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.



Copperhead
The Longbranch
San Francisco, CA
1972-03-27

Source: 7” 1/4 track reel @ 3 3/4 ips (low gen) from the collection of Nick Gravenites
Lineage: wav > iZotope RX10 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 11 > CD Wav > Flac16


Set I

01   tuning
02   Kibitzer
03   Back Roads
04   Pete's Instrumental
05   Rock 'n' Roll Party
06   Drunken Irish Setter
07   Wang Dang Doo
08   Rider >
09   Cobra >
10   Rider (reprise)


Set II

01   noodling and tuning
02   I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
03   unknown
04   Good Time Boogie
05   Spin-Spin
06   Hogan's Goat
07   Exuberance
08   Keeper Of The Flame
09   Bigelow 6-9000
10   Roller Derby Star



probably

John Cipollina - guitars
Gary Philippet	vocals, guitars, organ
Jim McPherson - vocals, piano, bass, percussion
David Weber - drums, percussion
Pete Sears	- bass, keyboards

??? - Harmonica


Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transferred by Ed Perlstein  www.musicimages.com
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick March 2024



shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     1:00.10       10607564 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5523  01 tuning.flac
     5:31.69       58550732 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6438  02 Kibitzer.flac
     6:01.56       63812156 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6567  03 Back Roads.flac
     9:56.21      105183836 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6353  04 Pete's Instrumental.flac
     4:18.52       45633548 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6709  05 Rock 'n' Roll Party.flac
     7:55.39       83881772 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6168  06 Drunken Irish Setter.flac
     4:36.69       48848732 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6446  07 Wang Dang Doo.flac
     8:40.06       91742156 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6216  08 Rider }.flac
     1:35.17       16798028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6667  09 Cobra }.flac
     1:38.72       17456588 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6341  10 Rider (reprise).flac
     3:37.55       38408204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5268  11 noodling and tuning.flac
     4:29.36       47536316 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5680  12 I'm Not The Man I Use To Be.flac
     5:19.21       56321036 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5844  13 unknown.flac
     5:20.53       56572700 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5847  14 Good Time Boogie.flac
     4:55.53       52162700 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5780  15 Spin-Spin.flac
     6:58.47       73845788 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5900  16 Hogan's Goat.flac
     8:45.38       92699420 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5808  17 Exuberance.flac
     9:10.06       97034156 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5652  18 Keeper Of The Flame.flac
     9:29.49      100486892 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5715  19 Bigelow 6-9000.flac
     6:54.44       73133132 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5625  20 Roller Derby Star.flac
   116:16.63     1230715456 B                            0.6010  (20 files)

flac fingerprints:

01 tuning.flac:eb33f68b777838e05370129fb6f21b93
02 Kibitzer.flac:2b03a2683e0bc41744dfb4d32d8b6d32
03 Back Roads.flac:bdf8f52b968d861f75573c451af1f94c
04 Pete's Instrumental.flac:2dade3bb580ca532f3314d6a997281e7
05 Rock 'n' Roll Party.flac:a966c1a2c4dba35616dfcc97d9cf85e3
06 Drunken Irish Setter.flac:f449079ab63b12ae88ca34f4d1a17307
07 Wang Dang Doo.flac:e31467447caf40d6057556c32bbc5a10
08 Rider }.flac:a9d26f71deb45d47dfeb26632e467220
09 Cobra }.flac:c21fd2714f284bf92ec9dedc4c2f29e9
10 Rider (reprise).flac:45caff4dc0dde12ddbbee2272d2ee3ef
11 noodling and tuning.flac:d20bf5ee75819eb583b89a1f48d8e80c
12 I'm Not The Man I Use To Be.flac:d8d60f3c3f4bebb63e095733ea70f6c6
13 unknown.flac:cebe75dfc1f02b2b3080f81c2cabf767
14 Good Time Boogie.flac:0f76d64143a40f91a53c922c7e4b7c1b
15 Spin-Spin.flac:3740f8ddc98b68f01cc3d608ed22a023
16 Hogan's Goat.flac:58ffabd2a2595974d726bc582bd4879e
17 Exuberance.flac:69edcf9c428a1d31def1a61939a157ce
18 Keeper Of The Flame.flac:5bf12f72340e7f1a79fd037ff609061b
19 Bigelow 6-9000.flac:bf427c57eb352b87e347b47073915c6b
20 Roller Derby Star.flac:e3756dd25629ace97bca81252cb64b06

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02 Kibitzer.flac:2b03a2683e0bc41744dfb4d32d8b6d32
03 Back Roads.flac:bdf8f52b968d861f75573c451af1f94c
04 Pete's Instrumental.flac:2dade3bb580ca532f3314d6a997281e7
05 Rock 'n' Roll Party.flac:a966c1a2c4dba35616dfcc97d9cf85e3
06 Drunken Irish Setter.flac:f449079ab63b12ae88ca34f4d1a17307
07 Wang Dang Doo.flac:e31467447caf40d6057556c32bbc5a10
08 Rider }.flac:a9d26f71deb45d47dfeb26632e467220
09 Cobra }.flac:c21fd2714f284bf92ec9dedc4c2f29e9
10 Rider (reprise).flac:45caff4dc0dde12ddbbee2272d2ee3ef
11 noodling and tuning.flac:d20bf5ee75819eb583b89a1f48d8e80c
12 I'm Not The Man I Use To Be.flac:d8d60f3c3f4bebb63e095733ea70f6c6
13 unknown.flac:cebe75dfc1f02b2b3080f81c2cabf767
14 Good Time Boogie.flac:0f76d64143a40f91a53c922c7e4b7c1b
15 Spin-Spin.flac:3740f8ddc98b68f01cc3d608ed22a023
16 Hogan's Goat.flac:58ffabd2a2595974d726bc582bd4879e
17 Exuberance.flac:69edcf9c428a1d31def1a61939a157ce
18 Keeper Of The Flame.flac:5bf12f72340e7f1a79fd037ff609061b
19 Bigelow 6-9000.flac:bf427c57eb352b87e347b47073915c6b
20 Roller Derby Star.flac:e3756dd25629ace97bca81252cb64b06