Jorma Kaukonen - Embryonic Journey (live)

 Just because . . . . . . well Jorma

EMBRYONIC JOURNEY

back in the day someone said of the Joplin Band ‘Big Brother' and all the SF acolytes, the Dead and The Airplane that they couldn't play . . . . . . . I always played them this favourite track

Here at its best! I so wanted it to go on longer . . . . . . .say oooh, I don’t know, half an hour!?

Hoping they went to bed that night on a surrealist pillow?

this one posted and tidied up I think from guitar super fan :

Alan Bershaw

Who says of this "A new friend recently sent me some video to evaluate and possibly try to restore. It was the raw footage and the final edited footage for "Guitar Player News", a shortlived cable TV show that aired in the early 1980s. I'd never even heard of it, but the footage is for an episode with Jorma Kaukonen and David Bromberg, filmed at Studio West in San Francisco in September of 1983. Its cool footage and sharing all of it is already in the works, but here's a sweet preview of Jorma's signature song, "Embryonic Journey." He's probably played this song thousands of times, but I don't recall it ever being captured so well! Fingers crossed this stays in sync on the upload, as you can really see his fingers dancin' here!”

Spot on Alan 

Jorma Kaukonen (with guest David Bromberg) - 1987-04-10 - Poughkeepsie, NY (SBD) - So Many Roads

Jorma here . . . . .

Jorma Kaukonen 

1987-04-10

The Chance,

Poughkeepsie, NY 

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:: 

01. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burining

02. Hesitation Blues 

03. Walkin' Blues 

04. I See The Light

05. Candy Man

06. How Long Blues

07. Ice Age

08. Too Many Years

09. 99 Year Blues

10. Sea Child

11. Rock Me Baby

12. Broken Highway

13. Let Us Get Together

14. I'll Be Alright Someday

15. Too Hot To Handle > 

16. Water Song

17. Whinin' Boy Blues

18. Follow The Drinking Gourd

19. San Francisco Bay Blues

2nd Set:

01. Killing Time In The Crystal City

02. Death Could Be On Your Back impro > 

03. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out*

04. Uncle Sam Blues *

05. The Sky Is Crying *

06. Baby What You Want Me To Do *

07. Black And Tan *

08. Trouble In Mind *

09. Helpless Blues *

10. Embryonic Journey *

11. Will Not Be Your Fool *

*with David Bromberg

Jorma - Genesis - Live at Fur Peace Ranch 2011

Embryonic Journey - Jefferson Airplane Inducted in the R&R Hall of Fame 1996

Tune of the Day :: Hot Tuna - Water Song - 3/22/1973 - 46th Street Rock Palace

 Let's start the day (weekend?) with some Hot Tuna . . . . Jorma and Jack on fire here . . . . Papa John more of an acquired taste but gladly not too obtrusive here  . . . . . . 

HOT TUNA

A lovely live set from Hot Tuna posted this morning from regular poster Hinterwald over at Floppy Boot Stomp and not forgetting his own personal blog is always worth a visit over at The Hermetic Garage

Its superb quality as we have come to expect and frankly at three discs is a live gig we all wish were at! Note some of the dialogue is FILTH!  ha ha ha ha ha . . . . . . . but I kept on Truckin' anyway! Note it is FLAC format but we've discussed that . . . . .so quality is little short of like being there! 

Jorma Kaukonen/Jack Cassady

THE FILLMORE SF 1988-03-04 with guests

CD 1

 

01 I Know You Rider

02 Hesitation Blues

03 Walkin Blues

04 Other Side Of This Life

05 The Bag I'm In

06 I'll Be Alright

07 99 Year Blues

08 Mariel

09 Wooden Ships

10 Third Week In The Chelsea

11 Down Home Blues

12 Keep On Truckin'

CD 2

01 Lamps

02 Candyman

03 I See The Light

04 Martha

05 Embroynic Journey

06 Ice Age

07 Callos Vanaga

08 San Francisco Bay Blue

09 Genesis

10 Parchmen Farm

11 Good Shepherd

12 Let Us Get Together

13 Mariel

CD 3

01 John's Other

02 Vampire Women

03 Have You Seen The Stars Tonight

04 Mann's Fate

05 Put It In My Hands

06 I'm Movin'

07 Killing Time In The Crystal City

08 Water Song

09 America

10 Volunteers

Jorma Kaukonen - vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro; Jack Casady - bass; Paul Kantner - vocals, guitar; Guest: Grace Slick - vocals; Guest: Papa John Creach - violin

Having been apart for nearly a decade when they recorded this show in March of 1988, "Acoustic" (as opposed to Electric) Hot Tuna reunited in the early months of that year and started playing around small coffee house venues in the Bay Area before taking on the newly reopened Fillmore Auditorium. The Fillmore had essentially been Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady's house venue throughout their careers as musicians, so it was a fine slice of nostalgia pie that the reunion of Hot Tuna would be served to the nation from there.

Hot Tuna had first got started in late 1969 as an off-shoot project by Kaukonen and Casady, who had wanted to play traditional acoustic blues and felt they couldn't do so with their main band, Jefferson Airplane. The two musicians had grown up as friends in Washington, D.C., and moved west to San Francisco in the mid-1960s, and had been playing together since a teen rock band called the Triumphs. By 1965, however, as the hippie era had begun to dawn, they found themselves as the lead guitarist and bassist for one of the biggest, most influential bands to emerge from the San Francisco music scene.

