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

Freedom Foundation Jam
Uncle Charlies,
Corte Madera, CA
December 21, 1982

Source: Soundboard 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 I

01 Messin' With the Kid (1)
02 San Francisco
03 The Dance
04 You Can't Judge a Book By It's Cover (1)
05 Bob Weir intro/tuning/banter
06 Wang Dang Doodle (1)(2)(3)
07 Poison Ivy (1)(2)(3)
08 Big River (1)(2)(3)
09 New Minglewood Blues (1)(2)
10 Promised Land (1)(2)

Set II

11 intro and tuning
12 San Francisco Bay Blues (4)
13 Muleskinner Blues (4)
14 Don't Think Twice It's Alright (4)

encore (everyone)

15 Battle Of New Orleans >
16 Mona
17 Man Smart (Women Smarter)

Dinosaurs (all tracks except Set II 12-14)

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


Norton Buffalo - harmonica, vocals (1)
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals (2)
Steve Shuster - saxophone (3)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott - guitar, vocals (solo set) (4)


Comments:

- This show has been variously described as Dinosaurs, Bob Weir and Friends and John Cipollina and friends.
- Barry Melton, Norton Buffalo and Spencer Dryden were on the board of directors of the Foundation which met inside San Quentin State Prison.

Notes:

- Set II was pitch corrected.
- Thanks to Fabio Nosotti whose source provided the last two tracks. They were patched on after being pitch corrected.


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
February 2024

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