Goin to see hot tuna

**ira** · Nov-30-2006, 7:59pm

sooooooo psyched- jorma, jack and barry m. - acous and elect.
should be faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic!!!!!!!!!

**Tripp Johnson** · Nov-30-2006, 8:10pm

Mitterhoff is a monster!!! Great player and a really nice guy. I hear he's a great teacher as well. Anyone taken lessons from him?

**jaco** · Nov-30-2006, 8:19pm

Anyone been to Jorma's Fur Peace Ranch? Sounds innerestin.

**Ira Chavis** · Dec-01-2006, 4:09pm

Yep, alot of here in New York have been lucky to study with Barry. A great teacher and super nice guy. I've also taken the mando workshop at F.P.R. A great experience! Ira, you will love the new format. They mix the acoustic and electric over the course of both sets and they stand the whole time. The show in Pougkeepsie last weekend was awesome. Its my 7th year in a row catching the bardavon show.

have fun.
ira

**Lee** · Dec-01-2006, 4:43pm

Best thing is you can download the show the next day from the website www.hottunatunes.com for a modest fee of course. Mostly electric on this tour. I saw them Wed. before Thanksgiving. Wonderful show! Barry is playing a Micheal Stevens 5-string.

**Rick Schmidlin** · Dec-01-2006, 4:47pm

I was lucky i got to Hot Tuna around 1970 with Papa John Creech opening for the Jefferson Airplane.I also saw them this year at Merlefest and it was another great show.Jorma pointed out when Papa John started with them he was younger then Jack and he are now.

**jim simpson** · Dec-01-2006, 8:45pm

Rick,
I must have seen them on the same tour. I caught them at Kent State University.
When they first came out, I thought it was the Airplane without Grace.
Saw Delaney & Bonnie open up for the Mothers of Invention once. Only thing Bonnie was absent with no explanation.

**ira** · Dec-02-2006, 12:41pm

amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing!!!!! they are all so incredible- even a spoon solo by the drummer. i love the new format. it is simply amazing that they can go from a hokum type jugband blues or old tyme type tune , switch instruments and play some heavy electric stuff immediately following, then back again. mitterhoff must've played 6 or 7 different isntruments- simply wonderful.

**bones12** · Dec-02-2006, 2:41pm

Two nights ago I saw them here in Burlington, Vermont and it was a great concert and a good crowd. Barry broght out all sorts of different sounds on his mandolins. Jack's bass was stellar. Doug

**ira** · Dec-04-2006, 11:21am

it is incredible how jack plays a bass solo. most that i hear in the rock vein are rythmic variations. jack plays his bass solo the way a guitarist might, using the bass to explore melodic flows- simply incredible.

**Cetecea** · Dec-05-2006, 12:41pm

Saw this tour the other night in New Hampshire. Great show! Been a fan of Jack's for years and this is the first time I got to see him.

Barry was fantastic, now I'm jonesing for a 5-er electric.

My wife was not pleased!

**kvk** · Dec-06-2006, 2:09pm

Didn't here about this show at all. Where was it? I saw the show in Lowell this summer and it was way excellent. Barry played eight different tuned-in-fifths instruments.

**ira** · Dec-06-2006, 2:46pm

sommerville theater

**taboot** · Dec-07-2006, 12:21pm

There's a photo of me, Barry, and my flying V 5 stringer on my myspace page, www.myspace.com/miniguitar. #Check the "pics" section. #That was taken before October's acoustic Tuna show in Portland, OR. #Jack looked at the instrument, and said it looks like a mandolin that someone would think up "while sitting around watching Star Trek, smoking a big doob." #

I don't miss these guys when they're around, acoustic, electric, whichever. #The magic between Jack and Jorma is undeniable, and Barry fits so well with them.

Christian

**Dave Gumbart** · Dec-07-2006, 6:57pm

What may be one of the best t-shirts ever, seen by a friend at a Hot Tuna show some years ago.

front: "If you don't know Jorma..."

back: "...you don't know Jack!"

I love that.

Dave