Classic Hot Tuna Electric is a Hot Tuna album released in 1996 and is an expansion of the B-side of the 1985 vinyl release Historic Live Tuna. The tracks were recorded at a live electric performance on July 3, 1971 at the Fillmore West auditorium in San Francisco.
The A-side of Historic Live Tuna was expanded as Classic Hot Tuna Acoustic and released at the same time as this album.
Another song from the Fillmore West concert, "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning", was included in the album Fillmore: The Last Days.
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