Thunder & Lightning 10/09/1984
Lonestar Cafe, New York, NY
Source Summary
Source: Soundboard Cassette Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96 Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac 16 edited and mastered SIRMick March 2026
Source: Soundboard Cassette Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96 Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac 16 edited and mastered SIRMick March 2026
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 band
Thunder and Lightning
Lone Star Café
New York, NY
10/09/1984
Source: Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac 16
01 //Blues In My Bottle
02 Down In The Bottom
03 Six Weeks In Reno
04 I'll Pull The Trigger
05 Small Walk-in Box
06 Goin' Back To Anna
07 band intros
08 Buried Alive In The Blues
09 Herpes Blues
10 Love Me Or I'll Kill You
11 Nick talking
12 Who Do You Love
13 My Party
14 Nick talking
Nick Gravenites - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Harvey Brooks - bass
Gary Gold - drums
Notes:
- Some noise reduction has been applied.
- Thanks to Mossa for his source which has been used to patch the first 1:12 seconds of "Love Me Or I'll Kill You"
Source: Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and Mastered by SIRMick
shntool output:
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems fmt ratio filename
4:44.51 50217596 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5858 01 Blues In My Bottle.flac
4:56.53 52339100 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6047 02 Down In The Bottom.flac
4:36.37 48773468 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5580 03 Six Weeks In Reno.flac
5:14.20 55436684 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5801 04 I'll Pull The Trigger.flac
7:40.52 81266348 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6384 05 Small Walk-in Box.flac
6:03.22 64084988 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6201 06 Goin' Back To Anna.flac
1:00.36 10668716 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4785 07 band intros.flac
7:58.22 84370988 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6120 08 Buried Alive In The Blues.flac
7:44.52 81971948 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6030 09 Herpes Blues.flac
1:39.43 17564780 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4233 11 Nick talking.flac
8:27.68 89594780 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5957 12 Who Do You Love.flac
3:39.51 38751596 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5939 13 My Party.flac
0:44.21 7811036 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4656 14 Nick talking.flac
64:31.03 682852028 B 0.5941 (13 files)
flac fingerprints:
01 Blues In My Bottle.flac:925d7e3c9be91d0707158d092f50e835
02 Down In The Bottom.flac:36d9959159a99c60b66af03350bccd49
03 Six Weeks In Reno.flac:a9da2dd7f6d57f7c18c7f330c4b72339
04 I'll Pull The Trigger.flac:c55ef9231fc4bf71f95d81388d2a8ab4
05 Small Walk-in Box.flac:ac7f1d354c0611315cdaca12b744358e
06 Goin' Back To Anna.flac:013c23926b9b15563e344e721f726632
07 band intros.flac:3ab35f7a07c8199cb92bbd8275b66911
08 Buried Alive In The Blues.flac:7e76c45f353b6dd17b58b1b7cf405ca0
09 Herpes Blues.flac:e70baa404fb1420e9ed3f7be6c49a19c
11 Nick talking.flac:84d4f2635649b109ad4b7c438b069ad8
12 Who Do You Love.flac:af978eae40f34ff78974bb9b17935385
13 My Party.flac:799b890068b03af5d367021790182ade
14 Nick talking.flac:ca4a48cb2e18b4fca37b51e9f89eadbb
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 band
Thunder and Lightning
Lone Star Café
New York, NY
10/09/1984
Source: Soundboard Cassette
Transfer: Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac 16
01 //Blues In My Bottle
02 Down In The Bottom
03 Six Weeks In Reno
04 I'll Pull The Trigger
05 Small Walk-in Box
06 Goin' Back To Anna
07 band intros
08 Buried Alive In The Blues
09 Herpes Blues
10 Love Me Or I'll Kill You
11 Nick talking
12 Who Do You Love
13 My Party
14 Nick talking
Nick Gravenites - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Harvey Brooks - bass
Gary Gold - drums
Notes:
- Some noise reduction has been applied.
- Thanks to Mossa for his source which has been used to patch the first 1:12 seconds of "Love Me Or I'll Kill You"
Source: Steve Keyser
Transfer by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and Mastered by SIRMick
shntool output:
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems fmt ratio filename
4:44.51 50217596 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5858 01 Blues In My Bottle.flac
4:56.53 52339100 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6047 02 Down In The Bottom.flac
4:36.37 48773468 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5580 03 Six Weeks In Reno.flac
5:14.20 55436684 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5801 04 I'll Pull The Trigger.flac
7:40.52 81266348 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6384 05 Small Walk-in Box.flac
6:03.22 64084988 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6201 06 Goin' Back To Anna.flac
1:00.36 10668716 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4785 07 band intros.flac
7:58.22 84370988 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6120 08 Buried Alive In The Blues.flac
7:44.52 81971948 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6030 09 Herpes Blues.flac
1:39.43 17564780 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4233 11 Nick talking.flac
8:27.68 89594780 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5957 12 Who Do You Love.flac
3:39.51 38751596 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5939 13 My Party.flac
0:44.21 7811036 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4656 14 Nick talking.flac
64:31.03 682852028 B 0.5941 (13 files)
flac fingerprints:
01 Blues In My Bottle.flac:925d7e3c9be91d0707158d092f50e835
02 Down In The Bottom.flac:36d9959159a99c60b66af03350bccd49
03 Six Weeks In Reno.flac:a9da2dd7f6d57f7c18c7f330c4b72339
04 I'll Pull The Trigger.flac:c55ef9231fc4bf71f95d81388d2a8ab4
05 Small Walk-in Box.flac:ac7f1d354c0611315cdaca12b744358e
06 Goin' Back To Anna.flac:013c23926b9b15563e344e721f726632
07 band intros.flac:3ab35f7a07c8199cb92bbd8275b66911
08 Buried Alive In The Blues.flac:7e76c45f353b6dd17b58b1b7cf405ca0
09 Herpes Blues.flac:e70baa404fb1420e9ed3f7be6c49a19c
11 Nick talking.flac:84d4f2635649b109ad4b7c438b069ad8
12 Who Do You Love.flac:af978eae40f34ff78974bb9b17935385
13 My Party.flac:799b890068b03af5d367021790182ade
14 Nick talking.flac:ca4a48cb2e18b4fca37b51e9f89eadbb
Add Show
Comments
Source Collectors
Related Artist Sources
History
Add Comment
Source: Soundboard Cassette...