I gave your comment a thumbs up. I'm a Boomer, too (1952). The truth is, I'm not really sure how much this song or a lot of music that our generation produced can be called "Rock." At least not in the real sense. This piece of music would do fine without any drums. But what's rock and roll without a beat? The 50s was when rock was real. We muddied it up quite a bit. But that's okay, too. The stuff that came out of that was great.

Your lucky to grow up in that time I 48 yrs old but always felt connected to 60s 70s

@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244As most people already know, “Rock” evolved from Rock and Roll, which was heavily influenced by Blues, as well as some elements of Rockabilly, and Country Swing, but music doesn’t always fit into categories. Acid rock, psychedelic rock, southern rock, country rock…..lots of intermixing. The crap of today hardly compares.

it is still real

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard

You kids!

He always gave a song what it needed.

I remember hearing him play, while standing 5 feet from him at the Rocking Horse Cafe in Hartford, CT around 1973 or so. I felt blessed ❤

I was thinking the same thing

This was hope! An other world!!!😘😘😘

LOL! Laughed out loud. Loved Papa John. ~

Me too, recently listened to Phosphorescent Rat, America's Choice, Double Dose and Bless it's little pointed head, love all of the band lineup's. A fan from way back when music was great.

I prefer the electric Hot Tuna but water song is incredible.

I kissed Jorma on his cheek in San Rafael!!❤

@@cydneycheatwood4097 bet that made his pick stand up.😉

Too bad they lost Blind OWL Wilson.

1978 to right now 12 years old to 54

Never..... decades!!’👍💕

Never gets old. Though I do

Ditto. Sublime. Nuff said. ;-)

Me too. Since it was released. Worked out a version on my 12-string. It's in open-G tuning ( or is it open-G tuna? ;-) Damn fine instrumental! Can't get enough of it. Fred

@George Duffy Gotta look at the right list :)

Not many even the great electric guitar players. Can not play acoustic like Jorma! So that should put him near the top! You can also put Joe Walsh on that list!

that's dog-gone right!

He's on the #54 on Rolling Stones list? Should suffice.

damn right!

Jack Rocks!!!!!!!!

Hevwas still doing it last night when i saw himmm those eye brows!

I never noticed Jack's eyebrows until I got a front row seat.

Did ya ever see Papa John at Diegos in SD, Ca.?

The guys who helped us make it through the 70s.

You can go back for another listen and watch them do it again, if you know how to leave your body. Ever astral project?

That’s incredible!!! Wow

I was there too and also lived only a few blocks from the theater. The 46th Street Theater hosted some of the greatest musicians of the time during the early 70's. It truly was a great time to be young.

It always amazes me the number of people who feel the need to claim "I was there".

Maybe they were 😂​@@mbogucci1

@@TREASONHUNTER I suppose anything is possible!!

The first time I saw Papa John Creach he slowly shuffled out on stage, kinda stooped over a bit. Then he brought that violin to life! Something was born in my heart that day.

💯Grandi musicisti indimenticabili 👏

Jorma played with Jimi Hendrix.

Former members of the Jefferson Airplane

Great bottom, well planted.

❤ My Dad Played The best songs ,Hot Tuna is and AlwYs will be an Awesome band,Just Listen😊❤😢.

A time of innocence, a time of confidences .

Wow watching HT video from a concert a few days ago. Jorma is 81, Jack right behind him. Sound and look great

This tune always makes my day brighter!

@@robertcrain4428 this tune is magical. Depression killer. 🎯

They play really good if they’re high. I couldn’t imagine playing that good highl

I know just what you mean. I saw Tuna play many times in 72-73 in the NY area and it was always a communion of the souls. The audience was right there with them.

Yes, there are those if we allow our judgements and prejudices to not interfere. I think Phish gets there. There are more. I just listened to Bill Kreutzman’s 75th birthday concert in Hawaii as Billy and The Kids. Catch it and listen to Billy Stings shrewd his guitar. Catch Tesdeshi Trucks. I admit that Jorma and Jack can do no wrong and they will always be at the pinnacle of the best in my opinion. But, open up and close hour eyes. They are out there.

