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.

Charlie Kaiser has given us access to his soundboard masters. He was the Front Of House soundman and recording engineer for virtually all of John's bands from about 1983 until his passing. This included Thunder and Lightning, Dinosaurs, Terry and The Pirates, Problem Child, and many of the spinoff bands.



Fish and Chip
The Saloon
San Francisco, CA
11/09/1984


Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 5 > iZotope Ozone Maximiser 11 > CD Wave > Flac16



Set I

01 Butcher's Boy
02 band intros/banter/tuning
03 Thirty Days
04 banter/tuning
05 Got Love
06 banter/tuning
07 Wabash Cannonball
08 banter/tuning
09 Betty And Dupree
10 San Francisco
11 Hold On To//The Good Times
12 Bring It With You When You Come


Set II

13 banter > The Itsy Bitsy Spider > banter/tuning
14 Stagger Lee
15 Love Machine
16 Blind Man
17 Motel Party Baby
18 Do The Dance//
19 Jesse James >
20 New York Town Blues (aka Hey Hey Hey) >
21 I Can't Dance
22 You Gave Me The Sunshine
23 SOS (Same Old Song)


Set III

24 tuning
25 Sloop John B >
26 Colorado Town >
27 Clos//er >
28 I've Been In Darkness
29 Level With Me >
30 Mona



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


Source: Master soundboard cassette
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and Mastered
SIRMick March 2025

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9:11.62 97342268 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5292 30 Mona.flac
171:30.35 1815239640 B 0.5303 (30 files)

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