by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 9, 2025 | Live Reviews, Rock Room on the Road
Jorma Kaukonen is the wise sage, he who has seen all the places, and played all the notes. The musical soldier who performed through the trials and tribulations of his generation. Who weaved his way through the curses encountered by the counter culture, drugs,...
by talkfromtherockroom | Aug 2, 2020 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
In the heyday of the late 1960’s mind blowing concert line >ups were the norm. On any night, especially in San Francisco, there was bound >to be a stunning array of legendary musicians taking the stage. These tribal >gatherings were usually put together by...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 19, 2020 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Today in the ‘rock room’ plays a legendary and unique recording, famed in the ‘bootleg’ world for both its rarity and performance. On July 25th 1964, smack dab in the middle of the turbulent musical madness sweeping across the United States two folkies from different...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 18, 2019 | Reviews
Sitting on the turntable platter today in the ‘rock room’ is Hot Tuna’s June 1971 LP, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, the duo’s follow up record to the previous year’s acoustic based debut. Recorded live in April of 1971 the album continues a theme of JormaKaukonen’s...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 30, 2016 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Jamming in the rock room today in tribute to guitarist/songwriter Paul Kantner is a soundboard recording of Jefferson Airplane’s original line up live in Golden Gate Park on May 7, 1969 on a double bill with brothers in cahoots the Grateful Dead. ...
