Mérida, Spain

BOB DYLAN
Plaza De Toros (Bull Ring)
Mérida, Spain
July 10, 2008
DVDylan ID #1163.su

Upper Left 20˙
4+/5-/3+/5+/2
12/13/9/15/5 (avg. 10.50 B-)
1:44:30:14
NTSC

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-kinda cool to see Dylan play in a bull ring
-Dylan in very good voice
-Dylan introduces a tenor sax player (Brian Wilson?) during band intros
-Tony sits on stool even when playing upright bass
-enthusiastic crowd singing along on "Like A Rolling Stone"
-missing two songs and substantial parts of 2 songs on Disc 2

DISTANCE/POSITION: 12 (filmer situated about 20˙ stage left from a lower seat above the crowd standing in the ring; zooms in very close and often pans left to right, so all players are given their due)

AUDIO: 13 (excellent Bach recording; crowd on the noisy side)

STEADINESS: 9 (long shots mostly steady but panning and zooming often unsteady)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 15 (virtually unobstructed)

FOCUS: 5 (faded color and focus on close-ups poor; looks like it may have been shot through some kind of filter)

EDITING: minimal editing needed on disc 1; disc 2 had two missing songs and two substantially cut songs, so stills added to make a complete concert

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Taper: unidentified
YouTube source found by napbon.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgfWnPI-_0
flv > HandBrake 0.9.9 > MP4 (H264) > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3.

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
DIME tracker download of LB-6271 > flac > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II > iMovie 6.0.3

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
Produced by yassou on a MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.5 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)

LB notes for LB 6271:
Taper: "Bach"
Rating: A
Lineage: Neumann AK40 > MTX 191 A > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 >WaveLab 6.01 > dBpower AMP Music Converter > MD5summer