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...
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.
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.
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 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.
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’
music guitar age
... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age that makes it happen, it's the quality of the instrument...
song stupid heart
Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim [Lauderdale] in that I think the really good ones are songs that when you hear it [sic]...there's just something about it that touches your heart, and you don't know why.