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

Gravcnites-Cipollina Band
The Saloon,
San Francisco, CA
06/20/1982

Source: Audience Recording > ??? > Sony TC-D5M > Cassette Masters (Maxell UD XLII x 2)
Transfer: Nakamichi CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) > Tascam Hi-Res Editor > > 24/96 wav
Lineage: iZotope RX 10 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 11 Advanced > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac16

Set I

01 tuning
02 Pride Of Man
03 Nick's Highland Fling
04 Hanging Around
05 Nick decides not to play this song
06 Brown Paper Bag
07 Down In The Bottom
08 Baby, Bye Bye >
09 Dekalb Blues (including band intros)

Set II

10 tuning
11 Bad Luck Baby
12 My Party
13 How Many More Years
14 Killing Floor
15 Dancin' Fool
16 It's About Time
17 Goodnight Irene
18 Blues In My Bottle
19 The Time Is Real
20 Buried Alive In The Blues
21 Back Room Blues

Nick Gravenites - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar
Doug Kilmer- bass, vocals
Greg Elmore- drums

Comments:

- There are a couple of tracks in Set II that have never been played in any of the shows currently in circulation so I've taken a guess at the titles. They are tracks 19 and 21. Track 21 is played to the tune of "Dekalb Blues". Track 13 is another that has never been played before either.

Source provided by Charlie Kaiser
Transferred by Jim Blackwood
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick April 2024

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