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
12/05/1987

Source: Soundboard Cassette Master
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: Wav > iZotope RX10 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac 16/44



Set I

01 intro > Green Onions
02 banter
03 Got Love
04 Stu's Shuffle
05 banter
06 Suzie Q
07 Move Your Hand
08 banter
09 Boo//gie >
10 Stu's Blues
11 banter
12 I Can't Dance
13 Level With Me
14 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
15 Goin' Down


Set II

16 //Sweet Home Chicago
17 Mustang Sally >
18 The Dance
19 Burnin' Chicago
20 Born In Chicago *
21 Superstition (breaks down)
22 Me And Bobby McGee
23 Love Machine >
24 Mona
25 ~~encore break~~

encore

26 Back At The Chicken Shack




Barry Melton - vocals, guitar
Stu Blank - vocals, keyboard, guitar
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Doug Killmer - bass, vocals
Greg Elmore - drums

guest:

Joseph Stewart (Chi Chi waiter) - harmonica *


Notes:

- "Sweet Home Chicago" is missing the first verse and the start of the 2nd


Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transferred by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered by SIRMick


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