A blog by Jorma Kaukonen

Honor Memorial Day

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Here it is Memorial Day again…This is a hallowed day and we might take this time to enjoy our freedom… we might also invite our fellow Americans to ‘Honor Memorial Day.’ Let me start today’s entry with a very short film I am very fond of. Please take the time to watch this… and then move on if you will.

Reveille: Watch it full screen.

This is a day when we honor those who have served and paid the ultimate price ...
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Spiritual Moments… Across The World

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So yesterday started with Izze and me washing my Ultra Classic. In honor of the beautiful moment, I’m wearing a T-shirt Nessa’s nephew Nick Curran gave me some years ago. I met Nick up in Maine back in the mid 90’s when he was a young teenager. He was a great guitar player then and he just got better. He was a great guy. Sad to say, he passed from cancer in 2012 in Austin, Texas where he had ...
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A Broadblasting Of Great Importance!

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We were thinking about posting this on Treats And Treasure, and I may still… but here it is. Indeed a broadblasting of great importance that will help benefit the well that helps to nurture the Psylodelic Gallery.

It concerns the jacket worn by me (Jorma Kaukonen) on the cover of the 1980 LP, Barbeque King. Here’s the blurb from the Fur Peace Ranch Site:

Ever wondered what this jacket would like on you or better yet, framed among your collectables? This ...
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At Home With Friends

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So yeah, my nickname for many years was Jerry. My Dad picked up the sobriquet in the service in WWII. The boys in the service had a problem with a man’s name ending in a vowel. When we were stationed in Ann Arbor in 1945 at the Navy Language School where Dad was learning Japanese, Mom came home from shopping to find some of the kids on base trying to hang me with a coat hanger as a suspected ...
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Moving Right Along…

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So, last Tuesday was a primary and issue election here in the Buckeye State, and as always, I took Izze with me when I went to vote. She needs to know how important voting is.

Then days passed, as days do, and another weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch was upon us. Woody Mann, and Chris Smither and I were the teachers and we looked forward to… and got, an amazing weekend.

Woody Mann opened the show and a profoundly moving ...
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Sidebar From Hillside Farm

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Life is so interesting. When commenting on life in general, as I often do here in my blog, I try to confine myself to my own story, since I have no first hand knowledge of the experience of anyone else. Of course, being human, I am not always successful in this. But I digress…

Anyway, when I first starting blogging well over a decade ago, the word ‘blog’ didn’t even exist yet, or if it did, I didn’t know about ...
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Home, Home, Home

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Here we have Myron, Doug, Jack & Jorma

Foto by Doug Allsopp

Hey, thank goodness I get a set list from Thumbs Up:

orma here’s the corrected set list courtesy Uesaka Toshiro. Safe flight home.

Set 1:
Too Many Years
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
Uncle Sam Blues
Serpent Of Dreams
Children Of Zion
What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
Hesitation Blues
I’ll Let You Know Before I Leave
Trial By Fire
Good Bye To The Blues
I Know You Rider

Set 2:
Been So Long
True Religion
San Francisco Bay Blues
Barbecue King
Death Don’t ...
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It Was Thumbs Up At Thumbs Up

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Poor Myron wasn’t feeling well as we got ready to leave Shibuya for Yokohama. Being sick is always a drag. Being sick abroad is compound misery.

We finally got in a cab and got over to Yokohama… Nice hotel… but petite.

Here’s the set list… sort of… I made lots an lots of changes and didn’t keep track. Myron usually does this for me but he was sick at the hotel… Consider this list a launching pad.

Hot Tuna 43, 2014
The Acoustic Duo
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Tokyo Women’s Plaza

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Just a very short entry about yesterday’s most interesting gig.

So we’re lost in the building trying to find the lecture hall. I turned the corner and saw this. This is a human sized statue by the way. Just sayin’………..

We finally found out where we were supposed to be and here is our set list:

Hot Tuna 42, 2014
The Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Lecture/Concert Gig
Tokyo Women’s Plaza Hall
Shibuya, Japan
Saturday, May 3, 2014

1. How Long Blues
2. I See The Light
3. Hesitation Blues
4. Come Back Baby
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Great Day In Shibuya

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Well, we had a rare day off here in Shibuya. It was not a travel day. What a concept!

Yesterday was a travel day… but we got to Shibuya in time for some ramen at Samurai.

Samurai was the real deal. Delicious and cheap. After dining Jack and Myron and I went for a walk.

A great town to walk in, day or night.

A good dinner, a good walk and a good night’s sleep. Today, Jack and I had lunch at a ...
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