London/Hammersmith (24-Nov-03)

3-5+/5/4+/4+/5+
9-15/14/12/12/15 (avg. 13.25 A-)
Center balcony
1:08:15:21
PAL

DIFFERENCES & IMPROVEMENTS TO D318.msu:
-sound upgraded
-filled off-target parts & cuts with stills
-different title & track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-lots of harp/“Drifter’s Escape” quite energetic
-Dylan strictly on piano/no guitar
-tender vocal on “Girl Of The North Country”
-terrific vocal on “Dear Landlord”
-cool fiddle by Koella on “Floater (Too Much To Ask)”
-up-tempo rendition of “Jokerman”
-cool bass runs by Campbell on “Cat’s In The Well” with Koella handling the lead with
aplomb
-Tony laughing and fist-pumping after Dylan introduces Recile as “the finest drummer
on the stage”

DISTANCE/POSITION: 9-15 center balcony (shot from behind balcony rail so filmer had to zoom in on Dylan; filmer had some problems as evidenced by the six missing songs and the clips and end cuts on other songs; still, some great footage here with great close-ups; Dylan and Koella mostly in the picture, with occasional pans to Recile, Garnier and Campbell)

AUDIO: 14 (LB-1354/LB rating: A) when listened to by the disc author on a DVD player and external speakers, Dylan’s voice sounded a bit echoey and the bass a bit too heavy; the listener may wish to use their equalizer)

STEADINESS: 12 (quite steady once the songs get started and the filmer stabilizes the camera)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 12 (lip of balcony railing visible when filmer zooms out; mostly unobstructed once the songs get started and the filmer zooms in)

FOCUS: 15 (rich color and excellent light; sharp focus except on extreme close-ups)

EDITING: stills added where necessary, mostly on transitions and starts of songs (see setlist details)

Concert # 1587 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, electric piano, harp)
Freddie Koella (electric guitar & fiddle)
Larry Campbell (electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Tony Garnier (electric, acoustic & standup bass)
George Recile (drums & percussion)

Filmed by “THE TWO DAVES”
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
Audio recorded by SPOT
Audio shared by MARKITOS via DropBox
Edited, sound upgraded & authored by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
MS-177/D318.m
Filmer: “The Two Daves”
missing six songs
Transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009
D7 A8 S8 H7 F8 BL4 64 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

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-1354
LB rating: A
Recorded by SPOT
Shared by Markitos
no information on equipment or processing
shn files > hd > xACT 2.37 > aiff > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > SD II disk images > iMovie 6.0.3

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)

COOPS2009 NOTES FOR MS-177:
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.

LB NOTES FOR LB-1354:
same unknown taper as Wembley; excellent sound; excellent sound; has very light tv band; drop/cut between cdrs, end of d2t3

RELATED NOTED FROM LB-11653:
in 5-way comparison these are different recordings based on same clapping wavs at end of d1t2; LB-1354 has the fullest warmest sound, then tyrus LB-1365; this (LB-11653) is next fullest; cc LB-1548 (sourced from hv LB-1548) and doberman LB-1461 are less full; (did not listen to all of this)