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.




Dinosaurs
Cotati Cabaret
Cotati, CA
1984-08-18


Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: Wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX11 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac 16



Set I

01   tuning
02   San Francisco >
03   Got Love
04   Built For Comfort
05   Blind Man
06   banter/tuning
07   Motel Party Baby
07   Too Much Fun *
08   High-Heeled Sneakers
09   The//Dance


Set II

01   banter
02   After Midnight
03   Good Old Rock And Roll
04   Who's Gonna Love Me
05   Sugaree
06   New York Town (aka Hey, Hey, Hey)
07   I Can't Dance
08   Butcher's Boy
09   Jealous Kind
10   Mona

encore:

11   Mojo Navigator



Barry Melton - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Peter Albin - bass, vocals
Spender Dryden - drums
Merl Saunders - keyboards, vocals

guest:

David LaFlamme - violin, vocals, (Too Much Fun > end of show) *


Notes:

- All tracks pitch corrected.
- Crossfade put in where there is a tape flip in "The Dance"
- The encore was missing and has been patched on from a 3rd gen soundboard - thanks to Mossa.
- "New York Town" and "Mona" are complete in this source.



Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transferred by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick
March 2024


shntool output:

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     0:22.29        3949052 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4914  01 tuning.flac
     5:34.28       58983500 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5641  02 San Francisco }.flac
     5:13.61       55356716 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5343  03 Got Love.flac
     6:15.26       66211196 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5314  04 Built For Comfort.flac
     4:18.54       45638252 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5399  05 Blind Man.flac
     1:39.47       17574188 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4727  06 banter~tuning.flac
     6:02.66       64012076 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5414  07 Motel Party Baby.flac
     4:37.52       48985148 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5434  08 Too Much Fun.flac
     4:50.56       51287756 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5751  09 High-Heeled Sneakers.flac
    14:27.17      152978828 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5557  10 The Dance.flac
     4:08.60       43888364 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4819  11 banter.flac
     8:00.55       84801404 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5418  12 After Midnight.flac
     6:08.61       65058716 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5379  13 Good Old Rock And Roll.flac
     6:13.03       65804300 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5276  14 Who's Gonna Love Me Now.flac
     9:08.35       96749564 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5366  15 Sugaree.flac
     5:38.17       59663228 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5452  16 New York Town.flac
     6:43.15       71124524 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5503  17 I Can't Dance.flac
    11:21.52      120250748 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5497  18 Butcher's Boy.flac
     9:19.04       98617052 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5217  19 Jealous Kind.flac
    14:03.05      148717004 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5357  20 Mona.flac
    10:24.52      110195948 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6020  21 Mojo Navigator.flac
   144:32.45     1529847564 B                            0.5443  (21 files)

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03 Got Love.flac:3e027f6cf6b51b811f10c0f85dc4e53a
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08 Too Much Fun.flac:11c13c76e08e95ecfb353b0406b823a9
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12 After Midnight.flac:119664a9e7f683b30180df50e4b7d8b8
13 Good Old Rock And Roll.flac:e5e90157f89f917a4355c0723fb3bf2f
14 Who's Gonna Love Me Now.flac:35c28b1d4f4b16c64d0552622aecc9f1
15 Sugaree.flac:3847b49c6774e3eef6eef58d4df7c3db
16 New York Town.flac:36f44aaf36ba3a8e1424410a9ca82c69
17 I Can't Dance.flac:c96c98abc724ac0234cab31f879bad50
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20 Mona.flac:0a4578d84680f1275e67b10f2c0c78f5
21 Mojo Navigator.flac:c593f93445daef367e9a8c62d5f2171b

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