Hi,
This is only an anecdote. A cool moment in my life. And it's related to bass, so I thought I'd share with people who could understand that part of it.
So I'm a Hot Tuna/Jefferson Airplane fan since I was 15. I especially like Jack Casady, needless to say.
I inherited my taste for music, and for bass, and for Casady from my father. It was his birthday recently. He turned 70-something: I don't care to count. Through the decades, the old guy and I have always shared a bond through music. Even if at times we wouldn't talk to each other, our shared tastes for music were never compromised.
So anyways. It was his birthday and I was searching what to offer as a little present. And I was thinking that it should mean something special, on account that time flies sometimes really too fast. So I thought: "Fluke it, let's drive together to a Hot Tuna show!"
This may seem non-extraordinary to many of you. But if you live in Montreal, Hot Tuna doesn't often come play in a nearby venue. The closest they'll come this year is a small town in Maine. And it's a 5 hour drive from here. This if all goes well at the border and we aren't welcomed by an overzealous pro-Trump officer...
In any case, we decided to gun it. As my dad replied when I suggested the idea: "I'm not getting any younger and neither are they"
There might be a bit of shared nostalgia. And a lot of music listening in the car.
I hope I get to shake Casady's hand. Maybe tell him: "These fingers have given me so much pleasure"... (Or maybe not.
)
I especially hope that my father and I get to share a moment of pure live musical bliss together once more, so that we can re-share and re-live it later. I know we will...
It's Casady and Hot Tuna!
This is only an anecdote. A cool moment in my life. And it's related to bass, so I thought I'd share with people who could understand that part of it.
So I'm a Hot Tuna/Jefferson Airplane fan since I was 15. I especially like Jack Casady, needless to say.
I inherited my taste for music, and for bass, and for Casady from my father. It was his birthday recently. He turned 70-something: I don't care to count. Through the decades, the old guy and I have always shared a bond through music. Even if at times we wouldn't talk to each other, our shared tastes for music were never compromised.
So anyways. It was his birthday and I was searching what to offer as a little present. And I was thinking that it should mean something special, on account that time flies sometimes really too fast. So I thought: "Fluke it, let's drive together to a Hot Tuna show!"
This may seem non-extraordinary to many of you. But if you live in Montreal, Hot Tuna doesn't often come play in a nearby venue. The closest they'll come this year is a small town in Maine. And it's a 5 hour drive from here. This if all goes well at the border and we aren't welcomed by an overzealous pro-Trump officer...
In any case, we decided to gun it.
As my dad replied when I suggested the idea: "I'm not getting any younger and neither are they"There might be a bit of shared nostalgia. And a lot of music listening in the car.
I hope I get to shake Casady's hand. Maybe tell him: "These fingers have given me so much pleasure"... (Or maybe not.
) I especially hope that my father and I get to share a moment of pure live musical bliss together once more, so that we can re-share and re-live it later. I know we will...
It's Casady and Hot Tuna!
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