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
Chi Chi Club
San Francisco, CA
04-21-1984


Source: Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC PC > WAV 16/48
Lineage: WAV > iZotope RX 9 > X Audio Compression Toolkit (xACT) > FLAC 16/48


Set I:

1. You Got To Help Me
2. Down In The Bottom
3. Trouble In Mind
4. Juarez
5. Small Walk-In Box
6. Four Floors or Forty
7. Run Out Of West
8. Tuning
9. Pride Of Man
10. You Can't Hurt Me No More
11. Goin' Back To Anna
12. Decalb Blues > Band Intro's

Set II:

13. Banter
14. Southside
15. My Party
16. Left Hand Soul
17. I'll Pull The Trigger
18. Born In Chicago
19. I Did It For The Band
20. Nick's Highland Fling (“Tow Truck”)
21. Six Weeks In Reno
22. Nick introduces John
23. Mona

Set III:

24. Bad Luck Baby
25. Who's Out There
26. Live My Life
27. Fantasy World
28. Buried Alive
29. Decalb Blues > Band Intro's


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


Notes:

- All tracks pitch correct

- This is a 16/48 FLAC fileset



Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch review by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered by Seth Kaplan
October 2024


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     5:24.353      62275772 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5575  02 Down In The Bottom.flac
     6:23.670      73664684 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5293  03 Trouble In Mind.flac
     5:33.479      64028096 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5097  04 Juarez.flac
    11:02.361     127173360 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5234  05 Small Walk-In Box.flac
     5:44.059      66059308 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5556  06 Four Floors or Forty.flac
     7:10.680      82690596 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5651  07 Run Out Of West.flac
     1:46.106      20372432 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.4571  08 Tuning.flac
     4:09.044      47816452 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5735  09 Pride Of Man.flac
     4:57.013      57026468 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5458  10 You Can't Hurt Me No More.flac
     5:35.904      64493600 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5608  11 Goin' Back To Anna.flac
     3:49.888      44138500 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5566  12 Decalb Blues > Band Intro's.flac
     0:42.159       8094592 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.4791  13 Banter.flac
     4:12.710      48520304 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5711  14 Southside.flac
     8:18.639      95738660 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5474  15 My Party.flac
     7:02.546      81128852 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5879  16 Left Hand Soul.flac
     4:15.450      49046360 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6337  17 I'll Pull The Trigger.flac
     6:27.255      74352980 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5985  18 Born In Chicago.flac
     6:25.824      74078320 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6125  19 I Did It For The Band.flac
    11:05.811     127835700 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6005  20 Nick's Highland Fling.flac
     4:53.524      56356724 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6035  21 Six Weeks In Reno.flac
     1:06.980      12860244 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.4739  22 Nick introduces John.flac
    13:20.502     153696424 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5189  23 Mona.flac
     9:32.796     109976940 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5601  24 Bad Luck Baby.flac
     6:47.279      78197660 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5744  25 Who's Out There.flac
     6:15.740      72142036 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5463  26 Live My Life.flac
     4:55.398      56716504 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5700  27 Fantasy World.flac
     6:14.290      71863656 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5691  28 Buried Alive.flac
     3:43.611      42933308 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5791  29 Decalb Blues > Band Intro's.flac
   171:57.314    1980925580 B                            0.5597  (29 files)


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02 Down In The Bottom.flac:10ba1ed1ec08309c7fa53e723cc2f2fe
03 Trouble In Mind.flac:c04c604629f7df690056c7427ee113d5
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10 You Can't Hurt Me No More.flac:24b61b1ade1e79017dc74cd31a9ccdad
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