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The Phosphorescent Rat

Hot Tuna

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Album Review

Hot Tuna's first album made after the breakup of Jefferson Airplane found Jorma Kaukonen taking a firm hand: he's the author of nine out of 10 songs. The walking tempos and familiar soaring, psychedelic guitar solos are in place, but much of the music is given over to Kaukonen's reflective lyrics, sung in his matter-of-fact voice, and there are strings on a couple of tracks. Although the approach would produce Kaukonen's most impressive record the following year when he made the acoustic solo album, and although critics have pointed to The Phosphorescent Rat as among Hot Tuna's better efforts, the group's fans, devoted as they were to its extended versions of blues standards, seem to have been unimpressed: the album was Hot Tuna's lowest charting among those released during its 1970-1978 heyday. Probably a lack of enthusiasm at RCA, due to the demise of Jefferson Airplane, didn't help in the album's promotion, either.

Customer Reviews

THE PHOSPHORESENT RAT

I SAW HOT TUNA IN 1975 FOR THE FIRST TIME AND ABOUT 10 MORE TIMES THERE THE BEST F--K THE REST

Phosphorescent Rat

Wow, this album takes me back. Great music, lyrics and guitar solos

Hot Tunes!

If you don't know much about Hot Tuna, you'll probably never give this album a chance but you should. "Easy Now" is "easily" the most smokin' tune going here. Another "under-the-commercial-radio" playlist but then, they miss many great songs. However, "Deep Tracks", on Satellite radio, plays it. Letter to the North Star and Living Just For You add to the listening pleasure.

Biography

Formed: October, 1970 in San Francisco, CA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Begun as an acoustic spinoff of the Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna eventually became the full-time focus of founding members Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen, emerging as a popular touring act of the 1970s. The two were lifelong friends, growing up together in Washington, D.C., and playing in the group the Triumphs. After high school, guitarist Kaukonen and his government-service parents relocated to the Philippines, but he returned to the U.S. in time for the advent of psychedelia, landing in San...
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