Hot Tuna - Sea Child

[pickenspolitics]

I think I hear 3 guitars, a rhythem, another picking and the lead. Jorma is credited with playing all 3. Great arranging of the guitar tracks, playing and melody. Jorma/ Hot Tuna is one of the most underrated rock bands in history. It's not rock, folk or R&B, but all in one beautifully blended. To answer your question below, kids today don't appreciate talent. They are too young. If my dad had played me Dean Martin when I was 16, I would have laughed. Today I see the talent.

[a1zzzz]

@pickenspolitics  yeah ol' dean-o was pretty good, but he was no johnny fontane...fuggetabout it !

[stumptown123]

Thanks for posting!

[naderchaser]

Well, I'm just sittin' here ponderin' about how at age 56, I can dig this song sooo much, yet play it for a today's kids of 20-30ish and they'll turn green and gag. In just 30 years of separation, how can one genre of music either turn on or turn off entire generations of people? To me, this song invokes sitting in a porch swing on the edge of a Nebraska cornfield in an old farmhouse with about 8 guys living there, passing around a dube with our ladyfriends, everyone gettin' the grins. Oh yeah!

[keo774]

this si one of the most fine songs of all time!

[randyleepublic1]

And Jack! The production on this is great, but a little more Jack would have aced it!!

[Havok259]

Great song!

[moco635]

I will see HT in Asbury Park next month, July, 2010...looking forward.

[ludchovek]

they are soooo goooood love them every bit. i much more into jazz nowadayws but this is timeless.

[combatjm89]

I remember this song from the Beacon Theater in the late 70's. Just before they started it I screamed out "Sea Child"!, and they go right into it. About 50 people turned and looked at me like I was psychic.....better clairvoyance thru chemistry I guess......

[DonARen1950]

When Burgers first came out, I had it on a 4-channel 8-track cartridge tape. Remember? I had a 4-channel player in my 68 Bug, and a 4-channel Capehart at home. Despite what should have been questionable sound quality for the times, 4-channel was wonderous and gave clarity unrivaled for the times.

I loved Hot Tuna--maybe 'cause Jorma seemed more psychedelic folk oriented. His acoustic playing is excellent. I turned a lot of people on to Hot Tuna. Sea Child was my favorite. Thanks, JJ!

[wobrien007]

For me, this was a great old make-out song. Reminds me of shacking up with my girlfriend in the late 70s.....

[bbrstat]

I had forgotten just how beautifull Jorma's guitaring abillities & taste wer..... So nice 2hear again & again TY

[bbrstat]

God Bless..my mom & dad...my brothers & sisters...But most of all God Bless...HOT TUNA!!! ty=)

[keku42]

Howdy !

I met Jorma Kaukonen and Barry Mitterhoff when they played at/in(my english is in bad ) Kaustinen Folk Music Festival in Finland 2003.

Jorma told then that he and all the acoustic guitar players are missin Jerry Garcia.

He also told that his grandfather moved from Finland to America.

I`ll never forget whwn he before the press meeting wrote my book (Hank Harrison: "The Dead" some words about his 450 BMW motorbike, and Palo Alto area those time happennings !

Thanks

[pcoudriau]

I like Papa John Creech...smilin wide open..

[awakened666]

Actually, Jorma played ALL guitars on ALL Tuna Albums...until "Pair of Dice Found" where Mike F. helped him with guitar tracks...on earlier albums he just made several guitar tracks...on some songs you can hear 3, even 4 guitar tracks...going to see them tomorrow nite at Skippers in Tampa...looking forward to a good time!!!

[OutlandsCommunity]

This is one of Jorma Kaukonen's finest lead guitar pieces, typical of his late 60's style that was on "Volunteers." Papa John Creech was on the album but he is not in this song; there is a second guitar (played, by the sound of it, by Paul Kantner - it's Kantner's rhythm guitar style)weaving around Jorma's. Saw the Airplane (b4 Papa John) in Asbury Park in 1970, we got lost after and stopped in a diner and they were there exhausted; Kantner thanked us for the love but asked we leave them be.

[syr1811]

Wow - Cool. Saw HOT TUNA in Asbury Park. This is a Great song, and a Great song to see them do live. Always a great way to spend 5 or 6 hours, or so. Ha Ha Ha Thanks for all these Great uploads, JJ.

[houseofcharm]

@OutlandsCommunity

We we're in Jorma's 1st ever class at the camp in 98 and they all came to the Pizza hut the night b4. Same thing, they sat across the room and we're nervous as pole cats not knowing what to expect inthe Am & the 1st course. They stopped by our table to say hi. It turned out better than their wildest expectations and the rest is his-story as they say...

[keo774]

@OutlandsCommunity I can't ear paul kantner on this

[keo774]

@OutlandsCommunity

ok, now I'm sure: I've just brought the album and there is not paul kantner on it.

you can trust me!

[iorioriorio]

@keo774 Yeah, but if you listen reall carefully, you can hear him choppin up some good michoacan in the background......kind of near the rear monitors....chop, chop,chop

[barbienightmare00]

Seen Hot Tuna in old Paladium Theater in NYC

[hillcrestjh]

perhaps their finest moment. Flawless!

[keo774]

@hillcrestjh I agree with you!