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| DVDylan ID: | D176.su |
| Recording type: | Audience |
| City/Venue: | Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth, England, UK |
| Date: | Sunday, 24th September 2000 |
- Somebody Touched Me
- To Ramona
- Visions Of Johanna
- Mama, You Been On My Mind
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Searching For A Soldier's Grave
- Country Pie
- Can't Wait
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- If Not For You
- The Wicked Messenger
- Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
- Love Sick
- Like A Rolling Stone
- Fourth Time Around [cut]
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Forever Young
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Blowin' In The Wind
| Number of discs: | 1 |
| Video standard: | PAL |
| Authoring: | DVDs with menu and chapters are circulating |
Audio source: Crystal Cat
DISC D176.su
SOUND Glory, glory, glory
IMAGE Camera is left of centre and a long way back (looks like rear of floor) but in competent hands and with the stage still well within reach. Whilst a worthy companion piece to the splendid D236.su (same venue, next night), this film is less strikingly coloured and slightly less intimate. Like the other, it's also (check out the screenshots) rather Bobcentric, with just an occasional pan around the band to see what everyone else is up to. But it's also less troubled by heads and, barring one bout of wanderlust during Pill-Box Hat, consistently on target, with much fine footage resulting. A1.
RUNNING TIME 1:43:30. Just one song - Fourth Time Around, sadly shorn of its the first five lines - is cut. All else complete.
PERFORMANCE Spot-on throughout
HIGHLIGHTS Lots. As well as the usual suspects - Ramona (beautifully filmed and played, with Larry's mandolin to the fore), Visions, Mama, If Not For You, Love Sick - songs of lesser pedigree - Can't Wait, for instance - also stand up and demand their share of attention. And even the less stellar picks feature minor delights: thus You may call me Bono / You may call me Sting ... Lovely stuff indeed.
COMMENT With 11 songs from the sixties, four from the seventies, two from the nineties and two covers, this is Bob trading heavily on his past. But what a past - and trading on these terms is surely a bargain in anyone's book. This top-drawer beauty should not be missed.
THANKS Xavier + Alec
STARS Five
Reviewed by Jim50 on 26th August 2006
A precious and worthwhile document.
Video, a bit obstructed at times, a bit grainy, a bit shakey at times. so it goes. The rest of the time the taper makes great use of his floor position, capturing each of the players from the waist up (save Kemper on drums) throughout the night, while staying primarily on Bob.
Audio, some of the best around on DVD, several 'stars' above some other 5 star rated audio.
Top-notch authoring and sync work.
This is a great show from a great year of shows, featuring Bob's all around best band in years at the top of their collective game. As Bob says in his intros: "some of the best players in the world". No doubt. This DVD provides further evidence that the campell/sexton line-up offered Dylan such a strong musical base as to allow him to really stretch out and explore his own performances, often to wonderful effect. Bob needs confident, virtuoso side men, and his work demands nothing less.
performance highlights include the If not for you > the wicked messenger sequence featuring a firey harp solo on the later,
well worth having, less than five stars only due to occasional video issues.
Reviewed by jman on 24th May 2006