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 Last Day Saloon
San Francisco, CA
02/16/1984

Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 2022 > iZotope RX 9 Advanced > Soundforge
Pro 16 > TLH > Flac16

1st Set:
01 California
02 I Lost My Baby In Outer Space
03 Wine Women and Whiskey (Dr Feelgood)
04 Ive Been In Darkness
05 Tricky Dick
06 LBJ (Lyndon B Johnson)
07 Banter
08 Suzie-Q
09 Twelve Gates To The City
10 Morning at Midnight
11 Thirty Days
12 Banter
13 Sloop John B
14 I Can't Dance

2nd Set:
15 I'd Rather be a Newsboy
16 Got Love
17 Blind Man
18 Love Machine
19 Betty and Dupree
20 band intros
21 Motel Party Baby
22 The Dance

3rd Set:
23 banter
24 Had a Dream
25 San Francisco Shuffle
26 Closer
27 Mona

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

Guests:

Beans Balanka - sax, clarinet
Nicholas "Not Joe" Dewey - harmonica (he is the younger brother of Greg "Duke" Dewey, the drummer with Country Joe and The Fish)


Comments:

- three sets
- tape flip in Mona was edited seamlessly
- tape hiss was reduced with the Noise Reduction tool in Adobe Audition 2022


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
Newspaper ads by gv0000 (Greg V)
JC Photo (also cassette labels) by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered BRUNO
October 2022


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