In Honor... Veteran's Day 2013
This year the Veteran’s Day Weekend coincided with the last teaching weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch for the year 2013… and what a weekend it was. Before I get to the goings on at the Ranch, Veteran’s Day is always and important day. I take the day to call the brothers and sister I know who either have served or are serving and thank them. In my heart I also thank everyone who has rendered or is rendering service to this amazing country of ours. Many thanks and blessings. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed!
Fall in Athens
A week or so ago when I started collecting pictures for this it was still, for all practical purposes… fall.
Friday at the Fur Peace Ranch
It was a perfect weekend at the Ranch… Temperate… blue skies… and my son Zach joined us for the Veteran’s Day Weekend.
The sun begins to set
We had Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Bob Margolin and the usual cast of Hot Tuna characters.
Saturday afternoon at the Ranch
It was to be a wonderful concert night and we had our friend Jim Wall filling the percussion throne for us… and he was the greatest. Thanks Jim… we have to do this again!
Here is our set list:
Hot Tuna 45, 2013
Electric Extravaganza With
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady
Barry Mitterhoff & Jim Wall
With Special Guests
Teresa Williams, Larry Campbell
And Bob Margolin
First Set:
1. Been So Long
2. Hesitation Blues (Larry is on board for the rest of the set.)
3. Can’t Get Satisfied
4. Blues in E Bob Margolin ????
5. Bob E funky
6. Second Chances
7. I See The Light
8. Ode To Billy Dean
9. Chauffer Blues with Larry and Teresa
10. Sugaree with larry and teresa
Second Set:
1. Mama Let Me Lay It On You
2. Vicksburg Stomp
3. Deep Ellum Blues with Larry and Teresa
4. A Little Faster ditto
5. Bowlegged Woman
6. Goodbye To The Blues with Teresa
7. Children of Zion with Teresa
8. Bob Margolin ???
9. Ditto, Bo Diddly’s Who Do You Love
10. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning with Larry and Teresa
11. Encore: Baby What You Want Me To Do? With the whole gang
(Thanks Todd)
Looking out from the Ranch
What a beautiful weekend!
Leaves gone
Most of my class... last of 2013
It was a great weekend of music and fellowship at the FPR… you can’t make this magic up. Tuesday morning I woke up to this:
Yep... there's my gas well!
…and walking Maverick, Dog Of Destiny, this is the old Schoolhouse Road that runs through our property here at Hillside Farm. Think the late 1800’s.
Old schoolhouse road
As I was walking the dog, I could hear my Amish neighbors buggies heading up the road and I though about where I am in my life today, and you know… I’m right on schedule. I’m right where I need to be!
Oh I see above you have natural gas – that’s good. Just make sure you have a good generator..just in case.
@Jorma
Did you ever get much out of your rig? I’m thinking of going solar in my Catskill house, just in case I lost the grid. Now I have a woodstove and electric. Did you ever think solar for you’re place.
Jorma owns gas wells? well i’ll be darned…… @Joe in DC
I have mineral and timber rights on my farm… the oil rig with the gas tap you see in the picture has been there almost a hundred years… our farm house runs on natural gas…
Good times
That’s the guy ! Thanks Jorma. @Jorma
We did plenty of walking Barbara. Covered lots of the squares. The founder of the Girl Scouts was from Savannah I think. @Barbara Jacobs
Savannah is the perfect city: historic buildings and homes, surrounded by park squares. Everywhere. @John B
so jorma how many gas wells do u have out there?
Cool beans – thanks for that. Great name!!
I visited Savannah for the first time this past August. Walked all over the place and then had lunch at some Irish Pub on the riverfront that was named after the founder of the Molly Mcguires. Great place . . @Barbara Jacobs
Jorma- interesting one on the Doolitle 30 seconds album comparison. I never would have picked up on that….u guys…meaning Airplane. There is a good movie out about the raid, from years back…dont remember the name or year….bit it went thru the event pretty well…
Yes I have heard of Doolittle and the one way mission and the crash landings in China. I wasn’t asking bout the flying toasters but the inner sleeve drawing of the fatman . I was appreciative of the info you provided regarding the artist involved in the album 30 Seconds over Winterland AS well As the historical aspects you provided us with regarding Doolittle . They are of course true American heroes . I have been accused of being grumpy and your not that much older .
See you at the Beacon !
@John B
I have to chuckle everytime I see him…a real meathead. I wonder if he has a name.
did you guys ever have spaetzle. w/ a bratwurst or veal cutlet(schnitzel) and a mug of beer – of course!!!
Inside the record jacket johno. The sleeve that holds the album. Big fat guy with tats all over. Great drawing. @johno
The big fat guy would be Jumping jack Flesh… our avatar at the time.
johno: Read the books. The new book: “The Aviators” puts aviation into military historical perspective.