Check out a typical Happy Mondays liner note

"Bass, Eyebrow" ---- Classic comment.

did it really say eyebrow?

@@timhitt9541 I believe it did. (but who cares)?

@@timhitt9541 if not we can add it in to our album or CD covers

You know, wouldn't it be kind of cool that they always get close, but never get into the RRHOF? They are phenomenal; nuff said...

Hot Tuna Burgers is my favorite album

weird i was around in the 70s, none of us had even heard of hot tuna

Jorma and Jack have been in the RRHOF since 1996, when they were inducted with a cool intro by Micky Hart and Phil Lesh with Jorma playing "Embryonic Journey" for "Jefferson Airplane" induction.

@@darrencolclasure6049 you dont know jack

Nice Eddie very nice

I have the t-shirt

Still have that T-shirt…

Amen, I didn’t nojack til last year

Any idea what bass he's playing here? It doesn't look like the starfire

late '60s for me! couldn't agree more! I STILL go and see them when they are in my area

Jorma should be in the top 5! Who on that list can play acoustic guitar like him? None!

My first concert too. The Palladium in LA. They definitely set the bar for me!

Without the rest of the band it still works. Jorma really knew how to write.

Wish I had friends like that.

Jack was one of a kind.

Same here. Jack was like no one else then . Or now.

One of my first bass influences.

buuuut, have you mastered his Eyebrow technique??? lol always loved the liner notes that said, Jorma Kaukonen- guitar, vocals Jack Casaday- bass, eyebrow

@@SusanHeaton YES. absolutely. Only other person to master it I know of is Archie Goodwin in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels ... & the actors who play him can't. thx for a thorough laugh I imagine growing up female with that surname required a ready sense of humor during jrHigh & HS ... when really bad jokes are all the rage

Nice analysis. Agreed.

Extra points for dead brain cells!! lol

Jorma will die with a guitar in his arms... he loves to play

And drove two lane HYW 90 thru every Po Dunk town to get there...... HOW MANY HOURS DID THAT TAKE.....

Fast forward.... what was the best decision?

Always a good deal when you got really high and still pulled a reasonable grade.

Hey Brian

Hot tuna and Quicksilver played the most free concerts in Golden gate Park around 73 4 and 5 Sammy Piazza was the drummer

JORMA IS ONE OF THE BEST GUITARIST EVER.JACK IS AMAZING ON THE BASS ,PAPA JOHN , JACK DRUMS.🐟😎🎸🔊🎶☮️🎼

I look back and realize what a great time for music was the ‘70’s Great new music ever single week all so different

It came from a lot of smack too. That's H for youngsters out there.

lol get over yourself computer music can be just as heartfelt. the people older than the 70's generation said the same shit about this hippie music having "no meaning" and didn't like the new weird unnatural electrical sounds of the guitar. look at that stack of speakers and tell me there wasn't some jackass music elitist back then like "heh, REAL music doesn't need speakers. symphonies come from the heart and have MEANING"

Yes, Sir.

There's good stuff out there. Gotta hunt for it. I could list some, but suggest NPR radio(PBS). Half the fun is looking for stuff...like when I'm driving a load into Minnesota 5 years ago and hear what I thought was newly discovered old Led Zep, only to find it was Greta Van Fleet playing live from a local station! You never know. You're right, though; Born in '57, I was blessed to live in the best eras of music. I've always "specialized" in rare & unheard of stuff and my vinyl collection of thousands of LP's is my favorite source--NOT the streaming internet audio diarrhea brainwashing crap.

Spent the summer of '77 mostly in Santa Clara, sleeping on my brother's couch. He had a good stereo & I bought 4 album's. Yellow Sunshine, Look into the Future, American Stars and Bars, & Terrapin Station...also saw Journey & ELP in Oakland...😎

me too,too, Mitch!

