Ed Perlstein, who has archived collections by Nick Gravenites, Spencer Dryden, Steve Keyser (John Cipollina’s manager) and others, and who currently possesses John Cipollina’s personal tapes, was given the approval of John’s sister, Antonia, to share John’s live and studio outtake recordings in the interest of keeping his music alive for future generations.  Steve Keyser, who recorded most of John's live shows with several different bands while he was his manager, has allowed Ed to digitize his master cassettes, and to share them with John’s fans and collectors.

Charlie Kaiser has recently given us access to his soundboard masters.  He was the Front Of House soundman and recording engineer for virtually all of John's bands from about 1983 until his passing. This included Thunder and Lightning, Dinosaurs, Terry and The Pirates, Problem Child, and any of the spinoff bands


Gravenites/Cipollina Band
Rancho Nicasio
Nicasio, CA 1982-05-03

Source: Audience recording > Cassette Masters Maxell UDXL II
Transfer: Nakamichi CR-7A > DA-3000 as DSD files> 16/44 wav


1st set
01 Blues In My Bottle
02 On Top Of Old Smokey
03 Walkin Blues
04 You Cant Hurt Me No More
05 Small Walk In Box
06 Baby Bye Bye
07 Love Me Or I'll Kill Ya
08 My Party
09 Bad Luck Baby
10 Who Do You Love
11 South Side
12 Live My Life

2nd Set:
13 Unknown Song #1
14 Unknown Song #2
15 Who's Out There
16 Blues Jam #1
17 Blues Jam #2
18 Blues Jam #3
19 Blues Jam #4
20 Blues Jam #5
21 Goodnight Irene
22 You Cant Hurt Me No More

Personel 1st set

- John Cipollina
- Nick Gravenites
- Greg Elmore
- Pete Sears (bass)


Notes:

- 2nd set is essentially a blues jam. Per FOH sound engineer Charlie Kaiser:
" To me, this has the feel of being one of those Marin jam/party sessions. House band (John and Nick), with their first set, then second set brings out a bunch of others. They did this sort of thing more than once...


Source provided by Charlie Kaiser
Transfer and mastered by Jim Blackwood
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Addition editing and tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
March 2024


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