Pair a Dice Found [Import]

Hot Tuna | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Epic Japan
• ASIN: B00006IICS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,500,416 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It's Alright with Me

2. Parchman Farm

3. Urban Moon

4. Eve of Destruction

5. Ak-47

6. Shot in the Act

7. Brand New Toy

8. To Be with You

9. Flying in the Face of Mr. Blue

10. Love Gone Flat

11. Bulletproof Vest

12. Ken Takes a Lude

13. San Francisco Bay Blues

14. Happy Turtle Song

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really good CD - As enjoyable today as when it came out, May 26, 2006

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Seth Salwen "Sethrock" (New York, Where else?) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pair a Dice Found (Audio CD)

I got this CD when it was first released & it is as enjoyable to listen to now as it was then. Jacks bass is pounding, Jorma's licks are classic, and Harvey's drumming is perfection! Eve of Destruction SHOULD HAVE BEEN A BIG HIT and is one of the rare times a remake is ALMOST as good as the original. This is a slightly different road than Tuna's jamming albums, but it is surely a road worth driving! Enjoy!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's Hot Tuna, but it's not Hot Tuna, February 20, 2009

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Johnny Boy "The Record Collector" (Hockessin, DE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pair a Dice Found (Audio CD)

When guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady founded Hot Tuna in 1970, it was an acoustic blues band playing blues standards. It was simply just Jorma's incredible acoustic guitar playing and Jack's distinct, yet awesome bass playing.

Fast forward 20 years. Take yourself to 1990. Hot Tuna hadn't released even an album since 1978, with the live album 'Double Dose.' The 1989 Jefferson Airplane reunion brought Jorma and Jack back together, so they decided to reform Hot Tuna. They were signed to Epic Records.


The result was 'Pair a Dice Found,' the 1990 Hot Tuna reunion album. This album blows in many ways. Hot Tuna was trying to find a more mainstream market here. The band is in top shape, as always, but it's just not what you would expect from a band that did so much better in so many ways in the 1970s.

And what about the addition of another guitarist? Michael Falzarano was added to the lineup for this album as an additional guitarist. WHAT!? Jorma Kaukonen does not need an additional guitarist!! He's a master, one of the best, so why was the addition of Falzarano necessary?

Now to the music. The only real cover here is Jesse Fuller's classic 'San Francisco Bay Blues.' A good cover, probably would have sounded great on one of their '70s efforts like 'America's Choice,' and it sounds pretty darn good here. This is a great song.

The rest of the album, though, blows. Falzarano dominates the writing credits here, writing 'AK-47,' 'Brand New Toy,' 'To Be With You,' 'Bulletproof Vest' and many others. Now these compositions, for the most part, are decent, but I, personally feel that Falzarano should have put them on a solo record.

Overall, 'Pair a Dice Found' is a major disappoint from a really good band. With the exception of 'San Francisco Bay Blues' and perhaps 'Eve of Destruction,' this album is not a great album.

Do not start here, new fans to Hot Tuna. Go buy 'Hot Tuna,' 'First Pull Up, Then Pull Down,' and then eventually 'Burgers.' This is not the proper entry point into Hot Tuna's catalog.

Recommended only for Tuna collectors and die-hards. This could have been so much better.

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Fun, March 15, 2011

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K. Breeden - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pair a Dice Found (Audio CD)

I agree with those who say this is not a traditional Hot Tuna album. That doesn't mean it's not a good album, however. It's a little more mainstream, a heck of a lot of fun and definitely worth adding to your collection. 4.5 stars.