DVDylan ID: D244.msu
Recording type: Audience
City/Venue: Docklands Arena/London, England, UK
Date: Sunday, 12th May 2002


3-5+/5+/4-/4-/4+
8-15/15/10/10/12 (avg. 11.75 B+)
Left balcony 50˙
2:05:01:19
PAL

IMPROVEMENTS OVER D244.m:
-cuts & obstructed parts filled with stills
-sound upgraded
-different title and track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-magnificent performance, especially “If You See Her, Say Hello” (first acoustic
performance of that song since Tallahassee, Florida, 27 April 1976) (lyric changes
delight audience; Campbell’s fiddle outstanding)
-setlist heavy on older songs (ten from the 60s); four from “Love & Theft” with “Cry A
While” the standout)
-harp tender on “Mama You Been On My Mind,” biting on “The Wicked Messenger”
-scintillating leads by Campbell & Sexton
-chilling backup vocals by Campbell & Sexton

DISTANCE/POSITION: 8-15 Left balcony 50˙ (unfortunate spot behind balcony rail, but filmer managed to capture Dylan and Campbell by zooming in above rail; Sexton & Garnier seen less, Recile rarely)

AUDIO: 15 (superlative LB-0296) (some transitions cut presumably to save space on CD)

STEADINESS: 10 (filmer had trouble staying steady on the vertical plane)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 1o (rail required zooming in)

FOCUS: 12 (good color and adequate light; focus a bit grainy, especially on closeups)

EDITING: cuts and obstructed parts filled w/stills; video cut at times for a/v sync

Concert #1430 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, harp, electric & acoustic guitars)
Charlie Sexton (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitars)
Larry Campbell (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin, fiddle, cittern, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Tony Garnier (standup, acoustic & electric bass)
Jim Keltner (drums & percussion)

Filmed by “THE GHOST”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by AN UNIDENTIFIED TAPER
Audio shared by MARKITOS
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-107/D244.m
D8 A8 S8 H7 F8 BL5 119:00
Filmed by “The Ghost”
Transferred & disseminated by Coops2009
TECHY STUFF
DVD VOB Fornmat
MPEG-2
Sys bitrate 10080 kb/s VBR
Audio AC3 stereo
Pics 25.000 Frames/s 25.000 Fields/s 50.000
pic 720 x 576 ratio 16.9
PAL
Filmed on a Canon digital camcorder (unknown model)
Transferred to hard drive using a Sony Hi 8 TR720E
Menu created with TEMPGENC DVD AUTHOR 4.3
vob files > hd > MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3

COOPS2009 NOTES ON MS-107:
After a dodgy start this is quite watchable though a few tracks shame the
venue is such a shed!
This film has never previously been shared from the master in correct aspect ratio.

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-0296
LB rating: A
Recorded by an unidentified taper
shn files shared by markitos via DropBox
no info on lineage
shn files > hd > xACT 2.38 > flac files > Toast Titanium 10 > aiff disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

LB NOTES FOR THE AUDIO:
excellent sound (A), alternate upgrade over LB-0171 which sounds harsh an narrow compared to this; drop/cut between cdrs
related note for LB-11643: in 4-way comparison LB-0256 had warmest fullest sound with strong bass; this was next warmest but most distant and not as full or upfront as panasonic wm61 LB-8858; cc LB-0835 was least warm; (did not listen to all of this)

DVD PROCESSING:
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)

Reviewed by yassou on 31st December 2016