Thunder and Lightning (aka Nicksilver, Gravenites-Cipollina Band)
Club Rodon
Athens, GREECE
1989-04-21


The band played the Rodon for three dates: April 20, 21, & 23, as listed on JohnCipollina.com, and confirmed by the poster included here.

There is also a DVD in circulation (it was here in October 2008, but is no longer legal for Dime as the JC interview has been officially released on the Recoil box set), dated April 22; this contains live footage and interviews with John & Nick. The live footage is from April 21, the TV footage was probably broadcast on the 22nd.


be warned - this is for completists only!


2nd gen analog sbd recording (tape provided by HG)
digital transfer 2021-11 (16-44)


1 DeKalb Blues
2 Drugs And Alcohol
3 Four Floors Or Forty
4 You Can`t Hurt Me No More
5 Down In The Bottom
6 Left Hand Soul
7 Small Walk In Box
8 (1) defect track - Band Intro -> Walking Blues Intro
9 // Walking // Blues
10 Get Together
11 Funky News
12 Nicks's Highland Fling
13 -> Cobra
14 Kill My Brain
15 I'm On The Rock //
Total 92:36

Band:
John Cipollina - Guitar, Vocals
Tony Johnson - Drums
Nick Gravenites - Guitar, Vocals
"Big" John Whitelaw - Vass, Vocals


Notes:
- recording had an unlistenable buzz on left channel for the whole tape; I decided to mix to mono (pasting right channel to left)
- this is still audible in the quiet spots as right track was affected too, but by far not as left channel was
- I decided to "de-hiss" to make it more listenable for the music
- during band intro there is a very annoying sound problem for about two minutes: level spots ("thunderstorms") rise and fall; lows down with start of "Walking Blues".
- (1) - I decided to seperate the defect part as one track - take or leave...

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

John Cipollina - 308 - http://www.archive.org/details/JohnCipollina
Dinosaurs - 109 - http://www.archive.org/details/Dinosaurs
Barry Melton Band - 51 (many without Cipollina) - http://www.archive.org/details/BarryMeltonBand
Zero - 616 (with Cipollina from 1984 to July 1988) - http://www.archive.org/details/Zero
QMS - 31 - https://archive.org/details/QuicksilverMessengerServiceMusic

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