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.



Terry and The Pirates
Unknown Studio
October 25th, 1978

Source: Soundboard > CDR
Transfer: CDR > EAC > Wav
Lineage: Wav > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac 16


01 The Light Thru The Willows
02 TD's Natural Blues
03 See What Your Love Can Do
04 Mystery Train (with false start)
05 Silverado Trail



Terry Dolan - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar
Greg Douglass - guitar
David Hayes - bass
Jeff Myers - drums


Notes:

- Pitch adjusted
- The original hand written tracklist (see attached) has been changed to show that this is from Rancho Nicasio but there is not the slightest hint of an audience on the recordings. For now we are showing this as being from a studio session.



Source 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
April 2026


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