Yesterday Vanessa and I celebrated our twenty eighth anniversary. This woman is a saint, and I am truly blessed! Perseus The Dog was our joint present to each other… Woof. Since I’m out here on the road, we’ll have to wait until next week to see each other. Fortunately, next week will come.
Izze at the 88's under Perseus' watchful eye
Foto by Vanessa Kaukonen
In the meantime, I played the Wolk Center in Rochester a couple of nights ago.
This place is amazing!
Foto by Phil Jacobs
I got my first earache around 1949 or 50 at the JCC swimming pool in Cincinnati, Ohio while visiting my grandparents. Good times!
Words to live by...
Jorma Kaukonen 35, 2016
Jorma Solo
Wolk Jewish Community Center
Rochester, New York
Monday, December 5, 2016
First Set:
1. Ain’t In No Hurry
2. Second Chances
3. Hesitation Blues
4. Been So Long
5. Barbeque King
6. Sea Child
7. Sleep Song
8. Candy Man
9. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
10. How Long Blues
11. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
12. San Francisco bay Blues
Second Set:
1. I See The Light
2. Dime For Beer
3. I’ll Be All Right Some Day
4. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
5. Things That Might Have Been
6. Keep On Trucking Mama
7. Come Back Baby
8. Watch The North Wind Rise
9. Living In The Moment
10. Good Shepherd
11. Bar Room Crystal Ball
12. Water Song
13. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
14. Encore: Embryonic Journey
Holding forth...
Foto by Phil Jacob
Then it was to Infinity in Norfolk, Connecticut.
Love this place!
Foto by Phil Jacobs
Jorma Kaukonen 36, 2016
Jorma Solo
Infinity
Norfolk, Connecticut
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
First Set:
1. Ain’t In No Hurry
2. Genesis (for Miles Dunn)
3. Hesitation Blues
4. Been So Long
5. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
6. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
7. Sea Child
8. Watch The North Wind Rise
9. I Am The Light Of This World
10. River Of Time
11. In My Dreams
12. River Of Time
13. Barbeque King
14. San Francisco Bay Blues
Second Set:
1. What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
2. Waiting For A Train
3. Trouble In Mind
4. I See The Light
5. Things That Might Have Been
6. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
7. Come Back Baby
8. That’ll Never Happen No More
9. Sleep Song
10. Good Shepherd
11. Bar Room Crystal Ball
12. Water Song
13. Whining Boy Blues
14. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
15. Encore: Candy Man
Goodnight Moon!
We just got off the ferry from New London and tomorrow I’ll be at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead.
This is fun… but I’m sure looking forward to getting home. Still and all, tomorrow’s another day and another showl
Onward!
Happy Anniversary Jorma and Vannessa – may there be many, many more! – got to see the show at the Infinity with the funny vacuum cleaner story – nifty spot, good acoustics, not too long a drive and as always good, clean, inspirational pickin’ – Enjoy a well-deserved rest!!
@jim hitchcock
Yeah, big loss. ELP’s eponymous first LP was the standard by which all “stereo systems” were judged. I still have my 47 year old Scott amp; an old friend called it my “cheap little old Scott”. HA My neighbor calls it a monster; I can’t keep a set of speakers up under it and never turn it past half-way. SARDINES
Let us entertain you…”
(Come inside, the show’s about to start)
Adios,Greg Lake, I make no apologies for loving ELP.
“Let us entertain you…”
The big fish is fully fried, and is served, online.
Tomorrow, deadlines permitting, it will be plated and served by Richard Johnson, Page Six New York Post.
Muddy Helm says: “WOOF!!!”@jim hitchcock
I think Jorma must marvel sometimes at the craziness he’s unleashed in the posters on his blog, and he might wonder what he’s wrought…
…but then again, music is the true universal form of communication, and he knows this : )
Jorma isn’t home yet and we’ve been having more fun with Perseus, than he is.
Perseus now joins the group of legendary rock-dogs:
“Martha (my dear)”
“Dog named King”
Mav Kaukonen
Muddy Helm
LOL!!!@jim hitchcock
@Barbara jacobs
Perseus is waiting for Izzy to break out The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen
@jim hitchcock
Is that little doggie still up there on the piano?!
@Carey Georgas
You are invited. Carlo cooks lots of delicious food. I’m frying a big fish but it’s not for eating. Not for carlo”s table.
@jim hitchcock
Oh, it’s not imaginary. You are invited. Wherever:you still won’t ever drive me nuts. I’m preparing a big fish fry, still needs to be plated and served.
@John B
‘And here we have the E Diminished 7th chords, Perseus…buckle up.
” Under the watchful eye of Perseus” What a great picture!
Happy Anniversary Jorma and Vanessa! I just completed my hat trick: Beacon, Egg & Riverhead. Three more great shows. Long may you run!
@Carey Georgas
Still in the planning stages, Carey 🙂
Is that a little fox terrier? Best dog I ever had was a fox terrier, markings very similar to dog on piano. Named her Little Queenie, after the Chuck Berry tune. Had her 19 years.
I forget, have we gone yet?@jim hitchcock
Jorma your show last night in Riverhead was great. Really enjoyed it – thanks for playing “Genesis”. We love you too. You are a national treasure.
Captain,
Please consider adding the great Reverend’s “Sally” (Jorma’s version), to Sunday’s set at the historic blast furnaces of Bethlehem PA. An awesome song, by an amazing blind musician. Appropriate for wedding anniversaries (like Hazel’s No More Hotdogs). And it would take be back to the FPR in spirit! Dennis
Bad read Barbara. Was joking about our imaginary trip to visit Carlo. Never mind.
I don’t have a “list”.
None of you, individually or together, can ever drive me nuts.
I have bigger fish to fry. I’m currently frying one up.
He has nothing to do with this website nor anybody on this comments section.
You won’t read about him here. I’ve fried him before in the Press and I’m frying him again.
@jimhitchcock
@Barbara Jacobs
Dead Head & John b are of course on the list…and so are you!
We’ll probably drive you nuts, though.
Happy Anniversary Jorma and Vanessa!
I understand the best part about being married to a Patriots fans is…they don’t care if you cheat 🙂
Looking forward to the Bethlehem PA. Steel Stacks show on Sunday. Last stop before home. Yeah Buddy. See ya soon.
John B.: Looks like you advanced out of “the Three J’s”.
We are good — no formal apologies required. It happened organically.
We are good, that all that matters.
He’s very cute. But he’s a monster-slayer! lol!@Doug Mlyn
Yeah, doesn’t he look like he’s a dog figurine? You know the type of figurines I’m talking about. How on Earth did Vanessa get that pup to stand still on the piano, with activity (Izze playing and the resultant vibrations in the piano); also Vanessa is there with the camera. That’s a lot of action for a pup.@rich l
It does look like a figurine.@Barbara Jacobs
A clear cut case of music soothing the savage beast.
Lol! I don’t know how Nessa got that little pup to stand on top of the piano like that and not move for long enough to take that photo.
@rich l
I’m pretty sure Perseus is thinking, “Let me down, or I’ll swear I’ll jump.”
On a side note, we fostered quite a few puppies and kittens for the Humane Society. One year, they raided a puppy mill and rescued about 70 puppies from really filthy conditions. The Humane Society could not get the dogs spayed and neutered until the case got resolved in court. So they found a bunch of families to watch the dogs for a month or two, three at the most – right.
A year later the court finally ruled in favor of the Humane Society. We had two Shih Tzu’s, Gus and Buster, for over a year. Little dogs definitely have a Napoleon complex. We had a 100 pound Akita that Gus would try to intimidate daily. The old boy was a bit lazy, and pretty much ignored this 4 pound dog barking at him from 6″ away. He’d actually make this low growling sort of sound, trying to let big boy know who was boss.
When the Akita finally had enough, he’d start to scramble to his feet, which gave Gus enough time to head under the couch. One of the hardest things we ever did was give those two curmudgeons up for adoption after a year. I was the bad guy, but two dogs is enough! @Doug Mlyn
Behind every wise man there is a very wise woman. Happy Anniversary! That’s a cool lookin little dog.
My wife has read that book to our many dogs (Jorma, Nina, Marley, Jack & Ranger) many times over many years. It’s sleepy time for them when she’s finished.
Some people think that marriage is a unification, but the Torah speaks of reunification and 28 years after your reunification, you are celebrating marriage with your Beshert. Marriage is when a man and a woman subordinate themselves and their individual needs to those of the couple and it is one of the great miracles of life. As a man, I haven’t married a woman, I have married my wife and there is a distinction between woman and wife (as there is between man and husband). So Jorma, blessings to you and your wife and family as you travel the road and impart on all of us the wonderment of song. The sounds you emit from your guitar and words you speak, are forever encased in the heavens. You are the messenger and like we pull down our blinds at night, a musician simply pulls his art from the heavens and releases it as G-d’s orchestra and choir, from a soloist to a philharmonia. That is art…..and life.
Mazel Tov! 28 is 196 in husband years.
@Barbara Jacobs
he’s on top of the piano
happy anniversary Jorma and Vanessa.. and what a cute doggie! (Have 2 daschunds myself)
Happy Anniversary Jorma & Vanessa !! God bless you & your family .Many more happy and healthy years ..May the blues only be songs you sing ! .
Would love to see the show tonight here on Long Island ..If anyone is going & has an extra please call me at 631-375-4060 ..Was at the Winery last tuesday and loved every second of it .Peace
I wish I had $20.00 for every time I read the book Goodnight Moon to my daughter and son. Who needs Xanax? I think my favorite line is “And goodnight to the old lady whispering hush…” There’s such a peace that comes over one when you read it to your kids, or pick one up in a bookstore and recall precious days gone by.
Hopefully some day I’ll be reading it to grandchildren and, to borrow a stanza from Matt Redman,
“And on that day
When my strength is failing
The end draws near
And my time has come….”
well…maybe my son or daughter will read this book to me – one more time.
Some times the simple things in life are the best, eh? Somehow, it doesn’t surprise me that you know this book Jorma.
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight room
Goodnight moon
Good night cow jumping over the moon
Goodnight light
And the red balloon
Goodnight bears
Goodnight chairs
Goodnight kittens
And goodnight mittens
Goodnight clocks
And goodnight socks
Goodnight little house
And goodnight mouse
Goodnight comb
And goodnight brush
Goodnight nobody
Goodnight mush
And goodnight to the old lady
whispering “hush”
Goodnight stars
Goodnight air
Goodnight noises everywhere
–“Goodnight Moon”, text by Margret Wise Brown
Happy Anniversary Jorma – 28 years of married bliss.
@ the THREE J’s (Johno, Jim, and Joey): free mentoring classes online. No, not the Captain. Sign up now while they are free! What a blessing! May be fresh back from Milan. I was not invited. Carlos with a menu of sardines and saltines, just for her. I’m thinking the kiddie table was full?
Jorma must have a plow on the front of that bus.
My neighbors have a French bulldog named Maurice.
(just plain “Maurice”. He doesn’t care what you call him, just as long as you have doggie treats for him).
when I was a mere lad in short pants, I had a pet Aardvark named “Maurice the Monogamous”
@Ham n Eggs
Nope. Perseus is the legendary monster-killer, he doesn’t do the peace and love always thing. Jorma goes for a walk with mav and perseus in the s.e. Ohio woods. The local big-foot:”the grassman” steps out of the tree-line. Jorma says:”my doggies, I do believe that’s the local Bigfoot monster.” Mav barks to young perseus :”I’m getting old, but you are just a pup, born to be a monster-slayer, so go take care of business! I need to get home because Nessa is cooking up another chicken-pot pie!”
Greek mythology was a thing when I was a kid : )
@jimhitchcock
Would you agree with me, about that? Is that fair to say?
Not just a dog of mythic proportions, a monster-slayer. Very good to have in the woods.
Happy Anniversary Jorma & Vanessa!
Perseus, Dog of Mythic Proportion.
Peace
Love All Ways
Wait, did I miss that first photo posted up there?!
That’s really the new Kaukonen family dog on top of the piano?
Looks like a dog figurine, Poody says:
” WOOF!!!”
Photos of your new dog, Perseus?!
Happy Anniversary Jorma and Vanessa!