I finished up at the Flying Monkey last night. Love that gig. We drove after show to Wellsboro, Pennsylvania to service the bus and we’ll head for Pomeroy about midnight tonight. I’ll do a more in depth retrospective when I get home, but in the meantime, here are the sets as best I can recall:
Jorma 6, 2023
Jorma Solo
The Colonial
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Sunday, February 26, 2023
First Set:
- True Religion
- Great Divide Revisited
- Barbeque King
- Too Many Years
- Ice Age
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- How Long Blues
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Living In The Moment
- Sea Child
- Trial By Fire
Second Set:
- Highway Song
- Heart Temporary
- Blue Railroad Train
- Come Back Baby
- Been So Long
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Take Your Time
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Whining Boy Blues
- Hamar Promenade
- I Am The Light Of This World
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Genesis
Jorma 7, 2023
Jorma Solo
The Katherine Hepburn Cultural Center
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
First Set:
- True Religion
- Been So Long
- Barbeque King
- Hesitation Blues
- How Long Blues
- Great Divide Revisited
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Sleep Song
- Trial By Fire
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
Second Set:
- Highway Song
- Take Your Time
- Whining Boy Blues
- Ice Age
- Letter To The North Star
- Second Chances
- Another Man Done Gone
- Trouble In Mind
- Come Back Baby
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- Living In The Moment
- Sea Child
- Good Shepherd
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Genesis
Jorma 8, 2023
Jorma Solo
The Stationary Factory
Dalton, Massachusetts
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
First Set:
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- Too Many Years
- Great Divide Revisited
- Barbeque King
- Letter To The North Star
- Ice Age
- How Long Blues
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Sea Child
- Trial By Fire
- Another Man Done Gone
- Hesitation Blues
Second Set:
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Come Back Baby
- Big River Blues
- Day To Day Out The Window Blues
- Full Go Round
- Sleep Song
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Highway Song
- Serpent Of Dreams
- The Terrible Operation
- River Of Time
- I Am The Light Of This World
- The Terrible Operation
- Trouble In Mind
- Take Your Time
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Genesis
Jorma 9, 2023
Jorma Solo
Sugarloaf PAC
Chester, New York
Friday, March 3, 2023
First Set:
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- Ice Age
- Too Many Years
- Hesitation Blues
- A Life Well Lived
- Barbeque King
- Serpent Of Dreams
- How Long Blues
- Sea Child
- Trial By Fire
- Trouble In Mind
Second Set:
- Been So Long
- Day To Day Out The Window Blues
- Big River Blues
- Take Your Time
- Come Back Baby
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Things That Might Have Been
- River Of Time
- I Am The Light Of This World
- Great Divide Revisited
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning
- Encore: Embryonic Journey
Jorma 10, 2023
Jorma Solo
Double E Performance Center
Essex Junction, Vermont
Saturday, March 4, 2023
First Set:
- Been So Long
- Dime For Beer
- Hesitation Blues
- Barbeque King
- Great Divide Revisited
- That’ll Never Happen No More
- Sleep Song
- Trial By Fire
- Trouble In Mind
- Blue Railroad Train
Second Set:
- How Long Blues
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- Ice Age
- Letter To The North Star
- Song For The Stainless Cymbal
- Hamar Promenade
- Sea Child
- Good Shepherd
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Uncle Sam Blues
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Encore: Genesis
Jorma 11, 2023
Jorma Solo
The Flying Monkey
Plymouth, New Hampshire
Sunday, March 5, 2023
First Set:
- Ain’t In No Hurry
- Letter To The North Star
- Second Chances
- Hesitation Blues
- Barbeque King
- Full Go Round
- Living In The Moment
- Trial By Fire
- Sea Child
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Great Divide Revisited
- Whining Boy Blues
Second Set:
- Been So Long
- Dime For Beer
- Come Back Baby
- Candy Man
- Trouble In Mind
- Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
- Hamar Promenade
- I Am The Light Of This World
- Ice Age
- Too Many Years
- Sleep Song
- Good Shepherd
- Take Your Time
- Roads and Roads &
- Encore: I Know You Rider
This has been a great run for me and like I said, when I get home more will be revealed.
Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011)
never forgottten
RIP Bro
@eaglesteve
You said it eaglesteve – it seems like an eye blink. Like life itself.