Roesti is like a big potato pancake. Did you ever try Zurcher Geschnetzel?
Swiss/German/Alpine cooking is filling food: Potato, cheese.
I’ve heard of New Glarus but have never been there.
@chuck newman
And your not a grumpy guy. You were really nice to me back in the 70’s. Thank you for that. Some of the best times of my life.
Thanks for sharing that with me I really had no idea there was so much involved. Are you and the family and the ranch ok. I heard tornadoes came through parts of Ohio.
Yoy know your stuff…I had no idea.
I know… I’m a grumpy old guy… this is just something I’m tuned into. Strangely enough… there was usually an internal logic to most of the 60’s stuff that looked wacky from the outside.
Oh…
I just have to know if you love Roesti as much as me. I am blessed to be only a couple of hours from the finest Swiss cooking in the Midwest. New Glarus, Wisconsin is world famous for it’s annual Wilhelm Tell Festival and play in August and the townspeople put on the play “Heidi” during Heidi Fest in June. The food is out of this world and definitely not doctor approved. Although all the doctors eat there too. The cheeses are ones most of us have never heard of and require a pretty strong ability to tolerate pungent cheeses. Beautiful small town and old authentic architecture. If I can get Jorma back to the nearby Stoughton Opera House maybe he can make the half hour or so trip to New Glarus. @Barbara Jacobs
Jorma,
I’m looked @ the album cover/sleeve of Thirty Seco LP…and all I saw was flying toasters – did that remind you of Jimmy Doolittle?
OK… I’m appalled. Vanessa tells me, ‘Lighten up, you’re dealing with people a lot younger than you are.’ OK… this is WWII stuff. There here have been so many wars of late, someone who fought in the first Gulf War is starting to look long in the tooth. Thirty Seconds Over Winterland… was a knockoff of the Doolitle Raid…. Thirty seconds over Tokyo. Check this link for the Doolitle Raid. Jimmy Doolitle led a sortee of B-25 MItchell bombers (Remember Billy Mitchell? The father of modern air power in the military.) specially modified to be able to take off from a carrier deck. It was a one way mission. They didn’t have enough fuel to get back to American lines and they couldn’t havd landed on a carrier anyway, so most of them crashed in China. The mission itself didn’t do much damage, but it was a real morale builder for the U.S. after Pearl Harbor and it was a taste of things to come when the B-29’s would fire bomb Tokyo in ’44 and ’45. My father spoke and read Japanese and he went into Japan with McArthur’s guys after the surrender. I have fotos of him and his colleagues cracking safes in fields of ash where all you could see remaining was plumbing and the aforementioned safes. It was a long time ago.
Anyway… Thirty seconds over Tokyo… a heroic suicide mission by some very brave Americans. Then there is an album by the Airplane… Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. In our defense, it was the late Sixties… early Seventies. Don’t get me wrong. I am not comparing a rock band to war time heroes. it made sense at the time… we probably wouldn’t do that today.
It’s a great old hotel and the views are amazing for gazing.
The indoor pool is very nice. I was there in mid-June. Brisk, fresh mountain air; not snowing however the mountain-tops were covered with frosting…
So, goodnight you moonlight ladies…@johno
Yes, I gazed. Didn’t trek, climb nor did I hike. Just gazing is amazing.@John B
@John B
Looked like glass mountains!!!!
@Barbara Jacobs
That’s the hotel I stayed at also! It’s the closest hotel to the mtn railway and the nicest in town. I stayed a couple days in July, and it snowed there on the 4th of July. They also filmed a James Bond movie on the mountain, the Schilthorn. (don’t know which movie. Walked on the road to Gimmelwald. What a view, huh.
Jimmy Doolittle and Gabby Gabreski Both are WWII flying aces – one in the Pacific and the other in Europe. Unbelieveable bravery and honor.
Its one of my favorite places . Tuna played in Jackson Hole last year. Maybe someday…… @Barbara Jacobs
Have you ever gazed upon Le Grand Teton in Wyoming Barbara ? @Barbara Jacobs
Jorma: A new book: “The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh and the Epic Age of Flight” (author: Winston Groom).
Also recommend: “The Doolittle Raid: America’s Daring First Strike Against Japan” (author: Carroll V. Glines )@Jorma
@johno
How ’bout those Alps, johno?!
They range across 8 Alpine countries, I’ve been to 6 of those.
I stayed at The Hotel Eiger in Murren and gazed out at the Monch and the Jungfrau mountains: magnificent!
I don’t ski and I don’t like cold weather, so for me it’s nicest in the Spring.
Will be in Bavaria for a few days next week (most beautiful area of Germany).
