ArtistInfo

Hot Tuna

Band, 1969-1977 US, San Francisco
Rock and Blues

Hot Tuna started as a side project of Jefferson Airplane when Grace Slick was undergoing recovery from throat node surgery that had left her unable to perform in 1969. Founding members are Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen. They made up a trio with the harmonica player Willow Scarlett. For early performances Paul Kantner and the drummer Joey Covington joined in. Their first album, basically traditional blues and ragtime, was a live recording performed at New Orleans House in Berkeley in 1969. In the 1970s, becoming a full time band, the style became more rock oriented. For the next LP, 'First Pull Up, Then Pull Down', the fiddler Papa John Creach and the drummer Sammy Piazza joined the band. After the LPs 'Burgers' and 'The Phosphorescent Rat' the band changed to a power heavy rock trio with Bob Steeler on the drums.

Members

	Skoota Warner dr US
	Joey Covington perc, dr 1945-2013 US
	Sammy Piazza dr, perc
	Nick Buck key
	Papa John Creach vn, voc 1917-1994 US
	Jorma Kaukonen voc, g *1940 US
	Jack Casady b *1944 US
	Bob Steeler dr, perc
	Pete Sears b, key *1948 GB
	Greg Douglass g *1949 US
	Barry Mitterhoff man *1952 US
	Michael Falzarano g, voc
	Shigemi Komiyama dr, b, g
	Willow Scarlett h