John Cippolina - Electric Guitarslinger

Executive Producer: Oikopleura Productions

Directed by Jesse Block & Jim Draper

Produced: 1991-2001

Born in 1943, John Cipollina started playing guitar at the dawn of Rock & Roll. He is best known as a founding member of the legendary 60's San Francisco band Quicksilver Messenger Service. During his brilliant 25 year career, this unique talent performed and recorded with dozens of other bands, including Terry & The Pirates, Thunder & Lightning, Dinosaurs, The Grateful Dead, Zero, Copperhead, Problem Child, Man, John Lee Hooker, Link Wray, and Paul Butterfield. John passed away in 1989 at the age of 45.

Archival concert footage is interspersed with reflections from Bill Graham, Jerry Garcia, Nicky Hopkins, Martin Fierro, Merl Saunders, Dan Healy, Pete Sears, Nick Gravenites, David Freiberg, Peter Albin, Greg Elmore, Barry "The Fish" Melton, Spencer Dryden, and Paul Kantner, as well as members of John's family.

Narrated by his sister Antonia, "Electric Guitarslinger" is the story of the life and music of a true rock & roll gentleman.

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