Double Dose (Hot Tuna album)

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.

Double Dose
Live album by
ReleasedMarch 13, 1978
RecordedAugust 5–6, 1977 at Theatre 1839, San Francisco
Wally Heider Studios (overdubs)
GenreBlues rock
LabelGrunt
ProducerFelix Pappalardi
Don Gehman (associate)
Gail Collins (associate)
Hot Tuna chronology
Flight Log
(1977)
Double Dose
(1978)
Final Vinyl
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic

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.

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