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.



Thunder And Lightning
Chi Chi Club,
San Francisco, CA
02/25/1984

Source: Master Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassettes > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 16/44.1
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac 16


Set I

01   Blues In My Bottle
02   Six Weeks In Reno
03   Down In The Bottom
04   Walkin' Blues
05   I Did It For The Band
06   Small Walk-In Box
07   Blues Back Off Of Me
08   Run Out Of West
09   You Can't Hurt Me No More
10   Four Floors Or Forty
11   Dekalb Blues and outro


Set II

01   tuning
02   Southside
03   On Top Of Old Smokey
04   Pride Of Man
05   Who Do You Love
06   Baby, Bye Bye
07   Love Me Or I'll Kill You
08   My Party
09   Bad Luck Baby
10   Fantasy World
11   Muddy Waters (with false start)
12   I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle  (with false start)
13   banter
14   Mona

encore

15   Buried Alive In the Blues
16   Dekalb Blues and outro



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



Notes:

- The vocals in "Blues In My Bottle" were very low, they have been made more prominent.
- The was a slight hum during Set II which has been removed.


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 SIRMick
February 2023



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