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.


Fish and Chip
Community Theater,
Bolinas, CA
02/11/1983


Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 9 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 3 > CD Wave > Flac16



Set I

01 tuning > Mean Old World >
02 Level With Me >
03 Love Machine >
04 Something You Got >
05 Alabama Bound >
06 Got Love (with Tramp tease)
07 Bring It With You When You Come >
08 Big Boss Man
09 Will The Circle Be//Unbroken
10 Jingle Bells tuning
11 Silver Threads And Golden Needles
12 Thirty Days >
13 Improvised Medley: which includes "Mama Don't Allow No Guitar Playing Here"
14 This Train Is Bound For Glory >
15 S.O.S.


Set II

16 tuning and banter
17 Twelve Gates To The City
18 Baltimore Fire
19 Baby, Please Don't Go >
20 Codine >
21 Butcher's Boy (instrumental version) >
22 The // Dance >
23 Spoonful >
24 Wade In The Water > You Gotta Move >
25 House Of The Rising Sun/In The Pines
26 Move It On Over
27 Jesse James
28 How Blue Can You Get >
29 Closer (includes band intros and a couple of detours) >
30 Mona Jam >
31 Closer (reprise)



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

guests:

Kathi McDonald - vocals for whole show except Set I tracks 2-4 and Set II tracks 2-7,
unknown percussion player
unknown flute player, Possibly Annie Levi. She played with them in a couple of other shows during 1983


Comments:

- The tapes for this were dated 11-11-1983 however, during "Closer" Barry mentions that it is Abraham Lincoln's birthday and says "That's why we are here, to help you bring in Abraham Lincoln's birthday. At first I thought that this meant that the show took place on 12th November but I now think that the use of the words "bring in" is referring to the next day being the 12th.
- On a couple of occasions Kathi refers to them as The Dinosaurs, we are not sure why as clearly there is no Robert Hunter present.



Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com
edited and mastered SIRMick
August 2022

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