Liverpool, UK (26-Jun-96)

BOB DYLAN
Empire Theatre
Liverpool, England, UK
June 26, 1996
DVDylan ID #216.msu
Masters Series 161.msu

3-5+/5+/4/5/5-
8-15/15/11/14/13 (avg. 13.25 A-)
Left balcony 30˙
1:04:16:13 (incomplete concert)
PAL

DIFFERENCES AND IMPROVEMENTS OVER D216.m2/MS-161:
-sound upgraded
-missing and obstructed parts filled with stills (fragmentary songs not included)
-different top and track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-Dylan sings first word of “Yesterday” then switches to “My Back Pages” in what may
have been a nod to playing in the Beatles’ hometown
-Al Kooper sits in and adds great organ, especially on “Positively 4th Street” and
“She Belongs To Me”
-cool leads by Dylan on acoustic numbers
-long, piercing harp solo on “My Back Pages” gets crowd going
-crowd sings along on “Don't Think Twice, It's All Right” and “My Back Pages”
-“Alabama Getaway” a pure blast

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-15 (Left balcony 30˙) (excellent position with great chest-up closeups; cam mostly stays on Bob when singing, but others seen when cam zooms out and pans left and right during instrumental breaks)

AUDIO: 15 (excellent LB-3002) (one of the best audience audios)

STEADINESS: 11 (a bit jittery, but quite watchable)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 14 (lip of balcony rail sometimes seen, but otherwise, an unimpeded view)

FOCUS: 13 (excellent color and light; red/orange spectrum too vivid at times; sharpness about as good as it gets with analog tapes)

EDITING: editor filled missing and shaky/obstructed parts with stills; missing and fragmentary songs not included (see setlist details)

Filmed by “THE TWO DAVES”
Master video transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by LEGENDARY TAPER J
Audio shared by OUTSIDETLAW
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Taper: “The Two Daves”
transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
D8 A8 S8 H9 F8 BL5
60 mins (8 songs missing or fragmentary)
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-161 VOB files > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-3002 (BOOTLEG: “Loving Of Liverpool”)
Taper: LEGENDARY TAPER J
Manufacturer: Mainstream
Catalog No.: MAST-047/048
Shared by OutsideTLaw via CD trade
LB rating: A
commercial bootleg > unclekurty's wallet > EAC > wav > MKW > shn
CDs > hd > aiff 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)

ADDITIONAL COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-161/D216.ms:
Not only are both these shows well filmed, they were brilliant concerts
The band an Bob really COOK,, don't miss ‘em.

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 EDITING NOTES:
Missing and fragmentary songs are not filled with stills as with some other yassou projects.

ADDITIONAL LB NOTES FOR LB-3002:
bittorrent download 08/05; excellent sound [A]; same recording as previous version but with higher levels, more bass, and warmer sound and channels switched
stray clap d1t4 4:35
Review from Bobs Boots:
An absolutely top-notch sound quality CD from the second night of
Liverpool 1996. Tremendous performance as well, featuring Al Cooper
on Organ throughout the show. Very attractively packaged. It all
adds up to one of the best CD releases of a 1996 show.
Highly recommended. Disc two - Track 6 is listed as
Yesterday/My Back Pages. This is Bob Dylan acknowledging the
hometown of the Beatles, and not really an actual performance
of the Paul McCartney song. While strumming the intro to
'My Back Pages', Dylan sings 'Yesterday...' before breaking off
into the correct lyrics!