Once
SF Musicworks, San Francisco, CA, February 20, 1988
SF Musicworks, San Francisco, CA, February 20, 1988
Version seeded via DimeADozen, July 2005
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Disc 1 | ||
| Set 1 | ||
| 1. | Everyday I Got the Blues | 8:36 |
| 2. | I Shot the Sheriff | 7:35 |
| 3. | Midnight Hour | 6:51 |
| 4. | Sweet Love | 6:19 |
| 5. | Green Onions > My Babe (Don't Spend No Tears) | 9:42 |
| 6. | Who Do You Love > "We are Once, and we're gone." | 10:05 |
| Total | 49:11 | |
| Disc 2 | ||
| Set 2 | ||
| 1. | tuning > "We're back." > band intro > Knock on Wood | 8:56 |
| 2. | Evil Ways | 7:59 |
| 3. | Baby Whatcha Wanna Do | 7:28 |
| 4. | Stormy Monday | 9:51 |
| 5. | Green Onions > You Gotta Help Me | 9:59 |
| 6. | Gimme Some Lovin' | 7:42 |
| 7. | applause > Mona > Tequila > Mona > band intro | 11:06 |
| Total | 63:02 | |
EXCELLENT UNCIRCULATED SOUNDBOARD, great sound
Master tape > equalizer > cd > wav > flac
| "The name of the band tells all, ONCE, in the sense this band is existed only for this show, 1 show, 1 time... As you can see from the set list it is a covers' performance, some blues, some classics, some reggae, some rock, but this testify the ability of John Cipollina to adapt his great guitar style to every kind of music, showing us his versatility... This is unique, listening to it one more time before to upload this, I had a lot of fun, and I had the proof again of the immense talent of John playing his guitar... even if all of us know it..." - Fabio Nosotti |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| John Cipollina | Vocals, Guitars | |
| Mario Cipollina | Bass | |
| Alex Ligertwood | Vocals | |
| Pete Sears | Keyboards | |
| Tony Johnson (or Williams) | Drums | |
Musicworks, San Francisco, CA, February 20, 1988
Version circulated as audio CD's, via Cipollina Yahoo group, 2002
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Disc 1 | ||
| Set 1 | ||
| 1. | tuning > Every Day I Got the Blues | 8:40 |
| 2. | I Shot the Sheriff | 7:30 |
| 3. | Midnight Hour | 6:57 |
| 4. | Sweet Love | 6:21 |
| 5. | Green Onions / My Baby Don't Spend No Tears | 9:48 |
| 6. | Who Do You Love > "We're Once. We're gone." | 10:32 |
| Total | 49:53 | |
| Disc 2 | ||
| Set 2 | ||
| 1. | "We're back." > Band intro's | 1:05 |
| 2. | Knock On Wood | 6:26 |
| 3. | Evil Ways | 8:00 |
| 4. | Baby What You Want Me To Do | 7:38 |
| 5. | Stormy Monday | 9:55 |
| 6. | Green Onions / You Gotta Help Me | 10:13 |
| 7. | Gimme Some Lovin' | 7:30 |
| 8. | Mona > Band intro's | 10:07 |
| Total | 61:00 | |
At the start of Set 2, John says 'Tony Williams', but after Mona, he says 'Tony Johnson'.
