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



Gravcnites-Cipollina Band
The Saloon,
San Francisco, CA
06/20/1982


Source: Audience> ??? > Sony TC-D5M > Cassette Masters (Maxell UD XLII x 2)
Transfer: Nakamichi CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) > Tascam Hi-Res Editor > > 24/96  wav
Lineage: iZotope RX 10 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 11 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac24



Set I

01   tuning
02   Pride Of Man
03   Nick's Highland Fling
04   Hanging Around
05   Nick decides not to play this song
06   Brown Paper Bag
07   Down On The Bottom
08   Baby, Bye Bye >
09   Dekalb Blues (including band intros)


Set II

10   tuning
11   Bad Luck Baby
12   My Party
13   How Many More Years
14   Killing Floor
15   Dancin' Fool
16   It's About Time
17   Goodnight Irene
18   Blues In My Bottle
19   The Time Is Real
20   Buried Alive In The Blues
21   Back Room Blues



Nick Gravenites - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar
Doug Kilmer- bass, vocals
Greg Elmore- drums



Comments:

- There are a couple of tracks in Set II that have never been played in any of the shows currently in circulation so I've taken a guess at the titles. They are tracks 19 and 21. Track 21 is played to the tune of "Dekalb Blues". Track 13 is another that has never been played before either.



Source provided by Charlie Kaiser
Transferred by Jim Blackwood
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick April 2024


shntool output:

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     1:44.653      60280364 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6943  05 Nick decides not to play this song.flac
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     8:45.907     302922284 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7102  12 My Party.flac
     5:44.333     198336044 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7100  13 How Many More Years.flac
     5:06.520     176555564 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7152  14 Killing Floor.flac
     8:15.227     285250604 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7068  15 Dancin' Fool.flac
    11:03.347     382087724 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7045  16 It's About Time.flac
     5:38.893     195202604 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7013  17 Goodnight Irene.flac
     6:49.133     235660844 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7120  18 Blues In My Bottle.flac
     9:57.560     344194604 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7089  19 The Time Is Real.flac
     8:04.533     279091244 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7165  20 Buried Alive In The Blues.flac
     2:38.293      91177004 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7148  21 Backroom Blues.flac
   129:10.013    4464008604 B                            0.7096  (21 files)

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03 Nick's Highland Fling.flac:ae9dfe51030699a191e0826ed2ab6093
04 Hanging Around.flac:8cbf170a84a4abf22eb75fa6d2615a4b
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13 How Many More Years.flac:665710e52afc09746a31f0d2478148b5
14 Killing Floor.flac:79bc87d02a9804bf0a34bb33de46bb8a
15 Dancin' Fool.flac:2f337b27f1246b61a05883aedbe51503
16 It's About Time.flac:f3b692eb85678337788877201eebae07
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21 Backroom Blues.flac:751c4b9143be0cfdfc7fab17470b34bd

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