Dead to the World 8/12/09

Tonight: A tribute to John Cipollina with Thomas Yeates, Nick Gravenites, Mike “Fan Man” Somavilla, and Barry Melton

Fire on the Mountain – Robert Hunter and the Mystery Band 9/7/86 Pyramid Lake NV
Hair Like SunshineQuicksilver Messenger Service 11/6/66? Avalon Ballroom?

Gold and Silver
Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You
– Quicksilver Messenger Service 2/4/67
Buried Alive – Nick Gravenites, John Cipollina, Mario Cipollina, Casey Sonnabend, Michael Bloomfield (piano), Paul Butterfield, et al. Early ’70s at “Studio X” (John’s house)
Spin SpinCopperhead
Silverado Trail – Terry and the Pirates, Rising of the Moon
The Small Walk-in Box – Nicksilver 11/83
Highway 1 – Thunder and Lightning (mid-’80s)
Try a Little Tenderness – Zero 3/2/86 The Ritz, New York City
Who Makes the Moves? – Dinosaurs 7/15/84 Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
San Francisco – Melton-Saunders-Cipollina Band 2/11/84 Keystone Berkeley

5 thoughts on “Dead to the World 8/12/09”

  1. Hey! thanks youse guys — dont think i ever heard a 2 hr. Jonh Cipollina tribute on air prior to this day [unless’n twas minown!] fantastic! vivacious! all the tapes are amazing! So sweet, to hear…im diggin it….just like i did when part of John’s addmittly, “small but vicious audiance”. Shiney Mike

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  2. Ruthann Friedman has been recording and performing again, adopted by the so-called freak-folk movement. She played an Arthur Festival in LA last year or the year before. Her early work as a solo singer-songwriter has been reissued–worth checking out. A Hurried Life is a collection of previously unreleased recordings, and Constant Companion is the reissue of her 1969 Warner Bros. LP. Number her among the Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs “rediscoveries” of the 21st century.

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  3. I just happen to have Man’s 1975 UA Maximum Darkness LP at the front of the stack tonight, “special guest” John Cipollina. I’ll look for the nickname.

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  4. Hey! That guy played loud… Man oh man! When you got him wound up! WOW! He was incendiary. Incredible to hear those selections — I’d never ever forget; Riding up Haight St. in 1984, stuck in some car — but it still counts as a time I heard him! clearly, with he window down. Thanks, Nick Barry Mike Tom and David

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