Posted on 04/05/2017 10:23:45 AM PDT by EveningStar
Jorma played our Franklin theatre last year I think
Wifey and I were going to our foodie joint with our buddy at the bar....the Red Pony and I noticed Jorma Kaukonen Live Tonight
I was damn wish I’d known....course A had no idea who he was
Jefferson anything is Starship to her and even then she was like 11
It’s a little two block Main Street with buildings dating from 1815 and preserved nicely and anyhow it’s a little restored movie theatre from 1930
Very intimate with incredible acoustics and speaker system
Seats around 350 max and owned by the Heritage Foundation of which we’re members for all the historical plethora around her
Heavily sponsored they can pay larger booking costs than the seats merit so you get some decent shows for a 300 seat joint
Here’s early Water version
Note Creach...lord got me misty for a second...what a sound
Rubber Soul and Revolver are the Beatles' best, imo. I did like their '67 - '70 albums as well, just not as much. The White Album would've been much better if pared down to a single record. Way too much filler on it.
The Stones' Their Satanic Majesty's Request was a misguided attempt to make a Sgt. Pepperesque album. Even Keith said he was embarrassed by it. The Stones really hit their stride after that with their best run (from '68 - '72....Beggars, Bleed, Sticky, and Exile), which imo might've been the best of all runs from anyone.
If the Beatles took the 5 best songs from Pepper and combined them with the 5 best from Magical Mystery Tour (released later that year), it would've been a much better record.
Jorma is an underrated guitarist. He can really play.
Good observations, all.
Starship was an abomination. Hard to imagine how they had the gall to hitch that mess to the JA name.
You ought to have Annette give Surrealistic Pillow a listen. For me that’s what JA was all about.
“This was a blues band plain and simple.”
Blues plus some folk. IIRC they cut one album with one of the American folkies- maybe Dave Von Ronk, I just don’t remember offhand. Not the the later AOR pap for sure.
Surrealistic Pillow is their best
I did like the crunch acid rock by Jorma found on Baxters which you might note he visited again on Tunas Yellow Fever
Worst Of is also a great compilation album
Annette did hear Pretty as You Feel and liked it
That song and Lawman are decent later career songs
IIRC Paul Kantner was pretty much the only real hard-core Lefty in the band.
Kantner may have been the only connection between the two bands- or was Slick there too?
Musically there sure wasn’t anything
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