Legend has it that the two initially wanted to be call the project Hot Shit, but their label nixed the idea. Regardless, Hot Tuna eventually grew into a five-piece electric ensemble, and released five successful albums on RCA Records. For several years in the 1970s, Jefferson Airplane/Starship and Hot Tuna often shared members, including drummer Johnny Barbata, violinist Papa John Creach and vocalist Marty Balin. Hot Tuna dissolved in 1979, however, with Kaukonen beginning to pursue a solo career and Casady regrouping with Airplane members Paul Kantner and Marty Balin in the KBC Band.

Although they did a few one-shot shows in 1986 and 1987, Acoustic Hot Tuna began working again in earnest together during early 1988; this show is one among their initial high profile gigs of the period. All the classics are here: "I know You Rider" (also a standard for the Dead), "Hesitation Blues," "Bag I'm In," "99 Year Blues" and "Down Home Blues," most of which are either re-workings of traditional blues songs or reinterpretations of songs written by Reverend Gary Davis and Lightin' Hopkins.

This show has a special treat when Kaukonen and Cassidy are joined onstage by former Jefferson Airplane members Paul Kantner and Grace Slick, who offer a stirring version of the Airplane/CSN classic, "Wooden Ships."

Not to be missed!

guests : Paul Kantner; Grace Slick; Papa John Creach; Will Scarlet

Now that's some guest list!

EMBRYONIC JOURNEY

My iTunes was streaming and came up with Jefferson Airplane and the first hit was this wonderful showcase for Jorma Kaukonen. A favourite piece of mine 'Embryonic Journey' so here's Hot Tuna and a live version with Jack and Paul  . . . . . . . . . and later on, a guest . . . . . . 





and couldn't resist this from the same concert . . . . . . Grace joins in and what a voice! 'Wooden Ships'



"I've been eating these little purple berries for over six weeks now and haven't gotten sick once. Probably keeping us both alive . . . . . . . . "

the first one I bought . . . . .Grace arrives

Have a great Sunday all y'all!

REMEMBERING MARTY BALIN

by Jorma Kaukonen

A must read . . . . . . not sure where this is from and hope he doesn't mind my sharing but this popped up on a blog I visit

From Jorma Kaukonen:

Now We Are Three

Requiem For A Friend

Marty Balin

30 Jan. 1942/27 Sept. 2018

Life is a thin thread
It’s a thin little hand on a hospital bed
It’s all the things you’ve left unsaid
Life is a thin thread

It’s a fine line between loving and not
Between holding it back or giving all that you’ve got
Feeling you’re free, thinking you’re caught
It’s a fine line

(Thin Thread by Connie Kaldor)

"I was more than saddened yesterday to hear of Marty Balin’s passing. Jack and I were in Northampton, Mass. at the Academy Of Music and we were just getting ready to do our sound check. I knew that Marty had been sick and I knew in a general way that he had grievous issues but I did not really know what they were. Marty always kept a lot of shade on himself. I stood there in the little room in the wings, stage left… struck dumb. What can you say? We always say and hear, ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ but what does that really mean? We say it. We have to say it and then in the confines of our hearts we try to process the sorrow and search for the words that really convey what we feel. It is an imperfect process."

Jorma & Marty

"Marty and I were young together in a time that defined our lives. Had it not been for him, my life would have taken an alternate path I cannot imagine. He and Paul Kantner came together and like plutonium halves in a reactor started a chain reaction that still affects many of us today. It was a moment of powerful synchronicity. I was part of it to be sure, but I was not a prime mover. Marty always reached for the stars and he took us along with him.I always felt that he was somewhat guarded… the quiet one. Perhaps that’s because I was one of the noisy ones… I don’t know. It’s probably not for me to say. His commitment to his visions never flagged. He was always relentless in the pursuit of his goals. He wrapped those he loved in sheltering arms. He loved his family. Times come and go but his passion for his music and his art was never diminished. He was the most consummate of artists in a most renaissance way. I always felt that he perceived that each day was a blank canvas waiting to be filled.It was fortuitous that we were able to stay connected in a loose way over the years. He and his friends graced our stage at the Fur Peace Station in Ohio and he was able to join us at the Beacon Theater in NYC the year we celebrated Jack’s 70th birthday.Very good stuff!"

Jorma by Jay Blakesberg

"Coming to grips with reality is a process that starts at birth. I am always stunned when one of my friends passes and yet, it would seem that at some point we will all take that journey. It’s almost like, ‘How can this be? There are things I need to say.’ There were indeed things I needed to say and the fault for that lack lies on me and me alone. I don’t think any of us really think that we will live forever yet often that thought lies dormant in the back of our minds. At my age my world is starting to be surrounded by passing. I will miss my friends who rest on the banks of the River Of Time and I am reminded to make the most of every moment as I am swept downstream! Marty’s passing reaffirms the power of love, the power of family, the power of possibilities.So many of our brothers and sister from that time are gone. Skip Spence, Spencer Dryden, Joey Covington, Paul Kantner, Signe Anderson and now Marty have all joined the Heavenly Band as Rev. Davis would say.We were young together. I would like to think we made a difference. As for Grace Slick, Jack Casady and myself…Now we are three…"

Jorma Kaukonen at 75