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| John Cipollina | Vocals, Guitar | |
| Mario Cipollina | Bass | |
| Alex Ligertwood | Guitar, Vocals | |
| Pete Sears | Keyboards | |
| Tony Williams or Tony Johnson | Drums | |
SF Musicworks, San Francisco, CA, February 20, 1988, DVD
Version seeded via LosslessLegs, February 2012
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Set 1 | ||
| 1. | tuning | |
| 2. | Everyday I Have The Blues | |
| 3. | I Shot the Sheriff | |
| 4. | In The Midnight Hour | |
| 5. | Bring It On Home To Me | |
| 6. | My Babe | |
| 7. | Who Do You Love | |
| Set 2 | ||
| 1. | Knock On Wood | |
| 2. | Evil Ways (missing) | |
| 3. | You Got Me Runnin' (missing) | |
| 4. | Stormy Monday Blues | |
| 5. | Help Me | |
| 6. | Gimme Some Lovin' | |
| 8. | Mona > Tequila > Mona | |
Video source: Steve Keyser's VHS (probably 1st gen)
Transfer: VHS > Sony RDR-VX535 > Canopus ADVC110 > Sony Vegas Video Pro 11.0 (64 bit) > TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress > Mpeg2 @ 9.2 mbs
Transferred by Doug Moon
Video recoded with TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 4 @ 6.76 mbs for standard DVD compliance
Audio track 1: Soundboard master > equalizer > cd > wav > flac, seeded by Fabio Nosotti
Audio track 2: Matrix 70/30
1) Soundboard master > equalizer > cd > wav > flac, seeded by Fabio Nosotti
2) Original soundtrack
Both audio tracks are LPCM @ 1.546 mbs
DVD authored with TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| John Cipollina | Vocals, Guitar | |
| Mario Cipollina | Bass | |
| Alex Ligertwood | Guitar, Vocals | |
| Pete Sears | Keyboards | |
| Tony Johnson | Drums | |
| Notes: | |
| - | There are two cuts in "Everyday I Have The Blues". The first is around 2:59, 15.5 seconds are missing. The second is at 3:06, about 17 seconds are missing. |
| - | The first couple of beats of "I Shot The Sheriff" are missing. |
| - | The first 23 seconds of "My Babe" are missing |
| - | The first 1:08 of "Stormy Monday Blues" are missing. There is also a cut at around 4:22, a further 15 seconds are missing. |
| - | The last 2:44 of "Help Me" are missing. |
| - | The first 4:19 of "Gimme Some Lovin'" are missing. |
| - | The first 7 beats of "Mona" are missing. The last 1:13 are also missing. |
| - | The soundboard is missing about 8 seconds of the opening tuning and 3 seconds during the second part of "Mona", these has been patched in from the soundtrack. The last 49 seconds of "Mona" are missing. |
| - | I did quite a lot of work on the levels for the soundboard and also applied some light noise reduction. |
| - | I have eq'd the soundtrack to bring out the mids and highs. |
Many thanks to Steve for letting me have a copy of this, and Doug for his help in making this wonderful document of John's musical gift available.
To Fabio for the soundboard and to Rick Martin who helped facilitate matters.
A Dewins Production
audio editing and synchronisation, and DVD authoring, SIRMick, February 2012
SF Musicworks, San Francisco, CA, February 20, 1988
John Cipollina The Official Archive Series 79, released May 9, 2026.
Photo of Alex Ligertwood by Ed Perlstein
| 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. |
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Set I - 50:53 | ||
| 1. | tuning | 2:24 |
| 2. | Everyday I Got The Blues | 7:04 |
| 3. | I Shot The Sheriff | 8:05 |
| 4. | In The Midnight Hour | 7:14 |
| 5. | Bring It On Home To Me | 5:45 |
| 6. | My Babe | 10:23 |
| 7. | Who Do You Love? | 9:54 |
| Set II - 65:23 | ||
| 8. | tuning/band intros | |
| 9. | Knock On Wood | |
| 10. | Evil Ways | |
| 11. | You Got Me Runnin' | |
| 12. | Stormy Monday Blues | |
| 13. | Help Me | |
| 14. | Gimme Some Lovin' | |
| 15. | ~~encore break > tuning~~ | |
| encore | ||
| 16. | Mona | |
| Total | 116:16 | |
| Comments: | |
| - | - This show is dedicated to the memory of Alex Ligertwood, who passed away recently. |
Source: FOH console main mix out > Sony TC-D5M > soundboard cassette master (Maxell UD-XLII-90)
Transfer: Cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 > DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz > Tascam Hi-Res Editor > Samplitude Pro X6 > 24/96 wav
Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX 12 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > Cd Wave > flac 16
Source: FOH console main mix out > Sony TC-D5M > soundboard cassette master (Maxell UD-XLII-90)
Transfer: Cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 > DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz > Tascam Hi-Res Editor > Samplitude Pro X6 > 24/96 wav
Lineage: wav 24/96 > iZotope RX 12 Advanced > Cd Wave > flac 24
Source: FOH mix + recording by Charlie Kaiser
Transfer by Jim Blackwood
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo of Alex Ligertwood courtesy of Ed Perlstein musicimages.com
Edited and Mastered by SIRMick
| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| John Cipollina | guitar |
| Mario Cipollina | bass |
| Pete Sears | keyboard |
| Alex Ligertwood | guitar, vocals |
| Tony Johnson | drums, vocals (5) |
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