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In Reply to: agree about jorma posted by hifitommy on April 4, 2007 at 19:42:22:
I've seen the Tuna live many times over the years. I believe them to be the only 60s band continually touring that performs the same songs over and over in pretty much the same way, but with enough genuine enthusiasm not to deteriorate into a nostalgia act. (Woops I just remembered the Allman Bros. & the Stones, but the ABB is really more the Greg Allman big band than the Bros., and big money props up the Stones.)In recent years the quality of live Tuna varies from quite good to perfunctory. The new BCH material and Barry joining the tour reinvigorated them live. Unfortunately the audience has not aged as well as the band. Used to include a nice mix of bikers and die-hard hippies and other regulars who often recognized each other from various Tuna gigs. The crowd is much blander these days.
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I agree that their live performances are inconsistent. Last year I saw them for the 3rd time - they performed alongside David Bromberg for a set, and Bromberg stole the show. The audience was really responding to Bromberg, who brought a lot of passion on stage. The segments he and Jorma played acoustic duets was worth the pricfe of admission, but the rest of the show left something to be desired.This show was a mixed acoustic and electric show, which I was very excited about since I'd never seen HT perform electric. Jorma just wasn't very inspired that night. He let Bromberg and Barry Mitterhof do all the heavy lifting on that show, which is OK. Barry is an excellent mandolin player, but I really didn't care for watching him play so many segments with his mandolin in the style of wailing lead electric guitar riffs. Jack performed well and connected with the audience as he always does. It wasn't one of their better shows for me.
HT is recording a lot of their live shows and making them available for paid download lately. I'll have to try one sometime.
Ken
Hardcore Tunisti have a conflicted opinion of Barry Mitterhof. In concert there is a fair amount of "attaboy Barry"-- like an admission that though he plays great, he'll always be an outside man & never earned his his chops partying with Jorma in the early days. But as an adjunct member of the band Barry is a big step up from Mike Falzarano. My personal opinion is that Barry is the white no-soul reincarnation of Papa John Creech.
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