Cardiff, Wales (06-May-02)

BOB DYLAN
Cardiff International Arena
Cardiff, Wales, UK
May 6, 2002
DVDylan ID #2008.msu
Masters Series 181.msu

4-5/5+/5-/4+/5-
11-14/15/13/12/13 (avg. 13.25 (A-)
Left balcony 50˙
2:23:34:17

DIFFERENCES & IMPROVEMENTS TO D2008:
-sound upgraded
-filled off-target parts & cuts with stills
-different title & track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-great, varied setlist
-Campbell’s infectious smile graces many songs
-excellent train-whistle vocal back-ups by Sexton & Cambell “Hummingbird” augmented
by Campbell’s country electric guitar picking
-drum beat by Recile on “It's Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
-“Solid Rock” solid, indeed
-sinewy “Lonesome Day Blues”
-“Visions Of Johanna” delivered beautifully with fine acoustic picking by Campbell
-Sexton skillfully picks on ”Moonlight”
-closeups on “Summer Days” showcase Sexton’s and Campbell’s guitar techniques not to
mention Dylan’s often underrated playing
-terrific harp on several songs, especially on “The Wicked Messenger”
-crowd claps along to “Like A Rolling Stone” while Sexton (Campbell?) picks out
melody of “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring”
-Campbell’s slide electric guitar a clinicon “Honest With Me” while Dylan’s delivery
sounds like he really could create a new imperial empire
-inspirational back-up vocals by Campbell & Sexton on “Knockin' On Heaven's Door”
& “Blowin’ In The Wind”

DISTANCE/POSITION: 11-14 (left balcony 50˙) filmer had to avoid both the rail and a body on the left, so zoom used to frame Dylan, Sexton & Campbell with little room for panning; Garnier occasionally seen and Recile not seen at all except during bows before encores

AUDIO: 15 (excellent NTE recording, LB-5251; audio had applause cuts between songs and encores that had to be matched by video cuts)

STEADINESS: 13 (filmer generally kept a steady hand)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 13 (body on left intruded and the rail had to be zoomed through; cables in picture bot not distracting)

FOCUS: 13 (excellent color and good light; focus sharp for the most part)

EDITING: filled cuts with stills; audio cuts had to matched by video cuts before several songs; extracted audio from video soundtrack to fill some audio cuts on the upgrade audio (see setlist details)

Filmed by “THE TWO DAVES”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by NTE
Audio shared by OUTSIDETLAW
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

Concert # 1425 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, electric & acoustic guitars, harp)
Charlie Sexton (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitars)
Larry Campbell (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, cittern, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Tony Garnier (bass, acoustic bass & standup bass)
Jim Keltner (drums & percussion)

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-181/D2008
Filmed by “The Two Daves”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
D7 A7 S7 H7 F8 BL5 132 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
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-181:
another fine (and long) show on the tour, probably not quite as well filmed as
Manchester was but little it. So,,,
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.

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-5251
LB rating: A
Taper: NTE
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
Low-gen audio disks > (dBpowerAMP set to compression level 6)
drop d1t1 0:09l drop/cut between cdrs
CDs > hd > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > aiff > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

LB NOTES FOR LB-5251:
this is a close eac match to LB-0262 on d1t3; in 3-way comparison these are different recordings based on having different crowd at end of d1t3 with this being the warmest most natural sound making LB-0270 sound harsh and hollow and cc LB-0844 sound harsh

DVD PRODUCTION PROCESS:
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)