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
The Saloon
San Francisco, CA
04/01/1983


Source: Audience Cassettes (low gen)
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: wav > iZotope RX 9 > Cool Edit 2000 > Flac16


Set II

01 /The Dance >
02 Mona >
03 Colorado Town
04 Faretheewell (Fred’s Tune) >
05 You Gave Me the Sunshine >
06 Babylon

Set III

07 Working For The Ensenada > Banter
08 Blind Man
09 Motel Party Baby >
10 Closer
11 Something You Got
12 Hokey Pokey


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


Guests:

Chuck Bernstein - Drums; Beans Balanka - Sax

Comments:

- The tape for this date was dated April 1, 1983 and labeled ‘Barry Melton Band’ ‘2nd Set’ on Side A and ‘2nd + 3rd Set’ on Side B. The start of Side B with ‘Working For The Ensenada’ (with a ‘this is KSAN San Francisco’ announcement preceding a continuous set of music) appears to be a transition leading into a subsequent set. Accordingly, this has been marked as the beginning of the 3rd set. It is also possible that these are partial sets and other songs may have been played. Opening song The Dance starts abuptly and was faded in.


Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch review by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at http://www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered Seth Kaplan
October 2022


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