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 > CD Wave > Flac 24/96



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:

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     4:56.707     170903084 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6012  02 Down In The Bottom.flac
     4:36.493     159260204 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5726  03 Six Weeks In Reno.flac
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     8:27.907     292554284 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5878  12 Who Do You Love.flac
     3:39.680     126535724 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5931  13 My Party.flac
     0:44.280      25505324 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5121  14 Nick talking.flac
    64:31.040    2229719612 B                            0.5907  (13 files)

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02 Down In The Bottom.flac:1ae3329d71ccad6e7bba5a2052bce5ee
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08 Buried Alive In The Blues.flac:bd2beb0ace3865570ce1b79ffbe239c4
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