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First Pull Up-Then Pull Down

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I remember the first time I heard this on vinyl in 1971 or 72 it just blew me away. I have other Hot Tuna albums and Jorma albums but this is the best. This is my all time favorite.

Excellent piece of history. Hot Tuna is still around in some form but they haven't sounded like this in a long time. Papa John Creach screaching and Will Scarlet wailing. The question is, what took so long to get this on CD and more importantly, where's the rest of the show?? Hot Tuna never played for less than 3 hours.

Diverse compilation of studio & live favorites from the Acadamy of Music days of the mid 70's. Hot Tuna, one of the best jammin' rock & roll bands in the universe, is captured live in true form. Great for first time listeners, and favorite of hard core TUNA aficionados! Also, contains the best version of "Come Back Baby" ever recorded!

Hot Tuna / First Pull Up-Then Pull Down: This is a fine album, but not as good as Burgers. It is vary nice to listen to, but it is not essential. Four Stars

I Love these guys. I saw this band down The Jersey Shore like 5 yrs ago. These old albums are so awesome and I listen to them often. They don't make music like this anymore.

Their first self titled acoustic album had me hooked. When they came out with this the next year, I could not believe it. From killer acoustic blues to hard rock'n electric blues/rock on this album, they had captured my interest, which has remained faithful for decades. I cannot do this album justice with words. Get it and listen and learn.

Really the 2nd version of Electric HT. 1st was with Balin and Covington I believe. But this one combines the fingerpicking old timey sound of the acoustic and the psychedelic zing of the Airplane with intense Jorma guitar and Jack's Yggdrasil bass before they morphed into the dragged out heavy metal rampage era. Yes, the sound quality is so-so but the playing more than makes up for it. The material is fresh and new for a group setting like this and Papa John Creach on fiddle, Will Scarlett on harmonica and Sammy Piazza on drums help give it that old timey bluesy flavor. Candy Man has one of the best Casady solos on record, Come Back Baby is pure psychedelic blues fever and Trimmed and Burning burns like hell compared to any other version. Maybe I'm just biased cause I saw this ensemble when they played Fillmore around the time this recording was made but after nearly forty years it still holds up for me as the one to compare all later incarnations to.

I had "Live at the New Orleans House" first on vinyl and bought this LP in 1970ish
I think this LP is responsible for like 50% of my hearing loss!
I'm really happy to find it again here on Amazon, can't wait to burn it and rock it up in the truck ;-))
I saw Hot Tuna live at the Badgers Sports Annex summer 1971 and they played for 3+ hrs.that might be the Other 50% :))))

I first heard this album (vinyl days) on my first day at college when my roommate pulled it out of her stack of LP's and put it on the turntable. She had won it from a radio contest and hadn't listened to it much. When "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" came on, my jaw just dropped and I realized that until that moment that I had known NOTHING about what music could be. It was the introduction to a life-long love of the blues, acoustic and electric. Listen and love it, folks -- this is a post-graduate seminar on bluesy jammin' music! PS -- my 5th grade Sunday school class last year also loved "Keep Your Lamps" when we studied the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins.

While this is probably not the best jumping-off point for the Hot Tuna "newbie," there is much here that encapsulates what made the band great. The first two albums are really about the band trying to find out who they want to be; trying to reconcile their electric and acoustic influences. They don't really quite find it until the next two albums, "Burgers" and "Phosporescent Rat." But once you have those two albums and their first live set, "Double Dose," this would be a good addition to your Tuna Library. Fans like myself love it, although it might not be the best introduction for the neophyte. Hot Tuna is, at the end of the day, an acquired taste.