Thunder and Lightning (aka Nicksilver, Gravenites-Cipollina Band)
Big Chief Lodge
Truckee, CA
1985-08-25


1st gen analog audience recording; Sony TCD-05; NAK 300 mikes
tape provided by TB
digital transfer from cassette in April 2021

Longest show I know of (4hrs 10 mins +!!)


Set 1 - Disc 1 - 72:21
1. DeKalb Blues
2. Down In The Bottom
3. Eight Day Clock
4. Small Walk-in Box
5. On Top Of Old Smokey
6. Four Floors Or Forty
7. Fantasy World
8. Brown Paper Bag
9. You Can't Hurt Me No More
10. Pride Of Man
11. Set Break Blues #01

Set 2 - Disc 2 - 73:34
1. I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle
2. Bad Luck Baby
3. Who Do You Love?
4. Run Out Of West
5. Six Weeks In Reno
6. Love Me Or I'll Kill You
7. Nick's Highland Fling
8. Mama Don't Allow Me
9. Did It For The Band
10. Set Break Blues #02

Set 3 - Disc 3 - 43:46
1. I'll Pull The Trigger
2. Buried Alive In The Blues
3. My Party
4. Southside
5. Goin' Back To Anna
6. Dancin' Fool

Set 4 - Disc 4 - 60:27
1. Long Lonesome Road
2. Help Me (1)
3. My Baby's Good To Me (?)
4. Born In Chicago
5. Why-Oh? Can't Cross Over?
6. Herpes Blues
7. Highway #1
8. Killing Floor
9. Mona

Total 170:09

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


Notes:
- Set Break Blues #1 had channels fluctuations for the first 30 seconds (repaired to my best)
- Bad Luck Baby has some noise in beginning
- (1) w-Jeff ? - harmonica

NB John Cipollina recordings can be found in various collections within the Live Music Archive ( https://archive.org/details/etree ):

John Cipollina - 279 - http://www.archive.org/details/JohnCipollina
Dinosaurs - 91 - http://www.archive.org/details/Dinosaurs
Barry Melton Band - 51 (many without Cipollina) - http://www.archive.org/details/BarryMeltonBand
Zero - 583 (with Cipollina from 1984 to July 1988) - http://www.archive.org/details/Zero
QMS - 28 - https://archive.org/details/QuicksilverMessengerServiceMusic