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.



Dinosaurs
Keystone,
Palo Alto, CA
08/17/1984

Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer:  Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: wav 24/96 > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac24



Dinosaurs
Keystone,
Palo Alto, CA
08/17/1984

Source: Master Soundboard Cassettes
Transfer:  Cassette > Tascam 122 MkIII > ESI 24-bit USB Audio Interface > MAC pc > wav 24/96
Lineage: wav 24/96 > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac16



Set I

01   Who Makes The Moves? >
02   San Francisco
03   Built For Comfort
04   Blind Man
05   banter/tuning
06   Motel Party Baby
07   High-Heeled Sneakers (1)
08   I Can't Dance (2)
09   tuning/banter
10   Sugaree >
11   Do The Dance (including band intros)


Set II

12   tuning
13   After Midnight
14   Good Old Rock 'N' Roll
15   Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (1)
16   Too Much Fun (1)
17   Jealous Kind >
18   Mona
19   Mojo Navigator #



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

guests:

David LaFlamme - violin for the whole show, lead vocals (1)
Commander Cody - piano (2)



Comments:

- "Mojo Navigator" from this show has never previously circulated #


- Notes:

- There were several small patches of static which have been removed.
- Loud hum removed from Set II.
- The first 16 seconds of "Good Old Rock & Roll" has been patched in from a 2nd gen aud - Thanks to Mossa.



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
SIRMick
December 2025


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