Who else digs Jorma and Jack? n/t

The first album is one of the best live albums of the era.

Mann's Fate is an extraordinary demonstration of Jorma's talent.

Good Shepard

Embryonic Journey...

thanks for asking

one who helped redefine the instrument and the bassist's role in music.
Jack Cassady, along with John Entwhistle and Jack Bruce are about the best ever.

mark

even jack would tell ya that...

all the talent and creativity brought to that instrument - all the above are among my favorite players. I was a bass player for many years, still have 2 of them around, and I love what happened to the instrument since it was introduced. I have an email letter from Carol Kaye in my bass case - she was a long standing studio bassist who was very creative within the scope of what she was playing. She coined the term "electric bass" and wrote many books on playing it.
It's one of my prize posessions.


mark

"go together like horse and carriage........."

Jack is a long time hero to me.

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The occasional Hendrix fan will swear up and down that Steve Winwood and Jack Casady DID NOT APPEAR on Jimi's "Voodoo Chile" (the 15-minute slow Muddy Waters-style song, not "Voodoo Child Slight Return," which has been covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan and a zillion others).

All it takes is a copy of the album and they can read it for themselves. It WAS Jack, NOT Noel Redding, who played on that track It's right there in the liner notes.

On Gov't Mule's "Deepest End" DVD, Warren Haynes introduces Jack by saying "He played on the original." They do a killer version of the song.

On the recent "Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood Live From Madison Square Garden," the duo offer up their own 16 minute excursion through the classic. The dream, of course, would be to get Jack and Winwood back together with ANY guitarist who could handle it...Clapton, Haynes, or BOTH...now THAT would be a dream reunion.

The Clapton version, for anyone who hasn;t heard it, is one hell of a lot better than you might think...primarily because Winwood drops the "Smooth Jazz / Quiet Storm / Adult-oriented Radio style of his later years for the moody, edgy Traffic sound that put him on the map. If iTunes sells that track as a stand-alone, it would be the best 99 cents you could possibly spend.

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And it was one of the best shows I ever saw. jack tore it up. All those guests. All those bass players. but I could not take my eyes off of Warren. HE IS A GOD!

BTW< Elvis Cotello jut played an incredible set on the Bonnaroo webcast.

Truck my blues away." One of my all-time favorites.

and one hel of guitar player. I used to go see Jorma all over. might have seen him more than a hundred times in all kinds of incarnations. The Airplane, Tuna electric and Acoustic and solo stuff. Me loves em both. Even saw Jack in SVT a punk band he had around the late 70's/80's...

I've seen Tuna only twice to my recollection. First in 1975...Electric Tuna with David Bromberg opening.

Acoustic Tuna in the early 90's at that theme park in Western NY.

Blue Country Heart. Very sweet indeed. One of the first times I saw Hot Tuna was in a hockey rink. Papa John had just started to play with them. The sound bounced off the walls & then some.

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