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 any of the spinoff bands.



MuSiC
Last Day Saloon,
San Francisco, CA
07/20/1984


Source: Master Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: Wav 24/96 > iZotope RX10 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac 16



Set I

01 banter
02 Built For Comfort
03 Stagger Lee
04 Lucille
05 Walking By Myself
06 New York Town
07 Colorado Town
08 Boogie On Reggae Woman


Set II

09 Harlem Nocturne
10 I Can't Dance
11 Change around of band members/tuning
12 Johnny B. Goode
13 When You Got A Friend
14 My Problems Got Problems
15 Blind Man
16 San Francisco
17 3rd Degree


Set III

18 banter/tuning
19 Got Love
20 Jealous Kind
21 The Dance
22 Babylon
23 Howard Hughes Blues
24 Dust My Broom
25 After Midnight
26 Mona//



Barry Melton - guitar, vocals, harmonica (?)
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Merl Saunders - keyboards, vocals
Spencer Dryden - drums
Peter Albin - bass, vocals

Friends

Mike Wilhelm - guitar, vocals
Bob Flurie - guitar
Joey Covington - drums


Comments:

- If you look at the spectral view of this recording you may have some doubts as to it's stated source but we are going with what Steve has it listed as.
- Be careful with your volume setting because this one jumps right of the speakers and into your face.

Notes:

- The last 4:30 of "Mona" has been patched on from an unknown aud that circulates. It was pitch adjusted and eq'd so that it is a better fit.


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 by SIRMick May 2024


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