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.


Thunder And Lightning
Chi Chi Club,
San Francisco, CA
02/25/1984

Source: Master Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/48
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac 16


Set I

01 Blues In My Bottle
02 Six Weeks In Reno
03 Down In The Bottom
04 Walkin' Blues
05 I Did It For The Band
06 Small Walk-In Box
07 Blues Back Off Of Me
08 Run Out Of West
09 You Can't Hurt Me No More
10 Four Floors Or Forty
11 Dekalb Blues and outro


Set II

01 tuning
02 Southside
03 On Top Of Old Smokey
04 Pride Of Man
05 Who Do You Love
06 Baby, Bye Bye
07 Love Me Or I'll Kill You
08 My Party
09 Bad Luck Baby
10 Fantasy World
11 Muddy Waters (with false start)
12 I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle (with false start)
13 banter
14 Mona

encore

15 Buried Alive In the Blues
16 Dekalb Blues and outro


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


Notes:

- The vocals in "Blues In My Bottle" were very low, they have been made more prominent.
- The was a slight hum during Set II which has been removed.

Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch review by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at http://www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered by SIRMick
February 2023