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DVDylan ID: D337.suu
Recording type: Audience
City/Venue: Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Date: Monday, 26th October 1998
Never-Ending Tour Concert #1038
  1. Introduction (audio only) [w/opening credits 10:10 over black still w/transition]
  2. Gotta Serve Somebody (audio only)
  3. I'll Remember You (audio only)
  4. Cold Irons Bound (audio only)
  5. Positively 4th Street (audio only)
  6. Watching The River Flow (audio only)
  7. Can't Wait (audio only)
  8. Tomorrow Is A Long Time [clipped/shaky/unfocused 1:38:01/2 stills w/fade in, ripple and wash out transitions ]
  9. Desolation Row [5-frame still added at start for a/v sync; fade in to next song/1 19:04 still]
  10. Tangled Up In Blue [clipped 7:20:20/12 stills w/8 transitions; 0:57:10 of closing harmonica solo only]
  11. She Belongs To Me [removed 6 frames video for a/v sync]
  12. Band Introductions
  13. Highway 61 Revisited [removed 19:23 audio for transition to next song; added 10-frame still for a/v sync]
  14. Love Sick
  15. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 [shaky transition to next song/1 24:02 still w/2 cross dissolve transitions]
  16. Blowin' In The Wind [clipped 48:00/1 48:01 still; 1:10:01 audio/video removed in transition to next song]
  17. Like A Rolling Stone [shaky start 13:04/1 still w/scale down transition; 1965 salute jpeg w/thanks and fade out transition; added audience applause from second encore break to transition to end]
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Number of discs: 1
Running time: 01:38:43
Video standard: NTSC
Authoring: DVDs with menu and chapters are circulating
Sound upgraded w excellent (A) LB-6144.
LB-4567 used to fill gap in beginning applause.


D337.suu THIRD TIME AROUND

Well now, we've been here before with D174.su and D174.suu - a second upgrade that, while perfectly fine in itself, wasn't really an advance on the first. Though I no longer have D337.su to compare, it sounds to me as though the upgrade audio source used for that and D337.suu is one and the same. However, in a review of D337.su, I wrote:

Despite so much missing film ... author Cineman gives us the entire concert in top-notch audio (though is it possible to lay it on a bit louder, G?)

and, lo and behold, where D337.suu scores over its forerunner is right there, in the strong sweet presence of a sublime audio track now laid on just so. My advice, then, is the same as it was with those two LA '98s: if you already have the first upgrade, then trading up to the second probably isn't necessary, though, if you have neither one, then, yes, target D337.suu for sure.

For gig/performance info, see D337 and D337.su reviews. And finally, à propos of nothing much, the second of that pair unexpectedly brought out of the woodwork the original video-taper and contact with him led, through his generosity, to Cineman acquiring the video master. So why isn't it deployed here, ticking D337.suu's last box and so boosting it into five star country? Because Father Time, it transpired, has done for it, which serves once again to remind us all of the importance of the work that Ace and others like him do. Of course it's mainline fun, bringing hours of harmless pleasure to dozens of tragic* people, but it's documentation, restoration and preservation too, timely, vital and worthy of a medium large medal. The George Cross, maybe?

THANKS Catwoman
STARS A solid four, warmly recommended.

*(see D426.rev review)

Reviewed by Jim50 on 02nd August 2008