Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 7-3-1971, Part 2: Hot Tuna

Here's the second set from the fourth day out of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Hot Tuna.

If there's one band that should have taken part in this series of concerts but didn't, it's Jefferson Airplane. They were one of the most iconic bands performing many times at the Fillmore West. But the band was in the middle of falling apart in 1971. According to setlist.fm, they only performed four concerts that year. So, while that band is missing, at least we get Hot Tuna. It started as a side project for Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, the lead guitarist and bassist for Jefferson Airplane respectively, but ending up dominating the rest of their music careers.

Here's the Wikipedia introduction for the band:

"Hot Tuna is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitar/vocals) and Jack Casady (bass). Although it has always been a fluid aggregation, with musicians coming and going over the years, the band's center has always been Kaukonen and Casady's ongoing collaboration." 

And here's the link to the full article: 

Hot Tuna - Wikipedia  

Sometimes, Hot Tuna played in acoustic mode, usually just Kaukonen and Casady, and sometimes they played in electric, full band mode. For this concert, they played as a full band.  

One song here, "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning," was released on the "Fillmore - The Last Days" album. Eventually, all of it was released as "Live at the Fillmore West, 3rd July 1971." But that's a "grey market" release. Meaning even though it's often sold in stores, the band didn't approve it and they don't get any royalties from it. 

This album is an hour and 40 minutes long. 

01 talk by Bill Graham (Hot Tuna)
02 That'll Never Happen No More (Hot Tuna)
03 talk (Hot Tuna)
04 How Long Blues (Hot Tuna)
05 Candy Man (Hot Tuna)
06 New Song [For the Morning] (Hot Tuna)
07 talk (Hot Tuna)
08 Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (Hot Tuna)
09 Uncle Sam's Blues (Hot Tuna)
10 talk (Hot Tuna)
11 John's Other [Instrumental] (Hot Tuna)
12 Rock Me Baby (Hot Tuna)
13 I Want You to Know (Hot Tuna)
14 I Know You Rider (Hot Tuna)
15 Been So Long (Hot Tuna)
16 Come Back Baby (Hot Tuna)
17 Feel So Good (Hot Tuna) 

https://bestfile.io/en/gzMujewRy9pf2J9/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from the "Fillmore" movie. It shows Jorma Kaukonen holding a guitar, and Jack Casady, the bassist, with his back to the camera.