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
Last Day Saloon (aka Fresno Saloon)
San Francisco, CA
08/06/83

Source: Master Audience Cassettes
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: wav > iZotope RX 9 > Flac16


Setlist:

Set One:

01 Barry Talks *
02 Got Love *
03 Alabama Bound
04 Thirty Days
05 LSD Song
06 The Dance

Set Two:

07 Stagger Lee */#
08 Colorado Town
09 Love/Machine */***
10 Betty and Dupree
11 Blind Man **
12 Stage Banter
13 Motel Party Baby
14 Take a Whiff on Me >
15 I Can't Dance

Set Three:

16 It's Up to Us
17 Goodies To Get You High
18 Hold On to the Good Times
19 Butcher Boy
20 Rawhide! >
21 The More We Get Together
22 Mona
23 //Closer



Personnel:

Barry Melton - Guitar, Vocals
John Cipollina - Guitar, Vocals
Peter Albin - Bass, Vocals
Spencer Dryden - Drums

Guests:
Beans Balanka - Sax
Ben "King" Perkoff - Sax
Tom Clancy - Harp


Notes:

Main source: Master Audience Cassettes
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1 Lineage: wav > iZotope RX 9 > Flac16

* - Secondary source: Sony ECM-220T Mics > Sony TC-D5M, TDK MA90 Master Tape, Dolby B. Taped by Mike K. Lineage: Master Tape/Sony TC-D5M > Tascam DR-1 44.1KHz/16b > Audacity 1.3.5 > CD Wave > FLAC 7

** - Initial gap at end of track from main source was spliced with fragment of the last 28 seconds of same track from secondary source with pitch lowered .80 semitones.

*** - 0:00 to 02:15.356 - lowered pitch a half step. Splice @ 02-15.356 to end was correct pitch

# - pitch lowered one half step

Tracks 2,8,10: spliced out duplicate tuning/stage banter already included in surrounding tracks



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 www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered Seth Kaplan
February 2023

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