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Balc. L50°
Avg.Rating:
4.3 (3 votes)
DVDylan ID: D203
Recording type: Audience
City/Venue: Albany, NY
Date: Friday, 18th April 1997
  1. Pretty Peggy-O
  2. All Along The Watchtower
  3. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
  4. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
  5. Silvio
  6. Friend Of The Devil [clipped]
  7. Mr. Tambourine Man
  8. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
  9. Tombstone Blues
  10. Shooting Star [play-out only]
  11. Ballad Of A Thin Man
  12. Highway 61 Revisited
  13. Forever Young
  14. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

  15. BONUS: Rainy Day Women [same track as previous]
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Number of discs: 1
Running time: 01:36
Video standard: NTSC
Authoring: DVDs with menu and chapters are circulating
Audio is better than some recent upgrades, thus it should get a '5' for sound.
Steadiness is worse and obstructions greater than previously noted, thus a '3' for those categories.


DISC D203
SOUND Excellent throughout
IMAGE Film is 90% accomplished camerawork, marred only by periodic visits to the roof and all around (most extensively in You Go Your Way and then Silvio). Shot from left-side balcony, spotty when on full zoom but mostly good pics, if a touch faded. See plenty of everybody - Larry at this point had been in the band less than three weeks, but already looking (and playing!) the part.
RUNNING TIME The concert as presented runs 96 minutes. First song of the night - Down In The Flood - is missing altogether. Shooting Star is extensively cut such that, though we hear a nice two and a half minute play-out, the whole of the lyric is gone. A few words are snipped off the front of Devil and a few notes but no words off the start of Thin Man. The disc also includes 6:40 “bonus” footage comprising a snippet of Forever Young then all of RDW, both the same versions as just seen, but this time with audio running about three seconds ahead of video - most bizarre.
PERFORMANCE Okay
HIGHLIGHTS (1) Pretty Peggy-O (2) You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (3) a fiery Thin Man
COMMENT Larry adds nice violin to Devil and Bucky’s T Man dobro recalls ‘95 glory days of yore.
THANKS VP
STARS Four

Reviewed by Jim50 on 08th March 2006