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 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 many of the spinoff bands.

1483

Dinosaurs
The Catalyst,
Santa Cruz, CA
October 14th, 1983

Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac 16


Set I

01 Who Makes The Moves? >
02 What Can It Be >
03 Closer (with Spoonful tease and band intros)
04 Blind Man
05 Jack O' Diamonds >
06 I Can't Dance
07 banter
08 Mona


Set II

09 Barry talking
10 Reelin' And A Pitchin' >
11 The Dance
12 Independence Day
13 Mojo Navigator
14 Amagamalin Street
15 banter
16 Motel Party Baby
17 talk and tuning

encore

18 Promontory Rider >
19 Jesse James


Barry Melton - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Robert Hunter - guitar, vocals
Peter Albin - bass, vocals
Spencer Dryden - drums


Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transferred by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick
December 2025


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