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
 03/03/1984

Source: Master Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/48
Lineage: Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > Cd Wave Flac 1648


Set I

01   tuning
02   Blues In My Bottle
03   Down In The Bottom
04   Run Out Of West
05   Six Weeks In Reno
06   Small Walk-In Box
07   Southside
08   Gypsy Good Time
09   My Party
10   DeKalb Blues (instrumental)


Set II

11   tuning
12   Four Floors Or Forty
13   You Cant Hurt Me No More
14   Trouble In Mind
15   I Did It For The Band
16   Born In Chicago
17   Nick's Highland Fling
18   Gotta Live My Life
19   I'll Change Your Flat Tire Merle
20   Blues Back Off Of Me
21   Who Do You Love
22   Nick talking
23   Fantasy World
24   Short Jam
25   Bad Luck Baby
26   Dekalb Blues
27   Mona



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


Source: Provided by Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Artwork by Bruno
QC and tagging by Mike Schuncke
Edited and Mastered SIRMick October 2024

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