Wantagh, NY (26-Jul-00)

3-4/5-/5-/5+/3
8-11/13/13/15/8 (avg. 12.25 B+)
Left balcony 20˙
1:34:48:13
NTSC

Concert # 1239 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocals, harp, electric & acoustic guitar)
Charlie Sexton (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitar)
Larry Campbell (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Tony Garnier (electric, acoustic & standup bass)
David Kemper (drums & percussion)

Thanks for the video to AN UNKNOWN TAPER.
Thanks for the audio to AN UNIDENTIFIED TAPER.
Audio shared by BLINDWILLY.
Edited, sound upgraded, authored & disseminated by YASSOU.

IMPROVEMENTS OVER D095
—sound upgraded
-missing songs filled with still frames
-split into two discs

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-nice, varied setlist
-dynamic Dylan vocals
-terrific lead swaps by Sexton & Campbell with Dylan holding up his end
-mean harp on "Wicked Messenger"
-many highlights with "Tombstone Blues" and "The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest"
particular standouts
-heavy rain starts pouring during "Highway 61 Revisited"
-Dylan talk: "That was a sad story, here is a sadder one" (after "Long Black Veil").
"We're getting wet, too!" (after band credits, before "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat").

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-11 (Left balcony 20˙) (virtually unobstructed position with all players represented)

AUDIO: 13 (A-): (very good/excellent unidentified source) (heavy rain drops can be heard)

STEADINESS: 13 (mostly steady with occasional off-target spots)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 15 (virtually unobstructed)

FOCUS: 8 (source DVD probably came from a 2nd or 3rd gen tape, so focus not very sharp; sufficient light and fair color; distant camera position may have stretched the camera's capacity)

EDITING: missing songs filled with stills; audio & video cut 1:49:19 before encore

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
D095
taper: not known
camera: not known
DVD obtained via trade
DVDylan rating: 4/3/5/5/3 Left balcony 20˙
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > NTSC dv > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
source not for public circulation or identification
rating: excellent (A-)
shared by blindwilly via trade
Audio disks from taper > (Feurio) wav > (flacfrontend) flac
flac files > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

UNKNOWN EDITOR'S NOTES ON THE AUDIO:
very good to excellent sound [A-]; has a lot of analog surface noise like background static and occasionally louder pop, maybe this is where the wind noise went on this recording and is less annoying than regular wind noise on the previous recordings of this show; it may also be rain drops; also has same sounding fireworks hisses d1t4.

DISC AUTHOR'S NOTES ON AUDIO:
Dylan's mic high in the mix; good bass and well-mixed instruments; audience chatter present, but doesn't dominate; rain seem to be the reason for the problems noted above in unknown editor's notes.

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS: Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.1 and Apple software.
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)