@eaglesteve
Operator, can you help me?
Ronald Charles McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973)
gone 50 years and it seems like an eye blink
never forgotten
RIP Bro
We of course saw the band members (Grace and Marty )retire to side stage at Woodstock for Uncle Sam Blues ,I believe that was my first taste of what would become Hot Tuna,it was a great set that followed the bloody f——-Who .I had distinct privilege of being 16 year old lifeguard from Fairfield Ct .
Bought tickets to the Aquarian Arts exhibition ,that’s how our tickets arrived for Woodstock .
Took train to Penn station and then a full bus to Bethel .(Everybody knows the story that Woodstock bailed and Bethel Lakes had the distinction of hosting the festival .
The bus dropped the load 4 miles from the venue .
After a brief hike ,my lifeguard buddy and I pitched a parachute I had purchased for a tent ,slept in tent Friday night missing all the Arlos & Tim Hardin’s .
Got up in Am and did what I did every day in Long Island sound ,took my bar of Ivory soap and hit the beach for a bath .
The scene at the lake was different from anything I’d seen before and attended first concert with my parents at Yale Bowl ,Herb Albert & Brazil 66.That fall I would see Young Rascals,Byrds & Mitch Ryder.
Néxt year Beach Boys ,Buffalo Springfield ,Jimi Hendrix ,then Doors ,Cream ,on and on .
Back to Woodstock ,after having been shocked at 2- Doors concerts ( thought the cops would bust the place ,but they did at the second one in New Haven .
The Woodstock scene was overwhelming for a 16 year old ,the sheer magnitude of freaks was hilarious.
After the Airplane (I had managed to walk up to 35’ behind the white picket fence after Mountains set ,as the Dead started what was a near catastrophe.)set ,I assessed the time of day (9:45+~), and determined if Saturday nights bands didn’t end until 9:45 Sunday Morning ,then chances are that’s Sunday’s bands would probably have same experience ,inferring completion Monday at 10+~ ,I had to be back on lifeguard stand 10am Monday ,so I hitchhiked back to Ct .only to arrive at 5 ,my parents were watching Woodstock on national TV and the interrogation began .
I was in chair at 10 am.
I never went back to the parachute ,but being completely straight for the experience provided me a lucid memory of the event .
Having said that , I’d like to express my sincere gratitude to the host of this site and his band mates and associates that have given their fans a lifetime of the most unique musical form the world has ever seen .
We’ve seen Hot Tuna 50+ times from right after Burgers in either Alexandria or Arlington Virginia ( Drove from Emmitsbutt Maryland in VW ,ride compliments of Peyote buttons .).
The shows in Negril ,Jamaica were lots of fun too .
Hats off to Jorma ,Jack and all the fans and colleagues of these guys
Great show !
Keep on Trukin
eaglesteve;
Must’ve been.
RIP Gary Rossington from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Johhn o: The shows were different. Only Jack & Jorma played the day I remembered.
Awesome sets…Hope to see you soon.
Safe Travels
🙂
I said Adams and Parker. I’m pretty sure it was Parker Playhouse.
eaglesteve;
You were probably there. Tt was a small theater. The Parker Playhouse. I don’t remember palm trees but that doesn’t mean they weren’t there. I do remember Jorma, Jack, Papa John and Sammy Piazza pushed me back deep into my red velour seat with my ears pinned back the entire show!
john o:
I think I was at that Hofstra show. Weren’t Jack and Jorma flanked by two palm trees? I sat 3rd row center. Was probably right behind you.
Boy Jorma you sure do get around. I’m amazed how much you perform every year. You remind me of the Energizer Bunny, you just keep on going. Your dedication and mastery of your craft is well known. There are not many rock legends that are still touring and who still brings the goods every night. You just Keep On Truckin’!
And next month is my 50th anniversary of first seeing you and Hot Tuna in April 1973 at the Adams Playhouse at Hofstra U on Long Island. I had never heard of Hot Tuna and my friends had front center seats and I was trippin the lights fantastic. Great show as the sunrose over the island driving home. Probably saw over 100 shows so far and counting.
Mercy! Those set lists look like they are from a man on a mission to prove that 80 is the new 60. Well done!