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 recently 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.
Copperhead
Hollywood Palladium,
Hollywood, CA
April 28th, 1972
Source: Sony ECM 22P's > Sony TC-770 Reel Master > ??? > CDR (very low gen) - recorded by Harvey Kaslow and Craig Todd
Extraction: CDR > Eac > flac 16
Lineage: Flac 16 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 4 > CD Wav > Flac 16
01 Kibitzer
02 Highway #9
03 Spin Spin
04 Wang Dang Do
05 Rider >
06 Cobra
07 Keeper Of The Flame
08 Drunken Irish Setter
09 Pete's Instrumental
10 Bigelow 6-9000
11 Roller Derby Star
John Cipollina - guitars, vocals
Gary Philippet - vocals, guitars, organ
Jim McPherson - vocals, piano, bass, percussion
David Weber - drums, percussion
Pete Sears - bass, keyboards
Notes:
- The tape flip has been tidied up.
- A number of level adjustments have been made.
- Some eq to take the bass down a notch or two.
Source provided by Steve Keyser
Extraction by Ed Perlstein www.musicimages.com
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered by SIRMick February 2024
shntool output:
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems fmt ratio filename
5:16.56 55874156 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7231 01 Kibitzer.flac
6:49.13 72178220 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7299 02 Highway #9.flac
3:41.15 39019724 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7385 03 Spin Spin.flac
5:18.35 56177564 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7334 04 Wang Dang Do.flac
6:18.63 66827420 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7249 05 Rider }.flac
5:21.43 56725580 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7220 06 Cobra.flac
7:53.13 83467820 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7188 07 Keeper Of The Flame.flac
5:34.05 58929404 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7321 08 Drunken Irish Setter.flac
11:04.43 117230780 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7251 09 Pete's Instrumental.flac
10:06.71 107065436 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7185 10 Bigelow 6-9000.flac
8:55.38 94463420 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.7331 11 Roller Derby Star.flac
76:20.20 807959524 B 0.7263 (11 files)
flac fingerprints:
01 Kibitzer.flac:d3acd970499028a9934b2528655bfef0
02 Highway #9.flac:f80e02b4af2488ce34add1623c946fff
03 Spin Spin.flac:3935aad9a3e06e97acdb3fb52ede72d9
04 Wang Dang Do.flac:1bbfe265f9c0e56253698ba530d443d8
05 Rider }.flac:8928f0381d799778b709ff253e5e410c
06 Cobra.flac:da47f2a664a8ed5bc789f3da0c552dfd
07 Keeper Of The Flame.flac:3d71b9e24fd2b8ab935b3308793010de
08 Drunken Irish Setter.flac:4aef9877327840bead80090dfe7bae39
09 Pete's Instrumental.flac:4dbbe26c6867f1432f66ddaed2904e92
10 Bigelow 6-9000.flac:171ab7b7479c224002bb260c9773f41f
11 Roller Derby Star.flac:c26eaf96a24ce5d9bee7cc9921018a40