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.



Copperhead
The Longbranch
San Francisco, CA
1972-03-27

Source: 7” 1/4 track reel @ 3 3/4 ips (low gen) from the collection of Nick Gravenites
Lineage: wav > iZotope RX10 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 11 > CD Wav > Flac16


Set I

01 tuning
02 Kibitzer
03 Back Roads
04 Pete's Instrumental
05 Rock 'n' Roll Party
06 Drunken Irish Setter
07 Wang Dang Doo
08 Rider >
09 Cobra >
10 Rider (reprise)


Set II

01 noodling and tuning
02 I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
03 unknown
04 Good Time Boogie
05 Spin-Spin
06 Hogan's Goat
07 Exuberance
08 Keeper Of The Flame
09 Bigelow 6-9000
10 Roller Derby Star



probably

John Cipollina - guitars
Gary Philippet vocals, guitars, organ
Jim McPherson - vocals, piano, bass, percussion
David Weber - drums, percussion
Pete Sears - bass, keyboards

??? - Harmonica


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

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