Chords for Part 2: Casady/Kaukonen Discuss Hot Tuna w/ Jim Clash
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Welcome to adventure the show with guests who truly push their lives to the limits no talking heads here
Just the real deals.
I'm Jim clash in [F#] the 1960s your [D] Macalcon and Jack Cassidy [F] pioneered the famous San [Bm] Francisco
Psychedelic sound last time [F] they discussed their work [B] in the Rock and Roll Hall [Gm] of Fame group
Jefferson airplane [F] this time they discussed their [B] ongoing project hot tuna welcome your ma.
Hey, thanks for having back Jack
It's great to be here last time we talked a lot about the airplane.
I could talk forever about the air we could do
Yeah, I'm sure
But now let's move on to hot tuna
[E]
[Am] Hot tuna you guys really started doing that before the airplane disbanded correct
Oh, yeah, 68 just about 40 years ago
[N] And and the airplane was together till what 72 72 65 to 72 so hot tuna came out what you guys would play afterwards
After the gigs and how did it happen during the game we shared some gigs sometimes we opened up to the airplane, you know and
We just started and those days
Yoram and I would with right out here on these streets of New York.
We used to carry our guitar
Everywhere we never went any place without a guitar in your hand
I had a bass and he had a guitar and as we'd we jam different clubs after shows that we had
We'd we were always prepared and we had we had material unlike a lot of people that the jam and
That was a way that we would play
And sit in with people and and work material over that we had worked on in hotel rooms or whatnot
And then it eventually became hey, let's let's book an actual tour and then we had to come up with a name
I remember just before we released our first album.
They said you guys have a name yet.
I
remember where we were
Driving on st.
Mark's.
We were in a station wagon Ford LTD, I believe
[G] traveling in style, of course those things for the back end down like this, you know and
somebody I forget we're talking about that blind boy fuller song keep on talking mama and
Somebody mentioned one of the lines what's that smell like fish?
Oh, baby and some wag some wit in the car was hot to anyone
Well, that's a great name for a band and there you are
And you know like most musicians without deadlines you'd never even show up to the gig, you know
So so in this case, we had to have the we had recorded our first album and and hot tuners the band
Explain a little bit about the differences between the airplane.
I mean the airplane was more of an [G#] electric folk sound
[F#] Right has more of a [Am] folks.
Well, we've gone through a lot of different [A] incarnations, but when [Em] we started out
[Am] as Jack said we did we did a lot of
Wandering around with our instruments avoided an identity [N] crisis also
but uh
But what the original hot tuna thing started to come out was really him playing electric bass with me playing acoustic guitar
Excuse me.
A lot of people do that today, but at the time it was an oddity Yeah
And I think that the first hot tuna record the live in New Orleans house is one of these things it really bears the test
Of time.
Well, I'm very proud of that work
But in any case and we just did this and so when we had to we didn't have a band
So when we got the deal to make a record for RCA
we
decided we'll do the acoustic thing and the
Every song on that first record except for the two that I wrote myself were songs
I learned from the guy that taught me to play Ian Buchanan should should have dedicated the record to him because he was so responsible
for it, but
but I mean once again
we never planned that it was going to be become the thing that it was and that it became a thing and and
I remember the first time that we that I remember us doing something with a with the airplane was at the Fillmore East
Yeah down six and correct second.
That's correct.
Yeah, and
And just Paul goes why don't you guys play something and we I wandered up with my acoustic guitar on on a microphone
I didn't even didn't have pickups on it like they do today and Jack played bass and the crowd like of it
I've heard that you guys are the odd couple of rock and roll music
Which one is which who's Felix and who's Oscar take a wild guess I would guess that you're Oscar and
That Jack you're Felix somewhat some
Somewhat in what way well
for instance
Sometimes I just have to know what day it is.
Look at this Thursday on your son.
That's right, and it is Thursday
No
Yes, a friend of mine as a joke gave me this
Because he's a he's a fear feeling
Wasn't a joke
And we laughed so much that that and it turned out to be good socks
They the the amazing thing is of course that when I find myself
You know at odds if I if I don't have the right sock for the right day.
It's tough, you know
And what would happen if you and as your son asked me the other day?
Zachary he said he says what happens when it becomes midnight you change your size.
Good point
Do you I'm not telling you
It's way too dramatic.
You both are very
Understated very low-key about the impact you guys had on music.
I mean really the San Francisco sound.
