John Cipollina
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John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his work as a member and lead guitarist of the famous San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Copperhead formed the Copperhead band in Quicksilver and later appeared in various other bands, including Janis Joplin on the Dick Cavett show.
Early years
On August 24, 1943, John and his twin sister Manuela were born in Berkeley, California. Cipollina attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, as did his brother, Mario (born 1954) and sister, Antonia (born 1952). Gino, the father of their parents, was of Italian ancestry (Genovese and Piemontese origins). He was a realtor, and their mother, Evelyn, and godfather José Iturbi were concert pianists.
John demonstrated a lot of promise as a classical pianist in his youth, but his father gave him a guitar when he was 12 years old, and this became his primary instrument soon after.
Copperhead and Career after the Quicksilver Messenger Service.
After leaving Quicksilver in 1971, Joe Murray, a founding member of Stained Glass (AKA Gary Phillips (keyboardist), later a member of Bay Area bands Earthquake and The Greg Kihn Band), and Pete Sears formed the band Copperhead. The Sears were instantly replaced by former and longtime Bonnie Raitt bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson, who performed on the Copperhead LP and stayed with the band for the remainder of the band. Copperhead disbanded in mid 1974 after being a staple in the San Francisco Bay Area and touring Hawaii (Sunshine Crater Festival on New Years Day of 1973 with Santana), the South (opening dates for Steely Dan) and the Midwest.
Cipollina and Link Wray, a young musician influenced by John Hutchinson's playing and style in May 1974, culminated in a show together on the West Coast, with Copperhead's rhythm section and keyboardist David Bloom performing at The Whiskey in LA, where they appeared on a bill with Lighthouse from May 15 to 19). Cipollina returned to occasionally appear with Wray for the next two years.
Cipollina performed with a variety of bands, including Fish & Chips, Thunder and Lightning, the Dinosaurs, and Problem Child, among others. He was a founder of Zero and a rhythm guitarist until his death. These bands played club gigs in San Francisco, where Cipollina was well-known.
Man, a Welsh psychedelic band, toured the United States in 1975, a success in which they appeared at two gigs at the San Francisco Winterland (March 21 and 22), which were so popular that promoter Bill Graham paid them a commission and rebooked them. The band met and rehearsed with Cipollina, who performed with them in Winterland in 1975, while waiting for the new shows. Cipollina's after-math met in the United Kingdom in May 1975, during which their "Roundhouse gig" was recorded.
Micky Jones had to overdub Cipollina's parts before his Maximum Darkness album was ever released, according to Deke Leonard, who had only one track, "Bananas," to be out of tune; only one track, "Bananas," was to have his track replaced. "Everything... which makes Cipollina sounding like Cipollina is Cipollina" says the author.
The album debuted at number 25 in the UK album charts, earning the album a top-five finish.