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 recently 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 any of the spinoff bands


Fish Stu Band
Chi Chi Club,
San Francisco, CA
07/18/1987

Source: Master Audience Cassette
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: Wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX10 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac 16

Set II (partial)

01 Barry banter including Stu Blank intro
02 The Thrill Is Gone
03 I Can't Dance
04 Something You Got >
05 Closer

Set III

06 //Ruby Tuesday >
07 Things That Make You Happy
08 band intros > banter
09 Motel Party Baby
10 Good Old Rock & Roll >
11 Third Degree >
12 Mona

encore

13 Tramp

John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Barry Melton - guitar, vocals
Stu Blank - keyboards, harmonica, vocals
Doug Killmer - bass, vocals
Spencer Dryden - drums

Comments:
- This is the first time that "Ruby Tuesday" has ever circulated

Notes:
- Thanks to Roger Miller's who's audience recording was used to patch the tape flip.

Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transferred by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick
March 2024

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