Review: Hot Tuna’s Hot DNA Flows at Fur Peace Ranch | 10/14/23

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By Sam A. Marshall for Grateful Web

On Saturday, October 14, a loving and celebratory, 200-guest Station Hall audience at Jorma Kaukonen’s famous eastern Ohio guitar camp, Fur Peace Ranch, cheered on the guitar legend and his Hot Tuna bandmates Jack Casady and Justin Guip through a passionate, late-afternoon concert of electric blues, ballads and tougher stuff.

One excitable guest in the audience at this special weekend show – which came one week past the last date of the original end-date ...
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The Catalyst interview: Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna

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By Bill DeYoung for The Catalyst

Since 1969, when they were still active members of Jefferson Airplane – then one of the hottest rock ‘n’ roll bands in the world – Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady have performed together as Hot Tuna, sometimes with a rotating cast of players, sometimes as just a duo.

The Airplane is long gone. Three members of the classic San Francisco lineup are dead – singer Grace Slick, retired more than a decade ago. The band ...
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Pulling the Plug: Jack Casady talks about Hot Tuna’s ‘Final Electric Run’

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By Ryan Yarmel for WRUR

On Sept. 18, Hot Tuna returns to Ithaca as part of its “Final Electric Run,” as founding members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady will soon be laying to rest their long-running plugged-in project.

On the band’s website, Kaukonen writes: “It has been said that the music Jack and I play was transformative and that we injected an energy into our sound full of constant improvisation taking the compass on a joyride. It is still our plan ...
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One Final (Electric) Run: Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen talks about playing for 65 years

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By Bryan VanCampen for Ithaca.com

Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady played onstage for the first time in 1958, and many hundreds of gigs and years later, Kaukonen and Casady will bring Hot Tuna’s “Final Electric Run” to the State Theatre on September 18.

Jorma Kaukonen spoke to the Ithaca Times about the tour, Hot Tuna’s song catalog and guitars.

Grateful Web Interview: Jorma Kaukonen Sets Sights on Final Electric Hot Tuna Tour

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By Sam A. Marshall for Grateful Web

Even by his usually busy standards, 2023 looks to be a pretty chunky year for the pioneering West Coast rock guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. Usually, he and his stellar faculty of musical masters are holding a full schedule of workshops by now at the music camp, Fur Peace Ranch, which he runs with his wife Vanessa out of Pomeroy, Ohio. (I live in Cincinnati, but even for me that is a fur peace to ...
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Electric Hot Tuna’s Last Waltz! Fall 2023

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Jack and Jorma are ready to share the news that the Fall 2023 tour will be the last Electric Hot Tuna tour. For a lot of reasons, they are putting the electric tour to rest. The guys are both healthy and doing great, and everyone wants to keep it that way.

Acoustic Hot Tuna will continue to tour in 2024. Look for Acoustic Hot Tuna 2024 dates coming soon.

Check out the dates below. Get your tickets now!

09/15/23
Kodak Center
Rochester, NY
Electric Hot Tuna

09/16/23
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