Yeah, it was you guys
I mean, well
I mean, I mean the answer is yeah
But the thing is a lot of there's a lot of different ways and I mean just for me just because of how I am
I it would sound a little bit self-important to go.
Wow, you know
Right, but but a lot of I mean we're certainly a big part of it
I understand that one of the things that happened we're working in Italy a couple years ago
we're doing a blues festival the Alcamo Blues Festival in Sicily and and the
One of these couples who was the promoters of the show.
We were having dinner together
I just want you to know how important what all you guys not just us, but the whole scene did in our lives
I went wow, and that was that was that was that was important, you know, so I guess that's good
I mean it is good, but I don't think it's not it's not something you go out thinking about too much because it's a long time
Yeah, well, I'm gonna end on sort of a
up note if if I can I'm gonna put on these
Glasses which Jack you inspired me to buy many years ago.
Oh, it's an airplane now looking good.
I think a JA
It's pretty good
Yeah
There's a there could be a headband up there.
Yeah, and since you're wearing his prescription
I can only imagine what you're really saying
for more iconoclasts and adventures see Forbes
To the limits or pick up a copy of my book to the limits and thanks for watching the Forbes comm video network
[A]
Just the real deals.
I'm Jim clash in [F#] the 1960s your [D] Macalcon and Jack Cassidy [F] pioneered the famous San [Bm] Francisco
Psychedelic sound last time [F] they discussed their work [B] in the Rock and Roll Hall [Gm] of Fame group
Jefferson airplane [F] this time they discussed their [B] ongoing project hot tuna welcome your ma.
Hey, thanks for having back Jack
It's great to be here last time we talked a lot about the airplane.
I could talk forever about the air we could do
Yeah, I'm sure
But now let's move on to hot tuna
[E]
[Am] Hot tuna you guys really started doing that before the airplane disbanded correct
Oh, yeah, 68 just about 40 years ago
[N] And and the airplane was together till what 72 72 65 to 72 so hot tuna came out what you guys would play afterwards
After the gigs and how did it happen during the game we shared some gigs sometimes we opened up to the airplane, you know and
We just started and those days
Yoram and I would with right out here on these streets of New York.
We used to carry our guitar
Everywhere we never went any place without a guitar in your hand
I had a bass and he had a guitar and as we'd we jam different clubs after shows that we had
We'd we were always prepared and we had we had material unlike a lot of people that the jam and
That was a way that we would play
And sit in with people and and work material over that we had worked on in hotel rooms or whatnot
And then it eventually became hey, let's let's book an actual tour and then we had to come up with a name
I remember just before we released our first album.
They said you guys have a name yet.
I
remember where we were
Driving on st.
Mark's.
We were in a station wagon Ford LTD, I believe
[G] traveling in style, of course those things for the back end down like this, you know and
somebody I forget we're talking about that blind boy fuller song keep on talking mama and
Somebody mentioned one of the lines what's that smell like fish?
Oh, baby and some wag some wit in the car was hot to anyone
Well, that's a great name for a band and there you are
And you know like most musicians without deadlines you'd never even show up to the gig, you know
So so in this case, we had to have the we had recorded our first album and and hot tuners the band
Explain a little bit about the differences between the airplane.
I mean the airplane was more of an [G#] electric folk sound
[F#] Right has more of a [Am] folks.
Well, we've gone through a lot of different [A] incarnations, but when [Em] we started out
[Am] as Jack said we did we did a lot of
Wandering around with our instruments avoided an identity [N] crisis also
but uh
But what the original hot tuna thing started to come out was really him playing electric bass with me playing acoustic guitar
Excuse me.
A lot of people do that today, but at the time it was an oddity Yeah
And I think that the first hot tuna record the live in New Orleans house is one of these things it really bears the test
Of time.
Well, I'm very proud of that work
But in any case and we just did this and so when we had to we didn't have a band
So when we got the deal to make a record for RCA
we
decided we'll do the acoustic thing and the
Every song on that first record except for the two that I wrote myself were songs
I learned from the guy that taught me to play Ian Buchanan should should have dedicated the record to him because he was so responsible
for it, but
but I mean once again
we never planned that it was going to be become the thing that it was and that it became a thing and and
I remember the first time that we that I remember us doing something with a with the airplane was at the Fillmore East
Yeah down six and correct second.
That's correct.
