Thunder & Lightning (Gravenites / Cipollina Band)
The Saloon
San Francisco, CA.
April 9, 1982

Source: Audience recording>cassette tapes>?>unknown generation Maxell UDXL II cassette tapes>Tascam 130 cassette deck>Edirol R-44>Lexar SD card>iMAC>Audacity>xACT>FLAC
Transferred on 2/11/22 by John Chapman (Johnieappel)

Set list
01. Crowd/Tuning
02. Blues In My Bottle
03. Down In The Bottom
04. You Cant Hurt Me No More
05. Small Walk In Box
06. Tough As Nails
07. On Top Of Old Smokey
08. Dekalb Blues Instrumental
09. Bye, Bye Baby
10. Moon Tune
11. It's About Time
12. Basement Jive
13. Love Me Or I'll Kill You
14. Nicks Highland Fling
15. Good Night Irene
16. What About Your Daughter
17. Blues Instrumental
18. Hollywood Baby
19. Born In Chicago // (fades)
20. Dancin Fool
21. Bad Luck Baby
22. Hanging Around Juarez
23. Who Do You Love
24. Last Call Song
25. You Gotta Help Me
26. Nick Outro

Nick Gravenites – guitar, vocals
John Cipollina – guitar
Bobby Vega – bass guitar
Greg Elmore – drums

This recording has a lot of crowd chatter but is still very listenable. Of interest is the song 'Moon Tune' which is from Nick Gravenites solo album 'My Labors'. I've never heard this song on any other recordings of the Gravenites / Cipollina band although it is on the Nick with Quicksilver recording from 1969 uploaded on Dime by 38f on July 25th 2005.
This was my first time seeing John Cipollina, I was 17 years old and had just moved to California from Washington DC. I was completely enthralled by these guys that night and continued to see and record them many times throughout the 1980's. The photos included are from this show, shot on expired 400 iso film pushed to 800. Enjoy!

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