Wow I loved this song years ago. Haven't heard it for a long time. I am 70 ,still have hair past my shoulders and work on being some of the positive things from that era
The show that I saw at Pirate's World with Canned Heat was only $5- I was 15 and was completely blown-away..One of the best shows that I have ever seen ever!.....Long live Jorma and Jack and Sammy....
I used to love HOT TUNA ! A guy across the street actually used to play drums for PaPa Johns solo project. We went to see them once at the Santa Monica Civic and Hot Tuna got replaced on the bill with Journey (pre Steve Perry) we were pissed to say the least. We complained to the box office because we had been sitting on those tickets for a month and they refused to give us a refund!!! We didnt want to see Journey!!!
@@DreAmeoba1 oh yeah ! We were really upset because we got tickets way ahead of time and had absolutely no desire to see Journey. We raised bloody hell at that box office.
My favorite version of Hot Tuna. Also, I loved the work Jack Casady was doing on Kantner /Slick's solo work during this time period... . His tone gives me goosebumps.. Especially on Sunrise. Check that out.
White Boy is especially one of Jack Casady's great moments on the Kantner/Slick albums. I think, however, one of the best (Excluding Sunrise, because that whole track had Casady written all over it) songs to come out of those albums was let's go together. That song is underrated.
Ironically I am answering my own question. : ) Papa John Creach en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_John_Creach Also toured with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship!
I saw them in 1972 in the Summer of '72 at Pirates World in Dania,FL where Johnny Winter And did half of Johnny Winter And "Live" and Steve Miller Band did half of "Rock Love" with members of Frumious Bandersnatch...They were so killer that I wanted to go back the next day on a Sat. and see them again..Canned Heat opened and they were great as well...Papa John was smokin' and wailing away like the creechy old devil that he was..I remember he had a coke-spoon around his neck! Jorma had 10 guitars all on stands and he would pick-up a different one for each tune..They also tuned usually between numbers..It was incredible..I wish that they were this good today..Jack had his Alembic bass with the light-up frets designed by Rick Turner of Alembic...His eye-brows moved-up and down whilst he played..It was so heavy! Sammy Piazza was great as a drummer and I met him later and he made me a board-tape on cassette of this gig...It was incredible...Sammy was such a nice-guy..he later played with Gary Duncan of Quicksilver and was partners with Duncan under the banner of Sammy-Gene music...they built their own studio in San Rafael..Duncan just died..haven't heard or seen Sammy for years...He worked at Bananas at Large a local music store that sells drums and guitars in San Rafael in the 80's and / or 90's..I forget which..a great musician and nice-guy as wll just like Jorma was always so easy-going and down to earth and nice..Marty as well..all great people..wish that they played this music on the radio instead of all of the newer garbage..Too much Eagles and Fleetwood Mac and L.A. music played everywhere...no breaks..SUCKS!
I'm glad to see the info about Sammy Piazza. We're from the same town in Texas and I periodically search him on out on the Net. So it's good to run across you post. We knew each other just to say hello, but never spent time with him. He and my older brother played with Charlie Pack and the Originals all around central Texas. I guess it was a honky tonk dance band. My brother played sax, Charlie on guitar and vocals and there must have been a bass. That was in the early to mid 60s. They were both in high school. I used to have an 8x10 bw posed photo of the group that was so cool. Coat and tie, Sammy wore black shoes with white flash going down the side. Young girl singer with full petticoat skirt and dolled up hair. I think there were 5 members in the pic. Charlie must have had the Originals around here for 50 years. Probably a hundred musicians played with him over the years.
La musique de Hot Tuna m'a toujours fait penser à un volcan en fusion, Jorma Kaukonen et Papa John Creach attisant le feu, la basse grondante et ronflante (et très mélodique) de Jack Casady pour tempérer l'incandescence, Sammy Piazza projetant les pierres..la forge en action... Hot Vulcano ! A part ça, Jorma ressemble ici à d'Artagnan, tel que je me l'imagine...
That scar thing near Jorma's lip -- is that from the infamous ice-skating-into-the-fencepost incident when he lost a tooth, or did that happen earlier?
