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This video is for entertainment purposes only...
The images used within my video are taken from photos of my personal vinyl LP jacket/cover/labels, original US pressing of Peter Kaukonen's "Black Kangaroo" album (1972) on the 'Grunt' record label FTR-1006.
The audio transfer was done with an Oracle Delphi MKIII turntable, an SME45 tone arm, and a Vanden Hull MC-10 MC cartridge. Though I suppose after digital transfer to mp3, compression etc...all this is irrelevant.

Taken from my album review at 'Rate Your Music'...
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/peter_kaukonen/black_kangaroo/
Peter Kaukonen is a well known San Fransisco Bay area guitarist, whose repertoire includes performing and recording with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Johnny Winter, to name a few.

Peter is Jorma's younger brother(Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna), and both are excellent guitarists. Though Peter's playing style on this LP seems a little more in the early 70's hard rock vein in comparison to Jorma's more blues based approach.
Upon first hearing this LP, it reminded me a bit of Randy California's "Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds" and even Velvet Turner at times. The Jimi Hendrix vibe can be felt throughout this LP, in particular on the spacey "Billy's Tune" The hard rockers 'Dynamo Snackbar', 'Up Or Down', and 'Prisoner' are also sure to please.

The album features Shelley Silverman and Joey Covington on drums, who had both played and/or been associated with various members of the Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna camp. Session man Larry "Fuzzy" Knight/Weisberg, and Mark Ryan played bass. Mark then went on to join 'Quicksilver', and also appeared on the 'Bodacious D.F.' album (Marty Balin) in 1973. Larry can also be found playing on the 1978 "Live" album by 'Spirit' (also released as "Live In Germany"), along with appearing on Randy California's 1972 solo LP "Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds"

The production and sound quality on 'Black Kangaroo' are great, recorded at 'Wally Heider's Studio' in San Francisco.
As mentioned above, the music ranges from all out heavily Hendrix inspired songs, to a couple very nice acoustic blues numbers, reminiscent of what elder brother Jorma was so well known for.
Peter's vocal style is very similar to that of Jorma's, so that can be a plus or a minus, depending on ones tastes I suppose.

Biography borrowed from Peter's website:
http://www.peterkaukonen.com/about/index.html

Peter Kaukonen was born in 1945. His father was a diplomat, and Peter grew up in Pakistan and the Philippine Islands. His family was musical, their tastes eclectic, but listening to their records was nothing like listening to the sounds that came off the streets of Karachi.

Until, of course, he heard "Rock Around The Clock."

He finished high school in Connecticut, where he started playing guitar, teaching himself to fingerpick and flatpick folk music and blues. In 1963 he moved to California to attend Stanford University. He majored in biochemistry, human sexual behavior, and musicology, none of which appeared on the curriculum. He played the folk circuit with folks who went on to become Janis Joplin, the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane.

His musical odyssey is marked by detours and excursions, possibly symptomatic of ADD or Tourette's. He has played, toured, and recorded with Johnny Winter, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and his own Black Kangaroo. He continues composing his deeply personal, engaging, challenging, and eclectic music, which he records in his own facilities.

On one of his excursions he utilized his advanced degrees — along with the interpersonal skills and psychological insights gained through decades of collaboration with the functionally deranged but musically prominent — to do program development in County Mental Health, a true oxymoron. Working in a San Francisco Bay Area county, he was told that "clients who can respond to therapy are too well to be your clients."

Before that he worked in rural California, where he marvelled at the values that made America great: mindless violence, heavy firepower and heavy drinking, narcissism, racism, xenophobia, and perpetual paranoia. Some of his compositions reflect the vitality, the exuberance, the ruggedness, and the spiritual and moral corruption of this land of manly men and manly women, where hygiene is limited to grooming one's horse and family values are focused on wife beating, incest, and child abuse.

A current musical project is "Going Home," an upbeat, uplifting musical tour-de-force that focuses on the death of his mother. Because none of his former associates or acquaintances would return his calls, Peter plays all instruments in this project.

He currently lives with his wife and twin sons in Mill Valley, California, where he bicycles preposterous distances on and off the road and takes great pleasure in growing roses.