{"id":132,"date":"2009-12-05T00:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T07:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2009-12-11T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T07:58:20","slug":"hot-tuna-25-years-runnin-live-at-sweetwater","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/?page_id=132","title":{"rendered":"Hot Tuna- 25 Years &#038; Runnin&#8217; \/ Live at Sweetwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hot Tuna- 25 Years &amp; Runnin&#8217; \/ Live at Sweetwater<\/strong><br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Hot Tuna, KQED-PBS<br \/>\nProduced &amp; Directed by Jesse Block<br \/>\nProduction period: 1992<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 3px solid white ; margin: 3px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/octalouie2009\/hotTuna-sweet.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Tuna- Sweetwater DVD\" width=\"160\" height=\"226\" \/>Many years before MTV utilized the &#8220;Unplugged&#8221; formula to showcase musical acts in acoustic settings, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady travelled a similar path, diverging from their respective roles in the Jefferson Airplane group to create an acoustic alternative that would be known as Hot Tuna. Exploring a twenty-five year legacy, this concert documentary is the first of two programs to focus on Hot Tuna, using the intimate Sweetwater Saloon of Mill Valley, California as a backdrop for their story. Octalouie director Jesse Block created this program back in 1992, utliizing Octalouie partner Eric Predoehl on handheld camera for this intimate portrait.<\/p>\n<p>Produced in conjunction with San Francisco&#8217;s PBS affiliate station KQED, this program is widely available on DVD, VHS, 8-track, Super8 and zoetrope.<\/p>\n<p>Hey block, you reading this?  Just checkin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Tuna- 25 Years &amp; Runnin&#8217; \/ Live at Sweetwater Executive Producers: Hot Tuna, KQED-PBS Produced &amp; Directed by Jesse Block Production period: 1992 Many years before MTV utilized the &#8220;Unplugged&#8221; formula to showcase musical acts in acoustic settings, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady travelled a similar path, diverging from their respective roles in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/?page_id=132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hot Tuna- 25 Years &#038; Runnin&#8217; \/ Live at Sweetwater<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":127,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.octalouie.com\/vision\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}