London/Brixton (31-Mar-95)

BOB DYLAN
Brixton Academy
London, England, UK
March 31, 1995
DVDylan ID #182.msu
Masters Series 158.msu

3-5+/5+/5/5/5
8-15/15/14/15/14 (avg. 14.50 A+)
Right balcony 30˙
1:48:20:19
PAL

DIFFERENCES AND IMPROVEMENTS OVER D182.msu/MS-158.msu:
-sourced from the master tape
-does not have the glitches and tape skips noticed on D182.pal (the source for
D182.su)

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-last of the three Brixton March 1995 shows, and clearly one for the ages
-Elvis Costello, Chrissie Hynde & Carole King join in on last two songs w/wild
dancing by King, in particular
-first “Tombstone Blues” since Slane, Ireland July 8, 1984!
-Dylan forgets to introduce the band and says “I’m not going to either!”
-Dylan sings several songs sans guitar, center stage w/harp
-another tender & moving acoustic set highlighted by Jackson’s acoustic
guitar & Baxter’s mandolin & dobro; stellar vocals and guitar picking by Dylan on “The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll” & “It's All Over Now, Baby Blue”
-great, sustained harp, especially on “Mr. Tambourine Man” & “My Back Pages”
-strong performances of “In the Garden” & “Joey” with Jackson & Dylan trading licks
-crowd sing-along on choruses of encores
-beautifully ragged “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”
-engine room well-manned, as is their custom, by Watson & Garnier

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-15 (Right balcony 30˙) Effective zooming. Steady, unobstructed view of Dylan mostly waist-up with Jackson often in the frame. Costello, King & Hyde seen in encores; Garnier & Baxter rarely seen; Watson not seen

AUDIO: 15 (excellent LB-7047) (had cuts before encores that were filled with extracted audio from the video soundtrack)

STEADINESS: 14 (steady and on-target until last two songs when crowd gets wild)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 15 (mostly unobstructed)

FOCUS: 14 (excellent color & light; a tad vivid in orange/red spectrum; focus quite good with occasional adjustments; grainy when close-up in orange/red spectrum)

EDITING: editor filled missing and obstructed parts with stills (see setlist details)

Concert #657 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, acoustic & electric guitar, harp)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar, electric lap steel guitar, dobro, mandolin)
John Jackson (acoustic & electric guitar)
Tony Garnier (electric & standup bass)
Winston Watson (drums & percussion)
Elvis Costello (guitar & shared vocals on “I Shall Be Released” and “Rainy Day Women #12&35)
Chrissie Hynde & Carole King (shared vocals on “I Shall Be Released” and “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35)

Filmed by: “THE TWO DAVES”
Master video transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by LOCAL TAPER UK
Audio shared by KISSEBER
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-158/D182.m
Taper: “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
D6 A8 S9 H9 F8 BR2
106 mins
VIDEO : Mpeg-2, 720 x 576. 25 fps, pic ratio 4.3. PAL
AUDIO : AC3 Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, stereo 38.4 kb/s
EC30 tapes transferred to PC via a Panasonic NV-W1 Professional triple standard vhs machine.
Files authored to DVD with Tempgenc DVD Works Author 4
MS-032 vob files > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-7047
LB rating: A
Taper: local taper UK
Shared by kisseber via bittorent download
?? -> portable DATrecorder - clone -> (digital transfer) m-audio delta audiophile 2496 -> Wavelab -> ssrc -> cdwave for tracking -> tlh
flac files > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3.

DVD PRODUCTION NOTES:
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); torrent generated in Bittorrent 4.4.1.

ADDITIONAL COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-158:
And here we were again back at Brixton one more time, and what a night! Very well filmed, steady and clear with some nice guests in the encores - Carole King idiot dancing and Elvis Costello singing his heart out. What a blast! Just watch the end of “I Shall Be Released” to see hero-worship at its most intense. A lovely film.
Remember, even if you have some of the Daves films already that at best your copies
will be 2 generations poorer than anything in the Masters Series, so get em all.
These will be with original sound though many will feature as sound upgrades eventually with my two mates Yassou and Madhasse helping out.

ADDITIONAL LB NOTES FOR LB-7047 & RELATED LB ITEMS:
ssrc-corrected version of LB-5962; some minor static @start of "My Back Pages").
(“Bob's Full House” considered by sound upgrade author, but more audience chatter.)
bittorrent download 12/08; same recording as LB-5962 based on same clapping wavs at end of d1t3 with similar wav and spectral view except levels a little different and that has less above 22k; (did not listen to all of this)
02/13 Carsten reports Bach and local taper UK A recorded close to each other

LB-5962 notes: in 4-way comparison these are all different recordings based on different crowd at end of dt19; this has the warmest fullest most natural sound over LB-1866, bootleg "Brixton Blues", and bootleg "Brixton Blues"; excellent sound [A]

LB-5785 (“Bob’s Full House”) notes: drop/cut between cdrs; has a lot of clipping and limiting