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.


Thunder And Lightning
Chi Chi Club
San Francisco, CA
04-21-1984


Source: Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC PC > WAV 16/48
Lineage: WAV > iZotope RX 9 > X Audio Compression Toolkit (xACT) > FLAC 16/48


Set I:

1. You Got To Help Me
2. Down In The Bottom
3. Trouble In Mind
4. Juarez
5. Small Walk-In Box
6. Four Floors or Forty
7. Run Out Of West
8. Tuning
9. Pride Of Man
10. You Can't Hurt Me No More
11. Goin' Back To Anna
12. Decalb Blues > Band Intro's

Set II:

13. Banter
14. Southside
15. My Party
16. Left Hand Soul
17. I'll Pull The Trigger
18. Born In Chicago
19. I Did It For The Band
20. Nick's Highland Fling (“Tow Truck”)
21. Six Weeks In Reno
22. Nick introduces John
23. Mona

Set III:

24. Bad Luck Baby
25. Who's Out There
26. Live My Life
27. Fantasy World
28. Buried Alive
29. Decalb Blues > Band Intro's


Band:
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Nick Gravenites - guitar, vocals
Doug Kilmer - bass, vocals
Greg Elmore - drums


Notes:

- All tracks pitch correct

- This is a 16/48 FLAC fileset



Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch review by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered by Seth Kaplan
October 2024

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