Chauncey and Chumley's Dad

Thanks to @got-to-rise-above for the heads up on the Hot Tuna live stream from The Capitol Theater. A wonderful show and a nice treat to see them still performing. I saw Hot Tuna twice at The Auditorium Theater in Chicago in the mid 70′s. The first time was just Jorma (acoustic guitar) and Jack (electric bass) playing a set very similar to the first Hot Tuna album. About a year later, I saw them again, and they had entered into their hard rock stage and played a very loud show with lots of jamming. I don’t remember how long the show was, but they had already gone well past their allotted time and were being told they needed to wrap it up. Jorma then said, “We were told we could play one more song. We weren’t told how long the song could be.” They proceeded to play a very long jam and continued playing even as the house lights were turned on and the roadies came on stage and started packing up some of their gear. Not long after that, Hot Tuna went idle until the mid 80′s, but I have not been able to catch them again, so it was cool to see the live stream show.

You can watch the show in it’s entirety on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGgc6N8zj9A

The Rock World has lost another great one with the passing of Paul Kantner. As a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, he was a pioneer in the San Francisco Folk Rock and Acid Rock sounds. He later formed the band Jefferson Starship that had tremendous success in the 70′s. I was able to see Starship perform twice in the mid-seventies and still have fond memories of those shows. Paul Kantner was the driving force that kept the Airplane and Starship going as members splintered off to pursue other projects. He has left behind a wonderful legacy of music.