Jorma Kaukonen
Jorma Kaukonen
Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr.is an American blues, folk and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #54 on its list of 100 Greatest Guitarists...
music fun progress
I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.
song fun writing
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say.' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.
music fun blessing
The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
major though
Even though I don't have a major label, everyone is doing it by themselves.
anybody basically came coming everybody grace jack sound various
I was basically a blues-folky kind of guy, Jack came from various R&B things in D.C., everybody was coming from a different place. And Grace didn't sound like anybody else.
bushes exceeded guitar needed playing poison ranch teaching wildest
I have been teaching guitar all of my playing life. I really needed to do this. Where the ranch is now there were only prickly bushes and poison ivy. It has exceeded our wildest expectations for me and my blues-picking buddies.
meets rubber sharper
That's where the rubber meets the road. You get sharper when you have to play for someone else, not just for yourself.
fans stay
Our fans have been with us a long time; they just don't stay up as late.
rock sound
But I'm a rock 'n' roller. I will always sound like me.
bottle leave space teach
If I could bottle that and teach it, it would be great, ... We're always springing something new on each other. We also always leave space for each other.
music surfing balance
...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is...
music needs use
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.
music player style
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.
mistake same-mistakes ifs
If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’