hot tuna - mystery of the 'hoppkorv' solved

[guilddigger]

<font face='Comic Sans MS'>i just got this info from a first hand sorce. here's how hot tuna came up with the album title, 'hoppkorv' (jump sausage).
as i told before, jorma kaukkonen do, or did, spend some of his time in sweden. apparantly he was setting up a temporary band with some local musicians in a small swedish town. (they couldn't find a decent bass player, so he called his buddy from hot tuna who hopped on the first available flight!).
one night, possibly after a drinking spree, they were all standing in line at a hot dog stand. a guy in front of them, a local drunk, had already got his dog but was unable to control his movements. his hot dog 'jumped' out of the bun and fell to the ground. in anger and frustration he yelled the first thing that came to his mind, javla hoppkorv!!! (damn jump sausage!!!).

jorma thought the expression, made up in an instant, sounded so fun it stuck in his mind and ended up the album title!

bonus info: the jersey worn on the album cover reads 'halmstads bk'. that's a swedish hockey team.




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[N2yes]

<font color=red><font face='Papyrus'>Interesting story there, Guild! So he had to call Cassidy to fly over from the states eh? Lol, "damn jump sausage!!! LMAO!</font id='Papyrus'></font id=red><img src=pix/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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[Chris2210]

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<font face='Comic Sans MS'>one night, possibly after a drinking spree, they were all standing in line at a hot dog stand. a guy in front of them, a local drunk, had already got his dog but was unable to control his movements. his hot dog 'jumped' out of the bun and fell to the ground. in anger and frustration he yelled the first thing that came to his mind, javla hoppkorv!!! (damn jump sausage!!!).</font id='Comic Sans MS'>

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Sounds like a Swedish Homer Simpson! "Grrr.. Lousy, jumping weener."