... is a misnomer, of sorts. We seem to be calling Happy Hour earlier and earlier these days, or ever since we've been on what the rest o' the world considers a "normal" (there's that word) schedule. We prolly might should refer to these late morning/mid-day forays into the fridge as "Liquid Lunch" or sumthin' along those lines. Or not. Happy Hour happens when WE decide it should happen, nu?
Now that we're done digressing... on to the music. We're still into Hot Tuna today (we loaded up an HT CD in the player yesterday, and loaded more o' the same today), and here's a most excellent live cut from the boys:
Ol' Jorma and Jack sure can pick them strings, eh? Even more impressive is the fact this is a live cut. I've been a fan o' Hot Tuna ever since Day One, bein' the sorta guy who (a) once loved Jefferson Airplane and (b) loved the spin-off band even MORE. I say "once loved" because JA was good... really, really good... in the early days, until such time as they morphed into Jefferson Starship and I morphed into a non-listener. But I've stayed with Hot Tuna, mainly because they seem to be more about the music and less about bein' rock 'n' roll stars. When a band gets to the point o' bein' rock stars first and foremost they're pretty much done in my book. That's clearly not the case with Hot Tuna.
Now that we're done digressing... on to the music. We're still into Hot Tuna today (we loaded up an HT CD in the player yesterday, and loaded more o' the same today), and here's a most excellent live cut from the boys:
Ol' Jorma and Jack sure can pick them strings, eh? Even more impressive is the fact this is a live cut. I've been a fan o' Hot Tuna ever since Day One, bein' the sorta guy who (a) once loved Jefferson Airplane and (b) loved the spin-off band even MORE. I say "once loved" because JA was good... really, really good... in the early days, until such time as they morphed into Jefferson Starship and I morphed into a non-listener. But I've stayed with Hot Tuna, mainly because they seem to be more about the music and less about bein' rock 'n' roll stars. When a band gets to the point o' bein' rock stars first and foremost they're pretty much done in my book. That's clearly not the case with Hot Tuna.
Call it a regular daily routine.
ReplyDeleteIt avoids the n word.
Now I will go back and finish reading the rest of the post. ;-)
Heh. In re: the "n" word. At one point in time, in the way-wayback, a comrade-in-arms, when learning my given name is Norman, christened me as "Nearly Normal Norman." That abomination stuck with me for the duration of that assignment but never raised its ugly head again, thanks be to The Deity At Hand. Once was enough.
Delete"...can pick them strings, eh?"
ReplyDeleteIndeed... I could listen all day.
It's too bad, even sad, when personalities interfere with talent.
O/T woulda had this comment up sooner but I wanted to listen to the entire song first.
I'm gonna go back an listen again.
I've been known to put this tune on repeat and leave it there for the better part of an hour. It's THAT good.
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ReplyDeleteYour sidetrack concerning The Airplane reminded me of something I got pissed about the other night while watching PBS.
ReplyDelete(Yeah, major digression from the subject matter coming up. Sorry!)
They were doing a show about significant women in rock. Not too bad, overall, but they never once mentioned Grace Slick. Major FAIL.
Major FAIL, indeed.
DeleteIt may be just me, but Hot Tuna is one of those bands indelibly seared in my mind as a typical 70s band (not that I'm knocking that) that never evolved but is forever incased in amber, as it were ( and many others I'm too lazy to think of now (Mountain, Wishbone Ash? And yes, Jeff airplane)--that never evolved with the times unlike, say, the Stones, Steve Miller Band, etc.,--to be savored like an old wine, but, lol, it ain't techno-pop, is it? LOL!
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty fair point, Virgil, but Hot Tuna is primarily a blues band and it's kinda hard to evolve the Blues, ain't it?
DeleteInterestingly enough, I've been hearing a lot of Wishbone Ash on XM's Deep Tracks of late.
Well, you could say that someone you showcased recently here, Taj Mahal (Another one of my faves, Take a Giant Step was a killer album) did to a large degree stylistically, no? Or not?
DeleteI suppose all bluesmen have slightly different styles, but the thing about the genre is it's instantly recognizable even with all its subtleties. Where Taj is different is the integration of a lot of purely African music into his repertoire... IM(NS)HO.
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