Yeah, and
And just Paul goes why don't you guys play something and we I wandered up with my acoustic guitar on on a microphone
I didn't even didn't have pickups on it like they do today and Jack played bass and the crowd like of it
I've heard that you guys are the odd couple of rock and roll music
Which one is which who's Felix and who's Oscar take a wild guess I would guess that you're Oscar and
That Jack you're Felix somewhat some
Somewhat in what way well
for instance
Sometimes I just have to know what day it is.
Look at this Thursday on your son.
That's right, and it is Thursday
No
Yes, a friend of mine as a joke gave me this
Because he's a he's a fear feeling
Wasn't a joke
And we laughed so much that that and it turned out to be good socks
They the the amazing thing is of course that when I find myself
You know at odds if I if I don't have the right sock for the right day.
It's tough, you know
And what would happen if you and as your son asked me the other day?
Zachary he said he says what happens when it becomes midnight you change your size.
Good point
Do you I'm not telling you
It's way too dramatic.
You both are very
Understated very low-key about the impact you guys had on music.
I mean really the San Francisco sound.
Yeah, it was you guys
I mean, well
I mean, I mean the answer is yeah
But the thing is a lot of there's a lot of different ways and I mean just for me just because of how I am
I it would sound a little bit self-important to go.
Wow, you know
Right, but but a lot of I mean we're certainly a big part of it
I understand that one of the things that happened we're working in Italy a couple years ago
we're doing a blues festival the Alcamo Blues Festival in Sicily and and the
One of these couples who was the promoters of the show.
We were having dinner together
I just want you to know how important what all you guys not just us, but the whole scene did in our lives
I went wow, and that was that was that was that was important, you know, so I guess that's good
I mean it is good, but I don't think it's not it's not something you go out thinking about too much because it's a long time
Yeah, well, I'm gonna end on sort of a
up note if if I can I'm gonna put on these
Glasses which Jack you inspired me to buy many years ago.
Oh, it's an airplane now looking good.
I think a JA
It's pretty good
Yeah
There's a there could be a headband up there.
Yeah, and since you're wearing his prescription
I can only imagine what you're really saying
for more iconoclasts and adventures see Forbes
To the limits or pick up a copy of my book to the limits and thanks for watching the Forbes comm video network
[A]
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Welcome to adventure the show with guests who truly push their lives to the limits no talking heads here
Just the real deals.
I'm Jim clash in [F#] the 1960s your [D] Macalcon and Jack Cassidy [F] pioneered the famous San [Bm] Francisco
Psychedelic sound last time [F] they discussed their work [B] in the Rock and Roll Hall [Gm] of Fame group
Jefferson airplane [F] this time they discussed their [B] ongoing project hot tuna welcome your ma.
Hey, thanks for having back Jack
It's great to be here last time we talked a lot about the airplane.
I could talk forever about the air we could do
Yeah, I'm sure
But now let's move on to hot tuna
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] Hot tuna you guys really started doing that before the airplane disbanded correct
Oh, yeah, 68 just about 40 years ago
_ [N] And and the airplane was together till what 72 72 65 to 72 so hot tuna came out what you guys would play afterwards
After the gigs and how did it happen during the game we shared some gigs sometimes we opened up to the airplane, you know and
_ We just started and those days
_ Yoram and I would with right out here on these streets of New York.
We used to carry our guitar
Everywhere we never went any place without a guitar in your hand
I had a bass and he had a guitar and as we'd we jam different clubs after shows that we had
We'd we were always prepared and we had we had material unlike a lot of people that the jam and
That was a way that we would play
And sit in with people and and work material over that we had worked on in hotel rooms or whatnot
And then it eventually became hey, let's let's book an actual tour and then we had to come up with a name
I remember just before we released our first album.
They said you guys have a name yet.
_ I
remember where we were _
Driving on st.
Mark's.
We were in a station wagon Ford LTD, I believe
_ [G] traveling in style, of course those things for the back end down like this, you know and _ _
_ somebody I forget we're talking about that blind boy fuller song keep on talking mama and
_ Somebody mentioned one of the lines what's that smell like fish?
Oh, baby and some wag some wit in the car was hot to anyone
Well, that's a great name for a band and there you are
And you know like most musicians without deadlines you'd never even show up to the gig, you know
So so in this case, we had to have the we had recorded our first album and and hot tuners the band
_ Explain a little bit about the differences between the airplane.
I mean the airplane was more of an [G#] electric folk sound
[F#] Right has more of a [Am] folks.
