Nick Gravenites w/ John Cipollina
Berkely
4 May 1985

I don't have much information about this disc. It appears to be a studio session or more likely, a home strudio session. It sounds like a typical mono reel-to-reel recorsing as there isn't any muscial separation in the channels. But I don't know for sure, someone was running a mix as you'll hear a few reverb and channel swapping effectis. There isn't any audience so this isn't a Thunder & Lightning show.  My guess is this was some sort of recording session or a even a rehersal session for Thunder and Lightning - the band's name in 1985 as they toured at that time. Because of the unreleased songs on this session, it's possible that this is material is from the unreleased studio album of the Nick & John band. They had already released one album Monkey Medicine and they were often quoted that they completed about 3/4 of the 2nd album but it's never seen the light of day. It seems everyone was into Duran Duran in the 80's (instead of decent, straight ahead blues). Anyway, if this was a recording session for the 2nd album, that makes it quite rare. These likely would have been the musicians at that time:

 Nick Gravenites: guitar, vocals
 John Cipollina: guitar
 Doug Kilmer: bass
 Greg Elmore: drums

  1. Much Too Young To Die
  2. Fantasy World
  3. Run Out of West
  4. Instrumental
  5. In The Wintery Countryside
  6. I Did It For the Band
  7. Walking Blues
  8. You Can't Hurt Me No More
  9. Going Back To Anna
10. My Party

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