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| DVDylan ID: | D218 |
| Recording type: | Audience |
| City/Venue: | Newcastle Arena, Newcastle, England, UK |
| Date: | Saturday, 20th June 1998 |
Never-Ending Tour Concert #990
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- If Not For You
- Cold Irons Bound
- Simple Twist Of Fate
- Silvio
- To Ramona
- Masters Of War
- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Forever Young
- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
- Highway 61 Revisited [start cut]
- Love Sick
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
| Number of discs: | 1 |
| Running time: | 01:23 |
| Video standard: | Both PAL and NTSC versions are available |
| Authoring: | DVDs with menu and chapters are circulating |
Some colour problems (see screenshots)
DISC D218
SOUND Good but overloaded: H61, Silvio and one or two others suffer accordingly (so track down D218.su2 instead).
IMAGE This fine-looking film can only have been shot with a hi-tech pro-quality camera in the hands of a competent operator. Stationed on the extreme right of the floor, his shooting angle is an oblique one across the front of the stage. This means that D and Larry are in shot all of the time (see screenshots) but the three other band members remain invisible throughout. But, its view wholly unimpeded, the lens delivers a smooth, close, clean, TV quality picture that’s a consistent joy to behold. "Colour problems" referred to above are inconsequential.
RUNNING TIME 82 minutes
PERFORMANCE Right there
HIGHLIGHTS (1) Simple Twist (2) a wonderfully played and filmed Ramona (3) Love Minus Zero
COMMENT First verse of H61 is missing. There are video gremlins in Tangled especially (also, to a lesser extent, in the songs on either side) that do strange though not unpleasant things to the picture for a while - sound not affected. For a companion piece to this disc, see D449.
THANKS JM
STARS If only sound quality matched the outstanding visuals here, this would be a top-of-the-range five. As it is, a strong four.
Reviewed by Jim50 on 14th January 2006