While I was on the road with the boys, life was happening at home.
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
four generations
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
An eight day journey through light and family memories. The presents are for the kids, the memories for all of us.
Being on the road has been a way of life for more than half a century. Being home over the Pandemic Lockdown has given me a sense of family that I had never really had before. It was good to be on the road again… that is what I do, but I certainly missed the family connection. You just can’t have everything I guess.
It’s mostly good.
Back on the road, there were three to go.
Photo by Phil Jacobs
Hot Tuna 18, 2021
The Electric Trio
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady & Justin Guip
Carnegie Of Homestead
Munhall, Pennsylvania
Tuesday December 7, 2021
- Too Many Years
- Broken Highway
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Been So Long
- Highway Song
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Can’t Get Satisfied
- Sleep Song
- Trial By Fire
- Bowlegged Woman
- Corners Without Exits
- Song For The Stainless Cymbal
- Bar Room Crystal Ball
- Funky # 7
- Encore: Water Song
Photo by Phil Jacobs
It’s been a while since we were back at the Kent Stage.
Hot Tuna 19, 2021
The Electric Trio
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady & Justin Guip
Kent Stages
Kent, Ohio
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
- How Long Blues
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- I See The Light
- Day To Day Out The Window Blues
- Talkin’ Bout You
- Rock Me Baby
- Roads and Roads &
- Second Chances
- Bowlegged Woman
- Trial By Fire
- Good Shepherd
- Funky # 7
- Encore: Water Song
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
Hot Tuna 20, 2021
The Electric Trio
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady & Justin Guip
Ludlow’s Garage
Cincinnati, Ohio
Thursday, December 9, 2021
- How Long Blues
- San Francico Bay Blues
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Serpent Of Dreams
- Great Divide Revisited
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Can’t Get Satisfied
- Song For The Stainless Cymbal
- Bowlegged Woman
- Come Back Baby
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Trial By Fire
- Hit Single # 1
- Encore: Water Song
It was a pleasure and an honor to share the stage with David Bromberg and his great band as well as Steve Kimock and his pals. Music with friends is the way to go!
It’s nice to be home!
Thank you Jorma (and the HT Crew) for getting back on the road. Saw you at The Egg and The Cap a few days later. So wonderful to be listening, watching and dancing to HT again!
Have a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Stay safe and enjoy ~
Sally
Jorma, Vanessa, John Hurlbut, and all of you down at the Fur Peace Ranch, I hope you have a fruitful, prosperous and Healthy Winter Season. There is no way on Earth I could thank you enough for the Free Concerts that got me back interested in playing guitar…AND Banjo, after 40+ years. Because of this I also was able to get reunited with an old Guitar friend of mine, who BTW would make an excellent instructor at your Ranch! I wish my health was good enough to make a Pilgrimage to The Fur Peace Ranch and even take some classes but I am lucky enough to be able to drive down to the local Target for supplies. Again, Thank You Jorma, Vanessa and crew and I hope to visit someday.
@Tom
ONLY if played loud at maximum volume. Lol
Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
It should be mandated that all own America’s Choice.
Watching the National News and they had a story on holiday shopping, quick shot of Bryant Park zoomed in on the used record stall and front and center was America’s Choice. Happy Holidays
The Time Has Come to say- wow and that was only the second song into the set,! Mississippi Queen and I’m saying to myself Jorma is going to do an Airplane Song. Unbelievably fun . EVERYONE INVOLVED THANK YOU Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
I wanna be sedated in a good way. Pumped for tonight’s show
Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
@Ric Siler
Apaches were not all bad. There was an uprising going on back then as well. There was rage and righteous anger.. Remember Walter Cronkite and other “news people” reporting the death count/tally…. 100-200 Americans dying in a WEEK…a week.. On and on. 18 year old steps off plane….gets some supplies, shipped off in a helicopter to an area and is killed within days of being in country. Just graduated high school, took his gal to the dance, had a good baseball season and parents who loved him. What a load of %^&*(… Watch out for war mongers…
Looks what happening in the streets (people in the streets now all over the world)
Got a revolution.
Lots of things were wrong about the 60s, like Crosby said, certainly the drugs were wrong…. Getting out of wars important. Glad the last president kept us out of war… 58,220 dead in Vietnam…How many more wounded and then dead when home. A million or more Vietnamese dead…
Pray for peace
A friend of mine shared with me a review of an Airplane show in Charleston WV from Dec. ’67. I wish I could attach it but the writer clearly wasn’t into you guys; he likened the sound to ‘an Apache uprising and a she wolf stuck in a trap’. I’ll send you the thing if you want to see it.
I could have sworn it said its going to be an Acoustic show yesterday. Did I see that or my eyes getting old? Must be my mistake…I like it all!!!
I’m guessin’ an 80th celebration at Carnegie Hall got pandemicized last year. What a party that will be!
From the tour page: Jorma’s 80th birthday celebration, finally…….
should it not be 81st?
Man, I had this corn cone up on my toe, and it sure went to hurtin’. As I tried to push the pain from my mind, up from the cranial caldron bubbled an old song I’d long forgotten. “Get Off My Toe” by my patron bluesman, Lightnin’ Hopkins. Pulled it up for a listen, and it sure did ease my troubled mind. Toe’s almost well now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uEiSD3FxZuY, if anyone cares to listen.
Happy Hanukkah Jorma to you and your family.
Looks like it was a great tour and sorry I missed it.
Hoping to see you all in the new year.
Happy Holidays
Hogan
😁
Maybe “We’re a Happy Family “ on Friday
Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
Monetizing Kaukonen
Was playing a gig outside and from a distance I heard a cry of “Jormaaaa”… The tone had a quality out of either Beacon theater mid 70s or Capital theater, early 80s…. At any rate, I told the guy my name was Tom and that I learned some hip tunes and beautiful tunings and finger picking patterns from Jorma.
Later on, when just finishing up a Genesis, a woman around Jorma’s age, though I presume, not at all familiar with the music of Airplane and Hot Tuna said to me, “that is very calming and beautiful music” as she threw some cash into me case. The compliment is far greater than the cash, but the cash did buy me some supper.
Thanks for the tunes Jorma. Keeping taking the magnesium, Vit C and Vit D, and some Zinc… Next 20 years are certainly going to be worth sticking around for.
Oh, to be home again…
I got an observation and resulting question. I’ve been following your touring exploits for 5+ years, if memory serves. The places you go and venues you play are interesting and varied. Just as interesting to me was the pre-pandemic feature of the places you dined, and the stuff they served you. Always fun to see what table you’d find next and what they fed you. Since the resumption of road travels, culinary updates have not followed suit. Is this a post-pandemic reality, and/or are you making use of your mobile kitchen? Vicarious visions of victuals are missed.
Home for the Holydays in the presents of family, memories, and essential rituals. Amen.
A prayer and a candle for you and yours, be assured.
“ Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If I were a biddy biddy rich yidle-diddle-didle-didle man”
Your life’s work has and continues to enrich countless other’s lives, I dare say.
(Betcha some great old friends and characters are gonna come out of the hills and hollows for the New Year’s shows)🤪