Berkeley, CA (10-Jun-88)

"At The Dawning of the N.E.T"

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Third concert of The Never-Ending Tour.

Third concert of the Interstate 88 Tour, part 1: Summer Tour of North America.

Third concert with the first Never-Ending Tour Band:
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
G. E. Smith (guitar)
Kenny Aaronson (bass)
Christopher Parker (drums).

Special thanks for the video to THE UNKNOWN TAPER.
Additional thanks for the audio to CB MASTER & LILRAVEN.
Support in identifying best sources generously provided by TOM P., RAYGUN & OUTSIDETLAW.
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU.

• Disk 1 (55:00:15) (Tracks 1-11/Songs 1-10)
  -Opening Titles [fade in to opening titles over 18:12 still]
  -Subterranean Homesick Blues [obstr. start 18:06/1 still]
  -Joey
  -Absolutely Sweet Marie [added 3-frame-still before next song for a/v sync]
  -Watching The River Flow [added 5-frame-still before next song for a/v sync]
  -Tangled Up In Blue [added 8-frame-still before next song for a/v sync]
  -Masters Of War
  -San Francisco Bay Blues [audio cut 3:15 before next song/extracted audio from video source to fill]
  -Boots Of Spanish Leather [audio clipped 2:21/extracted audio from video source to fill; obstr./unfocused 16:20/1 still minus 20 frames for a/v sync]
  -Lakes Of Pontchartrain [added 5-frame-still before song for a/v sync; CDs spilt before next song]
  -The Times They Are A-Changin' [end Disk 1 message over still]
• Disk 2 (38:39:15) (Tracks 12-21/Songs 11-17)
  -Opening Titles [fade in to opening titles]
  -It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (w/Neil Young) [5-frame still added at 3:12:24 for a/v sync]
  -In The Garden (w/Neil Young) [obstr. 5:10/1 still +10 frames for a/v sync]
  -Gates Of Eden (w/Neil Young) [5-frame still added before song for a/v sync; unfocused @ 14:40:14/15-frame still + 5 frames added for a/v sync]
  -Like A Rolling Stone (w/Neil Young) [5-frame still added before song for a/v sync; unfocused @ 20:38:23/25-frame still + 10 frames added for a/v sync; encore break cut/audio cut to match/1 still]
  -Rank Strangers To Me [start obstr. 46:27/2 stills]
  -Dylan Introduces Neil Young
  -Everybody's Movin' (w/Neil Young)
  -Maggie's Farm (w/Neil Young)
  -End Thanks & Credits [extracted ~19 seconds audio from video to fill final applause; thanks/credits/salute/fade out]

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Disk author's rating: 35+453-

Dynamic singing by Dylan. Neil Young guests on songs 11-14, 16-17.

This is a 2-disk sound upgraded edition of a concert originally circulated as a VHS tape and subsequently on DVD as D065, D065.su and D065.suu. This edition uses a superior sound track (LB-1187) and is more skillfully edited than the previous sound upgrades.

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Filmer: unknown
Unknown camera > VHS tape > ??? > D065
D065 > MacBookPro4,1.>VIDEO_TS>MPEGStreamclip 1.9.1>dv>iMovie 6.0.3.

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Taper: CB Master
LB-1187
Uploader: lilraven
HC download > MacBookPro4,1. > flac > xACT 2.20 > aiff > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3. aiff file speed reduced 0.5% w/Audacity 2.0.0 for a/v sync w/video.

DVD PROCESSING:
All work done on MacBookPro4,1.
Audio and video assets edited in iMovie 6.0.3; authored, multiplexed and burned to VIDEO_TS folder in iDVD 7.1.2 (Professional Quality 2-pass variable bit rate encoding)

CB master's notes to LB-1187:
Very good to excellent sound (B+); different recording than bootleg "San Francisco Bay Blues" based on different crowd at end of d1t1; in comparison this has a clearer more upfront sound. (see LB-1187 at http://jokerman.org.uk/lb/detail/LB-01187.html for full description)

This is a sound upgraded edition of a concert originally circulated as a VHS tape and subsequently produced on DVD as D065, D065.su and D065.suu. This edition uses a superior sound track (LB-1187) and is more skillfully edited than the previous sound upgrades by the same author. In addition, it's divided into 2 disks, thus assuring best video resolution.

Then, there's the historic factor. The Never Ending Tour began in June 0f 1988. This is the third concert, and we're lucky to have a complete show in reasonably good quality. Dylan provides a riveting performance, and his sidemen, accompanied on six songs by Neil Young, are highly energetic.

If you observe the drummer hitting the cymbals, you will notice some a/v sync issues. All of the available audio sources run a bit faster than the video, so the selected audio was slowed down 0.5%. Rather than slow it down further and cause pitch and tempo issues, the disk author inserted brief stills, mostly before some songs, to get the sync right.

5 Stars (a "must-have" at least until the mint tape surfaces)

NB: The distance rating of this and related-DVDs has been changed in accordance with Dundas's DASH-F criteria. A '3' is the correct rating, although the camera does zoom in to a '4' occasionally. A '2' is clearly unfair.

DISTANCE:

5 subject viewed from the waist up
4 head to foot
3 subject recognizable, but space at top and bottom
2 subject larger than a spot
1 subject totally unrecognizable

TANGLED UP IN TAPES (3rd edition, 1994)

Reviewed by yassou on 03rd April 2013