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
07/09/1983


Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/48
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > Ozone 9 Maximiser > CD Wave > Flac1648


Set I

01 Third Degree
02 poetry from Barry, accompaniment from Spencer
03 You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover
04 Seventh Seal >
05 San Francisco Shuffle
06 Betty And Dupree
07 Come On In My Kitchen
08 The Sun Is Shining
09 Love You, Love You (?) >
10 30 Days
11 Keep On Truckin'
12 Ghost Riders In The Sky >
13 Caravan >
14 Arabian Riff > Jam > In the Hall Of The Mountain King >
15 Ghost Riders In The Sky (reprise)
16 S.O.S. (Same Old Song)


Set II

17 Mama Don't Allow
18 Got Love
19 It's A Mean Old World (Otis Rush)
20 Colorado Town (1)
21 Dust My Broom > Sweet Home Chicago (2)
22 Mean Old//World (Little Walter Jacobs) (2)
23 The Dance (includes band intros)


Set III

24 tuning
25 Motel Party Baby
26 I Can't Dance
27 Closer



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

Guests:

Mark Ryan - bass (1)
Michael Scholar - guitar, vocals (2)


Comments:

- We are not certain about the set split between I and II as there is nothing to indicate where it was, so this our best guess.


Notes:

- The first 3:57 of Set I had a number of problems in the right channel. Most of these were repaired by copying over the left channel.
- There is a tape flip in "Mean Old World", not too much is missing.


Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein www.musicimages.com
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
File tagging and Quality Control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered by SIRMick
October 2022

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