Well, we've gone through a lot of different [A] incarnations, but when [Em] we started out _
[Am] as Jack said we did we did a lot of
Wandering around with our instruments avoided an identity [N] crisis also
but uh
But what the original hot tuna thing started to come out was really him playing electric bass with me playing acoustic guitar
Excuse me.
A lot of people do that today, but at the time it was an oddity Yeah
And I think that the first hot tuna record the live in New Orleans house is one of these things it really bears the test
Of time.
Well, I'm very proud of that work
But in any case and we just did this and so when we had to we didn't have a band
So when we got the deal to make a record for RCA
_ we
decided we'll do the acoustic thing and the
Every song on that first record except for the two that I wrote myself were songs
I learned from the guy that taught me to play Ian Buchanan should should have dedicated the record to him because he was so responsible
for it, but _
but I mean once again
we never planned that it was going to be become the thing that it was and that it became a thing and and
I remember the first time that we that I remember us doing something with a with the airplane was at the Fillmore East
Yeah down six and correct second.
That's correct.
Yeah, and
And just Paul goes why don't you guys play something _ _ and we I wandered up with my acoustic guitar on on a microphone
I didn't even didn't have pickups on it like they do today and Jack played bass and the crowd like of it
I've heard that you guys are the odd couple of rock and roll music
Which one is which who's Felix and who's Oscar take a wild guess I would guess that you're Oscar and
That Jack you're Felix somewhat some
Somewhat in what way well
for instance
_ Sometimes I just have to know what day it is.
Look at this Thursday on your son.
That's right, and it is Thursday
_ _ No _
Yes, a friend of mine as a joke gave me this
Because he's a he's a fear feeling
_ _ Wasn't a joke
_ _ _ _ And we laughed so much that that and it turned out to be good socks
They the the amazing thing is of course that when I find myself
You know at odds if I if I don't have the right sock for the right day.
It's tough, you know
And what would happen if you and as your son asked me the other day?
Zachary he said he says what happens when it becomes midnight you change your size.
Good point
_ Do you I'm not telling you
It's way too dramatic.
You both are very
_ Understated very low-key about the impact you guys had on music.
I mean really the San Francisco sound.
Yeah, it was you guys
I mean, well
I _ _ _ _ mean, I mean the answer is yeah
But the thing is a lot of there's a lot of different ways and I mean just for me just because of how I am
I it would sound a little bit self-important to go.
Wow, you know _ _
_ _ _ Right, but but a lot of I mean we're certainly a big part of it
I understand that one of the things that happened we're working in Italy a couple years ago
we're doing a blues festival the Alcamo Blues Festival in Sicily and and the
One of these couples who was the promoters of the show.
We were having dinner together
I just want you to know how important what all you guys not just us, but the whole scene did in our lives
I went wow, and that was that was that was that was important, you know, so I guess that's good
I mean it is good, but I don't think it's not it's not something you go out thinking about too much because it's a long time
Yeah, well, I'm gonna end on sort of a
up note if if I can I'm gonna put on these
_ Glasses which Jack you inspired me to buy many years ago.
Oh, it's an airplane now looking good.
I think a JA
_ It's pretty good _ _
_ _ Yeah
There's a there could be a headband up there.
Yeah, and since you're wearing his prescription
I can only imagine what you're really saying
for more iconoclasts and adventures see Forbes
To the limits or pick up a copy of my book to the limits and thanks for watching the Forbes comm video network _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Just the real deals.
I'm Jim clash in [F#] the 1960s your [D] Macalcon and Jack Cassidy [F] pioneered the famous San [Bm] Francisco
Psychedelic sound last time [F] they discussed their work [B] in the Rock and Roll Hall [Gm] of Fame group
Jefferson airplane [F] this time they discussed their [B] ongoing project hot tuna welcome your ma.
Hey, thanks for having back Jack
It's great to be here last time we talked a lot about the airplane.
I could talk forever about the air we could do
Yeah, I'm sure
But now let's move on to hot tuna
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] Hot tuna you guys really started doing that before the airplane disbanded correct
Oh, yeah, 68 just about 40 years ago
_ [N] And and the airplane was together till what 72 72 65 to 72 so hot tuna came out what you guys would play afterwards
After the gigs and how did it happen during the game we shared some gigs sometimes we opened up to the airplane, you know and
_ We just started and those days
_ Yoram and I would with right out here on these streets of New York.