@@garygray8226 I use to do drugs while listening to Hot Tuna, and I...

Yes, it is waaaaay off the charts of magical.

Found an lp of papa John Creech at a yard sale ,still enclosed in its cellophane wrapper. Mint condition for 2.00 . Love his contributions for all he played with. 👍👍👍.

O you lucky duck

One of a kind, he is. A fantastic take on the possibilities of bass lines. Always loved his bent.

Jack! Amazing person! He invited me to the studio when Burgers was being remixed. That was a amazing experience. That was right before I got very involved with music. I just saw another list. Best bass players. Jack was not on the list. Folks have lost their sense of music! Or even understand what good music is.

I got to sit with Jimmy Carl Black in an empty (almost) bar down in Austin for about 4 hours in 1989. And he was not drinking at all. What a great night. I saw Hot Tuna about 2 weeks after the show in this video and was first in the door so I was front center (no seats ). John Hammond Jr was the opener.

Mine too. But I'm a youngster, only 70 lol.

I'm 69, but haven't done that in a while...

I’m 67 right behind you 😂

@@savage22bolt32 Time to do it then.....

A tuneful instrumental piece. True to it's title, like a stream it flows, springing out of a high mountain lake well above the treeline, then dropping and winding down through steep glacial carved canyons into grassy meadows and joining other waterways teaming with trout, that eventually run into the sea. Not what I would label as a song, An adventure in music.

@@kidrengo great description

@@kidrengo i picture it with small eddys and twigs caught for a moment and flowing down stream again

That's a cool story!❤

Instrumental. 😊 My grandmother was a Barrickman, of German ancestry (not the German spelling, probably), we may be cousins, way back. Our Barrickmans settled in West Virginia, when it was still western Virginia, in 1773.

i worked there for several years jorma is the only musician i approached for an autograph

A lot of it is the Versatone amplifier that gives that growly distortion sound. A secret weapon, for sure!

Absolutely

Always Play....🙏

The exact same is true of The Grateful Dead, played for sheer love of music. As Wavy Gravy said after Jerry Garcia passed away, the Dead created a ball of joy they sent out to audiences, who fed off it and sent it right back to the band.

One of the first Alembics

@@jamestonguet1737 I never knew that

Possibly my favorite Alembic bass. But Phil Lesh also has some choice ones. A friend of mine ended up with Dave Torbert's (from the NRPS). But this one here, what a sound - even on my puny laptop speakers. This was prime Hot Tuna as I remember them. Saw them 12 days earlier at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

Perfection

The tone too. Big, fat, round and on the edge of fuzz. Always recognizable. Never too much. Always serves the song and adds a distinctive touch.

Yes it is

Agreed Pete. They played all 4 years at Stony Brook (70-74) when I was there with the first and last years being acoustic. Then seeing them at the Academy of Music around Thanksgiving most years, along with summer shows at the Sunshine Inn (Asbury Park), Gaelic Park, etc.

@@jackwindrom253 I think we were at a lot of the same shows, I loved the Academy. Stoney brook was a pain to drive to, but so worth it.

Oh the shows ,

I love that they played in Boro Park!

frisco was soooo hip back in the day...very amazed how it changed,,for the worse..came out of Nam and hung out before i hitched a ride /rides back to the Bronx , nyc ..now its worse than nyc

@@pgroove163 if you have a whole bunch of money its still a great place

@@pgroove163 I hear you. Mostly it's a bunch of angry people complaining about how the world is instead of doing something about it. Big change since Hot Tuna was a regular thing.

@@mojorayjones indeed :(

Sure brings you back to that original state of mind... where anything was possible. My heart just skipped a beat!

Wish I had known they were in tucson. Im in phx and would have gone. Ive never seen em live

Their set at Knebworth was recorded and can be found on cd if you know where to look it's an incredible show very heavy.

Jorma has a place called the Fur ,Peace Ranch.

Unfortunately, that is Joey Covington, not Sammy.

@@bigd8264 Guessing Joey was filling in ? Both had white set of Rogers.