Well home life seemed to move on without me. Jack Casady returned to Athens with me in time to play a short set for Vanessa’s new River Of Time Boutique at 19 West Washington St. in Athens, Ohio.
Come on in and pay us a visit!
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
The Gallery & Performance space at River Of Time
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Hot Tuna 30, 2023
The Acoustic Duo
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady
In-Store For Vanessa Kaukonen
River of Time Boutique
Athens, Ohio
Friday, October 13, 2023
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
- River Of Time
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Ice Age
The boys sound checking at the River Of Time Gallery
Photo by Bill Welch
Then Saturday the 14th came and it was time for our Hot Tuna Blow Out at the Fur Peace Station!
Stephanie, Henry, Vanessa, Lila & Ginger
Selfie by Vanessa Kaukonen
The team getting ready for the Madding Crowd…I don’t know where Hurlbut was!
Myron runs Big Red through her paces.
Photo by Jorma Kaukonen
Hot Tuna 31, 2023
The Electric Trio
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady
and
Justin Guip
Fur Peace Station
Darwin, Ohio
Saturday, October 14, 2023
First Set:
- Second Chances
- Ice Age
- Great Divide Revisited
- Bowlegged Woman
- Ode To Billy Dean
- Sleep Song
- Trial By Fire
- Hit Single # 1
- I Don’t Wanna Go
Pre-Stage selfie
Selfie by Vanessa Kaukonen
Second Set:
- Been So Long
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Day To Day Out The Window Blues
- Talkin’ Bout You
- Invitation
- Soliloquy For 2
- Good Shepherd
- Come Back Baby… slow
- Funky # 7
- Encore: Water Song
Rippin’ it up!
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
The Final bow after two plus hours of music!
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Last but not least we raised over fourteen thousand dollars for the Alzheimer’s Association!
Alzheimer’s Association information table… they were busy all night!
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
It takes me a long time to learn a song. It also takes lyrics and chords and someone playing those chords and singing those lyrics as inspiration. I caught the song “Where Have All My Old Friends Gone” on YouTube as it was performed at The Rivers of Time Boutique and Gallery in Athens, OH. I sure would like to have those chords and lyrics. Then, I could play along with Jorma and Jack and pretend I really knew how to play. I can identify with this beautiful song. Thanks.
When learning a song it absolutely necessary to, at the very least, sing or talk the lyrics as you work out the guitar parts or it will be very difficult to stich the song together later. ‘Where Have My Good Friends Gone?’ is a great song written by Frank Goodman out of Portland, Oregon. It is a first position C song with the usual gaggle of chords. The Hell Or High Water verse is, C, E7, Am, C7, Fmaj7, Fm, C and the little turnaround. The B section is Am, E, Am, E, Am, E, Am, E to G and back to the top. That should do the trick. I’m doing this in my head without the guitar but I think I got it right. Good luck…
You know, it is said that as we age stretching is one of the more important things we can do for our bodies. Makes sense that the same principle would apply to our minds and abilities.
Jorma, thanks to you and the team for all the great music and whole shebang – Great to see old friends and join in the revelry – All the best and see you down the (acoustic) road
THANK YOU for the magic !!! A beautiful night of music !!!
October 16th. Bob Weir is 76.
Happy Birthday Bobby
I was intrigued Jorma by the abstract (I thought) phrasing to many of your lead passages from FPR. Even on a straight rocker like Talkin’bout You it seems you were stretching the boundaries of the pentatonic scale with almost Indian music similarities. Of course on Death…a minor key you’re frequently stretching the confounds. But Funky, Come Back Baby, and others as well. I know you’re making it up as you go (or I think), but I listen carefully and really had my ear bent by your creativity. Any thoughts?
Awesome.
Always trying to stretch… always.
That’s why I keep coming back.
My wife Marguerite and I were fortunate enough to see the shows in Burlington, Portsmouth, New Haven, Athens and yesterday at Fur Peace Ranch. All of them were great, Portsmouth was exceptional. Having the opportunity to see Jack, Justin and Jorma play one last time on this tour has been a cathartic experience. Thank you for all of the great music and
I hope to see a live Hot Tuna release from this tour!!