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.


Copperhead - 1972 Studio Outtakes
CBS Studios
San Francisco, CA



Source: John Cipollina's Master Reels nos. 59, 135, 139and 151 (7 1/2 ips, 1/4 track stereo)
Transfer: Master Reels > Pioneer RT-1011L > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > CD Wave > flac 16


1972-07-01

01 Chameleon (Rough Cut)


1972-10-31

02 They're Makin' A Monster (take 13)


1972-12-06

03 A Little Hand
04 Drunken Irish Setter (edited version)
05 Kama Kazi *


1972-12-20

06 Kama Kazi (with sitar) *
07 They're Makin' A Monster (with chains)




John Cipollina - guitar
Gary Phillipet - guitar, vocals
Jim McPherson. - piano, vocals
Hutch Hutchinson - bass, vocals
David Weber - drums



Comments:

- As far as we are aware these versions have not previously circulated.
- This is how it is spelt on the reel box *

Notes:

- Some tracks needed pitch correction.



Sources provided by Ed Perlstein
Transferred by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick
November 2025


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