COPPERHEAD - 1972 Selftitled

COPPERHEAD / JOHN CIPOLLINA

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There is an ampifier and a Gibson SG on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum in Cleveland and belongs to JOHN CIPOLLINA.The amp stack was made up of Standel bass amps (each Standel was equipped with two 15-inch speakers), two Fender amps a Fender Twin Reverb with two 12-inch speakers and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns. His guituar was wired so that the bass pickup fed into the two Standel bass amps , and the treble pickup fed the remainder of the stack. Cipollina used a custom foot-switched system to select reverb, tremolo, Astro Echoplex(the unit mounted on the right of the Twin Reverb), Standel Modulux(on the left of the twin reverb) or the horns. Truck running lights indicated which effect was being used.
Cipollina also employed a Gibson Maestro Fu, Vox wah-wah and volume pedals.Lead guitar and founding member of Q.S.M.S ,Copperhead,Man,Raven,Terry & the Pirates,Freelight,Novato Frank Band,Rocky Sullivan,San Francisco All stars,Thunder & Lighting,Dinosaurs,Zero,Fish
&Chip,Problem child.He played with Rock giants like J.Hendrix,Grateful Dead, Carlos
Santana,Tom Fogerty.

This one and only album was recorded in Columbia with the help of his friend (ex-Woodstock organisers) David Lang who left the company and that was also the end of Copperhead because Columbia refused to promote and issue the 2nd album because of esoteric problems.

Unforunately that was the end of Copperhead!

John left this world on May 1989 at the age of 45 from emphysema.
Tracks :

1. Roller Derby Star 4:15 - 2. Kibitzer 3:45 - 3. A Little Hand 5:00 - 4. Kamikaze 5:26- 5. Spin-Spin 3:17 - 6. Pawnshop Man 5:29 -7. Wing-Dang-Doo 4:05 - 8. They're Making a Monster 7:36 - 9. Chameleon 3:39

Line Up :
John Cipollina lead guitar,hawaian steel guitar

Gary Philippet vocal,guitar,organ

Jim Mac Pherson vocal,piano,bass,percussion

Hutch Hutchinson vocal,bass

David Weber drums,percussion

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Link : Copperhead 1972