane même sans Grace...
JORMA ! I remember the first time I heard Hot Tuna . Totally captivated me , instant love of their music . Thanks to everyone that continues to post these old videos and recordings .
Amazing concert, I can truly feel Jorma's stage presence throughout the whole show. This era in Jorma's musical saga is truly underrated, he produced some very defining sound, Ovation sound or not, haha. Thank you for preserving this musical treasure, Jorma's a gem among musicians for sure.
Je suis guitariste et je suis fier d"affirmer que je suis sérieusement influencé par le style de Jorma que je considère comme un monument. J'ai vu Jorma et Jack il y a environ 13 ans au Stephen Talkhouse de Amagansett, NY.
I've loved Jorma and acoustic Hot Tuna especially since the first time I heard it in 1986. Finally got to see them at Fur Peace Ranch in May my first show since reopening which was an absolute gift. This archival footage is interesting to see him play the Ovation plugged in with chorus, phaser or flanger effects there or whatever that is. Simply wonderful. I always felt like an acoustic Jorma/Hot Tuna show was like going to church minus the Sunday morning arguments with my mother over why did I have to go to church plus more of the sense of awe that a religious experience can elicit :)
What? only 290 likes?... WIth or without Dr. Jackyll Jorma is pure music.... Magician! Living Legend! One of the best sets I've seen... Thanks so much for sharing this treasure with us!
How did I get to 45, and considering I have pretty eclectic taste, and not hear of this artist before??? I watched the Johnny Depp film Transcendence the other night and heard the track Genesis and have just fallen in love with his music since. Mesmerizing and beautiful music.
Do a search for Fur Peace Ranch Ohio. His ranch is near where I went to college and he had a music shop in town where you could sometimes see him. You can still catch him live.
It's very simple how you missed him. You weren't even alive during his heyday with Jefferson Airplane and you were a baby when his popularity with Hot Tuna peaked with the Burgers album in '72- '73. Been a niche type since then. Those were great times with the Airplane.
FANTASTIC! I've been a Jorma fan for most of my life now and this concert fully show cases the man and his outstanding guitar virtuoso! So glad this was posted as it just warms my heart and soul as well as delights my ears to be able to experience this show. Thank you so much!!!
This video is from Nov 1979. The "Jorma / Steeler" Electric Duo shows with "Happy Go Lucky Space Rats" (no bass-player) was one year earlier, Nov 1978. Shows in Passaic NJ, Commack LI and Palladium 14th St, NYC. Rock on Jorma.
I have seen Jorma at the Palladium(Academy of Music) in NYC many times! Often both the early and late shows the same evening.Great venue! Reminds me of Carnegie Hall. Loved that place, saw many a band there.
Wow man! What a lucky find. Capital Th video taped so many great shows. The Van Morrison one is outstanding. Jorma is such an important and influential figure in the history of acoustic fingersyle guitar. So grounded in the tradition, but totally original. He continues to teach at age 74 at his guitar camp. This video is pretty important. Other than this, mostly what we have are the instructional DVDs he recorded for Homespun in the 90s. Which are outstanding. LEarning one on on from the man himself. Ovations were a necessary evil back in the 70s. Only acoustics that could be amplified Heart used them. Even Cat Stevens……The excessive flanger on his guitar sound does not exactly help. But he is playing a cross between acoustic and electric.
gtrrobster Jorma was my Mom, Marcia Moore's guitar teacher at Dana Morgan's Music Shop in Palo Alto in the early sixties. He went by Jerry Kaukonen at the time; before he co-founded the Jefferson Airplane. Jerry Garcia was Mom's banjo teacher for a few lessons at Dana's around the same time. She performed at The Tangent Club at the corner of University Ave and Alma St. regularly; as well as playing lead roles in many musicals at Palo Alto Community Theater. It is great to see all of the wonderful performances of Jorma solo and ESP. with Hot Tuna partner, bassist extraordinaire, Jack Casady. Mom, ya gotta get back out there; at 84 you're just getting started!!!
I've gotta love Jorma(and Jack) saw the them before being quarantined they played electric and acoustic ......Acoustic in Redding CA, Electric in Chico,........I've been loving these guys for 30 years and still just a guitar and bass
This show was my first concert back when I was 17! I loved Hot Tuna at the time. First show that I was at that's shown up here on RU-vid. Thanks for posting this!
@@davidthater4748 We had a soundboard tape of that show in college and it rocked everybody to the core. There is a torrent of the soundboard recording show, but I only got about 90%. I'd pay to get a good copy....
@@ybanrab10 I have some old tapes, I'm pretty sure one is from around then. I haven't listened to them in years since I don't have a tape player any more. Let me look and see.
@@davidthater4748 Thanks for looking! I still have the whole Commack show on tape. The tape is almost 40 years old. I was psyched to find that torrent of the show, but it was incomplete. I downloaded what I could, but some songs are chopped.
"Going Down" is actually "Killing Time in the Crystal City" and "Volunteers" is the encore from the electric set billed as Jorma and White Gland (this isn't the "Full Concert", but it's the full acoustic set, with a snippet of the electric set).
Interesting how maturity offers focus. Joy is our reward, not rebellion. Yet we need to learn this path for ourselves. The Seasons of life are 20 year segments. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.
+Jim Kauchak come on now... Dr. Jackyll is great medicine.... But Jorma is a class act with or without. Jack is a pretty mean deal solo on those Epitones too though!
I saw Jorma two years later with Vidal Parts. Very weird seeing these guys trying to fit into the landscape of the times. I kind wished Jorma stuck with this sound(Lots of effects BUT clean). People probably think I nuts(with feeling this time)but I like the tone he's getting at this show. Reminds me of later John Fahey minus the trains.
@@brianht1434 ok Way to go on responding on a 10 month old post. Does it really matter 40 years later. Jorma was and is still unbelievable along with Jack, not a better duo
