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

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