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.


Dinosaurs
Artista Party
Recreation Center,
Corte Madera, CA.
02/22/1983

Source: Soundboard Cassettes #
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 2 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac16


Set I

01 Who Makes The Moves
02 Rock Around The Clock >
03 Colorado Town
04 Streetwise
05 The Dance (includes band intros)
06 Willie And The Hand Jive
07 Twelve Gates To The City
08 Poetry and prose from Barry and Hunter whilst tuning
09 San Francisco
10 One Way Out >
11 S.O.S.

Set II

12 Poetry and tuning
13 Thirty Days
14 St. Louis Blues
15 Michael Wilhelm intro and tuning
16 Route 66
17 Down The Road A Piece
18 David Bennett Cohen intro and tuning
19 Night Train
20 Rock and Roll Music
21 Where's Mark Unobsky?, intro and tuning
22 You Can't Judge A Book
23 David Nelson intro and tuning
24 Crooked Judge
25 banter and tuning
26 Minglewood Blues
27 Michael DeJong intro and tuning
28 Dancin' Fool
29 Highway 61 Revisited
30 Kathy McDonald intro and tuning
31 How Blue Can You Get

encore

32 crowd, Barry singing and tuning
33 Promontory Rider >
34 Jesse James


Barry Melton - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Peter Albin - bass, vocals
Robert Hunter - guitar, vocals
Spencer Dryden - drums

Guests

Mike Wilhelm - guitar, vocals
David Bennett Cohen - keyboards
Richard Olsen - saxophone
Norton Buffalo - harmonica, vocals
Mark Unobsky - guitar
David Nelson - guitar, vocals
Michael DeJong - guitar, vocals
Kathy McDonald - vocals
Matthew Kelly - harmonica




Comments:

- Set I is stereo but strangely set II is two-track mono.

Notes:

- Several instances of unintentional feed back have been removed.
- Tape flips patched with shnid 32177, also small sections of tuning reinstated for continuity. My thanks to Bob Leonardis and Roger Miller.
- The vocals were very low in places and have been boosted.



Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transferred by Joe B. Jones
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick
October 2025


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