Crazy King Ludwig and his castles.
Steinberg did a lot of L.P. covers. What a talent he was . Thanks for sharing Jorma. Have yourself a great day !
Jimmy Doolitle is one of my heroes as well!!
Jorma who was the inspiration for the drawing on the album sleeve of Thirty Seconds Over Winterland ?
Bruce Steinberg did the art work, but the inspiration was Jimmy Doolitle and his band of heroes in B-25 Mitchell bombers. WWII reference.
Great photos Jorma. When I first arrived at the Ranch in 2007 one of the first things I noticed was the American flag as well as MIA flag. I always call my “always a Marine” brother on Veteran’s Day. Earlier this year, he and one of my sisters went on a Military tour to Vietnam. It was TIME.
Barbara -I love the alps – fav town is Murren, across the Laterbrunen valley. 14,000 ft above sea level. Very quiet no cars only the bells on every cow in the pastures behind the hotel. Views across the valley – the Eiger the Munch and Jungfrau. The 3 highest peaks in Europe.
@Barbara Jacobs
@Barbara Jacobs
JohnB.: I love being with my friends, especially Teresa and Larry. Add Jorma to that equation = LOVE&HAPPINESS.
November has always been a very busy month for me and I’m usually out of town, or out of the USA.
For several years, I was working/visiting down in Savannah and tried each time to get back to NYC. for the Tuna shows. Each time, I got hung-up at the airport and couldn’t get back for the shows.
I’m working in London this week and then going to Germany for a few days and traveling in Europe. I can’t fly back — if I could — I would. Really, I would. Really.
johno: the above answers your question, if you really love to travel — I would
sign you up to be my right-hand-man. I have a lot of work to do!
Next year, I will move mountains, even the Alps; in order to be there for the shows.
How is Hamar Promenade coming along Jorma?
G.E. is back from the Wall tour and I expect he just might have a hankering to stop in and play with his old pals Hot Tuna . Things are shaping up very nicely .
@Barbara Jacobs
What country are you in? I love to travel
Can you fly back for the shows Barb? @Barbara Jacobs
Larry Campbells website lists him and teresa as playing at both New York shows
Nice set-list and good company, Jorma.
I’m out of the Country and would like to suggest a good book:
“GIVE ME TOMORROW: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story — The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company” (author: Patrick K. O’Donnell).
Gas Well….now that’s what I’m talking about…clean USA fuel from the heartland!! right-on. If you ever have any questions on that well Jorma or other wells just ask…that’s what I do for a living..music to my ears.
Guess that means no cigar,lol
Peace
Love All Ways
Still hopeful for Beacon
It was actually Deep Ellem Blues not Chauffer Blues in the 1st set. Both great songs. @Hamneggs
Jorma, just out of curiosity, why did you get a short scale M-30, just have for around the house or some functional value for playing out?
Yours Truly
David Sulkes
Doomsday Machine for arthritis some day… plus it’s a different guitar.
Thanks for the rockin’ show out at the Fur Peace Ranch last Saturday. It was a real treat to see you all on your home turf. The band was on FIRE. Larry and Thersa were amazing. Jack and Barry were incredible. Jim Hall and “Rollin” Bob Margolin were fantastic. And Jorma was outstanding driving this well-oiled machine. I especially liked the never ending 2nd set rendition of Bo Diddly’s “Who Do You Love” (ditto). To top it all off, the Psylodelic Gallery was such a Trip. Great weekend!! Looking forward to the Wilbur Theatre show in Boston. Dr. Joe
Hey Jorma,
Awesome pictures, looks like it was a rockin show, good times indeed. Thanks for remembering Veteran’s Day, praying mine can come home for Christmas. The Ranch posted a great picture of you and Zach I can’t imagine the emotions of sharing a stage with your son, that’s what it’s all about. Count down to double dosing in the city can’t wait to see my old friends and some live Tuna again.
Take care
Hogan
🙂
Outstanding!
Chauffer Blues 🙂
Hope we get lucky at the Beacon
Peace and Love All Ways
Dear Jorma,
I saw a great picture of Zach playing “Been So Long” with you at
FPR this weekend! That is so great! You must be so proud!
A little over a week until Beacon!
Can’t Wait!
Peace and all good things!
Cyndy
Thnaks for helping to honor the Vets.
I’m looking forward to the 2 NYC shows. Hope that plans are in the works for some Hot Tuna Electric dates in the Spring and perhaps also the New Orleans JazzFest!!
Would be a great honor for the boys to be acknowledged there and lots of fun too!
Beautiful. You are Jorma… you are.
Great pictures as always Jorma. How are you doing with Hamar Promenade ? Great set list also. The Beacon date draws nearer and I can hardly wait to take my seat and see what the evening brings!