Yeah it’s a Stratocaster. He plays another one with an american flag paint job on it on Water Song in the same show, this one has a pretty unique look to it though I can’t tell what’s painted on it exactly
Yeah Sammy is no longer in the music business or is he playing drums any longer it's too bad that the late great Gary Duncan of QMS and Sammy ran Sammy Gene Music in San Rafael in the early to mid 1980's yet they had a business minded falling out per se about how that they would record other acts at the studio they made a really great Quicksilver lp there *Peace by Piece" for Capitol Records Sammy has moved to Sacramento and runs a private detective agency these days with his wife I heard something a long time ago about this old Texan band that he was in ,the last thing that I recall was that Sammy took Duncan to see ZZ Top in Oakland as Sammy was friends with Billy Gibbons from his original days playing in Texas that's the last that I ever heard from him before he had a falling out with Duncan over a creative recording endeavor. Great guy Sammy and also an incredible drummer
Hot Tuna - Been So Long - 1971 Recorded Live: 3/22/1973 - 46th Street Rock Palace - New York, NY Hot Tuna is an American blues band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist/vocals) and Jack Casady (bassist).[2] Although it has always been a fluid aggregation, with musicians coming and going over the years, the band's name has essentially become a metonym for Kaukonen and Casady's ongoing collaboration. 1969-1973: beginnings Hot Tuna began as a side project to Jefferson Airplane, intended to mark time while Grace Slick recovered from throat node surgery that had left her unable to perform. The band's name came from someone Jorma Kaukonen referred to as a "witty wag" who called out, "hot tuna" after hearing the line 'What's that smell like fish, oh baby,' from the song "Keep On Truckin'."[3] Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Paul Kantner and new drummer Joey Covington played several shows around San Francisco, including the Airplane's original club, The Matrix, before Jefferson Airplane resumed performing to support Volunteers. (Although Covington had been hired by Jefferson Airplane, he only performed at select engagements, with Spencer Dryden continuing to perform as the band's principal drummer until his 1970 dismissal).[4] Once the Airplane had resumed touring, Tuna found itself opening for the Airplane. Their early repertoire derived mainly from Kaukonen's Airplane material and covers of American country and blues artists such as Reverend Gary Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Bo Carter and Blind Blake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tuna
Does not get any better than this
When live FM stereo radio broadcasts of rock and folk music was normal and often. Simulcasts were also happening then. Thanks to all the engineers!
Wow I loved this song years ago. Haven't heard it for a long time. I am 70 ,still have hair past my shoulders and work on being some of the positive things from that era
The show that I saw at Pirate's World with Canned Heat was only $5- I was 15 and was completely blown-away..One of the best shows that I have ever seen ever!.....Long live Jorma and Jack and Sammy....
Jeeze Papa John was such a rich talent that fit into the music of our time!☮️
I saw so many great shows at this place. This one being right up top along side a few other legendary shows . This was very close to where I lived..
Wow who ever found this peace and love I wish it was the whole concert
Yikes! What a bass sound! One of my favorite songs - played the album version on my KZSU show in Feb. 1982. Along with UFO of course!
Most excellent version of an excellent song! Thanks for posting this.
Julie Alexander glad to play music for someone who enjoys it thanks Julie you have a great day
Rest in power, Papa John
Killer bass
Jack's base is like no other
Wow glad I saw them a year ago they played for 8 hrs the fist time I saw them stayed all 8 what kids today miss
I used to love HOT TUNA ! A guy across the street actually used to play drums for PaPa Johns solo project. We went to see them once at the Santa Monica Civic and Hot Tuna got replaced on the bill with Journey (pre Steve Perry) we were pissed to say the least. We complained to the box office because we had been sitting on those tickets for a month and they refused to give us a refund!!! We didnt want to see Journey!!!
That sounds really obnoxious…..(another example of greedy box office weirdness)
@@DreAmeoba1 oh yeah ! We were really upset because we got tickets way ahead of time and had absolutely no desire to see Journey. We raised bloody hell at that box office.
Look at his right hand that's not easy and the sound wow
My favorite version of Hot Tuna. Also, I loved the work Jack Casady was doing on Kantner /Slick's solo work during this time period... . His tone gives me goosebumps.. Especially on Sunrise. Check that out.
White Boy is especially one of Jack Casady's great moments on the Kantner/Slick albums. I think, however, one of the best (Excluding Sunrise, because that whole track had Casady written all over it) songs to come out of those albums was let's go together. That song is underrated.
Jack's bass is killer on this version.
I think that's the infamous Alembic 001 "mission control".
It sure is.
Indeed!
I think his playing is killer this whole show. I especially like Water Song.
You could tell from the first days of The Airplane Korma & Jack had something special!
Yes, I agree, as well as Paul Kantner, Marty Balin and Grace Slick.
Remarkable song! WOW!
Ironically I am answering my own question. : )
Papa John Creach
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_John_Creach
Also toured with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship!
I saw them With Redbone,Them,Leon Russel and Pink Floyd at UCSD in San Diego.
Grateful who? Jordan, Pappa John and Jack blew them away!
I'd put Jack Casady up there with Paul McCartney and Geddy Lee pretty much Jack is one of the Greatest Bass player EVER
Jack and Entwistle!
McCartney? FFS! Chris Squire.
Jack Bruce!
And Jack Bruce John Entwistle Chris Squire Andy Fraser.
When Jack was still playing space bass.
I saw them in 1972 in the Summer of '72 at Pirates World in Dania,FL where Johnny Winter And did half of Johnny Winter And "Live" and Steve Miller Band did half of "Rock Love" with members of Frumious Bandersnatch...They were so killer that I wanted to go back the next day on a Sat. and see them again..Canned Heat opened and they were great as well...Papa John was smokin' and wailing away like the creechy old devil that he was..I remember he had a coke-spoon around his neck! Jorma had 10 guitars all on stands and he would pick-up a different one for each tune..They also tuned usually between numbers..It was incredible..I wish that they were this good today..Jack had his Alembic bass with the light-up frets designed by Rick Turner of Alembic...His eye-brows moved-up and down whilst he played..It was so heavy! Sammy Piazza was great as a drummer and I met him later and he made me a board-tape on cassette of this gig...It was incredible...Sammy was such a nice-guy..he later played with Gary Duncan of Quicksilver and was partners with Duncan under the banner of Sammy-Gene music...they built their own studio in San Rafael..Duncan just died..haven't heard or seen Sammy for years...He worked at Bananas at Large a local music store that sells drums and guitars in San Rafael in the 80's and / or 90's..I forget which..a great musician and nice-guy as wll just like Jorma was always so easy-going and down to earth and nice..Marty as well..all great people..wish that they played this music on the radio instead of all of the newer garbage..Too much Eagles and Fleetwood Mac and L.A. music played everywhere...no breaks..SUCKS!
