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 & Lightning
Full Moon Saloon
San Francisco, CA
1985-07-05

Recording info: Soundboard cassette master (Sony TC-D5M / Maxell XLII-S 90); FOH mix + recording by Charlie Kaiser via 16 channel Peavy console>mono aux out No Dolby NR
Transfer info: Nakamichi CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) > Tascam Hi-Res Editor > 24-bit 96 kHz wav
Transferred by Jim Blackwood in 2024


Set I

01. Chicago Is Your Home
02. Blue Highway
03. Six Weeks In Reno
04. Down In The Bottom
05. Nicks Highland Fling
06. Mama Dont Allow
07. Run Out Of West
08. You Cant Hurt Me No More
09. Four Floors or Forty
10. Dekalb Blues
11. band intro- set outro

Set II

12. Follow Me Baby
13. Small Walk-In Box
14. Pride Of Man
15. Fantasy World
16. Anna
17. Top Of Ol Smokey
18. Brown Paper Bag
19. Who Do You Love
20. I'll Pull The Trigger
21. set outro- band intro

Encores

22. Trouble In Mind
23. Buried Alive
24. My Party
25. I Did It For The Band

Notes:

- Small Walk-In Box fades out at 10:00 mark
- I'll Pull The Trigger has a tape flip at 4:28 that was cross-faded


Source: recorded and mixed Charlie Kaiser
Transfer by Jim Blackwood
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and Mastered by Bruno

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