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 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.



Thunder And Lightning
Cancun Grill,
Tiburon, CA
01/20/1984


Source: sbd + 2 stage mics + vocal feed > Realistic 4 channel stereo mixer > cassette master (Sony TC-D5M / Maxell XLII-S 90)
Transfer: Nakamichi CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) > Tascam Hi-Res Editor > 24/96 wav
Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > iZotope Neytron 4 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > flac16



Set I

01   tuning
02   Help Me
03   Down In The Bottom
04   Fantasy World
05   Small Walk-In Box
06   Mama Don't Allow
07   I Did It For The The Band
08   Four Floors Or Forty
09   Blues In My Bottle
10   My Party
11   Six Weeks In Reno
12   Outro (Dekalb Blues instrumental)


Set II

13   tuning
14   Killing Floor
15   Pride Of Man
16   Southside
17   Love Me Or I'll Kill You
18   Run Out Of West
19   You Can't Hurt Me No More
20   Just Because
21   Walkin' Blues
22   I'll Change Your Flat Tire Merl
23   Up To No Good
24   Going Down
25   Who Do You Love
26   Outro (Dekalb Blues instrumental)



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



Source: recorded and mixed Charlie Kaiser
Transfer by Jim Blackwood
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Addition editing and tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and Mastered SIRMick May 2024


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