He kills it for me with that idiotic fiddle.
I'm glad to see the info about Sammy Piazza. We're from the same town in Texas and I periodically search him on out on the Net. So it's good to run across you post. We knew each other just to say hello, but never spent time with him. He and my older brother played with Charlie Pack and the Originals all around central Texas. I guess it was a honky tonk dance band. My brother played sax, Charlie on guitar and vocals and there must have been a bass. That was in the early to mid 60s. They were both in high school. I used to have an 8x10 bw posed photo of the group that was so cool. Coat and tie, Sammy wore black shoes with white flash going down the side. Young girl singer with full petticoat skirt and dolled up hair. I think there were 5 members in the pic. Charlie must have had the Originals around here for 50 years. Probably a hundred musicians played with him over the years.
La musique de Hot Tuna m'a toujours fait penser à un volcan en fusion, Jorma Kaukonen et Papa John Creach attisant le feu, la basse grondante et ronflante (et très mélodique) de Jack Casady pour tempérer l'incandescence, Sammy Piazza projetant les pierres..la forge en action... Hot Vulcano ! A part ça, Jorma ressemble ici à d'Artagnan, tel que je me l'imagine...
You don't know Jorma!!! You don't know Jack!! Hot F......Tuna!
Let's not forget Jack on bass
That night i though the ceiling was going to fall down.
With Papa John on lead fiddle!
Camera didn't get close enough to Jack for me to even guess what he was playing...Alembic perhaps?
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Sammy Piazza!
Madeline my gfriend then, my wife now. Been so long
That scar thing near Jorma's lip -- is that from the infamous ice-skating-into-the-fencepost incident when he lost a tooth, or did that happen earlier?
Big Bottom!
Jorma plays what guitar on this one, it is a Fender Stratocaster like one I guess.
Yeah it’s a Stratocaster. He plays another one with an american flag paint job on it on Water Song in the same show, this one has a pretty unique look to it though I can’t tell what’s painted on it exactly
Jack Casady’s bass is too LOUD!!!
So just about perfect.
Yeah Sammy is no longer in the music business or is he playing drums any longer it's too bad that the late great Gary Duncan of QMS and Sammy ran Sammy Gene Music in San Rafael in the early to mid 1980's yet they had a business minded falling out per se about how that they would record other acts at the studio they made a really great Quicksilver lp there *Peace by Piece" for Capitol Records Sammy has moved to Sacramento and runs a private detective agency these days with his wife I heard something a long time ago about this old Texan band that he was in ,the last thing that I recall was that Sammy took Duncan to see ZZ Top in Oakland as Sammy was friends with Billy Gibbons from his original days playing in Texas that's the last that I ever heard from him before he had a falling out with Duncan over a creative recording endeavor. Great guy Sammy and also an incredible drummer
Hot Tuna - Been So Long - 1971
Recorded Live: 3/22/1973 - 46th Street Rock Palace - New York, NY
Hot Tuna is an American blues band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist/vocals) and Jack Casady (bassist).[2] Although it has always been a fluid aggregation, with musicians coming and going over the years, the band's name has essentially become a metonym for Kaukonen and Casady's ongoing collaboration.
1969-1973: beginnings
Hot Tuna began as a side project to Jefferson Airplane, intended to mark time while Grace Slick recovered from throat node surgery that had left her unable to perform. The band's name came from someone Jorma Kaukonen referred to as a "witty wag" who called out, "hot tuna" after hearing the line 'What's that smell like fish, oh baby,' from the song "Keep On Truckin'."[3] Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Paul Kantner and new drummer Joey Covington played several shows around San Francisco, including the Airplane's original club, The Matrix, before Jefferson Airplane resumed performing to support Volunteers. (Although Covington had been hired by Jefferson Airplane, he only performed at select engagements, with Spencer Dryden continuing to perform as the band's principal drummer until his 1970 dismissal).[4] Once the Airplane had resumed touring, Tuna found itself opening for the Airplane. Their early repertoire derived mainly from Kaukonen's Airplane material and covers of American country and blues artists such as Reverend Gary Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Bo Carter and Blind Blake.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tuna
Who is on Violin?
+dontillman Papa John Creach, RIP
dontillman Papa John Creach ROCKS. Try "John's Other" Hot Tuna Or Jefferson Airplane version.
Papa John Creach!
I hate it; it ruins the whole song.
Jacks Alembic!
Thanks.
Wow !
Papa John Creach
He killed the song with that awful fiddle!
Jesus saves