Double Dose | |
Type: | live |
Artist: | Hot Tuna |
Cover: | DoubleDoseHotTuna.jpg |
Released: | March 13, 1978 |
Recorded: | August 5–6, 1977 at Theatre 1839, San Francisco Wally Heider Studios (overdubs) |
Genre: | Blues rock |
Length: | 77:58 |
Label: | Grunt |
Producer: | Felix Pappalardi Don Gehman (associate) Gail Collins (associate) |
Prev Title: | Flight Log |
Prev Year: | 1977 |
Next Title: | Final Vinyl |
Next Year: | 1979 |
Double Dose is the eighth album by the American blues rock band Hot Tuna, and their third live album. The album was originally released as a double-LP as Grunt CYL2-2545. After their 1977 tour, Jorma Kaukonen moved on to a solo career and Jack Casady joined the new wave band SVT. Hot Tuna would not perform together again until 1983. The album had its highest peak at #92 on the Billboard charts.
The group recorded the album as a cost-saving alternative to a studio album. However the mixing process considerably raised the album's expense. Producer Felix Pappalardi heavily edited the concert tapes and had Kaukonen re-record his vocals for sides 2 through 4 at Wally Heider Studios.[1]
All tracks written by Jorma Kaukonen, except where noted.