We used to carry our guitar
Everywhere we never went any place without a guitar in your hand
I had a bass and he had a guitar and as we'd we jam different clubs after shows that we had
We'd we were always prepared and we had we had material unlike a lot of people that the jam and
That was a way that we would play
And sit in with people and and work material over that we had worked on in hotel rooms or whatnot
And then it eventually became hey, let's let's book an actual tour and then we had to come up with a name
I remember just before we released our first album.
They said you guys have a name yet.
_ I
remember where we were _
Driving on st.
Mark's.
We were in a station wagon Ford LTD, I believe
_ [G] traveling in style, of course those things for the back end down like this, you know and _ _
_ somebody I forget we're talking about that blind boy fuller song keep on talking mama and
_ Somebody mentioned one of the lines what's that smell like fish?
Oh, baby and some wag some wit in the car was hot to anyone
Well, that's a great name for a band and there you are
And you know like most musicians without deadlines you'd never even show up to the gig, you know
So so in this case, we had to have the we had recorded our first album and and hot tuners the band
_ Explain a little bit about the differences between the airplane.
I mean the airplane was more of an [G#] electric folk sound
[F#] Right has more of a [Am] folks.
Well, we've gone through a lot of different [A] incarnations, but when [Em] we started out _
[Am] as Jack said we did we did a lot of
Wandering around with our instruments avoided an identity [N] crisis also
but uh
But what the original hot tuna thing started to come out was really him playing electric bass with me playing acoustic guitar
Excuse me.
A lot of people do that today, but at the time it was an oddity Yeah
And I think that the first hot tuna record the live in New Orleans house is one of these things it really bears the test
Of time.
Well, I'm very proud of that work
But in any case and we just did this and so when we had to we didn't have a band
So when we got the deal to make a record for RCA
_ we
decided we'll do the acoustic thing and the
Every song on that first record except for the two that I wrote myself were songs
I learned from the guy that taught me to play Ian Buchanan should should have dedicated the record to him because he was so responsible
for it, but _
but I mean once again
we never planned that it was going to be become the thing that it was and that it became a thing and and
I remember the first time that we that I remember us doing something with a with the airplane was at the Fillmore East
Yeah down six and correct second.
That's correct.
Yeah, and
And just Paul goes why don't you guys play something _ _ and we I wandered up with my acoustic guitar on on a microphone
I didn't even didn't have pickups on it like they do today and Jack played bass and the crowd like of it
I've heard that you guys are the odd couple of rock and roll music
Which one is which who's Felix and who's Oscar take a wild guess I would guess that you're Oscar and
That Jack you're Felix somewhat some
Somewhat in what way well
for instance
_ Sometimes I just have to know what day it is.
Look at this Thursday on your son.
That's right, and it is Thursday
_ _ No _
Yes, a friend of mine as a joke gave me this
Because he's a he's a fear feeling
_ _ Wasn't a joke
_ _ _ _ And we laughed so much that that and it turned out to be good socks
They the the amazing thing is of course that when I find myself
You know at odds if I if I don't have the right sock for the right day.
It's tough, you know
And what would happen if you and as your son asked me the other day?
Zachary he said he says what happens when it becomes midnight you change your size.
Good point
_ Do you I'm not telling you
It's way too dramatic.
You both are very
_ Understated very low-key about the impact you guys had on music.
I mean really the San Francisco sound.
Yeah, it was you guys
I mean, well
I _ _ _ _ mean, I mean the answer is yeah
But the thing is a lot of there's a lot of different ways and I mean just for me just because of how I am
I it would sound a little bit self-important to go.
Wow, you know _ _
_ _ _ Right, but but a lot of I mean we're certainly a big part of it
I understand that one of the things that happened we're working in Italy a couple years ago
we're doing a blues festival the Alcamo Blues Festival in Sicily and and the
One of these couples who was the promoters of the show.
We were having dinner together
I just want you to know how important what all you guys not just us, but the whole scene did in our lives
I went wow, and that was that was that was that was important, you know, so I guess that's good
I mean it is good, but I don't think it's not it's not something you go out thinking about too much because it's a long time
Yeah, well, I'm gonna end on sort of a
up note if if I can I'm gonna put on these
_ Glasses which Jack you inspired me to buy many years ago.
Oh, it's an airplane now looking good.
I think a JA
_ It's pretty good _ _
_ _ Yeah
There's a there could be a headband up there.
Yeah, and since you're wearing his prescription
I can only imagine what you're really saying
for more iconoclasts and adventures see Forbes
To the limits or pick up a copy of my book to the limits and thanks for watching the Forbes comm video network _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _