At long last Jack and I in our collective gestalt alter ego Hot Tuna… finally hit the road. We beat feet on down from Pomeroy to Melbourne, Florida where we docked the RV’s in a State Park not far from the gig.
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
We said goodbye to the turtle and headed to the King Center for our first gig!
Photo by Phil Jacobs
Hot Tuna 3 , 2021
Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady
The Original Acoustic Duo
King Center For The Performing Arts
Melbourne, Florida
Friday, June 4, 2021
First Set:
- Dime For Beer
- Hesitation Blues
- Been So Long
- Letter To The North Star
- Broken Highway
- Candy Man
- Living In The Moment
- Trial By Fire
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- How Long Blues
Second Set:
- Trouble In Mind
- Highway Song
- Uncle Sam Blues
- New Song For The Morning
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Great Divide Revisited
- In The Kingdom
- Good Shepherd
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- Come Back Baby
- Search My Heart
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Embryonic Journey
Yeah… good times!
Then it was across the peninsula to Clearwater and the Capitol Theater. We last played this great venue at the end of 2019 before we really know about the virus.
Photo by Phil Jacobs
Hot Tuna 4, 2021
Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady
The Original Acoustic Duo
The Capitol Theater
Clearwater, Florida
Saturday, June 5, 2021
First Set:
- Whining Boy Blues
- Heart Temporary
- I See The Light
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Flying Clouds
- Genesis
- Mama Let Me Lay It On You
- Too Many Years
- Parchman Farm
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
Second Set:
- Serpent Of Dreams
- Hesitation Blues
- Song From The Stainless Cymbal
- In My Dreams
- The Terrible Operation
- Candy Man
- Barbeque King
- Second Chances
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- I Know You Rider
- Encore: Embryonic Journey
Then back across Florida to Del Ray beach.
Photo by Phil Jacobs
I was here at the beginning of the year but this was a first for Jack!
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Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady
The Original Acoustic Duo
Old School Square
Del Ray Beach, Florida
Sunday, June 6, 2021ß
First Set:
- True Religion
- Been So Long
- Blue Railroad Train
- Hesitation Blues
- Highway Song
- Come Back Baby
- Serpent Of Dreams
- Candy Man
- Letter To The North Star
- Trial By Fire
- Good Shepherd
- How Long Blues
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
Second Set:
- Sea Child
- Broken Highway
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
- Hazmat Promenade
- In My Dreams
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Barbeque King
- Waiting For A Train
- I See The Light
- Trouble In Mind
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- I Know You Rider
- Encore: Genesis
So great to see all the people on this our first trip!
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
I’m really enjoying my RV. There’s a lot that goes along with it, but it’s worth it!
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
Indeed… this is what I’m talking about.
Onward!
@Jorma
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Your turtle picture reminded of one of my favorite books , The Grapes Of Wrath . One of my favorite chapters , I have many , is the one where the turtle is trying to cross the highway……..just sayin…….
Did you see any pirates in Key West … ?
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Everyone is a pirate in Key West… that’s the deal!
On a different note, watched the Friends Reunion special with my wife last night. The show started the same way the series ended – to Embryonic Journey. Made the show worth watching just for that!
The JJW tribute was excellent ,made you want to “clap your hands ,and dance”.
Great pictures Jorma so happy for you and jack doing what you truly love being back out on the road you deserve it ! Thanks to all of you for helping to get us through the last year with the Saturday night shows they were all special and you are very special people indeed for bringing them to us I will continue to watch previous shows every sat night watched the thanksgiving electric hot tuna show last sat a rockin show for sure! Stay safe out there and enjoy yourselves
Good to see HT back out on the road! My last live music was The Brothers tribute to ABB at MSG, NYC, NY on 3/10/20…just before the world shut down. Coincidentally, maybe poetic justice, my first live show since then will be the Allman Betts Band at Richmond (VA) Harley Davidson parking lot this coming Friday! Can’t hardly wait! BTW – hope some of y’all or all of y’all were able to catch the Jerry Jeff Walker tribute show from Lukenbach, Texas last weekend. It was a PPV livestream via website or live via Margaritaville station on XM. It was awesome!!! Great JJW stories and musical tributes by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Emmy Lou Harris, Steve Earle, Michael Martin Murphey, Steve Flannery, Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Buffett and others! Good feel good night it was!
Thanks again for getting me through this with the QC’S !! Loved em all and you always sound on point .Happy that Hot Tuna is back on the road !! God bless you ,Jack & everyone at the FPR .. Huge Thank you & Best wishes for a great tour & summer ..Good luck to Izzy !!
Peace
To Vanessa….I want to thank you for asking Jorma my question about Sunny Day Strut from Q#43 show. I asked for a friend who was at the show Friday and texting me a song by song commentary from 1000 miles away. We too celebrate 50 years with the boys from that very first Town Hall show in NYC . Friday nite made her year, even though there had been Too Many Years between us since. we cant say enough how gifted and generous all of you are. do stay well and may god bless.
Thanks so much to you and Jack for coming down our Florida way. Sunday night’s show in Delray was fantastic! After nearly 50 years of Tuna shows, I’m still amazed at how you keep it fresh and continue to up your game.
Amen brother
Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
@Joey Hudoklina
It was wonderful to see Hot Tuna on ther road again Jorma!
Amy&I went to Melbourne. Great show. She yelled out “thank you for the last year”. A sense of normalcy as a Hot Tuna concert is for me being at home!
I was in in Hazmat Promenade Delray. Mrs Eggs said it was the most expensive concert we ever went to but worth every penny to get there! I think for the first time at a non electric show I bellowed HOT FUCKIN TUNA! Several times. By the time Letter to the North Star arrived, like Belushi in The Blues Brother the SPIRIT took over and down the aisle and off in the the corner space rejoiced in thanks and jubilation. A dance of ecstasy,,serious happiness. I took to the floor of my pod and improvised a dance to Good Shepherd. It was great to see people meeting at the show Butterflies out or their cocoons. Thank God for the Quarentines that helped us get through but outdoors with a gentle breeze and you guys playing life got a whole lot better.
Stay well see you in NY and other environs.
Hot Fuckin Tuna
Say hi to Chester
Thank you,thank you ,thank you
Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
Time to break out the “Happy Turtle Song.”
Looks like the FL trip is totally liberating!